Garissa County, KLB partner to promote education

The Garissa County Government and the Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB) have signed a partnership agreement in which the latter will supply learning materials for Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) and the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Speaking after receiving the partnership business model from KLB area sales and marketing representative, Ali Bille, Garissa County Secretary, Abdi Sheikh, […]

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Agencies urged to act firmly on FGM perpetrators

Security agencies, civil society and the justice system have been urged to be firm in dealing with cases of child defilement, FGM and early marriages in Garissa County. Speaking at a Garissa hotel, Gender Chief Administrative Secretary Linah Jebii Kilimo warned that the retrogressive cultural practices and other forms of gender based-violence were criminal acts […]

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Pastoralists Embracing Irrigation Farming

Many pastoralists’ communities in Northern Kenya are now embracing irrigation farming as an alternative source of livelihood, something that was unheard of some years back. With frequent, prolonged and devastating effects of the drought occasioned by the climate change, pastoralists’ communities are fast losing grip of their only source of livelihood, livestock, thus forcing majority […]

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