Health CS Aden Duale
The Ministry of Health will mark World AIDS Day 2025 with a major national event on Saturday at Nyayo National Stadium, featuring a half marathon and a medical camp focused on adolescents and young people. The activities aim to expand access to HIV testing, treatment, prevention services, and accurate health information as part of Kenya’s commitment to ending AIDS by 2030. Health CS Aden Duale urged Kenyans to participate in large numbers, emphasising the importance of collective responsibility, compassion, and inclusive health services. This year’s commemoration will also highlight progress achieved through partnerships with county governments, civil society, and development partners, including the scale-up of PrEP and PEP, improved ART access for youth, and efforts to eliminate mother-to-child transmission. The Ministry reiterated that sustained investment and community engagement remain critical to strengthening HIV prevention and care across the country.
The commissioning of the 106 km Emining–Marigat–Kabarnet–Kabartonjo Fiber Backbone Link marks a major milestone in Baringo’s digital transformation. The new fibre route positions the county firmly within Kenya’s expanding national digital network, boosting connectivity and improving service reliability for communities along the corridor. This investment is expected to open new opportunities in e-commerce, education, healthcare, and government services, ensuring more residents benefit from the country’s Digital Superhighway agenda. The event was attended by CS William Kabogo, Governor Benjamin Cheboi, PS John Tanui, Baringo North MP Joseph Makilap, and other local leaders whose collaboration is key to deepening digital inclusion. The initiative underscores a shared national vision of enabling all Kenyans to connect, innovate, and thrive within the digital economy.
Kenya has taken a major step in strengthening respiratory care with the launch of a Bronchoscopy Training Programme at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). The three-day specialist training, organised in partnership with Nagasaki University and the Ministry of Health, introduces modern bronchoscopy technology to improve early detection and management of lung diseases. Speaking at the launch, Principal Secretary for Medical Services Dr. Ouma Oluga highlighted the programme’s importance, noting that conditions such as Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Asthma, and Lung Cancer continue to affect thousands of Kenyans each year. He emphasised that building diagnostic capacity is crucial for better patient outcomes.
Kakamega Court has sentenced lorry driver Shadrack Chirchir Kogo to one year in prison after convicting him for smuggling cigarettes worth over Sh26 million. Kogo appeared before Chief Magistrate Philip Mutua and was charged with conveying unaccustomed goods contrary to the East Africa Community Customs Management Act 2004. His alleged accomplices, Jacktone Andanyi and Christabel Wafula, who faced charges of possessing excisable goods under the Excise Duty Act 2015, were acquitted due to lack of evidence. The trio had been linked to 350 cartons of Super Match cigarettes, each containing 5,000 sticks, and 40 bags of smuggled wheat bran chicken feed from Burundi, which were being offloaded at a residential premises in Shuvumbe, Kakamega. They were arrested on 15 October 2023 during an intelligence-led operation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) at the construction-site premises. The court also ordered the forfeiture of the cigarettes, valued at Sh26.2 million.
At the third African Forum on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence in Nairobi, Raymond Omollo, PS, Internal Security, warned that while technology boosts economic growth and access to services, it also exposes governments, businesses, and citizens to sophisticated cyber threats. Africa lost over $40 billion to cybercrime last year alone. The forum brought together ministers, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, tech experts, and civil society, and was jointly organized by the Kenyan government, the Council of Europe, and the European Union. Its focus was on strengthening cross-border cooperation, harmonizing legislation, and improving digital forensics to enhance Africa’s cyber resilience. The PS emphasized the need for secure digital identity systems, stronger mutual legal assistance frameworks, and youth-centered cybersecurity initiatives, highlighting that Africa’s median age of 18 places young people at the heart of the continent’s digital future. He cautioned that cyber incidents anywhere in the world could destabilize national institutions within seconds, citing Kenya’s e-Citizen platform as both a digital innovation and a target for cybercrime.
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