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Aug 21, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Abdirahman Khalif |Charity Phoebe Kilei |Waweru Wairimu |Vincent Ombati
In the football community of Eastleigh, two local teams are charting unique courses in their pursuit of football glory.
One team, Volcano Team Academy, is making its mark in the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Elite Youth League. The other, Marlin Youth Academy, although not yet registered in any league, is fervently chasing its dream of climbing the ranks to eventually join the Kenyan Premier League.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Maureen Kinyanjui |Alfred Onyango |Lucy Mumbi
Lavender Kavagi, a 20-year-old university student, booked a taxi ride through an online taxi-hailing app from the Nairobi CBD to Westlands. She was supposed to pay Sh230 as reflected on the app for the approximately six-kilometre trip. But to her shock, the driver called her and requested her to add at least Sh200.
“The call was not what I expected after countless trips with online taxis for three years.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Maureen Kinyanjui |Alfred Onyango |Lucy Mumbi
President William Ruto directed that the money collected from the creative industry, particularly from artists' work, 80 per cent of it should be directed towards artists.
The President said currently a larger portion of the money collected by Collective Management Organisations (CMO) on behalf of the artists is used to pay salaries and run office operations and only about 20 per cent of the royalties collected is what is left for the artist. He affirmed that royalties are meant for artists.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
Kenya's candidate for the African Union Commission chairmanship, Raila Odinga, has claimed that he received the endorsement of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi during a Thursday meeting in Kinshasa.
Raila, who is officially backed by President William Ruto, is vying to succeed Chadian Moussa Faki as the next African Union Commission (AUC) boss.
"I met with DRC President Felix Tshisekedi today to discuss my AUC bid.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
The Kenyan Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, has issued a warning to Kenyan citizens about the increasing trend of being lured to conflict-ridden Myanmar and Laos under the guise of securing jobs, particularly in scamming operations.
This comes as the embassy confirms that three Kenyans are currently missing in Myanmar, a country plagued by escalating crimes against humanity and war crimes, as highlighted by recent warnings from United Nations investigators.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
There are no active cases of Mpox in the country following the complete recovery of the initial case identified on July 29, according to the Ministry of Health.
Health CS Debora Mulongo on Friday confirmed the full recovery of the sole reported case, involving an individual who travelled from Kampala, Uganda, to Mombasa and then proceeded to Rwanda via Tanzania's Taita Taveta border point.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
Security agencies ignored early warnings of illegal activity in Shakahola Forest, which resulted in the exhumation of over 429 bodies two years later.
Former Lango Baya Police Station Officer Commanding Station (OCS), Chief Inspector Hamara Hassan, revealed this in a Mombasa court on Thursday, August 15, 2024.
According to CI Hamara, a report of alleged illegal land invasion, subdivision, and sale was filed on August 4, 2021, but no follow-up actions were taken.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Maureen Kinyanjui |Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango
Uncategorized By | With schools set to reopen for the third term on Monday, August 26, Mutua is running against time to prevent a full-blown crisis. Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua is already facing his first crisis nearly a week after his inauguration, with teachers formally announcing their strike starting Sunday, August 25.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Maureen Kinyanjui |Vincent Ombati |Erick kariuki |Alfred Onyango
On June 27, 2022, during a health forum organised by the Kenya Kwanza Alliance at the Catholic University of East Africa in Nairobi, President William Ruto vowed to tackle the ongoing scandals and monopoly at the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), an institution marred by corruption.
Ruto, who was then serving as the country's deputy president, pledged reforms at KEMSA among his campaign pledges.
He stated, "We must sort out the health commodity supply chain.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick Kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
Sudan By | WHO official Margaret Harris said in a media call that 11,327 cholera cases with 316 deaths had been reported. The humanitarian crisis from the civil war in Sudan is also exacerbating infections, including cholera, and the bacterial disease has killed more than 300 people in the region, a World Health Organisation official said on Friday.
