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*NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya, known for its Konza Technopolis — dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Savannah” — is about to be the continent’s first nanotechnology and semiconductors manufacturer, a field dominated by global giants such as the United States, China, and Canada. Located at the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri County, 60 miles east of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Semiconductor Technologies Limited will set the pace for local electronic chip manufacturing. Other devices that the company will manufacture are mobile phones and television sets, which will be sold local...

Kenyatta National Hospital – Getty *NAIROBI, Kenya — An oxygen shortage has created a health emergency at the largest hospital in East Africa. Hundreds of patients in intensive care units at Kenyatta National Hospital are in dire need of oxygen as some individuals and private hospitals are said to be holding more than 20,000 cylinders, according to Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe. “I wish to make an appeal to those holding cylinders, be they hospital facilities or individuals in other sectors, please return those cylinders to manufacturers, so they can refill and use the...

THE STANDARD By Robert Amalemba | March 17th 2021 at 17:19:34 GMT +0300 Entrance to the Bungoma law courts. [courtesy] Two people accused of murdering their friend and dumping his body in a ditch after a chang’aa spree have been set free by the court. Justice Stephen Riechi of Bungoma law courts set them to liberty, citing a Court of Appeal ruling implicating the State for faltering on the circumstantial evidence they relied upon to secure a conviction.  “There must be no co-existing circumstances weakening the chain of circumstances relied upon,” the judge told the prosecution as he...