Kenya
Mixing with the running stars at Kenya’s Home of Champions high altitude training camp
After a 40-minute flight from Nairobi to Eldoret and a 30-minute taxi to Iten, I arrived at my home for the next week, the mecca of long-distance training facilities, the High Altitude Training Centre in Kenya where the world's best runners train.
IEA: Access to energy improving worldwide, driven by renewables
Having a reliable electricity supply is something many of us take for granted – including for sending and reading emails like this one. But hundreds of millions of people around the world today don’t have access to electricity.
The hurricane season in 2024 was weird
The Atlantic hurricane season of 2024 was a weird one. It both produced more, and more destructive, hurricanes than usual, but at the same time it had a calm hole in the middle where there should have been at least four hurricanes.
Kenya’s untapped mineral wealth holds the promise of economic transformation
The Kenyan government aims to raise the mining industry's share of GDP from less than 1% to 10% by 2030, harnessing vast resources of gold, rare earth elements, titanium, and soda ash.
Russia’s Rosatom to support nuclear projects across Africa at AEW2024
Rosatom, now building Egypt's first nuclear power plant, has announced a strong pipeline of projects across Africa, having signed agreements with Burkina Faso, Congo and Guinea while making inroads in Kenya and beyond.