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THE STANDARD COAST The family members were heading to Voi from Mombasa when the accident occurred. [File, Standard] A middle-aged couple and their three children died on Saturday morning after their vehicle collided head-on with a fuel tanker at Taru area on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway. Four other persons, who were also in the private vehicle, sustained serious injuries, Coast Regional Traffic Commander Peter Maina said. The four survivors are the man’s second wife, his two other relatives and a mechanic. They were taken to Kinango Sub-County Hospital for emergency care. Maina told The ...

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THE STANDARD COAST The 7am incident caused a huge snarl-up on the Makupa-Changamwe route. [Courtesy] Three people died on Thursday morning and five others injured in Makupa, Mombasa after a matatu flew over a barrier and collided head-on with a truck. The 14-seater matatu was headed towards Changamwe from Makupa, when the accident occurred. Coast regional traffic boss, Peter Maina, told The Standard it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the matatu driver to lose control of the vehicle. The injured were taken to the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital, whereas bodies were taken ...

Peter Maina is a trader in the northwestern Kenyan town of Kitale. Before the militia groups in South Sudan started to waylay and attack foreign drivers on Yei-Juba road, Maina had secured many orders to supply various goods to Juba.Due to the overflow of orders, he was forced to secure a loan from a microfinance agency to finance the business. Now Maina is a frustrated man after cargo transportation to South Sudan was suspended following escalating insecurity since the beginning of April.”The business was going on smoothly until April 1 when attacks against Kenyan drivers intensified. I ha...

 In the Soweto slum of Nairobi, volunteers are making soap from vegetables. The goal is to provide soap for residents to wash their hands and prevent the spread of COVID-19. About 86% of Kenyans find it hard to access soap and running water each day, according to a UNICEF report last year. That includes most of Soweto’s more than 70,000 residents, among them Peter Maina. “Right now, the economy is high,” Peter said. “The little I get is for feeding the family. Will I buy soap or provide for my children?” For people like Maina, Kenyan charities such as the Tulinde child trust are fi...