LAIKIPIA JANUARY 27, 2017(CISA) – Over 100 pupils are skipping school at Narok Primary school in Laikipia County due to famine that has hit the region. “113 pupils have not reported back since the school opened. They are probably in the bush looking after the cows and for food to eat,” Mr Andrew Maina, head teacher […]
Day: 30 January 2017
VATICAN: Pope Names Fernando Ocariz New Bishop of Opus Dei
VATICAN CITY JANUARY 27, 2017 (CISA)-Monsignor Fernando Ocariz is the new bishop of the Opus Dei becoming the third successor of Saint Josemaria. Pope Francis named him on January 23 following his earlier election in the day at the elective congress. Bishop Fernando Ocariz will replace Bishop Javier Echevarria who died on December 12, 2016 […]
GAMBIA: President Adama Barrow Returns Home
BANJUL JANUARY 27, 2017 (CISA) – Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has returned to the country a week after his predecessor Yahya Jammeh fled into exile. An aircraft carrying the new president, his two wives and some of his children arrived in the capital Banjul yesterday January 26 from Senegal, to rousing welcome by jubilant crowds. President […]
KENYA: Teach Children to Resolve Conflict, US Peace Body Urges
NAIROBI JANUARY 27, 2017(CISA)-Lloyd Van Bylevelt, President of Peace Education Foundation, has called for the introduction of peace and conflict education in schools across Kenya. “Children need to learn to work cooperatively now in order to work cooperatively later as adults. When you build community in classroom and teach children how to care and use self-control, […]