LILYS NJERU

Nairobi

Features Reporter at Nation Media Group

Health & Science multimedia journalist. @Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) fellow 2024| Environment &Climate change journalist of the year -AJEA 2025.

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Articles

Kenya’s carbon market ambitions: Opportunities and controversies

4 weeks ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

What you need to know:The country, which hosts more than 400 carbon credit projects, is positioning itself as Africa’s carbon credit hub, leveraging its natural assets and policies to attract climate finance. Countries around the world are grappling with how to tackle the climate crisis against the backdrop of a warming planet and extreme weather events that are upending lives. What are carbon credits and how they work?
Impunity: Owners of hotel being built inside Ngong Forest bypassed approvals

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

How was this allowed to happen? This is the question that Kenyans are asking about the construction of a luxury hotel inside the Ngong Road Forest, which was started without the required approvals from the National Environment Management Authority (Nema). A construction of this scale requires that the developer undertake an environmental impact assessment (EIA) and submit the report to Nema for approval.
Government launches early warning plan to combat disasters

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU |Sammy Waweru

What you need to know:Findings of a report released last year indicate that whilst climate change continues to impact the country significantly, there exist large gaps in observational data on the continent, making it difficult to determine how some aspects of climate will evolve in the future. The “Early Warnings for All” (EW4All) initiative in Kenya will ensure that everyone, everywhere, is protected by life-saving early warning systems by 2027.
Green hydrogen: The future of East Africa’s energy transition?

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

When did you first hear about hydrogen? Chances are, it was in a chemistry class—an introduction to the periodic table’s lightest element, known for its abundance. However, hydrogen is rarely found in isolation, so it has to be produced. For instance, it pairs with oxygen to form water, hence the formula H20. Hydrogen is a key input in fertilisers and refineries. What does it look like? In its normal state, it is odourless and colourless.
Big win for local producers as court blocks new Nema fees

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

Local manufacturers have secured orders barring the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) from enforcing rules that impose new fees and would have seen products of firms that fail to obtain a fresh licence blacklisted. The Milimani Law Courts on May 7 issued temporary orders that have stalled the rollout of Kenya’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations.
Duale admits shortage of polio and TB vaccines for children

1 month ago | nation.africa | Hellen Shikanda |LILYS NJERU

Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has admitted that there has been a shortage of vaccines in some parts of the country for the past fortnight, but has assured Kenyans that the drugs will be available again next month. Vaccines to protect children against tuberculosis and polio are among those currently unavailable. Mr Duale said that the delay in procuring vaccines was due to a failure to disburse Kenya’s share to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in good time.
Nairobi hosts key regional food systems dialogue amid hunger crisis

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

“Global food systems are broken, and billions of people are paying the price.” Those were the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres during the first global stocktake of food systems in 2023, held two years after the inaugural UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in 2021.
Why migratory animals at risk of extinction

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU |Florah Koech

Lake Bogoria was once a spectacle. In the 1980s, according to 82-year-old Richard Yegon, the lake was home to thousands of flamingos. “There existed Kesubo swamp along River Waseges that drained its water into the lake. It was evergreen and served as a grazing field for dozens of villages adjacent to it. But locals converted it to farmland, reducing the number of flamingos,” he explains. When the residents gather, they also talk about something else that has been happening.
Why migratory animals are at risk of extinction

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU |Florah Koech

Lake Bogoria was once a spectacle. In the 1980s, according to 82-year-old Richard Yegon, the lake was home to thousands of flamingos. “There existed Kesubo swamp along River Waseges that drained its water into the lake. It was evergreen and served as a grazing field for dozens of villages adjacent to it. But locals converted it to farmland, reducing the number of flamingos,” he explains. When the residents gather, they also talk about something else that has been happening.
KNH surgeon’s 7-hour breakthrough operation on an amputee

1 month ago | nation.africa | LILYS NJERU

Moses Mwendwa, a 22-year-old student, was on his way back to Maziwa, Nairobi, from church on January 12 when he slipped and fell down a staircase. That misstep left him with an arm injury so severe it ended in the amputation of his left arm, the dominant one. “After the fall, I didn’t seek medical treatment immediately. I thought that it would be a matter of days and the pain would be gone,” he says.