The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and development partners, will inaugurate an expanded polio laboratory.
The inauguration will commence at 9 am at KEMRI headquarters in Nairobi.
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale will be among the guests who will give remarks at the meeting.
The facility, which serves as both the National and Inter-country Reference Laboratory, supports Kenya and neighbouring countries—Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Comoros—in polio diagnostics and surveillance.
With this expansion, the laboratory is expected to significantly strengthen in-country genomic sequencing, reduce turnaround times for outbreak detection, and enhance regional health security.
The expanded polio laboratory is a legacy project that will not only accelerate polio eradication but also strengthen genomic surveillance of other epidemic and pandemic threats, such as MPOX, measles, rubella, and emerging enteric viruses.
CS Ogamba to attend inauguration of Kenyatta University Council
The Cabinet Secretary for Education, Julius Migos Ogamba, will attend the inauguration of the Kenyatta University Council.
The event will take place at the Kenyatta University boardroom from 9 am.
Ogamba made key appointments and reappointments in various universities in July.
The CS appointed two new members to the Kenyatta University Council, Joash Mokamba Keraita and Isaac Opuya Litali.
Ogamba has also reappointed two members to the Kenyatta University Council. Maj. Gen. (Rtd.) Bashir Yusuf and Alice Waruguru Muita as council members.
The appointments will run for three years.
IGAD to launch the Regional Focus of 2025 Global Report on Food Crises
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will launch the IGAD Regional Focus of the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises.
The event will be held at the Trademark Hotel, Village Market, Nairobi, from 8.30 am.
The report provides a detailed assessment of acute levels of food insecurity and also examines the underlying causes and drivers.
It explores the interconnectedness of socioeconomic factors,
including conflict, migration, and displacement, and demonstrates how these
challenges have exacerbated food insecurity and vulnerability across the
region.
The launch event will bring together leaders and representatives from IGAD member states, along with development and technical partners, including the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, international agencies, NGOs, civil society organisations, and research institutions.
Kenya to mark World Ozone Day at John Michuki Memorial Park, Nairobi
The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry will lead national celebrations to mark World Ozone Day.
The celebrations will be held at John Michuki Memorial Park in Nairobi from 9 am.
World Ozone Day, observed annually on September 16, is a global event to raise awareness about the importance of the Earth's protective ozone layer and to promote actions to preserve it.
The day commemorates the 1987 signing of the Montreal Protocol, a landmark treaty to phase out substances that deplete the ozone layer.
It highlights the role of the ozone layer in protecting life from harmful UV radiation and emphasises how efforts to protect it also contribute to mitigating climate change.
Murkomen to head to Homa Bay County for Jukwaa La Usalama meeting
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen will be in Homa Bay County for the Jukwaa La Usalama meeting.
The event in Homa Bay is part of meetings across the six counties of the Nyanza region.
The security engagement tour kicked off last Thursday in Nyamira County.
Nyanza Regional Commissioner Flora Mworoa, who will host the meetings throughout the region, will accompany Murkomen.
The Jukwaa la Usalama forums provide an opportunity to assess the current security situation, engage with local leadership and communities, and refine strategies to promote peace, cohesion, and stability in the region.
African correctional chiefs to convene for ACHPR Resolutions implementation workshop
A high-level consultative workshop for chiefs of African correctional services will be held on the Implementation of African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) Resolutions on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa.
The meeting will be held at Eka Hotel in Nairobi from 9 am.
The workshop has been organised by the State Department for
Correctional Services and Kenya Prisons Service, Special Rapporteur on Prisons,
Conditions of Detention and Policing in Africa of the African Commission on
Human and Peoples' Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law.
East Africa’s public finance experts gather in Nairobi for 2025 PEFA training
The 2025 Africa Public Expenditure and Financial
Accountability (PEFA) Flagship Training for Public Financial Management
Specialists in East Africa officially opens today.
The official opening will commence at 9 am at the Pan Pacific Suites, Westlands, Nairobi.
The African Development Bank Group’s Fiduciary and
Inspection Department and the World Bank Group’s Public Expenditure and
Financial Accountability Secretariat host the training for three days.
Designed to promote hands-on learning and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, the training will bring together senior government officials from 13 East African countries as well as experts from the African Development Bank Group and the World Bank Group.
It will enhance participants’ knowledge and technical skills in applying the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) framework; strengthen capacity in public financial management reforms across East Africa; and contribute to the enhancement of accountability and improved service delivery in Public Financial Management (PFM).
