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Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships

HYTES Scholarships: Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships (HYTES) is a Canadian registered charity that provides scholarships for community minded and financially challenged secondary students in developing countries. It’s focus is on paying for secondary tuition costs for community minded and financially challenged students in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Guatemala. Helping Youth Through Educational Scholarships […]

Opportunity for Eastern Africa in British Institute

British Institute in Eastern Africa Grants: The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) grants awards to assist scholars undertaking original research in Eastern Africa in any field of the humanities and social sciences with some emphasis on archaeology, African history, anthropology, and related subjects. The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) is based in Nairobi, […]

UN-HABITAT announces Internships for Undergraduates

UN-HABITAT Internships: UN-HABITAT is the United Nations agency for human settlements, mandated to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. UN-HABITAT offers internships in Nairobi, Kenya for undergraduate and graduate university students. The internships have a duration of three to six months and are on […]

Top scientists urge end to policy and governance failures to tackle social and environmental crises

News Release Top scientists will tomorrow (20 February) urge governments to replace GDP as a measure of wealth, end damaging subsidies, and transform systems of governance to set humanity on a new path to a better future — or risk climate, biodiversity and poverty crises that will spawn greater problems worldwide. These are among the […]

Toyota Foundation undergraduate Scholarships for Kenyans

Toyota Foundation Scholarships: Toyota Kenya Foundation seeks to provide opportunities for Kenyan children from disadvantaged families pursue either basic and/or high school education. Eligibility is limited to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs); college education in the fields of medicine, engineering, environmental management & agriculture as well as Kenyan children from disadvantaged families who have passed […]

Hilde Back Education Fund Scholarships for Secondary School in Kenya

Hilde Back Education Fund: Thousands of bright children in Kenya especially in the rural areas continue to drop out of primary and secondary school because of lack of funds. Hilde Back Education Fund (HBEF) is a charitable community-based group registered under the laws of Kenya to pursue the following objectives: To provide education scholarships and […]

Uganda police beefs up security in Kampala

A recent grenade explosion in Nairobi Kenya which killed one person and wounded over eight others, has forced Uganda to beef up security in its capital cityKampala. The Inspector General of Police, Lt. Col. Kayihura has instructed all Officers in charge of police stations inKampala and across the country to beef us security at all […]

Col. Muhoozi Kainerugaba goes to Nairobi for a drink

President Museveni’s son, col. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is a man of actions. Even before the East African Community comes into real enforcement, he has already started it. We are told that the colonel last weekend traveled all the way from Uganda ’s capital Kampala to Nairobi Kenya just to buy a drink. A source in government […]