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AP News Radio
Humanitarian group MSF calls for support for refugees in Kenya affected by cholera crisis
"Refugees in Kenya's dadaab camps are believed to have been hit by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders says 2786 refugees have been affected so far, and that there's an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastrointestinal diseases that adapt camps, host more than 300,000 people and with a biting drought in neighboring Somalia, the numbers are on the rise, straining water and sanitation services. In 2016, the Kenyan government had announced plans to shut the camps over concerns that extremists from Somalia's Al shabab group were hiding there making the camps a conduit for smuggling weapons, but the United Nations had urged Kenya to reconsider the plan and continue to offer refuge to victims of violence and trauma. There are plans to open another camp in the complex to accommodate new arrivals and ease overcrowding. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Dozens of bodies exhumed after Kenya pastor told followers to starve themselves
"Kenya's president says that the starvation deaths of dozens of followers of a pasta is akin to terrorism. President William Ruto says the pasta Paul Mackenzie, who's in police custody, belongs to jail and not to any religion, the pastor was arrested on suspicion of telling his followers to fast to death in order to meet Jesus. The inspector general of police says dozens so far have died with 39 bodies exhumed over the weekend the pastor has been arrested twice before in 2019 and in March of this year in relation to the deaths of children each
Mark Levin
Ilhan Omar Removed From House Foreign Affairs Committee
"Now what they are mad about in the Democratic Party today is they're angry They are angry that alum Omar who said some guys who did something some things I should say referring to 9 11 has been kicked off of a very important committee She's angry She's got something to say about this Here's what she had to say in response This debate today it's about who gets to be an American What opinions do we get to have Do we have to have to be counted as Americans This is what this debate is about madam speaker There is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone or a Muslim It is no accident that members of the Republican Party accuse the first black president Barack Obama of being a secret Muslim It is no accident that former president Donald Trump let a birther movement that falsely claimed he was born in Kenya Because to them falsely labeling the first and only president of the United States of America a Muslim an African immigrant Somehow made him less American Well I am Muslim I am an immigrant and interestingly from Africa So you know this is a woman who is in my opinion hates America This is a woman who said some guys did some things This is a woman who hates Jewish people and now she's claiming it's an issue the color of her skin and that she's Muslim
AP News Radio
Boeing pleads not guilty in case over deadly Max crashes
"Some relatives of the victims in two Boeing 7 37 max crashes say they aren't ready to accept a two year old settlement deal. The Boeing company pled not guilty to a criminal charge that it defrauded federal aviation regulators in a case involving two crashes of Boeing 7 37 max planes, Boeing thought it had settled the issue in a $2.5 billion deal with prosecutors, but relatives of some of the victims are challenging the settlement and spoke outside the courthouse in Fort Worth on Thursday. Paul and jorie, a Canadian born in Kenya, lost his wife three small children and mother in law in the second crash. We know that they'll find that the senior executives are Boeing perpetrated the fraud. Audio courtesy WFAA. Attorneys for Boeing say representatives meet with the Justice Department at least monthly and that the government's supervision of the agreement is robust. U.S. district judge Reed O'Connor delayed ruling on a request to appoint a special monitor to examine safety issues at the company, investigations into the crashes pointed to problems with an automated flight control system that Boeing didn't overhaul until after the second crash. I am Jennifer King
CryptoGlobe
Bitcoin Transactions Without Smartphones How Machankuras Wallet Makes This Possible
"10 p.m. Sunday January 15th, 2023 Bitcoin transactions without smartphones how McCann's wallet makes this possible. Users in Nigeria Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, and 5 other African nations may now send and receive Bitcoin BTC without a smartphone or an Internet connection. Sending and receiving Bitcoin BTC has never been easier than using McCain's digital wallet with a cheap feature phone, since all you need is a brief code delivered by
The Crypto Overnighter
"kenya" Discussed on The Crypto Overnighter
"Looking into the company, they'll be investigating the people and institutions involved. This means banks, electronic money institutions, and crypto asset providers. The agency also said that they'd be keeping an eye on FTX activities to make sure that their anti money laundering laws were being obeyed. FTX turkey is providing a Google form. This is for users to fill out to receive their funds. However, no delivery date has been given, and what they want you to do is share the international bank account number to proceed with the refund process. Which makes sense really because if, as perella Weinberg says, if FTX turkey is actually a debtor, they might have the funds needed to pay all their customers out. Because turkey is actually kind of surprised me these last few months. They have such a big crypto market when the Turkish lira took a nosedive earlier this year. I thought for sure they would at least legalize Bitcoin as legal tender. But not yet, I guess. Which is kind of disappointing because turkey is becoming a player. They have 8 million citizens using cryptocurrencies. Now, according to the numbers out of one of their local exchanges, that is, which you can see why they're interested in crypto and stables denominated in U.S. dollars to fight their rampant inflation. Kenya, on the other hand, they're getting closer because it was today that they introduced an amendment to Kenya's capital markets law. This amendment would require anyone who owns crypto, they would have to report their transactions for tax purposes. So this is the first time Kenya has applied financial regulations to cryptocurrency. According to this amendment, Kenyans would end up paying capital gains, taxes when they sell or use crypto. In this part makes sense to me. Any crypto held for less than a year is going to be taxed as income. Income tax in Kenya is between ten and 30%. Anything held for over a year and capital gains tax supplies. And that's not including the excise duty of 20% that banks are already charging on all crypto trades. The author of the bill, parliament member Abraham Keira, said quote, the amendment will provide for the definition of digital currencies. Its creation through crypto mining and provide for regulations around trading of digital currencies. The amendment will also outline responsibilities of persons or businesses trading in digital currencies, provide for its taxation, ownership, and provide for promotion of innovation in this area. Now, this bill defines cryptocurrencies as securities. It also provides for the licensing of individual traders and creates a centralized electronic register of transactions, apparently all transactions involving crypto in the entire country. They also took a look at consumer protection. They're setting up a fund to protect investors from financial loss arising from the failure of a licensed broker or dealer. Like turkey, Kenya is a player in the crypto space. And again, I have to assume it's due to poor local economic conditions, but a survey from chain analysis puts Kenya at 19th place in worldwide in terms of crypto adoption. 5th, in terms of peer to peer trading. Kenya has about 4 million users. That puts Kenya in 5th place in terms of rate of ownership at 8.5% of the population. And finally, I want to give you a bit of an update on American crypto fed. Remember, we were talking about them last night. They're the first legally recognized decentralized autonomous organization in the United States. And now, they're in a fight with these security exchange commission. This fight is about the stablecoin ducat and Locke. Now Locke is their governance token. So the Dow registered their tokens in their 2021 filing with the SEC. But now the SEC is telling them they have to stop selling those tokens. The claim from the SEC is that American crypto fed left things out of their registration and misrepresented some facts. Now apparently they're going to fight the SEC without legal representation. A statement put out by their chief operating officer, zhao menzo, confirmed that the Dow is going without legal counsel. He said quote, we just filed the notice of appearance according to the SEC's rules. This letter means that we just told the SEC we will represent ourselves without attorneys in this case. They also intend to file a motion extending the deadline for their response to the SEC. That would give them 20 days to start building their argument against the SEC and preventing their D registration. And that's going to do it for us tonight. I want to thank you my listeners because when you stop listening, I will stop talking. We'll see you tomorrow night.
AP News Radio
Ethiopia peace talks extended as disarmament, aid discussed
"Peace talks between the Ethiopian government and representatives from the country's Tigray Region have been extended The latest round of peace talks that are taking place in Kenya are continuing past the deadline as military commanders work on disarming tigray forces the ongoing talks follow assigning last week of a permanent cessation of hostilities There is still concern however about when other forces who aren't part of the deal will withdraw from the Tigray Region the conflict is estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Hundreds of elephants, zebras die as Kenya weathers drought
"A new report says hundreds of animals including elephants and endangered zebras have died in Kenyan wildlife preserves during East Africa's worst drought in decades The reports is more than 200 elephants have died Research scientist Jim justice nyamo says elephants need for water puts a big drain on supply And it's the drought It's something to do with water and food This is Kenya's worst drought in 40 years Veterinary doctor Isaiah ololo says elephants and other animals are affected by more than just a lack of water That makes the animal immunity to be lowered And this contributes to the infection because the bacterial load and the parasites are opportunistic Then they overcome the power of the immunity and the in most cases we find that the animals will die A canyon sanctuary is looking after elephant calves many have been made orphans by the drought I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Chebet and Lokedi of Kenya win NYC Marathon races in debuts
"Evan chabet won the men's race in two hours 8 minutes and 41 seconds There was a scary moment when race leader Daniel Dana silento collapsed 21 miles in race officials say he's okay Chabet ran past him on the ground and said through a translator he felt bad for him but had to continue to race Temperatures in the 70s made it one of the hottest in November race history Sharon Loki won the women's division in her marathon debut 50,000 runners took to the streets for the 26.2 mile New York City marathon back to full capacity following the pandemic Julie Walker New York
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The 'Wizard of Oz' Is About to Get a Very Gay Remake
"Speaking of turning people off from movies. Oh my goodness. You know, Kenya barris who's a black gay man. He's doing the remake of Wizard of Oz now. He has his ideas of how he wants this to look. So get ready, he said the original was an allegory and a reflection of the way the world was at the time with things like The Great Depression and the dust bowl he's going to write and direct this for Warner Brothers don't forget. So just be prepared for this. He said now we're going to turn a mirror on where we're at right now and take a disparate characters from the LGBT community from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities and tell a story that reflects the world I think this is the best time to do that. Yeah, sounds great. Instead of brains, maybe the scarecrow wants over plucked eyebrows. Instead of a heart, the tin man may be long for the day he's not hung up on straight boys. And instead of courage, the cowardly Lion wants boyfriend twins. Can't wait to see that new Wizard of Oz. Take the kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The World Is a Better Place Because of America
"80 cents of every dollar that is funding all Christian ministries nationwide comes from this country. Why? Why is this country the most benevolent, productive, entrepreneurial, wealthy country ever? Charlie, I only care about saving souls in Kenya. Fine, how are you going to fund it? Is it though? Generous people of France? No. Is it the wonderful entrepreneurial backbone of the wonderful people of Brazil? No, it's actually private property based entrepreneurial capitalism that is the funding mechanism of all the ministries that we love to support God bless them all. But you need something to be able to buy airplane tickets to be able to give goods out in all this work that you're doing. The world is a better place because of the experiment of America. In fact, the kingdom of God has spread to more nations, more corners, more people have been able to give their life to the lord because of the United States of America than any other country in the history of the world. So
AP News Radio
Queen Elizabeth II lies in state as throngs pay respects
"Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world upon taking the throne in 1952 but many were unwilling and her death is stirring complicated feelings in Commonwealth countries like Kenya I'm Ben Thomas with a closer look On behalf of the people of Kenya On behalf of the government of Kenya and on my own behalf we commiserate with the people of the UK Kenya's new president William Ruto signing a condolence book for the queen at the residence of the British high commissioner In London I love the queen Kenyan Esther Raven or joined the crowds playing their respects She's a true role model She loved us all but in the foothills of mount Kenya Matthew Y Reggie says he can not mourn Queen Elizabeth saying up the British Those people they took our land 90 year old took part in the mau mau rebellion of the 1950s I was there For three years and he says conditions were harsh I did naked for about the month of June July when Kenya is very cold Over 100,000 canyons were rounded up and it wasn't until 2013 that the British government apologized paying millions in and out of court settlement to those who were tortured Kenya declared its independence from Britain in 1963 and joined the Commonwealth of Nations many credit Queen Elizabeth for embracing the wave of independence in Africa in championing the Commonwealth President Ruto notes Elizabeth learned she had become queen while visiting Kenya and for many of his countrymen he says That is very sentimental I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Injuries in crush at stadium as Kenya inaugurates president
"Schools of people have been crushed and injured as Kenyans force their way into a stadium where politician within Ruto is inaugurated as president Crowds push and shove to enter kasuri stadium to witness the inauguration ceremony Ruto narrowly won the election in East Africa's most stable democracy over longtime opposition figure Raila olinga the Supreme Court last week had rejected challenges to the official results Ruto's taking power in a country heavily burdened by debt that will challenge his efforts to fulfill sweeping campaign promises made to Kenya's poorest sector I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Charlie Kirk Show
Professor Bruce Gilley on the Legacy of the British Empire
"Is a almost an incantation that exists on these campuses. Berkeley, I know that you're at Portland state, wherever I speak, they will always revert back to colonialist rule and the massacring of indigenous people, that is not the case of the British Empire. They might be conflating it with other empires. Maybe conquests or attempts of the Portuguese or the Spanish. But the British were very benign. In fact, they did everything they possibly could to institute the rule of law, habeas corpus, respect for the individual. Tell our audience about the legacy that the British Empire left and really helped develop the modern world as we know it. Yeah, so I mean, on the other question of violence, of course, what they do is they say, well, any form of colonialism is itself evil. Therefore, every time a British policeman in Kenya arrests a thief, that's genocidal because that's violence, right? So they don't make a distinction between justified and legitimate use of force like with a police or counter terrorist operations, which the British had a lot of, they had a lot of that because there were a lot of elite traditionalists who like to engage in slave rating and plundering and enslavement of others like the tribes and they didn't like the fact that the British imposed this civic institutions on these places because it basically deprived them of their traditional prerogatives. So what the British did in these places was not only create the civic institutions, the rule of law, the property rights that equal access to the political system, the expansion of rights, especially for minorities in women, right? They were the big beneficiaries here. But at a more fundamental level, the British created these nations. So when people say they colonized us, it's a joke because there was no us until the British came. There were a bunch of Internet signed slaving feuds going on, or you were actually in the hands of another alien empire that wasn't the white man, but it was much worse. So
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"One is that it's not like he is this new and exciting and insurgent figure who's come from out of a clear blue sky. In his own way of various establishment politicians, he's been in Kenyan politics forever, and he now finds himself leading an extremely young country, 65% of Kenyans are under the age of 35. Young people not perhaps necessarily known for their patience, how much wiggle room do you think he's going to get? How much understanding do you think there is of the fact that Kenya's various issues are not something that can be solved in a week by one man picking up a phone? It's a good point Andrew and we have to remember that it's not just that Kenya has such a debt pile and so very limited fiscal space, but like many other countries it's just dealing with almost a triple shock in the region. A terrible drop the COVID lockdowns and the effect on the economy and of course the Ukraine crisis. But there will be very little sympathy from unemployed Kenyans for example about those issues. He's a great communicator. He'll need to very skillfully explain that you know it's a very difficult environment, change won't come immediately. I suspect he'll try and blame the incumbent Kenyatta partly because he's basically been sidelined for the last 5 years and has consistently claimed that Kenyatta is to blame with Odinga for all of Kenya's wars. He will have a very awkward time because he said as well that you know the high cost of living has nothing to do with the Ukraine crisis. It's mismanagement. But now he will squarely be responsible for helping people's lives improves. He might be able because his run a very clever campaign and he's promised that he wants to shift from big ticket infrastructure spending, for example, to more retail spending, bottom up economics, more investment in agriculture and the livestock industry. For example, he might be able by ordering priorities. For example, a lot of youth not to vote in this election, but it will be a very difficult balancing act. There's a related question there as well that something that any national leader needs as well as the patience of their people is the optimism of their people and do you get the sense that this was an optimistic vote cast by Kenyans did they vote for their new president or were people largely voting against the other guy? I think there is a lot of not negativity but ordinary Kenyans I think are quite exasperated with politics. They feel that politicians here are basically just working for themselves that there's a lack of public service and lack of service to the Kenyan people that infrastructure investments are made when they make sense for a sitting president but not necessarily when they make sense for people who are cut off from main infrastructure links.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Us. You're listening to the foreign desk on monocle 24 still with me on the vena couture a journalist based in Nairobi and the Tiger of the international crisis group in Nairobi. In this second part of the show, I want to focus on what the new president will need to get to grips with. But if we proceed on the assumption that it will be William Ruto and I'll start with you on this maruthi. If you have to try and explain William Ruto's career and character very briefly, how would you sum him up? Strikingly charismatic with a record that's quite mixed, including an indictment of the International Criminal Court, one of the most talented politicians in Kenya are very, very able to build coalitions able to strike a court with the man on the street. And so he has run a very clever campaign. He decided to make it issue based rather than trying to rally people around ethnic lines and he has beaten a remarkably strong alliance, including the president and the opposition leader. So very, very capable, you know, you hinted that some of the challenges in face and those are immense, including managing expectations. He has struck a code with ordinary people, but they expect the cost of living, for example, to go down. We are in a very difficult environment around the world and in Kenya as well. And he will face a huge task managing those expectations. Naveen, just to follow up a couple of those points, describing his record as mixed is certainly one way of putting it, and why didn't the various allegations that have been made against William Ruto over his long career in Kenyan politics, and some of them are pretty sensational, the ones about corruption about land grabbing and especially being charged by the International Criminal Court over previous post election violence, even though those charges were eventually dropped, you would think that between all that, that seems like a fairly career ending burden. Yes, William brutal has quite extraordinary allegations against him, the charges by the International Criminal Court that were later dropped because of voter intimidation, the court said, are probably the most striking, but also the corruption and land grab allegations, as you said, mister ruta obviously says that none of the corruption allegations have been proven in court that they are politically motivated and that they have been spread by the sitting president Uhuru Kenyatta. I think he is he's a fairly young politician who entered politics at a very young age who's had an incredible career and I think the fact that he decided to break with the ruling elites and the ruling families that Kenyatta and mister Odinga is successor. And basically run his own campaign has really benefited him. And people like the way he talks, they like the way he rolls up his sleeves and talks about his very humble backgrounds in the informal economy selling peanuts and chicken. Let nobody tell you. You can not make it.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Doing that a lot except for Somalia. It has gone over. I know the conflict in Ukraine is a very long way away from Kenya, but there has been a lot of talk as you will know about the apparently slightly equivocal or neutral view that a lot of African countries have taken of at due to historical links and economic ties with Russia, but quite early on in the conflict, as you'll know, Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations, Martin kimani, gave an absolutely thunderous speech in defense of Ukraine, framing at very much as a country defending itself from imperial conquest. Mister president, this situation echoes our history. Kenya and almost every African country was birthed by the ending of empire. Our borders were not of our own drawing. They were drawn in the distant colonial metropoles of London, Paris, and Lisbon, with no regard for the ancient nations that they cleaved apart. But independence had we chosen to pursue states on the basis of ethnic racial or religious homogeneity. We would still be waging bloody wars these many decades later. Instead, we agreed that we would settle for the borders that we inherited. Not because our borders satisfied us, but because we wanted something greater forged in peace. We further strongly condemn the trend in the last few decades of powerful states, including members of this Security Council, breaching international law with little regard. Multilateralism lies on its deathbed tonight. Let me conclude mister president by reaffirming Kenya's respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. Was he speaking, do you think for ten years government as a whole there or was he off on a bit of an adventure of his own? The Kenyan embassy in the United States has always spoken in consultation with the minister of foreign affairs. And what ambassador kimani said was a reflection of Kenyans foreign policy. Kenya has since independence, up to now, has always been very careful in terms of its relationship with the outside world. It has always declared itself as a member of the nan alliance, but of course, traditionally, mainly aligned to the traditional ideological threats the United States and the United Kingdom. But since 2002, with China changing its policy, looking at economics and capitalism rather than just being purely communist, Kenya has pursued a careful pragmatic relationship with the east in terms of protecting its economic interests. So when it comes to the issue of Ukraine, Kenya has always balanced its relationship based on that particular balancing act, whereby sort of keeps its friendship with its traditional allies, but also protecting its economic interests where need be. So it's supports non interference, but at the same time does not want to destroy its economic link with the outside world. Just as a final thought then, because you mentioned China, do you anticipate that balancing act you were talking about starting to tip gradually further towards China because China has become more and more invested literally in Kenya, I believe China is now Kenya's most substantial trading partner. Is that going to have an effect on Kenyan foreign policy, do you think? Let's look at fact. China has invested a lot in terms of infrastructure development. In Kenya and Africa.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"This is the foreign desk on monocle 24. President elect Ruto when and perhaps if he is sworn in, will obviously face no shortage of domestic concerns. But he also has to maintain Kenya's delicately poised position on both the regional and global stages. For a look at Kenya's foreign policy priorities, I'm joined from Nairobi by doctor Moses on yango, a politics and international relations lecturer at the United States international university, Africa. Moses, let's start with some basics. When we think about Kenyan foreign policy, are there any core assumptions to it? The Kenyan foreign policy is uncut on 5 pillars. Which they always look at and directs their activities. The first one is the peace diplomacy, second economic diplomacy that is the Diaspora and then fourth environment and 5th culture. So basically, this particular pillar is informed Kenya's foreign policy and of course the activities in the external environment and domestic environment. So it does kenyon foreign policy really change all that much from one government to the next. Ideally, it doesn't. They administration that comes in tends to ship the foreign policy based on those particular 5 pillars. For example, the outgoing administration of Uhuru Kenyatta made ICC the International Criminal Court is focused and of course if you look at that particular ICC it was anchored on pan African to protect the African against the western banter in terms of looking at the criminal activities in Africa. If those 5 pillars are constant then, they're presumably applied to particular challenges as they come and go. So for an incoming Kenyan president, what would they be regarding as the specific foreign policy challenges that they face now? The incoming administration is a continuation of the administration that is living. The only in terms of who would run for presidency. But in terms of their focus on foreign policy, I don't see much change because both the president, who is outgoing at the deputy president, who is president elect now, who are fished by ICC problem. So they rallied African leaders in terms of pan africanism to protect themselves. So I don't see much change and they let administration of the outgoing residency focused on infrastructure development. The incoming president elect has promised to change the focus from infrastructure development to more of empowering individual small businesses. So that might be the difference in terms of economic activities, but not major. Looking to use knee and neighbors does can you have any history of playing any overt or indeed covert role in the conflicts in the countries around it? Is Kenya's policy towards those conflicts basically trying to stay out of them and keep them on the other side of the border? Kenya has always pursued peace corporation in the region. Most of the time, in terms of quietly supporting South Sudan, not openly supporting it, but of course offering its space as a peace mediator. Kenya has been engaged in Somalia, where it forces moved into Somalia. And then, of course, later on incorporated in the African Union, Amazon. But mostly it has been as a peacemaker. Kenya contributes a lot of peace keeping forces in the region.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Odinga gave earlier in the week wasn't seen as very convincing and I think we really have to see what the legal challenge is going to be in detail, but so far there aren't that many people throwing themselves behind him with this assertion that the election might have been rigged. In terms of the media coverage, do you get the sense that there is an amount of nervousness in the media thinking back to memories of 2017 and 2007, especially, and they don't want to be seen to be stirring anything up. Are they trying? Do you think to report this calmly? So yes, the media coverage is fairly restrained fairly calm. It's been one of the most peaceful election campaigns we can remember and even the drama on Monday when the results of being announced there were scuffles as naveena mentioned. We didn't really see elevated tensions in the country. So I think elections in Kenya are increasingly becoming banal even the turnout was not as high as in the past which shows you that people don't really see it as a life and death matter. So I think that's important. And just to add to navigate point, it really does look quite dramatic and I can imagine to an outside observer to see the divisions in the electro commission. But that's very common in Kenya. In past elections, the control of the electro commission is very contentious. It's very political in 1997, the opposition threatened to boycott because of their composition of the electro commission in 2007, we saw a very controversial appointment which helped to trigger the crisis in 2018 again three commissioners resigned. So it's part for the cause when it comes to Kenyan elections. And naveen, what have we heard from president elect Ruto specifically about Odinga's dispute of the result? Is he engaging with this argument or just plowing serenely ahead as the president elect? I think mister Ruto is very confident that he has won the election on the day of the announcement after the scuffles after the delays.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"kenya" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Kenyan elections are rarely straightforward. Kenya's previous presidential election in 2017 took two attempts after the result of the first was annulled by Kenya's Supreme Court. The presidential elections of 2013 and 2007 were also disputed, and in 2007, dreadful post election violence left hundreds dead and thousands displaced. Kenya's 2022 presidential election, the results of which were announced this week, has in many respects conformed with recent tradition. It was close. It is being disputed and Raila Odinga lost and claims he didn't. Odinga, a former prime minister, was taking his 5th tilt at the top job. He was extremely narrowly defeated by another fixture of Kenyan politics, William Ruto, who was serving as deputy president to the previous incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta. Despite his establishment seeming resume, president elect Ruto pitched himself as the scrappy outsider, leaning heavily on his humble beginnings as one of Kenya's classic hustlers in his case as a roadside chicken cellar. It didn't hurt Ruto's case that the president for whom he deputized endorsed his opponent. Kenyatta and Odinga are both members of political dynasties. Ruto voters had a lot to forgive, persistent allegations of corruption, and indictment eventually dropped by the International Criminal Court over the election violence of 2007. But forgive just enough of them did. Can Ruto see off Odinga's legal challenge. If so, what are Ruto's domestic priorities? And how will he position Kenya on the world stage? This is the foreign desk. One
AP News Radio
Kenya in close presidential election amid prayers for peace
"Kenyans are voting in a rather unusual presidential election A long time opposition leader backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styled himself as the outsider East Africa's main economic hub could see a presidential runoff for the first time economic issues could be more important than the ethnic tensions that have marked pass votes with some time deadly results The top candidates are regular Odinga whose vibe for the presidency for a quarter century and deputy president William Ruto who stresses his journey from a humble childhood to appeal to millions of struggling Kenyans long accustomed to political dynasties I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Autosport Podcast
"kenya" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"And you kind of a fire breakout quite easily. And they were worried about that. So they were trying to get them attention. There was a green light on the car, significant to say that they were safe to touch because of the hybrid technology. But for some reason, there was an investigation that concluded that the marshal should have helped, but we don't know the reason why they didn't. They didn't help. So Gus had to kick the windscreen out and they crawled out the front of this car and there's a video on social media which shows that and he's clearly clearly angry with the Marshals. And was not happy about the situation at all. But anyway, they writed the car. And it had some damage to the front of the engine's cooling, which ultimately put it out of the event, but they got it at the end of the stage with the pair wearing some goggles. It was a sort of a Mad Max moment, I suppose. And yeah, they were running around without a windscreen, just goggles on and a hundred miles an hour. So that is rally drivers for it. So when you say goggles, if anyone's picturing, I don't know, some swim goggles or 1950s Grand Prix goggles. No, it's like, it's like the full face ski goggle, if you like. So it's like one single piece of glass over your kind of your eyes. That kind of thing, but still. It's absolutely bonkers form of motor sport that no one else. No one understands these guys, but that's what it's like MotoGP riders like no one really understands them. Gas actually said he quite enjoyed it with the goggles on. Do it again. He said, he said, I shouldn't be saying this, but I actually quite enjoyed where the goggles, but he said it was quite difficult to breathe whether we're going at a hundred miles an hour. Oh my goodness. Let's talk about some success in WRC three. The first woman, a WRC support class in 1994, she's Kenyan. How do I say her surname? It's Maxine. We're homemade. We're homemade. There we go. I want to make sure I get that right and be respectful. A wonderful piece of history being one. Yeah, so it was a great story. And again, it highlighted perhaps the importance of the safari rally to Kenya and to African motor sport as a platform for African drivers to shine on the world stage because obviously it is challenging for them to get the opportunities and this is the only at this point in time. The only world championship event that visitors that visits Africa. So they don't have the opportunities that Europeans and Americans have. And so yeah, it was a lovely story and quite a remarkable effort to have to say because she's a 26 year old teacher in Kenya. She did motocross for 11 years. But her father was inter rallying and she pestered him and said, can I have a go at it? And last year, her dad agreed, and she was driving a Subaru around made her debut at this event last year. And then in a brand new car, she'd never the first time she sat in it was on Thursday. And she only won the WRC three category. Which had an all Kenyan podium. But also interestingly, I driver that has been regularly driving this car. I knew it a lot better than she did, and she managed to win the event. So Chanel wants to try and do some rounds in Europe, which is really nice to hear and there was a lot of support for her here sort of commercially as well. So there's a really lovely story. And I have to say that to be the first woman to win a WRC three event and the first woman to win a WRC support class. Since 1994, it's a good news story for WRC. And just to finish off talking about the local or the Kenyan support for this event, you flashed up the newspaper before we started recording. And you were like, look at this coverage. I mean, it really has been a huge, huge moment. Yeah, this is more than a rally to Kenya and to the locals. So this is deeply ingrained in their culture. This event has been going since 1953. And for them, I guess it's like sort of the FA Cup final or the grand national, like this is their biggest sporting event of the year. There is nothing else that's bigger than this. So they all look forward to it and they come out in their thousands. Talking to a few of the locals, they book their holidays well in a vase to make sure that they're here for four days and it's just one big party and I can tell you that because we didn't get a lot of sleep in a hotel. Because it was very, very noisy. So yeah, it's one big giant party and they just love it. As I said, their faces light up on the rally cars go past, they're just easy astic about it. And the media coverage here, it's wall to wall, like the newspaper here, the national newspapers got a ten page pull out, it's on the front page. It's on the TV channel. It's everywhere. And as a president himself said at the address on Thursday, last year's rally brought in 41 million pounds to the economy for Kenya. So it's a hugely significant event from a financial situation as well. So this is more than a rally. And finally, a couple of things that we've touched on and how much we can talk about on this on the podcast, but I'm sure regular listeners will want an update did you or not get up in the WRC helicopter over the weekend? Yes, we did. We did go out to two of the Saturday morning stages. So this was the first time I've seen the WRC cars this year in full flight on the stage. So it was quite a moment because the opportunity to do that. It's very difficult when you need to roll your reports and be close to the media. So if you've got a helicopter that could take you there, it's quicker. It was very handy. Quite interesting story. We landed one of the spots in the middle of the Kenya Savannah with giraffes and zebras and water buffaloes that were all around and everything. And we bumped into Ari vatan, who was spectating. So we ended up standing for a good hour with arrival and his wife, watching the rally cars come through. So it was quite a unique experience. Extraordinary. Yeah, probably a once in a lifetime thing you get to do, but yeah, what a chance to see these drivers tackle these roads because they really were on the limit and it's incredibly impressive when you get to see it in the flesh..
The Autosport Podcast
"kenya" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Is back in the luxury of a hotel and away from the stages of rally Kenya, dust, fetishists, if such a thing exists will be having a very good weekend of it. Enhances world world championship title credentials with a victory at a grueling safari rally Kenya as Turks are locked out the top four positions. It was rather pere Evans, katsuta and ogier, a great, great weekend for Toyota. And to tell us all about it, is our man, Tom Howard. Hey, Tom, welcome back to the podcast. So I think before we even get into talking about the rally, just an amazing experience for you back in the comfort of an airport hotel. But what's it been like? Yeah, it's been an incredible experience. There's no question about that. They still live long in my memory. Definitely been doing this job for 16 years. This is in my top 5 career moments, I think, in terms of experiences, extraordinary country, and extraordinary event, really, the people are so friendly and lovely. It was an eye opening experience. There's no hiding that, but yeah, I feel better for actually going and seeing it for myself. And you haven't been feeling a 100%. You are knocked a little bit sideways, but they looked after you and you've been surviving on fluids. But you're feeling okay, a little bit better now. I think it's sort of an inevitable in some ways. When you're going to a country like this, no disrespect, but we're probably not quite used to some of the foods and stuff over here. But yeah, a few of you people did feel a little bit unwell, but we're all patched up and given new roll cages and we were away again. So it was fine. It didn't detract from the experience at all. It was an amazing place to go and see a rally and yeah, as I said, feeling a lot better now, but yeah, as I said, the drivers, some of them actually felt a little bit unwell. Kelly Rothenberg himself on Saturday said he wasn't feeling too great to lack in a bit of energy. But he still managed to win the rally. So if he could do it, then everyone could get for it. Let's hear from him now. You've got Gigi caught up with him after another great win and you started off by saying you're not feeling too well checking he's okay and he gets on to talking about why this was his toughest win. Have a listen to this. How challenging.
The Autosport Podcast
"kenya" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Dedicated to rally, where we put all of our content there, and occasionally we crop up here as well in the auto sport channel. When there's a big thing to talk about, which there is today because we've sent our man Tom Howard to rally safari. It's going to be a wonderful event in Kenny around 6 of this season. The world rally championship sees a return to an event that was a regular from 1972 to 2002 back after a 19 year hiatus, though, and Tom welcome along to the podcast. If you can just tell us, you know, about your journey. Oh, we keep hearing about his travel chaos in the newspapers. And what it's like where you are and where you're working from, just set the scene for us. Firstly, we've got to say thanks for this opportunity to be able to actually go to cover an event like this. So a lot of strings have been pulled for us to be here in the first place. So those people that know who they are should receive some thanks. But firstly, yeah, it's quite a long journey. I haven't had any sleep for 24 hours. So I'm very tired, but yeah, so flew out from Heathrow to Cairo last night. And then got a plane from Cairo through the night to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. And then got another flight from Tanzania this morning to Nairobi in Kenya. So I landed in Nairobi about 8 a.m. Kenya time. So then we had a two and a half hour road trip to naivasha, which is where the rally is based. So I've seen quite a lot today. Some things I quite confronting, some things quite spectacular. But yeah, it's been a bit of a long journey, but we are here and we are here to cover safari rally. I can see you're working from some sort of, it looks like an office. I mean, you're on your own in some sort of room. What facility do they build in the middle of the desert? So we've got like we're actually in a wildlife resort near Lake naivasha, which is a holiday destination, so we say it's quite a touristy area. Lots of hotels, lots of safari trips that you can go on. So we're in a sort of a wildlife resort where they've constructed all these temporary buildings to house all the rally cars this weekend. Near the town of nova. So it's a small town, not two hours north of Nairobi. But we're in quite a extensive metal structure with a tarpaulin roof and I've cheekily nabbed the FIA office, which is a little bit quieter than the media center to be able to do this podcast. So thanks to Vera, if I media delegate. So let me borrow her office. So we should be doing this in vision because your Wi-Fi connection is rock solid. It looks great. It's nice and crisp. It's better than when you have 5 minutes down the road is who sets all this up before we actually get into talking about the rally just for our listeners who might be interested in like the infrastructure of a rally event in safari rally Kenya. Is this the FIA that build all this or WRC and the promoters? And the safari rally organizers. I think a point that we should make here is this is a really serious event here. This is the biggest sport and event they have in Kenya. It's bigger than any football event or marathon or anything else. So everything is pulled into this to make it a spectacular as possible. And I have to say, being a hugely impressed with the Internet connectivity and the service park and everything so far. I've had my own personal driver, take me around everywhere today. So called Nelson, who should get a shout out. He was a very, very nice fella. So yeah, this is a serious event. The president will be here tomorrow of Kenya to oversee it. And this is a key part of his sort of manifesto, I guess. He was a very key part of his plan to bring this event back to Kenya as it has been a way for a while, obviously came back last year. But this was all a very key part of their sort of political strategy because this is not only a sporting event. It's all about tourism. And it has such a long tradition, as you said, at the beginning there. So it's a very, very special event for Kenya. Colin McRae's last win was there. It's been won by Richard burns and Tommy McKinnon. It did come back last year, but a kind of a legendary event for those people who might not be super into their rally. What's it like for speed and the location and the kind of surfaces they'll be on. So this will be one of the toughest on the calendar and this will be even tougher than it was last year as the crews have been saying today in the press conference. But these are high speed gravel stages, very open stages. So you're out in the middle of now where really lots of wildlife so they'll be giraffes, buffalo, elephants, zebra, so the crews will come across all sorts of different animals on there and their ways through the stages, obviously they try to clear the stages before they run through to make sure it's as clear as possible, but you can't really legislate for any zebras running around at the erratic. But yes, they're very fast, open stages. And the graph is quite soft and sandy in places. So the car is actually sort of dig in quite a lot. And if you're not careful, you can actually get stuck as calorie roughen Perry did last year. So you get stuck in this sort of quicksand like gravel, which is called fresh fish. Is the local term. And so it's quite an interesting combination of you can not go flat out on this event. There are too many areas where you need to be careful and preserve the cars. It's so rough in places. So it's really going to be a case of who measures it the best in terms of going flat out when they know they can, but also making sure the car is safe and healthy. So you reach the finish. It's going to be a real rally of attrition. Yeah, organizers know what they're doing in terms of clearing the way. But how do they clear the way of the animals and to try and keep them clear of the cars? In the old days, every crew used to have its own helicopter run ahead, but they don't have like these days. So there is a helicopter that goes through and a double zero car, which goes through to make sure the stage is clear before anyone comes in. But one of the tools that some of the teams run to sort of help scare wildlife away so they don't have any trouble with they run a special flashing light system on their headlights. So they're constantly flashing, which is hopefully which hopes to catch the eye of any animal and sort of warn them that there's a car coming. So there's some little clever little tools I have, but largely speaking, there isn't a great deal you can do, but the organizers do the best I can to make sure that there is no dramas. The last rally out was a warm one, but what are the conditions going to be like for the drivers and inside the cars, these new hybrid cars? Yes, so in Sardinia, they ran some tweaked modifications to the cars to combat this increased temperatures in the cockpit. Sardinia was incredibly hard, 40°. We're not looking like we're going to exceed 25 here in Kenya. So it's going to be a lot easier, shall we say on the cruise, not no less tough, but the temperatures won't be as high. There is also a threat of rain on every day. So which could also throw a spanner in the works. So yeah, the conditions are very mixed. It's going to be a real challenge for all of them. Kelly Robin perra arrives there with a 50 point lead over Thierry Neville. Tell us about the form going into this event. So yeah, Kelly obviously had a quiet event last time in Sardinia, which was going to be a tough one for him to open the road, always going to be very difficult for him there. With the way that the roads are, so dusty and tight and compact..
AP News Radio
'Only God can help': Hundreds die as Somalia faces famine
"Previously unreported data shared with The Associated Press shows at least 448 deaths this year at malnutrition centers in Somalia alone authorities in Somalia Ethiopia and Kenya are now shifting to the grim task of trying to prevent famine many more people are dying beyond the notice of authorities some die in remote pastoral communities while others perish on treks in search of help someday even after reaching displacement camps malnourished beyond aid a UN humanitarian coordinator says definitely thousands have died though the data to support this is yet to come I'm Charles De
AP News Radio
Pageant participants in queen's jubilee celebrate diverse UK
"Jubilee festivities will be capped off with a pageant outside Buckingham Palace where a celebration of Britain's diversity and the Commonwealth will be on display designer clary salandi is busy preparing a dozen giraffe and zebra heads that will be part of the diversity display at the jubilee pageant Salandi and her team have created a playful reimagining of the setting where the young princess Elizabeth learned she was queen in 1952 while on a wildlife expedition in Kenya It kind of felt that there was something lovely about the queen becoming the queen of England but not while she was in England To me that says something about what her role in the world means The designer hopes that display and the performers will spark joy in the jubilee audiences When you see it you should go wow That's amazing You should be lifting your spirit We're going to lift people out of COVID And take them forward That message will be delivered by a group of 250 artists and performers from the African Caribbean community which was particularly hit hard by the pandemic and is now being squeezed by the cost of living crisis I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
World Bee Day-Bee Intro and Wrap
"On world B day the UN's food and agriculture organization is celebrating the diversity of bees and beekeeping systems Bees are at risk from habitat loss due to farming human habitation and pesticides Beekeeper Samuel moany in Kenya says 2021 was not a good year Due to the climate coach plus we had a low cost inversion the mechanism which were used in their control it was used by spraying which affected the big keeping doctor Elliott yule a researcher at southeastern Kenya university says habitat loss is also a major issue for bees Every time you cut down trends then you get rid of nectar and pollen And this is the food for the beans And when there's no food for the bees then it leads to colonies He says livestock people agriculture people environment people and of course beekeepers must work together to save the bees I'm Ed
Revision Path
"kenya" Discussed on Revision Path
"But as I get older and I have platforms to do that, I realize, wow, I do have things to say that people are listening to and so I think in the next 5 years, continuing to sharpen my brand and my voice are a big part of my focus and that I want to be able to use my skills around being an idea generator, being a connector, helping people to progress ideas. I like to see others. I thrive by seeing others thrive. So being able to utilize that capability in everything that I do would be just the most awesome thing ever for me. Well, just to wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you and about your work online? That's a good question. So definitely connect on LinkedIn, Kenya, odor, PhD, last name is ODU OR, it is the most I would have kept my maiden name if I knew my blast name was gonna be so hard. Check out the web company website lean geeks dot net. Dot net and I think LinkedIn is the best place to start because from there, you can get to YouTube, videos, and you can get my contact information and I just like to connect with people and like I said, I'm trying to build up my network of folks, especially like us, designers and creators and researchers that look like us are important for me to connect with at this point in my career, especially those that I don't know now or yet. Yeah, keep in touch. All right, sounds good. Well, doctor Kenya odor, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. One of course I think just thank you for telling us about your story, but also about putting forth this kind of really powerful message about look at your experiences and see what you can gain out of them. I mean, my mom used to tell me when I was younger, especially early on in my career before I started becoming a designer like sometimes you have to do the things that you don't want to do so you can do the things that you want to do or something like that. I might be screwing up that whole thing, but I get it. But it's true. Sometimes you have to kind of put the time in, you have to see what you can gain from those experiences and then use those to become a better person. And certainly I think from what you've shown in this interview and then even with what you're doing through lean geeks you're definitely making that happen. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, Maurice and continued success to you as well..
Mark Levin
Iranian Plot to Assassinate US General Foiled by Mossad
"From the post millennial side a great site Iranian plot to assassinate U.S. general in Berlin foiled by Israel's Mossad The Mossad had been operating in Iran at the time when they captured an interrogated mansoor rasuli Who admitting during an interrogation that he had been ordered to assassinate a U.S. general in Berlin A journalist in France and a worker at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul Israeli officials pointed out that the threat posed by the Islamic revolutionary guard corps applies not only to Israel but to other nations around the globe The officials also noted that this plot is part of a larger target list which includes recently foiled plots in both Kenya and Columbia Rosalie who admitted that he was ordered to establish a terror cell during drug cartels to assassinate his targets According to the Israeli defense forces the plot was organized by a member of unit 8 40 A secret operations unit that organizes infrastructure for terror groups within Western countries The Iranian government was reportedly willing to pay over $1 million for the assassination of these targets The operative who was part of Iran's quds force was reportedly paid a 150,000 to quote prepare for the assassinations According to reports from the U.S. UK and turkey Iran has been using international crime groups to carry out its agenda in countries around the world These plots include the hiring of zen dashi cartel to abduct or assassinate Iranian defectors in turkey Which has been ongoing since 2015 I wonder who the general is But it's my understanding that they had a price on Pompeo's head
Breaking Green Ceilings
"kenya" Discussed on Breaking Green Ceilings
"Thank you susan. Leonida for being on the breaking green ceilings podcast. Today we want to talk about the implications of free trade agreements. On african women specially from food sovereignty perspective. But i will start with our standard introductory question here on the podcast. Which is what role has nature played in your life and i can start with the anita or interest wondering for that first. The iba the videos descends to nature because he document shower penalties or by the social food at of a economic committee's report i'm raised from finding community and finding for so we actually directed me when we're producing Another thing i'd like to talk for example when you're relaxing use nature of that alexa eastern To league or whatever he thought we offer meaningless. Nfl but so you're connecting with a natural acid and of course that aspects appreciation mitch Your ruin susan lesser very interesting question but just to say that we alive because later is alive and if we look after it looks to us just the same and i think in the last two years we have seen exactly what nature can do when they tell you that you need one hundred million to get about for sitting as a boxy jam when mitch as playing to you realize the narrative changes as what we are we are leaving it and it's accommodating us. I don't know if we're being kind too for that's another story but
KQED Radio
"kenya" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Kenya. In Tanzania will walk you up to the very top of Mount Kilimanjaro and we'll find out about what the general secretary of the U. N. Is thinking of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan all the way here on Tuesday. Now this morning, Political opponents of the now former president of Guinea Alpha Conde, are starting a day of freedom military leaders who seized power in a coup. Released about 80 political prisoners ahead of a summit of the ECOWAS regional grouping. They're going to be discussing Sunday's CU two developments, at least for us to talk about. Bringing us the latest from Conakry, The capital, is once again the BBC's Al Hassan Silla. So Al Hassan, first off, give us the low down on the people who have been released. Who were they? Were they well known opponents where they people have been rounded up during the street protests. Do we know they were We know exactly who the where Lawrence. I mean, these are people who were opposed to President Conde. Seven. Third time beat as it were, and there were people from civil society. These were politicians. And in total 79 of them were released yesterday, including arguably the most famous priest named this country. His name is funny commingle. He belongs to the F N D. C. The group that actually led the resistance to the third Monday thing, and then, um, along with other politicians who are being detained since then without trial, So it was a very happy day yesterday, and people rejoiced almost throughout last night. Very interesting. Does this affect the regional view? Because we've heard, you know, there's quite a strong line against coups from organizations like the African Union from regional groups like ECOWAS. So ECOWAS are going to meet about meat about it. Is Guinea going to be represented there at all? Are they going to be talking to the coup leaders? What are we expecting? Well, that is not exactly clear what I mean. It would be a surprise from giving us to come to that meeting because them or I mean standard practices the term those are the members of the echo US or the African Union. They would hold their meetings and take decisions upon whatever the situation is, but I mean, suffice it to say people of hearing here. They are keen on seeing what the outcome will be. But some of them are almost, uh definite that I'm giving might be suspended from a course and that kind of thing. But however, Um, you know, I mean, I mean, equals would only be following standard practice because after all before college, uh, can be people from the rest of the world they all came here to pass. Really? Not to continue with his third time me, not them, and I'm sure Even so, even though some of them will be these meetings, they don't After all, this one brought all this trouble for being self. It listen to us. Initially, Last time we spoke, there was still a curfew, which obviously limited you know how easy it is to get out and about and judge the mood. Is it any clearer? Whether there is, you know, it's a big thing to sum up but broadly Do. People in Conakry at least seemed to approve of what's happened. What's the mood would you say? Well, I think largely people appear to have approved the mood in the first place. Certain people were just tired with this condo regime. People were suffering enormously. And yesterday, you know, I went out and about in Conakry in the main capital D a column I mean, things are beginning to return to normal, But I think I got more evidence of a semblance of normalcy at the main market. It's called Medina. I was there for a couple of hours in. I saw shops open. I mean people going about their business. I mean, those little pet Street is hawking their wares. And I think people are beginning to look forward rather than backwards. And you think him They should accept this this new military ruler and see what happens to their lives next, and has there been a sort of, you know the classic address to the nation on television at all. Have we heard more from the Leftenant colonel? Well, not exactly. I mean, since he came on television to announce his takeover and the arrest of President Conde held another meeting them in in in the presidential in the parliamentary building the other day, where he he addressed him. Ex ministers took away their passports and them ordered them not to leave the country. Um, he has not said anything. I think the most sense to decisional things happened yesterday, the release of these political prisoners and in the home region of President Alpha Conde in in a place called Conquer. In President Congress on home region, believe it or you, or you leave it. People came out and danced and rejoiced and praised what Mm Cornell done. We're husband, many, many thanks indeed, once again on the line from concrete with the latest from Guinea. That's the BBC's Al Hassan Silla. You say BBC World Service. Let's take you back to Afghanistan now because obviously the US and its allies have left the country and so the role of the United Nations has taken on a new significance its chief international, it is the chief international organizations still operating there, and the Taliban is relying on the world body for much needed humanitarian aid. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sat down with the BBC's Laura Trevelyan and explained why he thinks the U. N may be able to influence the Taliban. Secretary general. Now that the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan, the U. N is warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe. What are you most worried about? I am. First of all, terribly what it's about the situation of the Afghan people. 18 Million people are already needed assistance Before this crisis. 12 million are in risk of hunger. So these people is suffering enormously. We have millions displaced millions of refugees in the neighboring countries. Uh, So many years of war, So the level of suffering is unimaginable and our duty as U. N is to stay and to deliver. But the Taliban must create the conditions for us to be able to work. Which means freedom of access to every single which means that, for instance, girls must be allowed to go to school. Women must be allowed to work and that we can do these operations as normal as possible situation. We believe that humanitarian aid can be any important every point in the sense that the Taliban understand that humanitarian aid is essential, and they understand the international community will be more willing to provide humanitarian aid. If they respect the number of rules, So you.
Practical AI: Machine Learning & Data Science
"kenya" Discussed on Practical AI: Machine Learning & Data Science
"La welcome to another practical. This is daniel white neck. I am a data scientist with s. i. l. international and. I'm very excited today. To be joined from kenya by j patel who is technology and analytics manager jack rhonda health and southie russia secker on who is executive director in africa of jock. Rhonda health welcome. Thank you thanks for having a spaniel. yeah it's wonderful to talk to you both. We've already had a lot of great conversation even before we started recording. So i'm really excited about this. Maybe the could you give us a little bit of an introduction to jack around and some of the things you're doing and how it came about. Yeah absolutely so jock. Rhonda's a nonprofit organization networks in kenya primarily in africa and the challenge. Were trying to address is one of the fact that mothers and babies die during childbirth in this part of the world probably six or seven times more frequently than happens in more developed countries in north america in europe. We recognize that. It's not really a question of not having enough hospitals or providers or services although you know there's certainly challenges there but the quality of care so the kinds of care that are being provided really needs to improve and this has been shown you know in the literature By many many other groups as well as ours. And so jack. Rhonda works with governments with the government hospitals in country to try and improve quality of care. That's being delivered hospitals and we do that by using low cost scalable solutions that can be deployed within government hospitals to increase the number of moms who are seeking care at the right time in the right place and to improve the cure. They're receiving from providers when they actually get a hospital and that's where our digital house tools. Come in there. One of those low cost solutions that were delivering government books. Yeah that's awesome Really really appreciate your work in this area. Jay maybe you could sort of give some context. So that's a a wonderful story and and set up and context but southey you mentioned digital tools. Maybe jay you could let us know. Hey where does a and lpn. These sorts of things fit in. So why are we talking about this. On the practical. Ai podcast sure. It so what happens when a mother enrolls in our service is that she will. I go to one of these. so far. Seven hundred public health facilities that were partnering with the service and then we will start sending her messages about her health. The health of our baby but a pregnancy and messages include everything from the attrition. All the way up to dangerous signs and she can ask us any questions that she has at no charge. This is primarily run all off of s. Again it's free to the mother yet. Maybe you could. Because i think a lot of times at least in many people's context they might be thinking about chad as like a little window pop up on their customer service site or something but it sounds like you're focused primarily on sms. Is that right. that's correct. We checked with our users and more than half of them are still using feature phone so even though mobile phone penetration in kenya is in the high nineties a lot of users don't have smartphones and are still using the old nokia phones. Sure an n. how So you're having these conversations. When did you start thinking. Abou- what machine learning or lp sort of techniques could benefit you. How did that come about originally as gonna sort of tell the story from the perspective of how jay came to be part of the team. That'd be office you know. We launched a service now for years ago with two hundred malls. Yeah we're super excited. That would be two hundred bonds using the platform. It was an accident that we actually opened up two way communication for free. We didn't originally intended for that. We just thought will send mum's a bunch of messages metal improve their knowledge about pregnancy. And then i distinctly remember one of our program team members coming in saying. Hey these moms are asking questions. I've been answering them but the questions are increasing so it turned out. We had learnt of this latent demand for just a whole bunch of questions needing to be answered back to what jake was talking about. Many of these moms had teacher funds many. Don't use date on a regular basis because it's still relatively expensive here and so googling something isn't really an option the complexity of language when you google something i mean we. All know is really hard so the minute. They realized someone was sending the messages about their pregnancy. They started sending in questions. The question volume started increasing as we started to more and more moms. We're getting to hundreds of miles per months. Joe thousand mumps per month where at almost one hundred thousand per month now and we pretty early realized early on realize that we need a way to triage the questions coming in so some of the moms were asking about you. Know what can i eat for during pregnancy. is it okay to eat. Cod does for example which is surprisingly common question that we get out of. You know every thirty questions we get asked one or two of them will be really serious among may say i'm bleeding. What should i do and we recognize that if we sort of did a first in first out approach to answering questions we missed that mom or relate to answering on needed to know about bleeding so our journey to think about machine learning actually came in thinking about. How do we effectively categorize these messages. And i had this is when we had a tiny team. I had been messing about with dialogue flow to see if we put some of the conversations in an quickly you know in addition to realizing that we were on boarding more and more users recognizing that we actually needed someone with a lot more development expertise to come to the team. And which is how. Jay comes into the picture and bennett changes the way we do do business with these incoming questions. Happy to now handover today to talk about how he actually solve this child. Sure yeah just before we kick it over there. I guess so. You mentioned a dialogue flow. Southie which is offering from google to help build chat conversations. And that sort of thing when you started looking to solve this problem. Was it clear that i guess machine learning and ai even could provide a solution or was that still something that was relatively unclear. You just knew that know. Technology needed to be brought to the table. In new tech needed to be brought to the table. i was actually in the ecosystem here in nairobi. There's a number of people working on chat bots and so the original thought was okay. Maybe there's also a chat bot opportunity here where we don't even need people at the other end answering questions and we can grab conversational histories you know ten classification et cetera et cetera..
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"Now of course we do have our partners in a in a in an done center or us in innuendo. We do have our communications too. Which is ed by. Isd at the african hub and bizet. If you've got to cairo website and to osama plus of you get all the information how can be able to get. Us excellent now. Include those links in the show notes of this podcast episode. So dr miano thank you so much for joining the best wishes to you and your team and all the farmers in kenya. I really am very grateful for your efforts in helping. Most farmers thank you. Thank you so much and thank you. Very much for listening to the biotech podcast. Right of review Do what you can mostly tell people about this story. It's technology reaching smallholder farmers and helping them ensure a better livelihood for them and their families. This is exactly what this technology should do. And thank you to folks like dr miano for helping this happen. This is the talking biotech podcast..
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"An emphasis on biotechnology. And the good things we can do for people and the planet. My name's kevin full professor of podcast host and someone who cares a lot about science communication. Someone who's grateful to have a front seat at the newest innovation. I one of the things i care about. The most is getting technology to farmers especially those in emerging economies and farmers in the developing world. Have long needed the tools of biotechnology but they frequently been slow to reach today. We'll talk about a case where that barrier is now gone. We're speaking with professor. Douglas miano. he's at the university of nairobi in nairobi kenya. So welcome to the podcast. Dr miano thank you. I'm very glad you were able to join us. So you're in kenya. Kenya is a is a region of africa. That grows cassava. Could you tell us. About what cassava is and how important it is to the populations in those regions. Cassava is one of the most important crops in the in the country and region. Of course the main crop is maize. But we do have the crops at coming to feed as Deficits when the ms is not in plenty and cassava ranked high especially in eighty s. Where the lynn for is not a large amount of the in four does not go for a long period of time. 'cause i what comes in handy because it can be to even when we started was honored very high. No that's great and so it is good food staple for that reason. How important is it is. It is something that either in kenya or an africa or in a. Let's say around the world. How much is cassava consumed. Thank you has is a crop that is consumed by over six hundred million people in the majority of these are in africa. And now when you come to suffer petty john it's One of the main crops in some of the countries surrounding in kenya and surrounding The the country of kenya including uganda. Tanzania add wanda booby and those countries in some parts of this country's the people depend on the crop adduced. They have to eat casella at once in a d and therefore for the children they have to survive depending on now on the crop so when that is enough we know that the people are weapon. It's very good. I think in in the united states in west. We don't appreciate how important cassava is. You said six hundred million people so you know that's One in ten people in on the planet is dependent upon this crops. It's very very important crop. So when people eat cassava what what do they consume the leaves or do they consume the root of the stem. or how how do we consume cassava. The main pat on the crop that is consumed is the route. We the storage route. That is way. Add that most of the touch is stored so when a biscuit cutter any talk about kosova consumption in we thinking about the kosovar routes this story but we also do have some pets of the where the us as the the leaves vegetables. But of course you appreciate that s. Tens are also important in terms of the printing because the main propagation material so yes saying that roots are the most important as food that leaves cannot abuse at vegetables in some parts of the of the but he also use kazaa catching s. The remains much for propagation. Okay very good. Thank you so i guess the big problem. That are the threats but you mentioned. It's a reasonably resilient crop with respect to drought but what about disease how how subject to disease is cassava. We do have a number of diseases that affect casella but the main two main diseases is the cost are caused by viruses. One is cassava mosaic. Disease and one is cassava. Brown's cheek disease kosovo must hike disease affects more of their about growled that growing part menu. Why are there must brown stick deceased affect more of the roots and deaf damages haute is biscuit have been consumed. Yeah so the brown-streaked diseases as one. That i'm familiar with. How is that transmitted from one. Plant to another dad. Different means of transmission. The main one especially when kosovo is growing in the field is through insects. The vector that transmit the virus is a white fries so as when we especially in the tropics. We do have hypoc traditions of the height fries. And now of course we appreciate that The white fries and the passerby that throughout the that the because of the initial much conditions. So these are the victors transmit the white the last but you also do have another method of transmission and this is by cuttings when you propagate materials i from one crop to the other we are using this ticks which you have cat from the crop that is already going after after this thing sold if it was infected then you are able to transmit it to the next season and i understand that this can be difficult disease to detect at least the brown streak virus can be a difficult disease to detect early so a farmer may grow crops for a whole season and not realize that that it's not a good crop for sale is that true and that is the main main digit because that you know the extent of damage during harvesting and at that time the season is already allowed you have taken am nine months to a year or now are more to know that you don't have a crop so it's a big problem because you cannot be able to tear before the has that that the extent of damage and can you tell me more about the farmers are they small farmers maybe one to five acres or are they big industrial farms. We don't have out of fun mass. Who had been cassava for for industrial purposes. Most of it is used for consumption. So the famous avenue growing in one to two hectares of land are about maybe three to five acres of so majority are using for subsistence. Sali's minute groomed for food and muscle for the consumption at the household level. That's a really important point for us to make because sometimes people feel that technology is all for industry. But this is technology for people and we'll talk about the technology here in a second but in general food security in east. Africa in kenya are highly dependent upon cassava. So that that's pretty true right. It's too and especially that we do have two main parts of the country. We chatted produce cassava and Virat we have western patch of the of the of kenya where produce about sixty percent and consumes consumed sixty percent of the casella we do have the coastal region which consumed reduces and consumed about that japan of the crop and the rest about ten percent is a in the central region which the central part of the country so as bishop in western kenya where hamas depend on the crop for food on data bases. So it is becomes a critical crop because you know that If you.
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"Play packs so monthly play packs that got into the hands of young kids so just having something for young children to do most great. I think over the course of the year. We had created assembled in distributed over sixty thousand play packs we launched a digital caregiving stream. So we have all of this amazing content that we train our momma preneurs on and then also a two way ask the childcare expert hotline which was awesome because we had a sense of the pulse of what was going on in the communities in what was on parents minds through that very very difficult period. I'm so fascinated by these mama. Preneurs owners of these centers. What do you think they've done for their ability to better. Their lives and really accumulate wealth. Independent of men are mama. Frontiers are rockstars. They're they're incredible and the name was very intentional right. These are women who embody the elements of a mother mama nurturing loving caring patients. But also they're they're hustling their entrepreneurs their strategic in work hard persevere. In spite of challenges as we saw last year we do have issues with husbands sometimes husbands. Who see their wives run these thriving businesses from from something very small and want to get involved or wanna take the money. We're having to develop a new strategy to engage husbands on why this is great. I think we've also had issues with husbands. Who find that. Their wives are working too much now and are not home in time to make dinner so again of dealing with some of these challenges that come with having women that are so confident in empowered. We've had a few mama preneurs who were in really abusive relationships. We're able to detach from their husbands. Because they have the economic independence now to do so. I think it comes back to if they believe that what they're doing is important invaluable than nothing will stop them. You know it's incredible you've created a community. You've solved a lot of problems. That had already arisen in the area that people needed to deal with when you look at the policy landscape in kenya particularly around care. How do you think that you are personally influencing as a organization. We know that no matter how much we scale how big we get. There's no way we're going to reach every child and so we need to be working with the government on advocating for better more progressive policies. And we've had some really great quick winds on some policies. But i think the challenge comes into having those policies actually be implemented rather than just sitting as paperwork filed somewhere ultimately our theory. Here is that if women and mothers and communities understanding importance of childcare. An advocate for that than policymakers who are working on three to four year election cycles are going to need to start listening. And so how do we influence the behavior of parents and one of the coolest studies that was done. Last year was showing how kyoko parents have shifted their hierarchy of how they choose a childcare center so having been exposed to quality childcare there now choosing centers that have a better learning environment that have better nutrition that have qualified and trained staff and if we can start shifting how parents choose childcare centers. it's going to force childcare centers to improve their quality and make it really a strong issue that communities and elected officials need to start addressing. You given so much thought to this. And it really is just so deep that the tentacles of the operation in community with culture and government. What do you wish you had no about the childcare industry. When you started that you feel could have made a difference. I think when we started we we really thought about. This isn't early childhood education issue and really focusing only on education and it took us a couple of years to realize that when you're dealing with zero to three year olds the needs are very different. It's it's health and nutrition and social protection all of these different sectors. And i think that's part of what makes childcare so brilliant is that it touches every department in there's the health component there is the labor component for women's economic empowerment. There's a social protection component. And i think we've we've only now really started to approach all of these different departments. But i think that's also what makes it super difficult is that childcare doesn't fit squarely in one place which is why there's no ownership or accountability. And i think that's one of the biggest moves we need to make the sector is potentially framing this more as an economic issue is i think i was very naive at the beginning to think that if we could show policymakers and we've brought them we've brought them to our centers of tried to show them the reality of working moms living in the informal settlements. And they there is empathy there. But there's no action. And i think i i now a little bit wiser a little bit with more grey hairs. No that policymakers don't make decisions based on their hearts. They make it based on their wallets. And i think if we can start framing this as an economic issue that child care will leash this potential for women to work and have peace of mind at work and take fewer days off of work because their children are not sick as often. We can completely boost the economy of nations and then the the spillover effects which i think is the real important part is where then having children develop that are cognitively smart in critical thinking skills and socio emotional development and that will be the future human capital from these countries. Great advice the company is called kadogo operating in kenya. Childcare centers pollen preneurs.