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Former deputy director of Africa CDC Ahmed Ogwell lands UN job

Nairobi, March 28 -- Dr Ahmed Ogwell, who previously served as the deputy director at Africa CDC, has been appointed the new vice president of global health strategy at the United Nations Foundation. ... Read More


Kemri researchers link hair relaxers to brain cancer

Nairobi, March 7 -- Researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) have discovered formaldehyde, a harmful neurotoxin that can cause brain cancer and impair memory, in hair relaxers widel... Read More


New rules at African Union cost Kenyan top position at health body

Nairobi, March 6 -- Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) deputy director Dr Ahmed Ogwell, from Kenya, will be leaving the agency at the end of this month, a victim of new rul... Read More


Palestinian woman pleads with President Ruto to urge Israel to stop Gaza bombings

Nairobi, Feb. 28 -- Mariam Al Jaajaa, 37, arrived in Nairobi to attend the 6th session of the UN Environment Assembly (Unea-6). But she saw this as an environment to send a message to President Willi... Read More


Breakthrough: Relief for DCI as Kemri develops nationwide forensic database to track murderers and sex offenders

Nairobi, Feb. 16 -- The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) is building a forensic reference DNA database that will help the government track down murder suspects, missing persons, disaster victi... Read More


Kenyan scientists develop DNA database to track down runaway criminals

Nairobi, Feb. 15 -- The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) is building a forensic reference DNA database that will help the government track down murder suspects, missing persons, disaster victi... Read More


Why condom use is low, especially among women

Nairobi, Feb. 13 -- In the vibrant enclave of Mirema Drive, Kasarani, affectionately known as 'Little Las Vegas' in Kenya, the air is electric with music, laughter and the promise of romance. At the ... Read More


KNH performs first technology-assisted kidney transplant

Nairobi, Feb. 9 -- Dickens Njoroge (36) is now looking forward to a pain-free future after becoming the first Kenyan to receive a kidney from his cousin and best friend, Dickson Gakei (35), through a ... Read More


We saw death at close range: Survivors recount ordeal in Embakasi gas tragedy

Nairobi, Feb. 3 -- If you ask Henry Kioko to describe the Thursday midnight tragedy when fire broke out in Embakasi, Nairobi, he can only come up with the biblical worst kind of fire: Hell-fire. For ... Read More


NHIF heist: How fraudsters made off with over Sh7bn in bogus insurance claims

Nairobi, Jan. 31 -- Unscrupulous businessmen defrauded the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) of over Sh7 billion by altering claims and falsifying information in collusion with NHIF officials, M... Read More