Health leader Deborah Barasa has told private hospitals that the government will pay the big 30 billion shilling debt they owe.
She knows police officers and teachers can't visit these hospitals, so Barasa and her team at the Social Health Authority have met to devise a plan for paying the money.
"We are talking with Treasury and other parts of government to make sure we pay this debt. The services can start again," she said. "We will pay what we owe."
Barasa was answering questions from Senators Enoch Wambu and Seki Lenku. Lenku asked if she knew that workers like police and teachers couldn't get help at private hospitals because of money problems.
Last week, private hospitals stopped helping people with SHA cards because they...
A police officer has a gunshot wound in his leg. His friend, another police officer, shot him. This happened on Tuesday night near a house in Nairobi. The house belongs to someone important named President Salva Kiir.
Two police officers were walking around the area. They saw a man smoking something bad called bhang. The man was sitting by the wall of the big house. The police officers tried to stop the man because smoking bhang is not allowed.
The man ran away when the police came close. The officers told him to stop, or they would shoot. But the man fired a gun at them instead! He hit one officer in the hip. Then the man ran into the yard of the house.
The hurt officer needed help fast, so his friend took him to the hospital. We...
Mr. Aaron Cheruiyot is upset with some important health workers. He says Ms. Debra Barasa and her helpers, Harry Kimtai and Mary Muthoni, did not attend big health meetings, which discuss rules that help people in small towns.
Mr. Cheruiyot asked, "Why didn't they come to our meeting in Naivasha? Ms. Barasa says she had another meeting. But what about Harry and Mary? They should have been there!"
He thinks these healthy people only care about money for their office. They forget most health work happens in counties where regular people live. Mr. Cheruiyot believes they can't answer questions well because they don't talk with the Senate enough.
He asked Ms. Barasa to give the Senate all the new facts about health problems. This would...
Pope Francis felt tired last night, but he had a good sleep. The church office says his health is still very serious but not changing much. His breathing problems didn't get worse.
Pope Francis sat in his chair when he woke up today. He continues to perform the same breathing treatments. We might learn more about his lung test tonight.
Yesterday, the church office said Pope Francis was still very sick, but his heart stayed strong. Doctors are being careful about what might happen. He ate holy bread and did some work yesterday morning.
The church tells people how Pope Francis feels two times every day. He went to the hospital on February 14, 2025, because he had breathing problems. He has a sickness in both lungs. His kidneys don't...
Four hundred old special places in Kenya might disappear because nobody takes care of them. Ms. Ummi Bashir told people who make rules that they need money to fix these places.
Ms. Bashir talked to a group at the National Assembly. She said important people like Mambo Mbotela did not receive honors because her office had no money. "We asked for 50 million shillings to make a Heroes Fund. This would help us honor great citizens who made Kenya famous," she said.
Her team wants money for many things. They want to build a place called Wundanyi Resource Centre. They hope to make a music room for artists. They plan to make the Kapenguria Six place better. They wish to build something named the Marachi Cultural Centre.
Ms. Bashir explained...
Lamin Jassey is the top helper at The Gambia Football Group. The big football group for all of Africa picked him to teach other helpers like him.
This teaching program wants to improve the jobs of all the main helpers in football groups. By working together, they will learn from each other. Mr. Jassey went to Cairo, Egypt. After he finished his classes, the African football group asked him to help new helpers learn their jobs.
The Africa football group started this program because they want all their football groups to be strong. They believe when helpers work well, football will be better across Africa. "The success of our big group depends on each small group doing well," the Africa football group said in a letter to Mr. Jassey...
Ecowas finds it hard to make its member countries follow the rules. More leaders are not doing what this group of 15 West African nations wants.
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger call themselves the Alliance of Sahel States. They try very hard to leave Ecowas. Guinea has army leaders who take a long time to let normal people vote again.
People pay attention to these four countries, but four other Ecowas countries have growing problems.
In October, people in Cote d'Ivoire will vote for a president. Nobody knows what will happen, just like last time in 2020. President Alassane Ouattara is 83 years old. He says he wants to keep being president, even though his party hasn't picked a candidate yet.
Ouattara said before he would step down if...
A police worker named Binta Njie was called to meet her bosses yesterday. They wanted to discuss something she wrote on Facebook. Ms. Njie used to speak for the police. She comes from Kiang.
A man named Baboucarr Bahoum said mean things about the people of Kiang after his party lost a vote there. He called them "ungrateful." This made many people angry.
Ms. Njie wrote on Facebook that Mr. Bahoum's words were very bad. She said they could make people fight with each other. Her police bosses didn't like what she wrote. They wanted her to take it down from Facebook.
Ms. Njie said she was talking as someone from Kiang, not as a police worker. She didn't want to remove what she wrote. The police asked her to come talk about it yesterday...
The old president of Gambia, Yaya Jammeh, talked about Mr. Bakary Badjie. He doesn't want Mr. Badjie to run for president in 2026.
Mr. Badjie is one of five special lawmakers from Foni. These lawmakers belong to a group that likes Mr. Jammeh. Last week, Mr. Badjie said he wanted to become president, which upset the other lawmakers from Foni because he didn't tell them first.
On Monday night, Mr. Jammeh spoke from his home in Equatorial Guinea, a country far away. He said very clearly: "Mr. Badjie cannot use our party. Anyone who wants to be president can make their party. I kicked Mr. Badjie out of our party today, February 24."
Mr. Jammeh wasn't surprised by what Mr. Badjie did. He said he never talked to Mr. Badjie about becoming...
