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Football for the Goals Founder Sees His Idea Play Out in Kariobangi
The man who conceived Football for the Goals at UN Headquarters in New York came face to face with his idea in action in Nairobi, watching young people bring it to life on the pitch in Kariobangi. Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the UN Department of Global Communications, joined the Simama Amani Mtaani...
Nearly a million Kenyan households face food insecurity as El Ni?o approaches
Close to a million households across six Kenyan counties are facing food insecurity as the country braces for an El Ni?o event expected to bring above-average rainfall from October.The counties affected are Baringo, Garissa, Makueni, Mandera, Tana River and Wajir.
The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just became even harder after a key transit centre for patients requiring treatment burned down in Ituri province.
The deadly flash floods in northern Nepal have severely disrupted employment and livelihoods, with wider impacts beyond communities that were directly affected, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a preliminary assessment released on Thursday.
Artificial Intelligence or AI ¨C and the technology behind it ¨C is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.
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