Mazingira Day Stories

Mazingira Day: North Eastern leaders rally communities to step up tree planting efforts
Issa Hussein  |  Oct 10, 2025

Otieno also highlighted the wider benefits of environmental restoration, including preventing drought, floods, and the conflicts often triggered by cl...

State to focus on market-driven skills in higher institutions of learning
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 10, 2025

According to her, the Kenya Kwanza administration’s Bottom-Up economic model is capable of linking young people to economic activities through program...

Mazingira Day: Why Sakaja's clean city dream is still a mirage
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 10, 2025

An analysis of posts by Eastleigh Voice on various social media platforms, especially X, shows that residents feel Sakaja’s administration is failing...

2,000 trees planted in schools on Mazingira Day in Kamukunji
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 10, 2025

At Our Lady of Mercy Primary School in Shauri Moyo, where Trade Principal Secretary Regina Akoth Ombam was scheduled to join the exercise, at least 1,...

President Ruto launches nationwide drive to plant 2 billion tree seedlings each year
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 10, 2025

The initiative is part of a wider national strategy linking environmental conservation to food security. President Ruto explained that Kenya has relie...

CS Barasa urges Kenyans to plant trees on Mazingira Day at their former schools
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 09, 2025

CS Deborah Barasa said the initiative is not just a one-day event but a continuous effort throughout October to encourage every Kenyan to play a role...

Students ordered to attend school on Mazingira Day for tree planting
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 09, 2025

Education PS Julius Bitok instructed all regional, county, and sub-county directors of education to communicate this directive to head teachers in bot...

State to plant 100 million trees as Kenya marks first Mazingira day
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 01, 2025

The tree-planting initiative will largely focus on schools, with 71.1 million fruit trees expected to be planted in 35,570 public and private primary...

Mazingira Day: How Kariokor's old tyres dealer is helping safeguard environment
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 10, 2024

According to him, even though dealing with old tyres has created employment for young people in the city and across the country, the main aim and bene...

Kenya Railways suspends Nairobi commuter train services in observance of Mazingira Day
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 10, 2024

However, the link train between Nairobi Central Railway Station and Nairobi Terminus will remain operational.

Duale urges Kenyans to embrace conservation as Mazingira Day approaches
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 08, 2024

The day presents a vital opportunity for the nation to unite in fostering a healthier environment and addressing pressing ecological challenges.

Kenya floods: Ruto says schools to reopen on Monday
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 08, 2024

Ruto also declared that Friday, May 10, is a public holiday to remember Kenyans adversely affected by climate change.

Kenya introduces Mazingira Day in efforts to combat climate change
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Apr 24, 2024

Amendments to the Public Holidays Act, which Ruto has signed, rename Utamaduni Day to Mazingira Day.

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