Remember the Goat
Sharing news from Northern Kenya and neighbouring areas. Particular interests are climate change, environment, conservation and security & conflict triggers. https://linktr.ee/rememberthegoat
Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’www.theguardian.com Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them
Inside abduction squads targeting top influencersnation.africa This team was formed on Sunday following a high-level security meeting in Nairobi.
Kenya's youth-led protest movement leaves Ruto fumbling for a responsewww.reuters.com As John Aron headed out to join the protests raging outside parliament, he felt something huge had already shifted in Kenyan politics, jolting it away from its decades of dominance by party strongmen and ethnic loyalties.
Anti-Tax Riots Rock Kenya, as President Vows Crackdown on ‘Treasonous’ Protesterswww.nytimes.com At least five people were killed in clashes with the police that erupted after lawmakers approved tax increases that critics said would drive up the cost of living for millions.
Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC diewww.theguardian.com Alarm over high mortality and miscarriage rates as mutated virus spreads in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Poor Kenyans feel devastated by floods and brutalized by the government's responseapnews.com Winnie Makinda says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government’s response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital of Nairobi.
‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenyawww.theguardian.com People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will
Wildebeest suffocating from being boxed in parkswww.theeastafrican.co.ke Roads, fences, farms and urban sprawl have fractured the historic migratory routes of wildebeest herds and prevented them from roaming far and wide in search of fresh grass and water.
NAIROBI: THE RIVER AND THE CITYwww.youtube.com Nairobi has seven rivers flowing through the City that is the global environmental conservation capital. We trace the City's primary river, Nairobi river fro...
East Africa’s ‘soda lakes’ are rising, threatening their iconic flamingostheconversation.com New research shows increased rainfall due to climate change is threatening the birds’ food supply.
Kenya’s wildlife conservancies make old men rich, while making women and young people poorertheconversation.com Conservation strategies should promote equitable benefits across communities.
Roads impassable, families displaced as heavy rains wreak havoc in Marsabitthe-star.co.ke Hundreds of families have reportedly been rendered homeless in various parts of North Horr
Heavy rains render several roads impassable in Turkanawww.the-star.co.ke Places like Kalimapus and Loropio were rendered inaccessible by the rains.
The growing reality of climate refugeesnation.africa More families are now forced to abandon their homes for sustenance