An impromptu raid on Friday evening performed by the Nationwide Authority for the Marketing campaign Towards Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) at a neighborhood membership in Nairobi turned hostile following the assault of a number of journalists and officers.
Talking to Kenyans.co.ke, a contact at NACADA confirmed the incident, explaining that the bouncers on the membership, eight in whole, went rogue and started attacking the NACADA officers and journalists on the scene.
Cops connected to NACADA, accompanied by journalists, arrived on the membership at round 11:00 pm to arrest the membership managers for allegedly promoting shisha, which is prohibited within the nation.
Upon figuring out the journalists, the bouncers charged and rained heavy blows on them. Within the course of, they forcefully seized their recording gear.
Revelers at a nightclub in Nairobi.
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Because of the melee that ensued, Nation photographer Boniface Bogita was stabbed twice within the ribs, Jane Kibira of Kenya Broadcasting Company (KBC) was stabbed within the again and Customary Group’s Boniface Okendo and Francis Odee had been additionally crushed up and badly wounded.
“They even beat up our officers however we managed to arrest all of them,” the supply said whereas confirming that two NACADA officers sustained severe accidents from the incident.
In keeping with the supply, the bouncers had been taken into custody at Kileleshwa Police Station, pending arraignment in courtroom on Monday.
Alternatively, the journalists who had been attacked are presently receiving medical therapy at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi.
The supply defined that the resistance portrayed by the bouncers was a results of the membership being owned by an influential individual within the nation.
He added that NACADA would proceed with the raids to make sure that these contravening the legislation can be dropped at e book.
“We’re doing huge issues as NACADA. The place is owned by one of the vital influential folks within the nation therefore all of the scuffle,” he added.
It isn’t a secret that my most favourite place in the whole world is Maragoli. It’s the place my thoughts utterly rests; and as somebody with delicate anxiousness and a continually ticking thoughts, that’s an enormous factor. It’s a place I discover absolute peace. It’s the place I do know I’m utterly protected and overflowingly beloved. The emerald hills are story-book fairly and everyone seems to be so heat and type. One of many issues I actually love about lastly rising up is the power to drive out at any time when I need. And since my work will be achieved kind in all places, I attempt be away from Nairobi as usually as I can. I’m scripting this submit from the again yard. My mother and father have since returned to Nairobi, however I selected to remain for an additional week and a half. It’s peaceable. It’s nonetheless. And I’m glad. I’ll end scripting this after which arrange my canvas and paint within the afternoon earlier than the night storms set in. This proper right here, is my dream life and I’m residing it!!
I had photographed this in my Nairobi residence earlier than driving out and located it becoming to finish this blogpost a couple of a lot beloved vegetable. As we speak is Monday and it’s Market day at Mudete and I feel I’ll go by and purchase a bunch and prepare dinner some utilizing this recipe coz remembering how bomb this recipe was is making me drool! The recipe may be very easy, with a #KK twist you’ll for positive love!
PREP TIME: 30 min COOK TIME: 15 min SERVES: 2
Components
1 bunch of sagaa (tsisagaa)
1 bunch of kanzira
250g of cream
50 g of coconut cream
1 teaspoon of minced garlic
1 onion
1 tomato
Ghee to prepare dinner
Salt & Pepper to style
Methodology
First issues first, allow us to take about tsisagaa (pronounced zisagaa) or briefly simply sagaa. The Kalenjin name this identical vegetable Saget, whereas the Kisii name it Chinsagaa. The Luo are additionally so aware of this vegetable and I requested on Twitter what they name it however there was no consensus as per the replies. If you recognize the identify, I’d respect your enter within the feedback under!
This vegetable will be recognized available in the market utilizing their distinct white purple flowers.
Style-wise, they’re recognized for his or her bitter style, which I significantly get pleasure from. The younger stems are mildly bitter however the older ones are usually sharply bitter. To mood that bitterness, you may combine them with kanzira, terere and managu however reasonably. Within the occasion you can’t discover these three greens, some spinach is a superb vegetable to make use of to mood the bitterness of sagaa is you so want.
On at the present time, I combined mine with some kanzira.
I purchased each my sagaa and kanzira from naivas at 33bob a bunch. Carrefour normally has too however they don’t seem to be labeled so for almost all who have no idea determine greens with out labels can have some hassle. Naivas have labelled theirs so properly.
So, let’s get cooking.
The plucking of the leaves may be very easy as a result of the leaves are actually giant; the mboga that’s painstaking to pluck – in my opinion- is mitoo as a result of they’re tiny, needlelike leaves shu! Mitoo takes a lot time!
Pluck your sagaa and roughly chop the kanzira.
Proceed to blanch them collectively in a sufuria with scorching water and a splash of munyu musherekha (optionally available however very a lot beneficial). Munyu Musherekha is a salt that additionally doubles up aa a tenderizer. It’s superb for all conventional greens in addition to kuku kienyejis and matumbo; generally fish as properly. We make our’s at residence however you should purchase yours from Kienyeji Retailer.
Blanch them till they’re simply cooked and nonetheless vibrant inexperienced. Most individuals have a tendancy to actually boil them for 600 nights till they flip gray, don’t be that individual. A fast blanch is sufficient so that each one it’s goodness is retained.
One full bunch of each kanzira and sagaa will end in 250 g of the identical blanched. Greens do very considerably shrink after they’re cooked and that is no totally different. So all the time begin with an enormous quantity coz they’ll shrink down.
Set these apart and put together for cooking.
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“What if I wish to freeze my veggies for a later time?”
I’m an enormous fan of freezing my kienyejis for later time and likewise to avoid wasting one effort and slash cooking time. We don’t freeze them uncooked & on the stem. In terms of freezing kienyejis, blanch them first, enable them to * utterly* calm down after which pack them in your ziplocks. Label them (each identify and date so as to know what’s what) after which neatly stack them in your freezer. Whenever you wish to prepare dinner, seize a batch, enable it to thaw and prepare dinner as typical.
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In one other sufuria, soften in your ghee and a few salt and pepper. Add within the onion and garlic and sautee till softened and aromatic. You need to use some other oil you want, however I really like ghee for any vegetable so it was my go-to for this one. Use as little garlic as potential, it needs to be a background word and never overpower the style of the sagaa.
Add the tomatoes and prepare dinner till they’re softened and disintegrated. Add within the blanched greens, adopted by the 2 lotions and blend in. I normally solely use pure cream for my kienyeji mbogas, however on at the present time I made a decision so as to add in a pop of coconut cream simply for an additional attention-grabbing word. It was an important determination. Common cream alone is ideal. Coconut cream alone wouldn’t be as nice. However each common cream and coconut cream? It’s stellar!
You may serve this with any starch and protein you like however in my very bias Maragoli opinion, conventional greens shine greatest with Ugali!! On at the present time, I served mine with some mayai and ugali. And honey, It was a wonderful feast!
I really like how the softness of the kanzira tempered the bitterness of the sagaa, however all of the whereas permitting abit of it’s signature bitterness to peak by. I appreciated that. The general style was wealthy on account of the 2 lotions and the smooth background notes of the garlic and the coconut actually elevated the consuming expertise.
I do hope you get to do that out! Now we have such all kinds of wonderful greens and tsisagaa has obtained to be amongst your regulars. I’d love to listen to the way you put together yours. And within the occasion you’ve got any query about these mbogas, drop me a DM; I’d love love love to assist!
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Extra Kenyans working previous 65 to maintain off previous age poverty
Friday January 05 2024
Aged individuals will proceed to work so as to afford their primary wants.
Ms Rosemary Wanja, 71, juggles between weaving and promoting baskets, planning for weekly weaving coaching for a gaggle of ladies, and searching for driving duties each occasionally.
An aged girl who has additionally been battling arthritis over the previous eight years, age is quick catching up together with her, weighing down her experience in driving- a profession she has trusted since 1971- which has lower her probabilities of getting driving duties.
However the duty to deal with her grandchildren, with whom she lives with at a rental home in Dagoretti, Nairobi, retains her on toes, at all times striving to feed them. Ms Wanja has, thus, needed to improve her deal with weaving over the previous 4 years, creating a distinct segment in weaving baskets, furnishings and door mats, all within the seek for the cash to pay her payments.
“I meet with a gaggle of ladies in Nairobi’s Adams as soon as per week whom I practice weaving of various objects and get compensated for the companies. I train two groups, so I arrive at 8 within the morning. My first-class begins at half previous 8 and runs till midday. My second session runs from quarter to 2 pm, and I practice them till 4.30pm,” she says.
A brand new report by the Central Financial institution of Kenya (CBK) has proven a decline in world oil costs forward of the pump costs evaluation by the Power and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) on January 14.
In its weekly evaluation of the worldwide financial system, CBK indicated that the decline in costs was attributed to the US market which had a surplus provide.
With the excess provide within the US, the demand for the opposite markets was not as excessive, resulting in the drop.
“Worldwide oil costs declined throughout the week ending January 4, following a listing build-up within the US. Murban oil costs declined to USD 78.83 per barrel on January 4 in comparison with USD 79.55 on December 28,” learn the report partly.
A photograph of the Central Financial institution of Kenya in Nairobi.
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Nonetheless, hopes of one other gas value drop might show troublesome provided that the greenback has continued to dominate the Shilling. Simply in a single week, the Shilling shed towards the greenbuck by over Ksh1.
“The Kenya Shilling remained comparatively steady towards main worldwide and regional currencies throughout the week ending January 4. It exchanged at KSh 157.39 per US greenback on January 4, in comparison with KSh 156.09 per US greenback on December 28,” learn the assertion partly.
Provided that oil entrepreneurs import gas in {dollars}, the prices used within the buy might stay excessive making pump costs to stay elevated.
Notably, EPRA additionally makes use of parallel charges than these issued by the CBK. The charges used for the pump calculations by EPRA are normally greater.
Nonetheless, the federal government might go for the gas stabilisation programme or subsidies as was witnessed throughout the December evaluation.
The costs of diesel and tremendous petrol have been subsidised to cushion motorists regardless of a drop in world oil costs.
In December, Petrol costs have been lowered by Ksh5, resulting in the present pump value of Ksh212.36. Diesel and kerosene costs have been lowered by Ksh2 and Ksh4.01 respectively.
In the meantime, President William Ruto in November 2023 promised Kenyans an extra drop in January, explaining that Kenyans would start to reap the advantages of the government-to-government oil deal.
“You may have seen that we’ve got began to cut back the value of gas. Subsequent month (December 2023) the value can be lowered way more. That will even be the case in January 2024 till we get to a sustainable value,” Ruto acknowledged throughout a rally in Kirinyaga County on November 18.
A petroleum station attendant fueling a automotive in Nairobi.
Mitumba Kenya – the enterprise of shopping for and promoting second-hand garments, is a boon and a bane for Kenya. Because the everlasting discount hunter, I am keen on visiting Kenya’s well-known clothes markets. ‘Why?’ I hear you ask, ‘What’s so nice about Mitumba?’ Right here’s my perception on why Mitumbu is sweet, and maybe extra importantly, why is Mitumba in Kenya dangerous.
I’m working at my desk, tapping away on the laptop computer as daylight streams by means of my window. It’s rained ferociously all week, and dust is reaching epic proportions. Right here, in my backyard, the jacaranda shakes a vibrant rainfall of violet leaves onto the pea inexperienced garden, and my espresso is great, however all I’m considering is, ‘Ought to I’m going to Toi Market?’ Because the rain will increase in tempo and the world shudders beneath the electrical lights of an African storm, I’m conscious that I might be loopy to surrender the rarified heat of my secure little cocoon to tramp the sludged streets of my native Mitumba, however the magic is within the possibly. The occasional gem that makes all the effort price it. Within the mazed streets of Toi market, the stalls are a rabbit warren of higgly piggly makeshift stands. In the summertime, Toi’s dusted streets are savagely scorching, and distributors border on aggressive as they name out ‘Mama, mama, come look’ with ear-jarring repetition. Within the rain, the streets flood with what I hope is rainwater, and motorbikes whizz up and down slim channels. Intimidating? Positive. A veritable treasure trove of hidden gems? Positively – should you’re up for rummage. I’ve discovered Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Prada attire with tags for a few {dollars}—designer purses for beneath 10 USD. With perseverance and immunity to warmth and trouble, large bargains may be discovered. Kenya’s Mitumba second hand markets are addictive.
Mitumba Kenya – A Temporary Historical past
Let’s begin initially. Forty-odd years in the past,, Kenya’s textile trade, was thriving providing employment to individuals all around the nation from farmers to weavers and designers. Within the Eighties, the textile trade in Kenya skilled a growth as the federal government imposed a 100% tariff on imported items. At the moment, the textile trade employed 200,000 households and 30% of Kenya’s manufacturing workforce, and Kenya exported clothes so far as the US. Nevertheless, within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, Kenya started to lose its benefit in opposition to different textile producers due to a collection of political and financial reforms that negatively affected Kenya’s shopping for and promoting energy. On the identical time, Asia ramped up its textile exportation and worldwide powers minimize funding in African international locations. The end result was a discount within the upkeep and renewal of equipment. Add into the combination a collection of droughts that broken Kenya’s cotton harvest and the seal was signed on Kenya’s blossoming dwelling spun trade. As Kenya’s textile manufacturing diminished, the importation of second-hand garments started to growth, and by the mid-Nineteen Nineties, 85% of Kenya’s textile trade had shut down and was changed by Mitumba.
Mitumba Kenya’s Second Hand Clothes Increase
Mitumba is seen by some as a great factor, in any case it employs round 2 million Kenyans and gives low cost clothes to the nation. Mitumba, which suggests bales in Kiswahili, works by gathering second-hand garments donated by charities, and overproduced objects from producers, and packaging them for resale. Bales are sorted in keeping with kind: ladies’s attire, child garments, males’s trousers, and by grade, and priced accordingly. Kenyan entrepreneurs should buy these bales and promote the person objects for a revenue. On the floor, it appears the best answer; the surplus of garments produced by 1st world international locations has a spot to go. Mitumba creates job alternatives and permits Kenyans to work for themselves and personal their very own enterprise, thus offering Kenyans with enterprise associated expertise. The Kenyan authorities advantages from import taxes and charging Mitumba distributors a market stall price. The Kenyan individuals have entry to low cost clothes, and the do-gooders get to really feel smug. Win-win, proper?
Ever heard the saying, ‘For those who give a person a fish, you have got fed him for a day, however should you educate him to fish, you have got fed him for a lifetime.’ The identical goes for the textile trade in Kenya. Individuals creating textiles in Kenya got here from all walks of life: farmers, weavers, sewists, textile designers, engineers, technicians, material printers, material mills, packaging firms, provide chain & transport wants. These individuals had been unbiased and never reliant upon charitable donations for his or her earnings. Many had been expert, with jobs handed down by means of households or discovered by means of apprenticeships. The acquisition and resale of bales of second-hand clothes has severely impacted Kenya’s means to dress itself. Kenya is now one of many world’s largest importers of second-hand clothes, and whereas some 2 million Kenyans work within the Mitumba commerce, it’s totally reliant upon richer international locations. As a technique, the importation of second-hand clothes is in direct opposition to the governmental coverage of Purchase Kenya – Construct Kenya. A coverage which was launched to extend competitiveness and consumption of regionally produced items and companies.
The Enormous Environmental Price of Mitumba in Kenya
Kenya has turn out to be a dumping floor for undesirable textiles from developed international locations. Textile waste air pollution is round 74,000 tonnes per yr, and most of it leads to landfills; if it makes it that far, the ruddy streets and waterways of Nairobi and Mombasa are clogged with cast-off material, plastic buttons and rusting zips. Landfills stand 4 storeys excessive, their contents emitting harmful poisonous gases as they decompose, polluting the soil and degrading the pure setting. The Altering Markets Basis (CMF) states that Kenya receives round 37 million objects of junk clothes from Europe alone every year. An growing variety of objects that arrive in Kenya in Mitumba are broken or soiled and never match to be bought within the markets. In keeping with Greenpeace, round 40 % of Mitumba items are despatched straight to landfills. It appears to me that developed international locations are offloading their landfill objects within the guise of serving to poorer nations.
As accountable individuals and environmental warriors, we should always boycott Mitumba, proper? However the reply is extra advanced. Throughout COVID-19, the federal government banned the import of Mitumba objects, fearing that the clothes would unfold the virus. The end result was that just about a million Kenyans had their earnings minimize off. Knowledge from MSC confirmed that solely 39% of Kenyans put aside cash for emergencies, and when COVID-19 hit, these backup funds ran out shortly. With their livelihood minimize off, Kenyans whose commerce was in Mitumba had no inherent expertise to fall again on and struggled to feed and dress their households. The social and financial value of shutting Mitumba down was big. At this time Mitumba is again and larger than ever, albeit with inflated costs, however Covid taught us {that a} whole ban on Mitumba is now not sensible. The import of second-hand clothes has turn out to be a lifestyle for the Kenyan individuals. Not solely is it a monetary lifeline however Kenyans admire accessing good high quality trendy clothes that’s reasonably priced for everybody.
So what’s the answer? Nicely, the federal government is creaming 12 billion shillings a yr from Mitumba, so it isn’t going wherever quickly. The one answer appears to be to work on rebuilding Kenya’s textile trade whereas implementing tips and restrictions on imported objects into Kenya. If all Mitumba Kenya objects are wearable and good high quality, then bales can be bought of their entirety and never confined to landfills or dumped within the streets. As well as, lowering second-hand clothes provide could assist reinvigorate Kenya’s textile trade. It’s totally doable for the native textile trade to exist alongside Mitumba contemplating the 2 segments deal in several markets and function at completely different value factors.
What can we do to assist? Share tales like this, and push international governments to deal with the inequalities within the system. Within the meantime, I’ll assist native companies by persevering with to buy at Toi. You by no means know, in the future I’ll discover that cup slipper which is little question lurking inside a pile of second-hand Crocs. Purchase Kenya, Construct Kenya.
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Present me an even bigger salad lover than I? I’m ready.
I completely love salads. The completely different textures and flavours at play simply make me so comfortable. I learnt of a web based enterprise that sells organically grown greens and I purchased some provides from them. I bought the curly kale and beets from them. As quickly as I’d seen the kale I knew precisely what I wished to make.
Right here’s a haul video I did on my Instagram.
The one time consuming a part of this salad recipe is the preparation of the beetroot. You possibly can select to both steam/ boil the beets or roast them. I opted to roast. I’d counsel you put together an enormous batch that means you might have beets readily available.
For the beets, I lower them into chew dimension items that means they roast a lot quicker then roasting them entire.
For the curly kale, wash every leaf completely then take away from the stems and tear roughly and put aside. You probably have a salad spinner dry the leaves with that, in any other case pat dry with paper towels.
For the apples attempt to get the crunchiest. It will add to the feel variations within the salad.
For the dressing, I made a easy French dressing which I felt wanted some sweetness thus, I’ve added honey within the recipe card.
The salad is the right combo of candy, slight bitterness from the kale and savouriness from the feta. Very scrumptious.
Beet and Feta Kale Salad
Scrumptious and filling salad.
2massivebeetrootswashed and lower into bit sized items
8stemscurly kalewashed, dried, stems eliminated and torn up
2mediumappleswashed, cored and lower into bit sized items
In an oven protected dish or baking tray add beetroot items, season with salt and pour over a tablespoon of oil. Combine together with your hand and prepare in a single layer. Bake at 180 levels C for half-hour or till the beets could be simply pierced with a fork or knife.
For the curly kale items, add a tablespoon of olive oil and therapeutic massage them together with your fingers and put aside.
As soon as the beets are roasted and cooled, assemble the salad. In a big bowl, add the kale, roasted beets, apple slices and crumbled feta items.
For the dressing
In a small air tight jar, add all of the substances of the dressing and shake to emulsify.
Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to mix. Add the toasted nuts.
Serve and luxuriate in.
Olive oil is good, nonetheless it may be substituted with sunflower oil.
A piece of the Kenya Technical Trainers Faculty (KTTC), now often called The Kenya College of TVET (KSTVET), in Gigiri. PHOTO | NMG
A tussle between two ministries has delayed the establishing of a diplomatic enclave within the upmarket Gigiri space in Nairobi, two years because the authorities stated the plan was in its closing phases.
Paperwork tabled in Parliament present the tussle between the ministries of Schooling and Overseas Affairs that has delayed the relocation of Kenya Technical Trainers Faculty (KTTC), now often called The Kenya College of TVET (KSTVET), to pave the best way for the advanced.
Kenya introduced that plans to relocate KSTVET from Gigiri had been within the closing phases as at February 2022 to create room for the development of the diplomatic enclave. The relocation was budgeted to value Sh4 billion.
“The diplomatic enclave in Gigiri meant to be hosted on the premises at present occupied by the Kenya Lecturers Coaching Faculty (KTTC) was launched however is but to take off. This was as a result of the KTTC was but to be relocated,” paperwork tabled by the Nationwide Meeting’s Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Overseas Relations stated.
“The is a necessity for the Ministry of Overseas and Diaspora Affairs and Ministry of Schooling to expeditiously and amicably settle the matter to keep away from additional delays.”
The committee didn’t, nonetheless, give a deadline for the 2 ministries to agree and pave the best way for the event that’s meant to cement the diplomatic attraction of the nation.
The earlier administration directed that the KTTC, positioned subsequent to the USA Embassy and United Nations advanced that hosts United Nations Setting Programme (Unep) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, be moved.
In 2016, the federal government introduced the faculty can be moved to the then Kenya Science Lecturers Faculty, that’s now a campus of the College of Nairobi on Ngong Highway.
In February 2022, former Vocational and Technical Coaching Principal Secretary Margaret Mwakima informed Parliament that the Cupboard authorized the relocation in readiness for the hub in step with the Vienna Conference.
However the course of has since been delayed, turning the highlight on the brand new administration and its keenness to spice up Kenya’s diplomatic attraction.
Gigiri hosts a number of United Nations places of work with the largest being the headquarters of the Unep and UN Habitat in addition to 23 nation places of work and several other regional models.
The US Embassy to Kenya can be positioned in Gigiri, main a number of different diplomatic places of work and residential zones within the space.
Switch committee
Failure by the 2 ministries to agree on the coaching establishment’s relocation extends a dispute that first got here to the fore in 2016 when the Fee on Administrative Justice — the Ombudsman —opposed the switch proposal, arguing it will be a breach of public land legislation.
However in 2017, the earlier administration picked a committee to information the switch and begin development on the Kenya Science Faculty website to accommodate extra college students.
The committee had 5 principal secretaries from the schooling, lands and international affairs ministries and representatives of the College of Nairobi and the KSTVET.
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The Kenya Scrabble Federation, KSF, has kicked off a collection of qualifiers to select squads that can characterize the nation in forthcoming main continental occasions.
In response to the federation Kenya is ready to area groups at the All Africa Video games scheduled for Ghana in March, the East, Central and Southern Africa championship set for Botswana additionally in March and the October Africa Scrabble Championship in Sierra Leone.
‘’We are attempting to pick out a staff to characterize Kenya in these three occasions. Our future is within the youth that’s why in the present day’s event has attracted college students as effectively. Fortunately they’re opening colleges subsequent week after participating on this event. We would like to spend money on the youth as a result of that’s the place the world is heading’’, quipped Kenya Scrabble Federation chairman Limo Kipkemo.
The opening championship held Saturday at Commerce Mark Resort,Village Market Nairobi attracted a complete of 90 gamers hopeful of constructing the nationwide staff.
‘’Up to now so good the whole lot is occurring effectively. Our love for scrabble has introduced us collectively competing in a number of tournaments. We hope for one of the best this yr and that this recreation will assist us enhance even in our faculty work’’ remarked scrabble participant Cynthia Mukami.
‘’Scrabble is a recreation involving language and Arithmetic we create phrases then whole the ltters as a result of the letters have totally different demarcations on them. So it’s majorly about language and arithmetic’’ mentioned Joan Wangari.
On the conclusion of a collection of qualifiers a staff of 6 gamers is predicted to be picked forward of All Africa Video games and the East, Central and Southern Africa championship in Botswana.
Kenya is ready to host subsequent yr’s East and Central Africa scrabble championship.
