Politics
Specter of climate change pushes 55 million to hunger on the Horn of Africa
Five consecutive poor rainy seasons have pushed 55.45 million people in the Horn of Africa to starvation heightening conflicts in fight for scarce resources and putting lives at risk. The latest IGAD Regional Focus of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 shows 55.45 million people across seven out of the eight IGAD member states need urgent food assistance. Kenya had 4.35 million people affected, Ethiopia ( 23.61 million), Somalia ( 5.59 mil-lion), South Sudan (7. 74 million), Sudan ( 11.65 million) and Uganda ( 2.3 million) in 2022. The report shows that 11.53 million children under 5 years were estimated to be affected…
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An oily race to fry an egg
If Kenya and Tanzania ministers for finance will have eggs on Thursday, they will have fried an entire industry in a lot of edible oil. The two countries facing a similar predicament of increasingly expensive cooking oil are going full blown in their budgets to allocate funds for all manner of seeds, land and locations for the new producers of government cooking oil. The last time Kenya and Tanzania competed on a railway, Kenya was faster to derail into the wastelands of Suswa and no amount of trying to pull it out with meter gauge lines has been able to revive the once vibrant CoW…
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Twiga Foods transfers its Galana Kulalu rights to Selu Limited
Agri-tech company Twiga Foods has transferred its rights to the development of the Galana Kulalu Food Security Project to Selu Limited, a company established to develop, manage, and operate the project. Selu is a Special Purpose Vehicle comprising a partnership by several companies, amongst them Campos, a farm management company overseeing over 600,000 acres of farmland in Latin America in a similar climate to Kenya and AgCo, a US-based global leader in precision agriculture technology. Twiga Foods Managing Director Peter Njonjo said: “We believe that Selu Limited is the best fit to manage the next stage of the project, which is to develop it further,…
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