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Taiwan's delegates to the Our Ocean Conference scheduled to take place in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa next week will not be permitted to participate, according to a well-placed source. If this is the case, it would mark the third major setback for Taiwan in Africa over the past several weeks. Last month, the digital rights conference Rightscon was canceled in Lusaka, in part due to pressure from the Chinese embassy to block the participation of a small group of delegates from Taiwan. Around the same time, three African Indian Ocean island states refused to grant Taiwan President Lai Ching-te permission to overfly for a scheduled trip to Eswatini. Plus, Eric, Cobus & Géraud discuss how a labor dispute at a massive Chinese-run cobalt mine in the DRC came to an end and the latest in the U.S.-China critical minerals competition in Africa.

Avec un nuage de lait, pour accompagner un plat épicé ou dans un gobelet version matcha, le thé continue de gagner des adeptes à travers la planète. En 2021, 300 milliards de litres étaient engloutis chaque année à travers le monde. Son économie reste en revanche très sensible aux bouleversements climatiques mais aussi géopolitiques. Le conflit au Moyen-Orient a ainsi fortement perturbé les routes du thé. Des stocks de thé noir qui s'empilent dans les entrepôts du port de Mombasa : c'est la conséquence directe de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz. Car la production du Kenya, premier exportateur mondial de thé, part essentiellement en Asie et en particulier au Pakistan, son principal client. Avec les soubresauts au Moyen-Orient, c'est donc toute la filière du thé qui souffre car les exportations venues d'Asie sont elles aussi perturbées. Le coût du transport flambe « Qu'il s'agisse du fret maritime ou aérien, le marché fait face à de fortes variations des prix », explique François-Xavier Delmas, patron de la chaîne de boutiques Le Palais des Thés. Son entreprise réalisait auparavant deux négociations par an sur les prix de transports ; désormais, c'est quasiment à chaque commande. Résultat : des prix qui grimpent avec des augmentations pouvant atteindre les 50% sur certains thés de luxe. Une mauvaise nouvelle supplémentaire après la guerre en Ukraine, qui avait également perturbé les exportations, affectées par un effondrement des achats en Russie. Pourtant, les perspectives du marché sont au beau fixe : entre 2023 et 2024, le chiffre d'affaires mondial a progressé de 6% et l'augmentation pourrait même atteindre 40% d'ici la fin de la décennie, l'agence Statista anticipant un volume d'échange dépassant les 360 milliards de dollars annuels. Du thé de meilleure qualité acheté plus cher en Afrique ? Mais la deuxième boisson la plus consommée au monde après l'eau a besoin de nouvelles perspectives selon François-Xavier Delmas, notamment pour mieux rémunérer les producteurs, qui sont essentiellement des petits fermiers. Le thé d'exception peut ainsi apporter des revenus supplémentaires et permettre la diversification des exportations. Le Palais des Thés a ainsi passé un accord avec quelques producteurs kényans à l'occasion du sommet Africa Forward de Nairobi. Si les volumes sont encore très modestes, la rémunération est attrayante : de 60 à 80 dollars le kilo, alors que la moyenne mondiale se situe en dessous des 3 dollars. À lire aussiLa mode du thé matcha fait grimper les prix de 170% en un an

The economy was designed to serve life. At some point, it forgot. This article traces how that happened - through colonial extraction, currency manipulation, and centuries of treating the Earth as an inexhaustible resource - and more importantly, what is already being built in its place. It is also worth naming what is being built against it. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), digital identity systems, and the broader technocratic agenda advancing through institutions like the World Economic Forum represent a competing vision of the future - one where economic participation is surveilled, programmable, and ultimately controlled by the few. That is not a regenerative economy. It is the extractive economy in a new interface. The regenerative economy moves in the opposite direction: toward decentralization, sovereignty, reciprocity, and life. From Time Banks in New York to community currencies in Ecuador to worker cooperatives in Spain, it is not a future vision. It is a present reality, waiting to be joined. And while blockchain and regenerative finance are real and important parts of this picture, the regenerative economy is bigger than any single technology. It is a whole-systems redesign - cultural, spiritual, and practical - of how human beings relate to value, to each other, and to all living beings on Earth.A System Feature | Designed to ExtractA president steps up to the podium in Manila, praising the economic progress their country has fulfilled after, what many of us call “ the plandemic”. Outside the auditorium, a young mother carries her child on her hip, knocking on car windows at a red light, eyes down, asking for alms. The applause inside the hall doesn't reach her. It never does.The president says the currency has strengthened. That prices are coming down. Meanwhile, across the city, a farmer named Rodrigo is standing in the field he has worked for thirty years, calculating whether this harvest will cover the loan he took out before the last typhoon swept his crop away. It didn't. This is not an exception to the economic system. It is a feature of it. A reflection of a culture that does not care about those actually in need.Many nations measure their health through GDP - Gross Domestic Product - which essentially dictates whether or not an economy is “progressing.” It runs under one quiet assumption: that the Earth will keep giving. Indefinitely. Without asking anything in return. That before the calculations around supply, demand, and the balance of everything else, all the raw materials are already ideally supplied.The Earth is answering. Typhoons that once came once a generation now arrive like clockwork. Harvests that fed communities for centuries are failing across the Andes, the Sahel, the Mekong delta. The seasons that indigenous peoples read as living calendars have become erratic, unreliable, grieving. None of this is random. It is a response - accurate and proportional - to an economy built on the assumption that extraction has no cost.If we were truly “abundant” financially, we would not have billions of people at risk of starvation, homelessness, and other manifestations of neglect and poverty. The economy was supposed to serve all life. It has forgotten this. And in forgetting it, it has begun to abandon human life itself.The Story We InheritedMoney was supposed to be a promissory note for the gold reserves one actually held. The paper was a symbol - pointing at something real, something held in a vault somewhere, something that could be touched.Then the notes began circulating. And the longer they circulated, the more people forgot what they were pointing to. Eventually, the circulation gave rise to the idea of turning the notes into currency itself. The symbol became the standard. It became backed not by gold, but by story - a story so strong, so repeated, so programmed into every transaction of daily life, that we began to mistake it for the truth.We placed a middleman between ourselves and our needs. And somewhere along the way, we forgot we had done it. Perhaps, by design. Here is what the story never tells you: the gold itself did not arrive innocently.In 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued Unam Sanctam, declaring papal authority supreme over all earthly power - making the Earth itself, philosophically, ownable. A century and a half later, that claim became economic policy. Dum Diversas (1452) authorized the enslavement of non-Christians across the globe. Romanus Pontifex (1455) granted Portugal the right to colonize and extract across Africa and the New World. Inter Caetera (1493) extended the same to Spain and the Americas.These were the founding economic legislation of the extractive world we live in - all cloaked in religious language.What followed was centuries of forced extraction. Economists Flynn and Giráldez have documented that colonial American silver - mined through indigenous forced labor in Potosí and across Peru and Mexico - became the standard monetary foundation of early global trade. The gold in the vault was never simply there. It was coercively taken.And then, on August 15, 1971, even that material trace was erased. President Nixon closed the gold window, ending the Bretton Woods system and severing the dollar's convertibility to gold. According to the Federal Reserve's own record, the international community was not consulted. From that moment, currency was backed by nothing but the authority of the government printing it.Knowing that we wrote ourselves into this story, we are now remembering that we can write ourselves out of it. Not only by writing new stories, but by reconnecting with stories that existed long before our current economic situation - stories that are still alive, still practiced, still remembered by the communities that never abandoned them.What Has Always WorkedBefore the conquest of certain nations to centralize power into their hands, other societies practiced more communal and regenerative ways of exchanging value. To them, considering other people and the Earth itself was not an ethical add-on. It was integral to the flourishing of their economies.Pre-colonial PhilippinesLong before the Spaniards arrived, the Philippine archipelago was a major hub in the maritime Silk Road - one of Asia's most active trade networks. Communities exchanged with Chinese, Japanese, Arab, and Indian traders at coastal ports and river settlements.The archipelagic geography made it impossible to consolidate wealth in any single place. Different tribes like the Maranao exchanged surplus agricultural produce, textiles, metalware, and forest products through robust barter systems built on kinship ties and alliances among polities. Value moved between two people who chose to relate. No middleman. Mutual trust was the economic infrastructure.Andean PeoplesThe Quechua people organized their economy around a relational foundation that lives in the language itself. Ayni - sacred reciprocity. Minka - collective community work. Randi-Randi - generalized reciprocity, the understanding that what circulates returns. All three connect to the broader principle of Sumak Kawsay: good living in right relationship with community, land, and the living world.Sumak Kawsay does not separate prosperity from the wellbeing of ecosystems. It understands them as one thing. This recognition runs so deep that Ecuador enshrined it as the central guiding principle for its national development in its 2008 constitution - the living legal inheritance of an ancient economy that knew how to stay.Haudenosaunee in North AmericaIn their 1981 formal statement to the United Nations, the Haudenosaunee Council of Chiefs articulated what their communities had practiced for centuries: that the earth was created for all to use, forever - not for the present generation to exhaust. Under their law, land is held by the women of each clan, who farm and care for it for the benefit of future generations.The Haudenosaunee saw land as a responsibility to be stewarded in trust. Anthropologist Kurt Jordan from Cornell University documented their economic practices and described them as “a reasonably sustainable, localized economy” even under intense external pressure. They had embodied communal stewardship long before theories about such things were written down.Southern Africa“I am because we are.”This is Ubuntu - the philosophy at the core of both social and economic life across Southern Africa. Communities in South Africa and Mozambique relied on mutual aid networks, intergenerational knowledge systems, and participatory rituals as practical economic infrastructure. These systems enhanced community cohesion and collective resilience precisely in the moments when extractive economies failed them. They understood, bone-deep, that no human being thrives in isolation.Diversity of Regen Economic SystemsMany communities across continents are actively rebuilding economic systems beyond the extractive model. The following are not theoretical. They are actively running. Hence, the more diversity of economic systems each person and community practices, the more abundant, unbreakable and independent we are from degenerative systems from governments and corporations that want to control it all. The Commons FoundationOne body of research forms the intellectual foundation for nearly all of them: the life's work of Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Ostrom spent decades documenting over 800 cases of communities successfully governing shared resources - in Switzerland, Kenya, Guatemala, Nepal, and beyond - without either privatization or state control.Her conclusion was simple and radical: communities do not inevitably destroy what they share. Given the right institutional design, they protect it and pass this duty to the next generation. And her eight design principles for successful commons governance - the framework that emerged from all that fieldwork - describe, as she herself acknowledged, the same governance systems that indigenous communities had been practicing for centuries.Her work is not a new idea. It is a confirmation of ancient ones.Regenerative Economics | Beyond ReFi - The Whole-Systems VisionWhen most people first encounter the term “regenerative economy,” they arrive through crypto. Through ReFi - regenerative finance - and the promise of blockchain as a tool for funding ecological restoration, decentralizing power, and making impact transparent. These are real contributions. They matter.But John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute and one of the most rigorous thinkers in this field, spent two decades on Wall Street before arriving at a different and more fundamental question: what if the entire framework of modern finance is running in conflict with how life actually works?Fullerton's work focuses on building an economic framework that supports the long-term health of people, communities, and the planet - not by tweaking the existing system, but by replacing its underlying logic. His core argument is that we are running our society in conflict with the patterns and principles that explain how life works.His answer is what he calls regenerative economics: eight principles drawn from living systems science that describe how healthy economies - like healthy ecosystems - actually function. Diversity. Balance. Circular flow. Robust circulation. Surplus financial capital, in his framework, needs to be recycled and regenerated into other forms of capital - natural, social, and cultural. Not hoarded nor extracted. Composted back into the living system that produced it.ReFi, in Fullerton's framing, is one tool within this larger architecture. Blockchain can decentralize power. Tokenized nature credits can make ecological value legible to markets. Community currencies can circulate value locally. But the technology is only as regenerative as the values underneath it. A crypto project built on extraction logic is still extraction, regardless of the chain it runs on.Regenerative economy is not a financial product. It is a civilizational shift - in how we measure wealth, in what we decide to protect, in whose voices count when decisions are made. ReFi is welcome in that shift. It is one current in a much larger river.Time BanksIn Jackson Heights, Queens, a retired nurse named Gloria hasn't touched the formal economy in months for the things that matter most to her. She spends three hours teaching English to a recent immigrant. Those hours become credits. She spends them on home repairs from a neighbor who knows carpentry. He spends his credits on childcare. The loop keeps moving.This is a Time Bank - a community exchange system built on one radical premise: everyone's time is worth the same. One hour of legal advice equals one hour of gardening equals one hour of emotional support. The hierarchy of market wages disappears. What remains is a web of people who need each other.Edgar Cahn, who developed Time Banking in the 1980s after surviving a near-fatal heart attack, called it “co-production” - the idea that the economy needs what the market can never price: care, community, civic participation, the work of raising children and holding elders. Time Banks make that invisible labor visible, and circulate it back into the community that produced it.Today there are over 500 Time Banks operating in more than 30 countries. Some have formalized into neighborhood institutions. Others run through apps. All of them rest on the same foundation the Quechua called Ayni - sacred reciprocity - translated into the language of modern urban life.Mondragon CorporationThe Mondragon Corporation in Spain's Basque region remains the most studied proof that democratic ownership functions at scale. Founded by six worker-owners in 1956, it now comprises 96 cooperatives employing over 70,000 people, with annual revenues exceeding €11 billion. Workers own the company collectively, vote on strategy at general assemblies, and operate under a constitutionally capped pay ratio of 6-to-1 between the highest and lowest earners.Traditional Dream FactoryIn a 25-hectare village in Alentejo, Portugal, Traditional Dream Factory is a living prototype of the self-sustaining regenerative community - blending collective ownership, ecological restoration, intentional community, and decentralized economy in one working place. They have raised over €1.25 million in total capital across 280+ token holders. Their 2026 build phase is completing co-living rooms, artist studios, a farm-to-table restaurant, a mushroom farm, and a biopool wellness space.AtreyuInvestment, as most of us have encountered it, prioritizes short-term financial returns above all else. Atreyu challenges this at the root by approaching investment through living systems principles and deep relational due diligence. They support their investees to ensure that both the enterprises and the ecosystems they steward realize their potential - together. They focus on early-stage businesses and actively encourage steward-ownership models that enshrine self-governance and purpose orientation.Muyu CoinOne of the first social coins in South America, Based in Ecuador - Muyu serves as an alternative exchange system rooted in community trust and an understanding of sacred economy. It protects the sovereignty of communities in their production, distribution, exchange, consumption, and post-consumption - keeping the loop of value inside the community rather than extracting it outward. It uses Cyclos, an enchrypted platform, a base.It first did an attempt to start in 2015, but not many people showed interest. It then came back very strong in 2020, due to the “plandemic”. People felt the need to have alternative ways to transact that was not controlled by limiting governments. Giving communities complete independence. Currently with over 150+ members who are exchanging goods and services in different nodes throughout the country. From food produce, clothing and art -to- car mechanic, dentists and school teachers serving to the community.Grassroots EconomicsFounded in Kenya, Grassroots Economics supports communities in building their own self-sustaining economies - even when national currency is scarce - through a model called Commitment Pooling.Consider Wanjiru, a vegetable seller in Mombasa's Bangla Pesa network. During a slow week when Kenyan shillings are tight, she issues a Community Asset Voucher - a commitment to provide vegetables - and deposits it into a communal pool. Her neighbor, a carpenter named Kamau, redeems it. He offers his own labor in return. The loop closes. Food reaches a family that needed it. A roof gets repaired. No national currency changes hands.This is not a workaround. It is a return to how value was always supposed to move.Since Grassroots Economics was established in 2010, they have supported 26,600 people across 290+ communities, issuing over 2,140 vouchers. Their protocol is inspired by indigenous Rotational Labor Associations similar to Kenya's mwethya and harambee traditions. It is open-source and blockchain-agnostic - meaning any community, anywhere, can deploy it.The Choice in Front of UsThese regenerative endeavors share one answer to the core assumption of the extractive economy: the economy does not need to extract in order to function. Value can circulate and regenerate rather than accumulate. Ecological health, community resilience, and the wellbeing of the next generations are not costs to minimize - they are the actual metrics that demonstrate economic success.The question is no longer whether it is possible. It is happening. The question is whether enough of us choose to participate in building it, and whether we remember our roles as stewards of the Earth that has always sustained us.We get to choose the future we want for ourselves, our children, and the seven generations that come after.Your Role in the Regenerative EconomyReading this is already a kind of remembering. The question that follows is simple: where do you begin?The regenerative economy is not waiting to be invented. It is waiting to be joined. Every one of the models described here started with a small group of people who decided to practice a different relationship with value - before it was proven, before it was popular, before it was funded.Here are real entry points, available now:Start with your immediate circle. Identify three skills or resources you have in excess - time, knowledge, food from a garden, tools sitting unused. Offer them. Ask for what you need in return. This is Ayni. It requires no platform, no signup, no permission.Relocalize your spending. Every dollar (fiat currency) that circulates inside a local economy multiplies its impact without leaving the community. Farmers markets, community-supported agriculture, local cooperatives, regenerative small businesses - these are not lifestyle choices. They are votes for a different system, cast weekly.Find or start a Time Bank in your area. hOurworld.org and TimeBanks.org maintain active directories. If nothing exists near you, starting one requires little more than a spreadsheet and a Telegram/Whatsapp group.Join a community working on this. It can be our Regenerative Leadership Community from www.regenerativeculture.life is one place. There are others - transition towns, ecovillages, commons networks - in most regions of the world. Find your people. The regenerative economy is, at its root, a relationship economy. It does not work alone.Learn the language. Permaculture design, commons governance, cooperative economics, sacred reciprocity - these are not abstract concepts. They are practical skills with deep traditions behind them. The more fluent you become, the more useful you are to the communities building this.The scale of what needs to change can feel paralyzing. It is not meant to. The models described in this article did not begin at scale. Mondragon began with six people. Grassroots Economics began in one neighborhood in Mombasa. The Quechua did not design Ayni for a movement - they designed it for a harvest.Start where you are. With what you have. With whoever is near you. That has always been enough to begin. It's not easy, but it is possible.Written by Gertie Farenas and Yoshi Pantera - 90% by us humans and 10% AI assisted.This Audio is recorded by a true voice - Yoshi PanteraThis article is part of the Regenerative Culture Chronicle - a publication exploring the ideas, practices, and communities building a world that benefits all life.Learn more at RegenerativeCulture.LifeThanks for reading Regenerative Culture Chronicle! This post is public so feel free to share it.Regenerative Culture Chronicle is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you! Get full access to Regenerative Culture Chronicle at regenerativecultureworld.substack.com/subscribe

Send us Fan MailJesus never waited for broken people to come find Him—He stepped directly into their pain, their struggles, and their desperation. In this powerful message from Luke 6, we see a Savior who consistently moved toward hurting people instead of away from them.Drawing from a recent mission trip to Kenya, this Pastor Krystal connects the ministry of Jesus to real moments experienced in villages, slums, schools, and medical clinics where people were searching for hope, healing, truth, and compassion. From the Kibera slums of Nairobi to rural Maasai communities and an Islamic girls school in Mombasa, one truth became undeniable: people don't need a distant church—they need a present Savior.This message challenges the Church to move beyond comfort and into compassion, reminding us that ministry begins when we stop expecting people to come to us and start meeting them where they are. Jesus cared about the whole person—physical, emotional, and spiritual—and He still moves toward broken people today.If you feel exhausted, lonely, distant from God, or desperate for hope, this sermon is a reminder that Jesus is already stepping toward you. You do not have to clean yourself up first. You are not too far gone. Hope is found in Christ alone.Support the show

Karibu katika Makala yetu ya leo changu chako chako changu, makala ambayo hukuletea historia ya mambo mbalimbali utamaduni le parler francophone na Muziki ambapo leo nakuleteza historia ya xenophobia  (chuki au woga dhidi ya wageni) tutaungana naye  Mariam Posho joélle  akiwa nchini Afrika kusini na kwenye Muziki nitakuletea mwanamuziki Mario na wimbo wake mpya Mombasa. Kumbuka kunifuatilia @billy bilali

En visite au Kenya du 10 au 12 mai, le président français Emmanuel Macron a salué la signature d'un engagement du géant français du fret CMA CGM avec le port de Mombasa. Situé sur la côte sud du pays, ce port restera géré par le gouvernement kényan. Le projet vise à l'agrandir et à le moderniser. Mais au-delà du Kenya, c'est l'Afrique tout entière qui construit et développe ses accès à la mer. L'analyse de l'expert maritime, Hervé Deiss, fondateur de la revue Ports et Corridors À lire aussiL'avenir de l'Afrique se jouera sur ses ports

What if your private practice could move with you—across state lines, through life changes, and into a future you're building with the people you love? Today's guest turned a cross-country move into a multi-state practice that works for her life.I'm introducing you to Sarah Gober, a speech-language pathologist and a dedicated member of the Next Level Private Practitioner program. She is the founder and CEO of Hope Talks, a private practice serving families in Texas, Florida, and Mississippi through in-person and virtual therapy.For Sarah, starting a practice wasn't about escaping the field, it was about finding the right fit. After leaving a dream job in Houston following her marriage and move to Florida, she found herself in roles that just didn't align. Instead of giving up, she leaned into teletherapy and the connections she had built over the years, creating a practice that now spans multiple states.With over 15 years of experience across schools, clinics, and teletherapy, she specializes in social learning, executive functioning, speech sound disorders, and language delays. Her global experience also includes serving as a therapist in Mombasa, Kenya, where she partnered with schools and orphanages.In this episode, Sarah discusses how she built a practice that moves with her, balances school contracts with private clients, and navigates the messy middle with a clear vision for the future all while building the flexible lifestyle she's dreamed of with her husband.In Today's Episode, We Discuss:Leaning into the opportunities that life's unexpected changes presentBuilding a practice across four different states and time zones (including Alaska!)How she strategically uses a school contract for stable income while growing her private clients on the sideSarah is a perfect example of how private practice can evolve with you. Her story proves that you don't have to have it all figured out on day one—you just have to be willing to start before you're ready.Want to build a private practice that fits your life even if that life involves multiple states, time zones, and big dreams? Learn more about our Start Your Private Practice Program where our community of coaches can help you move from chaos to systems, and from solo provider to CEO. To learn more, please visit www.StartYourPrivatePractice.com.Whether you want to start a private practice or grow your existing private practice, I can help you get the freedom, flexibility, fulfillment, and financial abundance that you deserve. Visit my website www.independentclinician.com to learn more.Resources Mentioned:Follow Sarah on:Facebook: facebook.com/hopetalksllc/Instagram: instagram.com/hopetalksllc/Check out her website: www.hope-talks.orgSend her an email: sarah@hopetalks.orWhere We Can Connect:Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-practice-success-stories/id1374716199Follow Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/independentclinician/Follow Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jena.castrocasbon/

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the very thing that made you unstoppable? In this episode, Aaron Hale, retired Army Staff Sergeant, EOD Team Leader, speaker, podcaster, real estate investor, and small business owner, shares one of the most extraordinary stories of resilience you will ever hear. In 2011, an IED blast in Afghanistan took his eyes. Four years later, bacterial meningitis took what was left of his hearing. He is now both blind and deaf, and he just ran 205 miles across Kenya and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, believed to be the first blind-deaf person to ever accomplish that feat. Aaron doesn't call himself a victim. He calls his injuries divine direction. And through his podcast, speaking, and the way he shows up every single day, he is busy proving that the story of your struggle can become the blueprint for someone else's survival.   [00:04:20] Just Back from Africa: The Seed to Summit Trek Ran 205 miles from Mombasa, Kenya to the base of Mount Kilimanjaro over nine days Climbed the tallest peak in Africa, completing a full seed to summit expedition Believes he is the first blind-deaf person to ever accomplish this Fulfilled a plan made 11 years earlier, interrupted by the meningitis that stole his hearing [00:06:20] What He Does Now Speaker, podcaster, real estate investor, and co-owner of Extra Ordinary Delights, an artisan chocolate company Calls himself an excuse killer; uses adversity as fuel, not an anchor Hosts the Point of Impact podcast to show people how to become their best selves [00:09:00] Blind, Deaf, and Still Showing Up Lost his eyes in an IED blast in 2011 while serving as an Army EOD technician Bacterial meningitis in 2015 took the rest of his hearing and destroyed his inner ear balance Uses a cochlear implant connected directly to his auditory nerve to communicate [00:12:20] How He Got Here: From Navy Chef to Army Bomb Technician Got asked to leave college, joined the Navy, and became a chef to a three-star admiral in Italy Left cooking, joined the Army, and became an EOD bomb technician Was on his third deployment when the IED blast happened, just days after seeing his firstborn son turn one [00:14:40] The Relationship That Changed Everything: Kyle Kyle, a fellow EOD team leader, was injured two weeks before Aaron and was already at Walter Reed when Aaron arrived He wheeled into Aaron's room, made him feel the beard he had grown out of defiance, and cracked jokes about his condition He was at full spirit just two weeks after losing a leg That moment showed Aaron he had no excuse to quit; warriors up and down those halls were all still fighting [00:19:20] What Inspires Him: The Gift of a Story In the military, relationships mean survival; you trust the people on your left and right with your life After his injury, he felt like he lost that brotherhood, but it transformed into something new He was given the gift of a story and the ability to flick the light switch on for others Getting to help someone see their situation differently is both altruistic and deeply personally rewarding [00:22:40] The Relationships That Opened the World: Eric Weihenmayer and Lonnie Bedwell Began searching online for blind people living actively: blind plus outdoors, blind plus fitness, blind plus anything Found Eric Weihenmayer, the first blind person to climb all seven summits; went climbing with him in the Peruvian Andes at 19,000 feet Found Lonnie Bedwell, the first blind person to kayak the entire Grand Canyon solo; went kayaking with him too These men took his thinking from a peephole to a bay window; he had been thinking far too small [00:26:00] What That Perspective Unlocked Registered for four marathons before ever running longer than a 10K Three of those qualified him for the Boston Marathon, which he ran in 2015 In 2023 became the first blind-deaf person to finish Badwater 135, the toughest foot race on Earth [00:29:40] The Impact He Got to Make: Kilimanjaro with 25 Friends When he arrived at Kilimanjaro, 25 friends, family, and associates had come to be part of the climb Many had never done anything like it; his story inspired them to say yes A close friend from his military real estate mastermind, someone he had spoken with weekly for years, climbed it right alongside him [00:31:00] Aaron's Marathon Training Day Reached out to Team Red, White and Blue for help training for his first marathon They organized a weekly Sunday run called Aaron's Marathon Training Day, open to anyone at any pace Week after week more people showed up; it outgrew him and became a full community movement He got to be the catalyst; it kept snowballing long after it needed him to carry it   KEY QUOTES "The difference between a rut and a grave is how long you lay there. I did not want to get stuck on the couch." — Aaron Hale "Someday the story of your struggle may be the blueprint for somebody else's survival." — Aaron Hale "We can't control the blast, but we can control the next step. And almost always, we can't accomplish the impossible without a team." — Aaron Hale CONNECT WITH AARON HALE

Faustin Archange Touadéra a officiellement prêté serment hier pour un troisième mandat. Plusieurs personnalités du continent ont assisté à la cérémonie, rapporte Africanews, notamment le président gabonais Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema ou encore le président de l'Union des Comores, Azali Assoumani. « La cérémonie d'investiture hier marque aussi le début d'une 7e République pour la Centrafrique », précise le site. Une nouvelle république « issue de la réforme constitutionnelle de 2023, qui a également supprimé la limitation du nombre de mandats présidentiels et allongé leur durée », passant de cinq à sept ans. Mais « que fera Faustin Archange Touadéra de ce troisième mandat ? », s'interroge le Pays. Le média burkinabé pointe de nombreux défis. « À commencer par l'équation sécuritaire qui reste l'une des priorités de l'exécutif, dans la continuité des efforts de stabilisation du pays qui sort de plusieurs années de crise, dans un contexte aussi où la MINUSCA, la Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation de la République centrafricaine est appelée à réduire ses effectifs à cause d'une baisse de budget. » La situation demeure fragile, souligne Maliweb. Cette nouvelle donne « obligera le gouvernement à assumer davantage de responsabilités dans la protection du territoire, tout en cherchant à stabiliser les zones encore sous l'influence des groupes armés. » Conséquences de la guerre au Moyen-Orient En Égypte, le gouvernement a imposé depuis samedi un couvre-feu aux magasins, restaurants et centres commerciaux. Ils doivent désormais fermer à 21h pour « tenter de réduire la facture énergétique du pays qui a plus que doublé en raison de la guerre au Moyen-Orient » et de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz. Une mesure qui inquiète les commerçants interrogés par Africanews. « Tout le monde sera touché, les touristes ne sortent que le soir », se désole le propriétaire d'une bijouterie. « La guerre au Moyen-Orient aura-t-elle raison de la croissance africaine », s'interroge Jeune Afrique. Si les perspectives restent globalement « très positives », « la hausse marquée du pétrole et du gaz ravive le spectre d'un nouvel épisode inflationniste à l'échelle globale », note le magazine. Mais les perturbations du trafic maritime ne pourraient-elles pas être une opportunité pour les ports d'Afrique de l'Est ? « Ils offrent en théorie une alternative mais sont déjà largement congestionnés », explique Le Monde Afrique. Le port kenyan de Mombasa a accueilli « 60 navires en deux semaines autour de la mi-mars contre 40 en moyenne en saison normale. » Un regain d'activité qui constitue aussi « un défi », le flux de navires supplémentaires aggrave la « congestion perpétuelle » du port. Selon le quotidien, la situation serait encore pire à Dar es-Salaam capitale économique de la Tanzanie voisine, « les bateaux doivent y attendre 30 jours au large avant d'amarrer, contre 7 à 10 jours à Mombasa. » Et pour les pays exportateurs de denrées agricoles comme le Kenya ou l'Afrique du sud, un « autre défi se profile ». C'est vers les pays du Golfe que leurs fruits et légumes sont exportés, des cargaisons qui pour l'instant ne peuvent pas bouger.

Faustin Archange Touadéra a officiellement prêté serment hier pour un troisième mandat. Plusieurs personnalités du continent ont assisté à la cérémonie, rapporte Africanews, notamment le président gabonais Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema ou encore le président de l'Union des Comores, Azali Assoumani. « La cérémonie d'investiture hier marque aussi le début d'une 7e République pour la Centrafrique », précise le site. Une nouvelle république « issue de la réforme constitutionnelle de 2023, qui a également supprimé la limitation du nombre de mandats présidentiels et allongé leur durée », passant de cinq à sept ans. Mais « que fera Faustin Archange Touadéra de ce troisième mandat ? », s'interroge le Pays. Le média burkinabé pointe de nombreux défis. « À commencer par l'équation sécuritaire qui reste l'une des priorités de l'exécutif, dans la continuité des efforts de stabilisation du pays qui sort de plusieurs années de crise, dans un contexte aussi où la MINUSCA, la Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation de la République centrafricaine est appelée à réduire ses effectifs à cause d'une baisse de budget. » La situation demeure fragile, souligne Maliweb. Cette nouvelle donne « obligera le gouvernement à assumer davantage de responsabilités dans la protection du territoire, tout en cherchant à stabiliser les zones encore sous l'influence des groupes armés. » Conséquences de la guerre au Moyen-Orient En Égypte, le gouvernement a imposé depuis samedi un couvre-feu aux magasins, restaurants et centres commerciaux. Ils doivent désormais fermer à 21h pour « tenter de réduire la facture énergétique du pays qui a plus que doublé en raison de la guerre au Moyen-Orient » et de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz. Une mesure qui inquiète les commerçants interrogés par Africanews. « Tout le monde sera touché, les touristes ne sortent que le soir », se désole le propriétaire d'une bijouterie. « La guerre au Moyen-Orient aura-t-elle raison de la croissance africaine », s'interroge Jeune Afrique. Si les perspectives restent globalement « très positives », « la hausse marquée du pétrole et du gaz ravive le spectre d'un nouvel épisode inflationniste à l'échelle globale », note le magazine. Mais les perturbations du trafic maritime ne pourraient-elles pas être une opportunité pour les ports d'Afrique de l'Est ? « Ils offrent en théorie une alternative mais sont déjà largement congestionnés », explique Le Monde Afrique. Le port kenyan de Mombasa a accueilli « 60 navires en deux semaines autour de la mi-mars contre 40 en moyenne en saison normale. » Un regain d'activité qui constitue aussi « un défi », le flux de navires supplémentaires aggrave la « congestion perpétuelle » du port. Selon le quotidien, la situation serait encore pire à Dar es-Salaam capitale économique de la Tanzanie voisine, « les bateaux doivent y attendre 30 jours au large avant d'amarrer, contre 7 à 10 jours à Mombasa. » Et pour les pays exportateurs de denrées agricoles comme le Kenya ou l'Afrique du sud, un « autre défi se profile ». C'est vers les pays du Golfe que leurs fruits et légumes sont exportés, des cargaisons qui pour l'instant ne peuvent pas bouger.

Au onzième jour de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, les prix du pétrole ont flambé hier, lundi 9 mars, au-dessus des 100 dollars le baril. Quelles peuvent être les conséquences du conflit dans les pays africains ? Quels secteurs sont en première ligne ? Faut-il craindre un choc économique ? L'économiste bissau-guinéen Carlos Lopes a été le secrétaire exécutif de la Commission économique de l'ONU pour l'Afrique. Aujourd'hui, il enseigne à l'université du Cap, en Afrique du Sud. Il répond aux questions de Charlotte Idrac. RFI : Quel est l'impact de la hausse du prix du pétrole sur les économies africaines à ce stade ? Concrètement, est-ce que les prix à la pompe ont augmenté ? Est-ce qu'il y a des conséquences pour les industries, les transports ou les centrales électriques ? Carlos Lopes : D'abord, il y a la conséquence des prix pour les importations qu'on va faire dans l'avenir immédiat. On peut s'imaginer que les prix vont continuer à grimper. Un certain nombre de pays n'ont pas de réserves suffisantes pour pouvoir faire face aux difficultés logistiques qu'on va avoir, avec toute la demande qui est désorganisée, soit elle passait du point de vue de raffinage par les pays du Golfe, soit elle émanait des pays du Golfe. Donc, nous avons tout un tas de difficultés avec les assurances. Les transports maritimes sont dans une réorganisation complète. Toutes ces conséquences qui auront bien sûr un reflet dans le prix, dans les pompes. Mais nous avons aussi deux autres difficultés logistiques énormes, c'est-à-dire les exportations africaines qui passaient par le Golfe, notamment de l'or qui était en train d'aider pas mal de pays africains et se fait normalement en voie aérienne. Donc, il y a beaucoup de perturbations dans le trafic aérien. Il y a aussi un certain nombre de minerais qui passaient pour raffinage dans les pays du Golfe. Donc on aura des problèmes de trésorerie dans ces pays. Et nous avons aussi les fertilisants : Un certain nombre de fertilisants qui sont utilisés en Afrique viennent du Golfe. Et maintenant que le détroit d'Ormuz est pratiquement fermé, (donc) on aura des perturbations aussi dans les campagnes agricoles. Tout cela va augmenter l'inflation, va faire dégringoler la valeur des monnaies africaines, va nous amener à une situation, à mon avis, bien plus difficile que celle que nous avons connue pendant le début de la guerre en Ukraine. Nous sommes là dans un mécanisme qui peut être très coûteux pour l'Afrique, parce que dans les cinq dernières années, la plupart des investissements de grande importance étaient en provenance des pays du Golfe, notamment des Emirats arabes unis en particulier. Et donc tout cela va être extrêmement perturbé. Mais pour les pays qui disposent de réserves importantes comme le Nigeria ou l'Angola, pour les pays producteurs de pétrole, est-ce que la situation peut être à l'inverse perçue comme une opportunité ? Bien sûr que la montée des prix du pétrole va aider un certain nombre de pays producteurs. Mais à mon avis, ces pays vont souffrir beaucoup plus de l'importation d'inflation et d'autres difficultés, notamment logistiques, et donc les gains éventuels ne seront pas suffisants pour compenser les pertes. Sur la logistique, justement, la réorganisation du trafic maritime passe notamment par un contournement de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance en Afrique du Sud. Est-ce que ça pourrait être favorable aux ports africains selon vous ? Théoriquement oui, mais disons, le grand avantage, c'est qu'ils puissent se ravitailler et notamment se ravitailler en combustible. Bien sûr, il y aura un apport en termes de demande, mais cette demande, elle sera quand même assez conditionnée sur des facteurs logistiques qui ne sont pas complètement maîtrisés par les ports africains. Par exemple, en Afrique du Sud, on avait déjà des problèmes de ravitaillement en combustible avec le trafic tel qu'il était. Il y a des pays comme la Namibie qui sont, disons, mieux organisés pour pouvoir bénéficier, par exemple, du contournement du cap de Bonne-Espérance. Nous avons des pays comme le Kenya qui peuvent éventuellement aussi bénéficier, avec le port de Mombasa. Djibouti certainement est bien préparé pour pouvoir absorber une partie du trafic. Mais il y a beaucoup de pays qui n'ont pas, disons, l'élasticité logistique pour pouvoir profiter de ces ravitaillements. À plus long terme, cette crise peut-elle être aussi un signal pour certains États, pour accélérer des décisions et des investissements, pour mieux faire face aux chocs énergétiques mondiaux ? Tout à fait. Et politiquement, il y a déjà une volonté de changer un peu la donne. Et donc maintenant, il va falloir accélérer parce que, avec tout ce qui est en train de se passer dans le monde de l'aide au développement, il y a une réalisation que l'Afrique doit s'occuper elle-même de ses problèmes, beaucoup plus que compter sur d'autres qui effectivement ont des priorités qui deviennent de plus en plus complexes vu l'état du monde.

Katika makala yetu ya leo Jumapili mtangazaji wako  Ali Bilali anatupeleka Mombasa Pwani ya Kenya kuskiliza historia ya Ngome Kongwe pamoja na ile ya ngome ya Yesu ama fort Jesus. Kumbuka pia kumfuatilia kwa kubonyeza @billy bilalihttps://www.facebook.com/billy.bilali.9

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Karibu katika Makala haya Changu Chako Chako Changu Jumapili hii nakuletea Historia na tamaduni mbalimbali za watu wa kabila la wabajuni, na kwenye Muziki nitakuletea mwanamuziki Maud Elka kutoka Ufaransa mwenye asili ya Congo.   Watu wa Wabajuni  ni kabila la Wabantu wanaoishi hasa katika jiji la Mombasa nchini Kenya. Wengi walihama kutoka kusini mwa Somalia hadi Kenya kutokana na vita na ukoo wa Waoromo wa Orma, ambao waliwafukuza kutoka eneo lao la mababu.  Kundi la watu wa Bajuni hapo awali liliishi hasa Visiwa vya Bajuni katika Bahari ya Somalia. Wengi pia huishi Kenya kijadi, hasa Mombasa na miji mingine katika Mkoa wa Pwani wa nchi hiyo. Kumbuka pia kumfuatilia mtangazaji wako kwa kubonyeza hapa @billy bilali

Waigizaji wa filamu kutoka nchini Mombasa wachangamkia fursa kwa kuwezeshwa na kituo cha utamaduni wa Ufaransa Allaince Francaise ya Mombasa. Huyu hapa ni Lina Sande mmoja wapo tuliekutana naye katika ziara yetu huko Mombasa. Kumbuka pia kunifuata kwa kubonyeza hapa @billy bilali

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Mi-janvier, la Somalie, en conflit diplomatique avec les Émirats arabes unis, a annoncé annuler tous les accords avec Abou Dhabi. Parmi eux, Mogadiscio vise notamment le contrat d'exploitation du port de Berbera, opéré par DP World au Somaliland. Hargeisa et l'opérateur émirien ont réfuté la compétence de Mogadiscio sur ce port. Un port au cœur d'enjeux croisés.  Cette sortie de Mogadiscio est la dernière en date d'une longue série. En 2024 déjà, un accord avec l'Éthiopie devant lui permettre un accès à la mer suscitait une levée de boucliers de la part de la Somalie. À lire aussiL'Éthiopie signe un accord avec le Somaliland pour avoir accès à la mer Pour Yann Alix, spécialiste des infrastructures portuaires africaines, ces frictions révèlent l'enjeu stratégique du port de Berbera : « Aujourd'hui, dans la lecture géopolitique que l'on peut faire sur l'exploitation des trafics de conteneurs dans la Corne d'or, c'est cette mise en avant, évidemment, de l'importance géostratégique et géoéconomique des terminaux à conteneurs dans le fonctionnement socio-économique des nations et de toute la Corne d'or. » Le gérant de la fondation Sefacil rappelle : « On l'avait déjà vu avec Djibouti et le litige qu'ils avaient avec DP World. Et donc effectivement, ce sont des assets stratégiques qui sont de plus en plus exposés, finalement, à la turbulence géopolitique du monde que l'on vit aujourd'hui. » Berbera suscite l'intérêt du fait notamment de sa position géographique, aux portes du canal de Suez. « Berbera est comme un balcon sur un énorme corridor maritime, ce balcon sur le Bab el-Mandeb est incontournable », décrit Ali Hojeij, avocat d'affaires, spécialiste des infrastructures portuaires en Afrique. Berbera, en chiffres, c'est aujourd'hui « à peu près 1 050 mètres de quais, dont un nouveau quai conteneur de 400 mètres, un tirant d'eau de 17 mètres, et une capacité annuelle moyenne d'EVP, donc pour les conteneurs, on est aujourd'hui à 500 000 en moyenne ».   À lire aussiSomaliland: le port de Berbera au cœur des tensions entre la Somalie et les Émirats arabes unis DP World s'est engagé à investir 440 millions de dollars Depuis sa prise opérationnelle en 2017, DP World revendique avoir fait progresser le volume de cargo de 35 %. Le Somaliland importe l'essentiel de sa consommation par Berbera : principalement des produits alimentaires, des produits pétroliers, des matériaux de construction et tous types de machines et d'équipements. Un accès vital pour son approvisionnement, mais également stratégique pour l'entrée des devises. Spécificité : Berbera s'est imposé dans la région sur le segment de l'exportation de bétail sur pied, c'est-à-dire moutons, chèvres et vaches, mais aussi chameaux. « Il a une capacité de bétail qui est aujourd'hui d'environ 4 millions de têtes par an pour les terminaux spécialisés. Et si on observe au-delà de la question bétail, qui, en effet, est essentielle non seulement pour le Somaliland, mais aussi pour l'hinterland de l'Éthiopie, on voit de manière plus globale en termes de performance que les ports de Berbera et de Djibouti, bien sûr, qui est plus grand que celui de Berbera, sont quand même devant Mombasa », souligne Ali Hojeij. En 2024, l'exportation a rapporté plus d'un demi-milliard de dollars au Somaliland, en augmentation de 20 % sur un an. Pour tenir le rythme, à terme, DP World s'est engagé à investir 440 millions de dollars dans les infrastructures portuaires de Berbera. À lire aussiLe port de Berbera au centre de l'accord entre l'Éthiopie et le Somaliland 

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We're finishing our week of reports from Kenya this morning with Colum McGrath's final piece from Mombasa. It brings us inside a primary school built by the Ray of Sunshine Foundation and introduces us to the people — both local and Irish — who've helped make the project a reality.

We're back in Kenya this morning with another update from the Ray of Sunshine Foundation building project in Likoni, just outside Mombasa. The piece begins with a song from one of the teenage girls living at Sunshine House, before Colum introduces us to the people helping to change lives there. Photo (c) Ray of Sunshine

On Wednesday's Morning Focus with Alan Morrissey, we brought you an update from a Clare based charity who are currently in Kenya working on a building project in a primary school Colum McGrath is in Mombasa with the Ray of Sunshine Foundation, following the completion of the project he witnessed the start of, in September. He caught up with some of the volunteers. Photo (c) Ray of Sunshine

Today on Galway Talks with John Morley:  9am-10am  Chaplain injured in terror attack and three soldiers to receive bravery award from Irish military   Mandatory helmets for e-scooter users being considered   Refugees must wait three years for spouse and child reunification under new plans   10am-11am Cost of national stamp to rise to €1.85 from February as An Post hikes prices   Garda Slot Dunmore left with no electricity for 20th time in a year and a half   Special art exhibition by Galway artist comes to the Town Hall   11am-12pm We speak to 3 Galway men building classrooms in Mombasa, Kenya    Music Mornings - Jamie McIntrye  

Près d'un an après le cyclone Chido, qui a dévasté Mayotte le 14 décembre 2024, l'île française veut relancer les échanges avec les pays africains riverains de l'océan Indien. En particulier avec le Kenya qui fut d'un grand secours au lendemain de la catastrophe. Il s'agit d'élargir les débouchés des entreprises de part et d'autre, mais aussi d'améliorer le pouvoir d'achat des Mahorais. Après le passage du cyclone Chido, le Kenya fut l'un des premiers fournisseurs de denrées et de matériaux à Mayotte. Nairobi n'est qu'à deux heures et demie d'avion du territoire français ; le port kényan de Mombassa, à trois jours de bateau du port mahorais de Longoni. Accélérer les liaisons aériennes et maritimes avec le Kenya Et le Kenya veut renforcer ces liens avec Mayotte. « Kenya Airways relie déjà Nairobi à Mayotte tous les deux jours, un vol de passagers, souligne le secrétaire d'État kényan aux Affaires étrangères, Abraham Korir Sing'Oei. Notre intention est d'étendre cette liaison aérienne au fret. Nous aménageons aussi certaines de nos lignes maritimes entre Mombasa et Longoni, à Mayotte, pour accélérer le transport de marchandises, surtout de produits frais, vers ce marché. » Importer des produits moins chers Établir des ponts, daraja en swahili, la langue régionale commune, c'est le but des conventions du même nom que Mayotte a signées avec plusieurs pays africains voisins avant la catastrophe. L'enjeu est encore plus important depuis : faire baisser le coût des approvisionnements (1 milliard d'euros par an), dont plus de la moitié sont toujours expédiés par la métropole, à 8 000 km de là, est urgent. « Ce sont des produits des denrées alimentaires qui viennent de la Métropole, de très loin, rappelle la vice-présidente du conseil départemental de Mayotte, Zamimou Ahamadi, alors qu'on a juste l'Afrique qui est à côté ! Il y a le Kenya, il y a le Mozambique - parce qu'on a déjà une convention avec le Mozambique, Madagascar, les Comores, et on tend à l'étendre à d'autres pays pour pouvoir lutter contre la problématique de la vie chère aujourd'hui à Mayotte. » Pont entre l'Afrique et l'Europe pour le secteur de la tech Les entrepreneurs de Mayotte voient aussi des opportunités dans leur environnement régional, en particulier dans le secteur de la tech. C'est le cas du PDG d'ITH Datacenter, une infrastructure qui a survécu au cyclone. « Quand on a conçu notre projet, on l'a conçu aussi pour s'intégrer dans notre environnement régional, souligne Feyçoil Mouhoussoune. Le niveau de service avait vocation à pouvoir desservir des besoins régionaux. J'étais au Kenya l'année dernière. J'ai rencontré plusieurs opérateurs de data centers. On a une petite valeur ajoutée qui est qu'on est soumis à une réglementation européenne, et dans notre secteur, c'est plutôt un atout. » La suspension du partenariat de l'Union européenne avec le Kenya par la Cour de justice de l'Afrique de l'Est, pourrait cependant ralentir les projets respectifs des entreprises de Mayotte et du Kenya.

Der Start verläuft chaotisch: Das Auto defekt, das Dachzelt verschwunden – doch nach vier Tagen Schrauben geht es endlich los. Über Botswana und einen spontanen Helikopterflug über das Okavango-Delta führt die Route weiter zu den Victoriafällen und durch das faszinierende Malawi. Dort erlebt Manni paradiesische Strände, Mountainbike-Abenteuer und herzliche Begegnungen. In Tansania kommt es zu einer unvergesslichen Elefantenbegegnung, bevor er in Kenia seine Grenzen testet – bei einer Trekkingtour auf den 4.985 Meter hohen Mount Kenya und einem brenzligen Zwischenfall mit einem Schusswechsel auf dem Weg nach Mombasa. Nach der Verschiffung des Autos geht die Reise über Dubai in den Oman, wo Manni menschenleere Küsten, Wadis, Wüsten und 50-Grad-Offroad-Etappen erlebt. Durch Saudi-Arabien und den Irak kämpft er sich weiter Richtung Europa, bevor in Griechenland ein Einbruchsversuch seinen Entschluss festigt: Heimwärts!

Kevin and Sylvia launched iRide Arusha in July 2024, offering motorcycle tours and rentals in Tanzania. Within 18 months they scaled across four East African cities through a franchise model called iRide Africa, with partners operating in Rwanda, Nairobi, and Mombasa. The franchise structure allows riders to cross borders and book multi-country tours.The episode covers operational realities: importing equipment across borders, navigating tourism regulations, managing multi-country payment processing, and running rentals and guided tours as two distinct businesses with different customer profiles and sales cycles. Kevin and Sylvia share how they find customers through motorcycle clubs, price for premium buyers, and use immediate response times as a competitive advantage.TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS1. Test adjacent niches when your market is saturatedRather than launch another safari company in an oversaturated market, Kevin and Sylvia identified motorcycle touring as an underserved adventure niche in East Africa. Consider what adjacent experiences your destination supports that competitors aren't offering.2. Franchise models can scale faster than going soloWithin 18 months, iRide expanded across four East African cities through franchise partnerships. Partners share mechanics, bikes, marketing resources, and customer referrals. This creates a network effect where riders can start in one country and end in another, adding value no single operator could deliver alone.3. Target communities, not just individualsKevin reaches out directly to motorcycle clubs in major US cities. One Chicago BMW Riders club is bringing eight people in February. Booking one club creates the revenue of eight individual customers with a fraction of the acquisition cost. Find the clubs, associations, or communities that match your experience type.4. Customer service is a competitive advantage in developing marketsTheir immediate response times and willingness to hop on Zoom calls builds trust fast, especially for customers who've never been to Africa.5. Platform diversification requires testing, not guessingiRide is on Get Your Guide, Viator, Klook, WeTravel, and fielding Facebook messages, but hasn't found the magic channel yet. Test widely, track what converts, double down there.6. Price for the experience you're actually delivering, not your self-doubtKevin admits they severely underpriced at launch. Beginner business owners often can't see their own value clearly. If you're offering wow moments and authentic connections, charge accordingly.7. Guided vs. rental requires different marketing and operationsRental customers (experienced, self-sufficient, quick decision makers) need less hand-holding than guided tour customers (more questions, longer planning cycles, higher price points). These are functionally two different businesses with different messaging, pricing, and customer profiles.8. Gross revenue and net income are very differentVehicle maintenance, cross-border parts sourcing, and insurance eat into margins constantly. Build cash reserves and expect hidden costs, especially in asset-heavy businesses.9. Local language fluency unlocks competitive advantagesSylvia's Swahili fluency helped navigate Interpol holds on imported bikes, handle tourism police complaints from competitors, and build long-term supplier relationships. Language access isn't just customer-facing—it's operational power.10. Differentiation isn't just what you do, it's how guests connectGuests consistently cite the vastness of the landscape and local interactions (like lunch with Sylvia's 88-year-old farming grandmother) as their standout memories. Design for connection points your format uniquely enables.

How to create a successful circular hub for electronics that holistically integrates social and commercial aspects into the model? In this episode, we speak with Timothy Washira, Operations Manager at Close the Gap's Circular Economy Hub in Mombasa, Kenya. Close the Gap first started in Belgium in 2003 with the mission to provide high-quality pre-owned computers and bridge the digital divide. The organization started its first operations in Kenya in 2019 in Nairobi, before moving the Circular Economy Hub to a bigger, state-of-the-art facility in Mombasa in 2020. The Circular Economy Hub is the logistics backbone for Close the Gap in Kenya. Its focus is on IT Asset Disposition which involves collecting used IT devices from corporate partners in Kenya, conducting data wipe processes; refurbishing or recycling the devices, and deploying the pre-owned high quality devices to impact projects. Timothy talks about how Close the Gap is driving socio-economic transformation through for example, its incubator space and the BOOST program. Listen to hear how Close the Gap integrates commercial success with social impact, creating jobs, promoting the circular economy, and empowering over 6 million people with access to technology and skills.

Meatco het aangekondig dat hulle Donderdag twee vraghouers natblou velle vanaf hul Okapuka-looiery na Mombasa, Kenia, deur die hawe van Walvisbaai sal verskeep. Die tussentydse uitvoerende hoof, Albertus Aochamub, sê dit dui op ware momentum om die Afrika-kontinentale vryhandelsgebied se mark van 3,4 triljoen Amerikaanse dollar met meer as 1,3 miljard verbruikers te benut. Dit is Namibië se tweede verskeping, na Junie se 45 000 ton soutuitvoere na Nigerië. Aochamub het met Kosmos 94.1 gepraat vir meer.

In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students attending the school on a scholarship. Ruth is drawn forcefully into Maria's orbit, and they fall into an easy, yet intense, friendship. Her devotion to her charming and bright new friend opens up her previously sheltered world. While Maria, charismatic and aware of her ability to influence others, eases into her full self, embracing her sexuality and her desire to be an artist, Ruth is mostly content to follow her around: to college and then into the early-nineties art world of New York City. There, ambition and competition threaten to rupture their friendship, while strong and unspoken forces pull them together over the years. Whereas Maria finds early success in New York City as an artist, Ruth stumbles along the fringes of the art world, pulled toward a quieter life of work and marriage. As their lives converge and diverge, they meet in one final and fateful confrontation. Ruth and Maria's decades-long friendship interrogates the nature of intimacy, desire, class and time. What does it mean to be an artist and to be true to oneself? What does it mean to give up on an obsession? Marking the arrival of a sensational new literary talent, Lonely Crowds challenges us to reckon honestly with our own ambitions and the lives we hope to lead. Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York. Stephanie is an editor at Joyland magazine. Recommended Books: Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana Sula, Toni Morrison Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students attending the school on a scholarship. Ruth is drawn forcefully into Maria's orbit, and they fall into an easy, yet intense, friendship. Her devotion to her charming and bright new friend opens up her previously sheltered world. While Maria, charismatic and aware of her ability to influence others, eases into her full self, embracing her sexuality and her desire to be an artist, Ruth is mostly content to follow her around: to college and then into the early-nineties art world of New York City. There, ambition and competition threaten to rupture their friendship, while strong and unspoken forces pull them together over the years. Whereas Maria finds early success in New York City as an artist, Ruth stumbles along the fringes of the art world, pulled toward a quieter life of work and marriage. As their lives converge and diverge, they meet in one final and fateful confrontation. Ruth and Maria's decades-long friendship interrogates the nature of intimacy, desire, class and time. What does it mean to be an artist and to be true to oneself? What does it mean to give up on an obsession? Marking the arrival of a sensational new literary talent, Lonely Crowds challenges us to reckon honestly with our own ambitions and the lives we hope to lead. Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York. Stephanie is an editor at Joyland magazine. Recommended Books: Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana Sula, Toni Morrison Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students attending the school on a scholarship. Ruth is drawn forcefully into Maria's orbit, and they fall into an easy, yet intense, friendship. Her devotion to her charming and bright new friend opens up her previously sheltered world. While Maria, charismatic and aware of her ability to influence others, eases into her full self, embracing her sexuality and her desire to be an artist, Ruth is mostly content to follow her around: to college and then into the early-nineties art world of New York City. There, ambition and competition threaten to rupture their friendship, while strong and unspoken forces pull them together over the years. Whereas Maria finds early success in New York City as an artist, Ruth stumbles along the fringes of the art world, pulled toward a quieter life of work and marriage. As their lives converge and diverge, they meet in one final and fateful confrontation. Ruth and Maria's decades-long friendship interrogates the nature of intimacy, desire, class and time. What does it mean to be an artist and to be true to oneself? What does it mean to give up on an obsession? Marking the arrival of a sensational new literary talent, Lonely Crowds challenges us to reckon honestly with our own ambitions and the lives we hope to lead. Stephanie Wambugu was born in Mombasa, Kenya and grew up in Rhode Island. She lives and works in New York. Stephanie is an editor at Joyland magazine. Recommended Books: Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana Sula, Toni Morrison Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, is published with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Kevin Dundon is coming to Clare! The celebrity chef will bring his kitchen magic, in preparation for the Christmas season, to Glór in Ennis on the 19th of November. An Evening of Festive Food and Fashion with Kevin Dundon and Fashion by Pamela Scott is being hosted by the Ray of Sunshine Foundation, with our own Colum McGrath as M.C. for the evening. The Ray of Sunshine Foundation is a charity based in Co. Clare who carry out building of schools in the poorest areas of Mombasa, Kenya. Alan Morrissey was joined by one the directors of Ray of Sunshine, Olive Halpin and Celebrity Chef, Kevin Dundon. Image (c) Ray of Sunshine Foundation

How can fish waste solve a national animal feed crisis and empower local communities? In this episode, Faith Mwende from Sea Ventures explains how her startup tackles the massive post-harvest losses in Kenya's fishing industry, where 60-70% of the catch becomes waste. You'll hear how Sea Ventures creates a circular economy model by collecting this fish waste and processing it into high-quality animal feed, directly addressing Kenya's scarcity of animal feed. Faith also talks about the company's social impact, which includes creating jobs, providing training in sustainable farming, and empowering women in both the fishing and agricultural sectors. Recorded in Mombasa, Kenya, this episode showcases a local solution that integrates environmental action with economic and community development.

Kenya UpdateHosts:J. Kent EdwardsVicki HitzgesNathan NormanThe CrossTalk Podcast is a production of CrossTalk Global, equipping biblical communicators, so every culture hears God's voice. To find out more, or to support the work of this ministry please visit www.crosstalkglobal.orgDonateProduced by Nathan James Norman/Untold Podcast Production© 2025 CrossTalk Global

Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia machafuko ya muda mrefu nchini Myanmar, hali ya kibinadamu nchini Sudan kufuatia ripoti za vifo vya raia na wimbi la wakimbizi wa ndani, na masuala ya afya nchini Kenya.Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa, António Guterres, ametoa wito kwa dunia na mataifa wanachama wa Jumuiya ya Nchi za Kusini-Mashariki mwa Asia, ASEAN kuchukua hatua za haraka kumaliza machafuko ya muda mrefu nchini Myanmar, akisisitiza kuwa mgogoro huo si tishio kwa watu wa Myanmar pekee bali pia kwa amani na usalama wa kanda nzima ya Asia ya Kusini Mashariki.Ofisi ya Uratibu wa Misaada ya Kibinadamu ya Umoja wa Mataifa (OCHA) imeelezea wasiwasi mkubwa kufuatia ripoti za vifo vya raia na wimbi la wakimbizi wa ndani, kufuatia kuendelea kwa mapigano makali katika mji wa El Fasher, huko Darfur Kaskazini nchini Sudan. Tupate tarifa zaidi kutoka kwa Leah Mushi.Katika kaunti ya Mombasa nchini Kenya, Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kuhudumia Watoto (UNICEF) kwa kushirikiana na wa Mastercard Foundation na Serikali ya Kaunti ya Mombasa, imechukua hatua za kukabiliana na mlipuko wa MPOX kwa kutoa huduma muhimu za afya na WASH kwa wagonjwa na waliopona, ikiwa ni pamoja na vifaa vya kujikinga (PPEs), vituo vya kusafisha mikono na ujumbe wa mabadiliko ya tabia za kijamii.Mwenyeji wako ni Flora Nducha, karibu!

Katika kaunti ya Mombasa nchini Kenya, Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kuhudumia Watoto (UNICEF) kwa kushirikiana na wa Mastercard Foundation na Serikali ya Kaunti ya Mombasa, imechukua hatua za kukabiliana na mlipuko wa MPOX kwa kutoa huduma muhimu za afya na WASH kwa wagonjwa na waliopona, ikiwa ni pamoja na vifaa vya kujikinga (PPEs), vituo vya kusafisha mikono na ujumbe wa mabadiliko ya tabia za kijamii. Sheilah Jepngetich na taarifa zaidi

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week's conversation dovetails themes that have become very present in my perspectives in the past year. Our conversation takes place in one of my locals, which happens to be a new-ish local for my guest--Brooklyn, New York. My guest, Ambassador Martin Kimani is a native of a soon-to-be local for me--Kenya. And we are both decidedly on a #PanAfricaProgress mission. Getting to this point, Ambassabor Kimani has spent his career operating at the intersection of diplomacy, security, and political legitimacy, working across national, regional, and multilateral systems to resolve conflict, build institutions, and negotiate power. As Kenya's Permanent Representative to the UN, he served as president of the Security Council and the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA, and UNOPS. His Security Council address of February 2022 (https://www.un.int/kenya/statements_speeches/statement-amb-martin-kimani-during-security-council-urgent-meeting-situation), delivered on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and viewed by millions, affirmed a core element of his leadership: the ability to bring moral clarity and strategic grounding to moments of international rupture. Earlier, in his career, he directed Kenya's National Counter Terrorism Centre and served as the President's Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism advising three presidents through national and regional crises, from emergency evacuations to constitutional brinkmanship. This year he stepped into a new role as President and CEO of The Africa Center (https://theafricacenter.org) in New York marking a new phase in his work where diplomacy, strategy, and narrative converge. At the same time his Pan-African portfolio, alongside his continued engagement with the United Nations, positions him as the current President of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (https://www.ohchr.org/en/permanent-forum-people-african-descent). Where to find Martin? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kimani-a44849215/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ambmkimani/?hl=en) What's Martin reading? A Wreath for Udomo (https://50wattsbooks.com/products/a-wreath-for-udomo-peter-abrahams?srsltid=AfmBOooU1jYcu8Lxyc0K8p8sCDK1PSkL0GaLZ0oi3AVTcUN7y8ulaTyx) by Peter Abrahams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abrahams) Other topics of interest: About Mombasa, Kenya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa) Nyeri, Kenya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyeri) Kiambu, Kenya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiambu) About the Kikuyu People (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuyu_people) Ambassador Kimani's Security Council Speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZlaiuicYM) The First Pan-African Congress in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Pan-African_Conference) The Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester (https://panafricancongress.org/the-fifth-pan-african-congress/) Who was George Padmore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Padmore)? Necropolitics (https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics) by Achille Mbembe African Nationalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_nationalism) Special Guest: Martin Kimani.

Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City (Ohio UP, 2025) is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when they arrived in the Indian Ocean city of Mombasa, a place where cash mediated access to daily necessities. In their rural homes, people grew their own food and created mealtimes and cuisines that fit into the environments and workday routines of their agrarian societies. However, in the city, migrants earned cash that they converted into food through commercial exchange, developing foodways within the spatial dynamics of urban capitalism. Thus, Smart considers how working-class formation and urbanization, central themes of modern world history, changed East Africa's food systems. Smart explores how these processes transformed domestic labor within migrant households, as demographic change and daily life in a capitalist city shaped the gendered dynamics of food provisioning and cooking. He also examines how urban capitalism in Mombasa, as elsewhere in the world, drove the expansion of eateries for working-class consumers. It focuses especially on street-food vendors who kept their overhead and prices low by operating on sidewalks, in alleyways, and along other open spaces in makeshift structures, where they fried, boiled, and grilled the meals that sustained working-class people in Kenya's port city. The history of street food also provides insights on the political economy of colonial and decolonizing African cities. Despite the services and income provided by street food, Mombasa officials also regularly pursued “modernization” campaigns to remove such informal businesses from the city's landscape, fining and arresting vendors and demolishing their structures. Preparing the Modern Meal reveals the contradictions of such urban political economies from the colonial period to the more recent neoliberal era. Devin Smart is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, where he teaches courses in African, European, and global history. His most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of African History and International Labor and Working-Class History, and his current research projects examine Kenya's commercial fisheries as well as the energy transition that occurred in twentieth-century East Africa. He has two additional book projects underway, both of which address the relationship between environmental and economic change. Working the Water: Fishing and Extractivism in Twentieth-Century Kenya examines commercial fisheries as a particular kind of extractive industry, considering how these aquatic economies changed the region's lake, river, and marine environments. Dr. Smart's third book project, A Refined World: Energy Transitions in Modern East Africa, explores how different forms of energy, such as wood, coal, and petroleum, shaped daily life, the region's environments, and the political economy of colonialism and decolonization. Dr. Smart has also published articles on the history of tourism and economic development in Kenya in the African Studies Review, and on the politics of racial conflict in late-colonial Mombasa in the Journal of Eastern African Studies. You can learn more about Dr. Smart's work here Afua Baafi Quarshie is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on mothering and childhood in Ghana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City (Ohio UP, 2025) is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when they arrived in the Indian Ocean city of Mombasa, a place where cash mediated access to daily necessities. In their rural homes, people grew their own food and created mealtimes and cuisines that fit into the environments and workday routines of their agrarian societies. However, in the city, migrants earned cash that they converted into food through commercial exchange, developing foodways within the spatial dynamics of urban capitalism. Thus, Smart considers how working-class formation and urbanization, central themes of modern world history, changed East Africa's food systems. Smart explores how these processes transformed domestic labor within migrant households, as demographic change and daily life in a capitalist city shaped the gendered dynamics of food provisioning and cooking. He also examines how urban capitalism in Mombasa, as elsewhere in the world, drove the expansion of eateries for working-class consumers. It focuses especially on street-food vendors who kept their overhead and prices low by operating on sidewalks, in alleyways, and along other open spaces in makeshift structures, where they fried, boiled, and grilled the meals that sustained working-class people in Kenya's port city. The history of street food also provides insights on the political economy of colonial and decolonizing African cities. Despite the services and income provided by street food, Mombasa officials also regularly pursued “modernization” campaigns to remove such informal businesses from the city's landscape, fining and arresting vendors and demolishing their structures. Preparing the Modern Meal reveals the contradictions of such urban political economies from the colonial period to the more recent neoliberal era. Devin Smart is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, where he teaches courses in African, European, and global history. His most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of African History and International Labor and Working-Class History, and his current research projects examine Kenya's commercial fisheries as well as the energy transition that occurred in twentieth-century East Africa. He has two additional book projects underway, both of which address the relationship between environmental and economic change. Working the Water: Fishing and Extractivism in Twentieth-Century Kenya examines commercial fisheries as a particular kind of extractive industry, considering how these aquatic economies changed the region's lake, river, and marine environments. Dr. Smart's third book project, A Refined World: Energy Transitions in Modern East Africa, explores how different forms of energy, such as wood, coal, and petroleum, shaped daily life, the region's environments, and the political economy of colonialism and decolonization. Dr. Smart has also published articles on the history of tourism and economic development in Kenya in the African Studies Review, and on the politics of racial conflict in late-colonial Mombasa in the Journal of Eastern African Studies. You can learn more about Dr. Smart's work here Afua Baafi Quarshie is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on mothering and childhood in Ghana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City (Ohio UP, 2025) is an urban history that connects town and country. Devin Smart examines how labor migrants who left subsistence food systems in Kenya's rural communities acquired their daily meals when they arrived in the Indian Ocean city of Mombasa, a place where cash mediated access to daily necessities. In their rural homes, people grew their own food and created mealtimes and cuisines that fit into the environments and workday routines of their agrarian societies. However, in the city, migrants earned cash that they converted into food through commercial exchange, developing foodways within the spatial dynamics of urban capitalism. Thus, Smart considers how working-class formation and urbanization, central themes of modern world history, changed East Africa's food systems. Smart explores how these processes transformed domestic labor within migrant households, as demographic change and daily life in a capitalist city shaped the gendered dynamics of food provisioning and cooking. He also examines how urban capitalism in Mombasa, as elsewhere in the world, drove the expansion of eateries for working-class consumers. It focuses especially on street-food vendors who kept their overhead and prices low by operating on sidewalks, in alleyways, and along other open spaces in makeshift structures, where they fried, boiled, and grilled the meals that sustained working-class people in Kenya's port city. The history of street food also provides insights on the political economy of colonial and decolonizing African cities. Despite the services and income provided by street food, Mombasa officials also regularly pursued “modernization” campaigns to remove such informal businesses from the city's landscape, fining and arresting vendors and demolishing their structures. Preparing the Modern Meal reveals the contradictions of such urban political economies from the colonial period to the more recent neoliberal era. Devin Smart is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, where he teaches courses in African, European, and global history. His most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of African History and International Labor and Working-Class History, and his current research projects examine Kenya's commercial fisheries as well as the energy transition that occurred in twentieth-century East Africa. He has two additional book projects underway, both of which address the relationship between environmental and economic change. Working the Water: Fishing and Extractivism in Twentieth-Century Kenya examines commercial fisheries as a particular kind of extractive industry, considering how these aquatic economies changed the region's lake, river, and marine environments. Dr. Smart's third book project, A Refined World: Energy Transitions in Modern East Africa, explores how different forms of energy, such as wood, coal, and petroleum, shaped daily life, the region's environments, and the political economy of colonialism and decolonization. Dr. Smart has also published articles on the history of tourism and economic development in Kenya in the African Studies Review, and on the politics of racial conflict in late-colonial Mombasa in the Journal of Eastern African Studies. You can learn more about Dr. Smart's work here Afua Baafi Quarshie is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on mothering and childhood in Ghana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

All last week, we heard daily reports from our very own Colum McGrath on his adventures in Kenya. Colum was in Mombasa with the Clare-based Ray of Sunshine Foundation, sharing powerful stories of how local generosity is transforming lives. He spoke with Alan Morrissey on Mondays Morning Focus to share his experience. Photo (c) Colum McGrath

All this week, Colum McGrath has been in Mombasa, Kenya, with the Clare-based Ray of Sunshine Foundation, sharing powerful stories of how local generosity is transforming lives. In his final report today, Colum visits a school for the blind, hears from its principal and their award-winning choir, speaks with a former resident of Sunshine House who's now teaching there, and chats with one of the driving forces behind the charity. This was featured on Fridays Morning Focus with Alan Morrissey. Photo (c) Ray of Sunshine Foundation via Facebook

All this week, Colum McGrath has been in Mombasa, Kenya, reporting on the work of the Clare-based Ray of Sunshine Foundation. Today, he's been finding out more about the building of two new classrooms — and speaking with two Irish tradesmen giving their time and skills to make it happen: Ben Tierney and Billy Murphy. You can support the Ray of Sunshine charity here: www.gofundme.com/f/building-hope-…-ray-of-sunshine. Photo (c) Ray of Sunshine Foundation

All this week, Colum McGrath is in Mombasa, Kenya, with the Ray of Sunshine Foundation — a charity based in Clare. Today, Colum is in Sunshine House, to visit the girls who have benefitted from the work of the foundation. You can support the Ray of Sunshine charity here: www.gofundme.com/f/building-hope-…-ray-of-sunshine. Photo (c) Ray of Sunshine Foundation

Follow Proof of Coverage: https://x.com/coverageprovedRecorded at the EV3 DePIN Summit in Kenya, Connor spoke with Mohan Ponnada, founder of DeCharge, at a beach resort in Mombasa, Kenya, about transforming the EV charging industry in emerging markets like Kenya and Tanzania. Ponnada discussed DeCharge's move from India to Kenya to tap into the region's growing gig economy and EV adoption, stressing the value of local partnerships. He outlined how DeCharge tackles the industry's fragmentation through a decentralized model that lets individuals and small businesses monetize idle charging infrastructure. With a goal of 25,000 stations by March and a seamless, app-free user experience, DeCharge is scaling quickly. The episode wrapped with insights into their upcoming token launch on the Solana blockchain to strengthen their decentralized foundation.Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction01:03 - Exploring Emerging Markets01:54 - Current Footprint and Local Partnerships02:39 - Challenges in the EV Charging Industry04:57 - Decentralization and Community Involvement05:13 - Motivating Community Participation08:07 - Bringing Your Own Device09:06 - Current Network Status and Sales Growth12:14 - Token Launch Plans and Blockchain Choice14:32 - Why Solana?16:29 - Where to Learn More About DeChargeDisclaimer: The hosts and the firms they represent may hold stakes in the companies mentioned in this podcast. None of this is financial advice.

Follow Proof of Coverage: https://x.com/coverageprovedRecorded at the EV3 DePIN Summit in Kenya, host Connor welcomed back Alireza Ghods, Co-founder and CEO of Natix, for his fifth appearance. Alireza shared insights from his trip to Mombasa and the opportunities for crypto adoption in Africa, highlighting Natix's demand-led approach through partnerships with local businesses. He discussed the company's dual focus on mapmaking and autonomous driving, noting the higher value and longevity of autonomous driving data. Alireza also reflected on Natix's token on Solana, praised its usability, and teased major collaborations as the company focuses on scaling and revenue growth.Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction01:08 - Emerging Markets and Product Fit in Africa02:07 - Current Footprint in Africa and Demand Strategy03:11 - Focus on Autonomous Driving vs. Mapmaking04:32 - Data Requirements for Autonomous Driving06:06 - Monetizing Data for Mapmaking and Autonomous Driving08:06 - Understanding AI Models in Autonomous Vehicles10:32 - Experience with Solana and Token Launch12:52 - Future Plans and Upcoming Announcements14:13 - How to Get Involved and Learn MoreDisclaimer: The hosts and the firms they represent may hold stakes in the companies mentioned in this podcast. None of this is financial advice.

Hii leo jaridani tunaangazia masuala ya malengo ya maendeleo endelevu, na mradi wa uvuvi unaosaidia kupunguza migogoro Ituri DRC. Makala tunakupeleka nchini Tanzania na mashinani nchini Kenya, kulikoni?Jukwaa la Kisiasa la Ngazi ya Juu la Maendeleo Endelevu, HLPF la mwaka huu wa 2025 limeanza leo hapa katika makao makuu ya Umoja wa Mataifa jijini New York, Marekani ambapo wadau kutoka katika nyanja mbalimbali duniani wanakutana kujadili namna ya kuharakisha utekelezaji wa Malengo ya Maendeleo Endelevu, SDGs.Kutoka msituni kupigana upande wa waasi hadi kuingia ziwani na kuwa mtaalamu wa ufugaji wa samaki, ndio simulizi tunayopata kutoka Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC, simulizi ya matumaini kwa mustakabali wa jamii iliyogubikwa na vita kila uchao.Katika makala tunakupeleka mkoani Mwanza, kaskazini-magharibi mwa Tanzania ambako kuelekea siku ya kimataifa ya vijana na stadi hapo kesho Julai 15, Sabrina Said anazungumza na mmoja wa vijana  anayetumia majukwaa ya kidijitali kutoa elimu ya      uelimishaji rika.Na kaika mashinani leo fursa ni yake Imam Ustaadhi Matano Bin Salim kutoka Kaunti ya Mombasa nchini Kenya, ambaye amewezesha shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia watoto, UNICEF kufika kwenye kituo cha mafunzo ya dini kupatia watoto chanjo. Akisema typhoid ni homa ya tumbo, na measles ni ugonjwa wa surua.Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!

Turning the tide  “Rejection is just another wave to ride.” These words by Elizabeth Marami echo far beyond the deck of a ship—they speak to every woman daring to defy the odds. Listen to Liz Marami; she is a trailblazer in every sense of the word. She was the first female pilot in the Port of Mombasa, the first woman onboard many ships, and the first person of colour on the bridge of a cruise ship. She doesn't stop there; she has more ambition, wanting to make a change, and by simply being herself, she is changing how the world views women in the maritime industry.  This is an episode you'll want to listen to. Liz's story will inspire you and motivate you to support her as she moves forward. #everyconversationmatters   

For this haunted episode we journey through two haunted sites. First, we enter Jeruk Purut Cemetery in Jakarta – a graveyard infamous for its headless pastor ghost said to roam the grounds with a lantern, eternally searching for his misplaced grave. Locals warn that the spirit only appears to odd-numbered groups, and many visitors have left the cemetery with scratches or inexplicable illnesses. Then, we travel to the Swahili coast to explore Fort Jesus in Mombasa, Kenya – a centuries-old Portuguese fortress layered with the horrors of colonial violence, torture chambers, and spirits said to wail through the coral stone walls. From phantom priests to haunted battlements, these tales reveal how trauma and legend linger long after death.OBSCURATA - Apple Spotify AmazonThe BOOKBY US A COFFEEJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jeruk-purut-cemeteryhttps://jakartaglobe.id/lifestyle/jeruk-purut-cemeterys-haunting-legendhttps://theculturetrip.com/asia/indonesia/articles/the-haunting-myth-of-the-headless-pastor-at-jeruk-purut-cemetery/https://www.odditycentral.com/news/the-headless-ghost-of-jeruk-purut-cemetery.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Jesushttps://www.kenyageographic.com/fort-jesus-the-ghostly-keeper/https://www.roughguides.com/kenya/mombasa/fort-jesus/https://theculturetrip.com/africa/kenya/articles/a-guide-to-the-legendary-fort-jesus-mombasa/https://hauntedrooms.co.uk/fort-jesus-kenya-haunted-historyhttps://www.lonelyplanet.com/kenya/mombasa/attractions/fort-jesus/a/poi-sig/401546/355999Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again on tomorrow.Sarah and Tobie xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/SURVEY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our shops are full of products sourced from all over the world, and its someone's job to find and secure them – at the right quality and quantity for the best price possible. In this programme Ruth Alexander speaks to three food buyers on three different continents. She is joined by Beatrice Muraguri, a Tea Buyer and exporter based in Mombasa, Kenya; Chloe Doutre-Roussel, who travels the world sourcing cacao beans for speciality chocolate makers. And Jim Gulkin, the chief executive of a trading company, which deals mainly in frozen seafood based in Bangkok, Thailand. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk Produced by Rumella Dasgupta and Beatrice Pickup. (Image: a cup of tea with teabag in it, a peeled prawn and some squares of milk chocolate. Credit: Getty Images/ BBC)

In January 2024, protests erupted across Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa as Kenyans demanded justice for women killed in a wave of femicides. The government promised action, launching a 90 day task force to deliver recommendations to President William Ruto. But that deadline has long passed and there's still no clear plan. BBC Africa Daily's Mpho Lakaje speaks to feminist activist Editar Ochieng and policy expert Kavinya Makau to explore why progress has stalled, what's happening behind the scenes and their thoughts on whether Kenya is truly committed to ending femicide.