Kenya

President Rumen Radev welcomed the change in the approach and the abolition of the ban on payment of certain medicines from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) budget in 2018.

The Head of State calls on all parliamentary groups to continue to consider ethical considerations and to act in the interests of constitutional citizens' rights and social justice.

Kenyans, who produce, sell or even use plastic bags, risk being punished by up to four years in prison or a fine of USD 40,000. Since Monday, the world's most stringent law aimed at reducing plastic pollution has come into force, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.

Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Aug. 28, as the world's toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.

The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.

Tensions remained high in Kenya on Aug. 13 after 11 people died in violent protests and the opposition stood by its demand that the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta be overturned.

A raft of developing countries are considering selling bonds earmarked for environmental projects, potentially accelerating growth in a market seen as crucial to efforts to keep global temperatures in check.

France and Poland have in recent months become the first sovereigns to issue 'green' bonds, previously the domain mainly of development banks and companies.

Rescue workers pulled a six-month-old baby girl out of the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital on May 3 and reunited her with her father, more than three days after it collapsed following days of heavy rain. 

US President Barack Obama on July 25 called for gay rights in Africa during his landmark visit to Kenya, comparing homophobia to racial discrimination he had encountered in the United States.

U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on July 25 they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had to assist by ensuring the rule of law was upheld and by tackling corruption. 

US President Barack Obama arrives in his ancestral homeland Kenya late July 24, with a massive security operation under way to protect him from Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants.

Most local mariners and veteran Greece holiday-makers already knew as much, yet National Geographic’s latest book, “Journeys of a Lifetime”, more-or-less … exposes the large island of Evia as one of the top 10 international destinations for sailing.