Mactilda Mbenywe

In an exclusive interview with Mactilda Mbenywe on the sidelines of the negotiations, Finland's Minister of Climate and the Environment, Sari Multala, framed Finland's partnership with Kenya as deliberately practical: programmes that green vocational training and youth livelihoods, financing that nudges capital into youth-led agribusinesses, grant-backed energy and e-mobility projects, and a major weather and early-warning modernisation package anchored by Finnish technology and long-term institutional cooperation. She also described UNEA's political constraints, consensus decision-making, competing priorities, and pressure on UNEP's mandate, while arguing that progress still depends on what member states choose to implement once the meetings end.

In Taita Taveta, county officials and conservation managers are rechecking budgets as climate-funded programmes face fresh uncertainty.

Kenya is widely praised for being among the leading nations in Africa's climate policy.

When t‍he A‍f‍r‍ica‍n‍ Cou‍rt on Human an‍d P‌eoples’ Rights ruled in f‍avour of the Ogiek in 201‍7, it was hailed as a landmark vic​tory‍ for Indigenous r​ights across Africa​.

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Behind factory walls and warehouse compounds, diesel generators rumble into life, providing backup power to businesses that cannot afford to stop production when the grid fails.

For generations, many families in Kenya's cool highland counties have regarded malaria as someone else's problem.