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Sharing news from Northern #Kenya and neighbouring areas. Particular interests are #climate change, #environment, conservation and security & #conflict triggers. linktr.ee/rememberthegoat

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GroWHYzr @growhyzr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Africa is slowly pulling apart and new research found the crust beneath Kenya’s Turkana Rift is only ~13 km thick. It’s a key stage toward breakup, but a new ocean would still take millions of years. 🌍 #Geology #Africa #EarthScience #Nature #Science
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 17h
This is an interesting thread highlighting the development of the fire on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro. bsky.app/profile/mary... Thanks for posting Mary!
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 17h
Kenya can be cool, it just has to be filmed right (as apposed to filmed like a apocalyptic hell hole on primetime for news junkies!) roadtoshujaa.com/copy-of-abou...
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Road to Shujaa
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 17h
This is lovely! www.cnn.com/world/africa...
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‘World’s first solar ambulance’ just proved it works | CNN
The team behind Stella Juva hopes it can help bring healthcare to people in remote areas who are struggling to access it.
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 18h
“This is a moment that calls for very active, serious, preventive diplomacy. Otherwise, you could have a region-wide conflagration.” Our Africa Director speaks with @cnn.com to talk about ways out of the dangerous escalation in northern Ethiopia.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
KHRC Urges Evacuation Plans for Flood-Prone Areas in Kenya ke-en.news.netasgard.com/a/khrc-urges...
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KHRC Urges Evacuation Plans for Flood-Prone Areas in Kenya — Netasgard News
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has raised concerns about the potential impact of El Niño-induced flooding on communities across Kenya, with 80% of the country at risk. The commission emphasi...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sub-Saharan Africa’s off-grid solar market to grow 450% by 2035 www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/s...
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s off-grid solar market to grow 450% by 2035 - pv magazine Global
Latest analysis from Wood Mackenzie says growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s off-grid market will be led by Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya, while financing installations stands as ...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kenya's noisy Quakers! religionnews.com/2026/09/28/l...
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Loud worship and other contrasts set apart Kenya's large community of Quakers
KAIMOSI, Kenya (AP) — There are an estimated 400,000 members worldwide of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. About half live in Africa with most in Kenya, where Americans introduced the rel...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The United Arab Emirates Is Devastating Sudan for Profit jacobin.com/2026/09/suda...
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The United Arab Emirates Is Devastating Sudan for Profit
Several outside actors have stoked the flames of war in Sudan, but none has had as great an impact as the United Arab Emirates. The evidence of its destructive role is overwhelming, but the Gulf kingd...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kenya Met Warns of Rain in 37 Counties This Week as El Niño Builds for October thekenyatimes.com/weather/keny...
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Kenya Met Warns Of Rain In 37 Counties This Week As El Niño Builds For October
Kenya Met has forecast rainfall in several parts of the country from September 29 to October 5, as Kenya prepares October El Niño rains
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elephants may use medicinal plants to treat themselves and their babies - This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has spent much time around elephants, if humans have worked out that some plants make us feel better they certainly will have! www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Elephants may use medicinal plants to treat themselves and their babies | CBC Radio
A new study taps into local knowledge to identify dozens of medicinal plants used elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya. However, scientists caution that more research is needed.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
County level efforts to improve security along the Turkana Ethiopia border area - Ethiopia and Kenya Deepen People-to-People Engagement as Shared Bonds Shape Regional Cooperation www.fanamc.com/english/ethi...
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Ethiopia and Kenya Deepen People-to-People Engagement as Shared Bonds Shape Regional Cooperation
Addis Ababa, September 29, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia and Kenya are deepening people-to-people engagement, with communities from South Ethiopia and Kenya’s Turkana region convening in Arba Minch to strengt...
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Olng'arua School and Community Education Centre @olngarua.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rich countries take scenes like this for granted in their schools. Of course there is time to play and experiment with art materials. It is regarded as an important part of early childhood education. Yet it is almost completely lacking in most schools in poor countries. Could there be a link?
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Olng'arua School and Community Education Centre @olngarua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The next generation. Big dreams and bags of attitude. These guys make me feel hopeful for the future. Olng'arua School.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is an interesting article on the latest moves to extract oil in Kenya. When Tullow Oil had been unable to sell out to anybody else, for years, the purchase by a buddy of the current Kenyan president is definitely suspect! news.mongabay.com/2026/03/can-...
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Can Kenya finally deliver on Turkana’s oil promise?
LOKICHAR, Kenya — On a recent Sunday afternoon in Lokichar, a small town in Kenya’s northern Turkana region, the expansive grounds of the Black Gold Hotel are deserted, aside from a couple of housekee...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lake Turkana, Kenya's most northern Rift Valley lake is also rising. Human interference, such as the Gibe III Dam in Ethiopia, have combined with natural causes to have a devastating effect on fragile desert ecosystems and the ever increasing local population. news.mongabay.com/2026/05/risi...
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Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana
KALOKOL, Kenya — Rake-thin with teeth stained a deep brown from decades of drinking untreated lake water high in fluoride, 62-year-old John Esirite sits in the shade outside the small office of Kaloko...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes are rising, putting thousands at risk – we now know why. theconversation.com/kenyas-rift-...
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Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes are rising, putting thousands at risk – we now know why
Several reasons have been advanced for rising levels in Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes. New evidence points to the most significant cause: higher rainfall.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rising water levels in Rift Valley lakes in Kenya raise fears of a rare lake merger and damage to specialist ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Rising Rift Valley lakes in Kenya raise fears of a rare lake merger
Climate-driven rainfall is swelling lakes across the region, flooding farmland and homes.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning Bsky. This is Lake Baringo, just before sunrise. The water level in Lake Baringo, like all the Rift Valley lakes in Kenya, has been steadily rising over the last 20 years. With dramatic effects on people and the environment. www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Euphorbia candelabrum, on the eastern side of Laikipia, Kenya. This is quite a small one, they can be huge. They look like they are a cross between a cactus and a tree, and they don't look like any of the other euphorbias I have met. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorb...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nature will find a way, just so long as we get out of the way! Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily www.optimistdaily.com/2026/08/rain...
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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They drilled for oil in the Chalbi Desert in northern Kenya in the 80s. They found no oil but left behind a 40 year legacy of cancer and unexplained livestock death. BP is using all its power to avoid responsibility and the Kenyan Government simply ignores it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgiI...
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Isiolo court hears landmark pollution case pitting BP against 299 Marsabit residents
YouTube video by NTV Kenya
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Four arrested over suspected poisoning of elephants in Kenya - 20 years ago I traveled with a KWS anti poaching unit in the Amboseli area of the Kenya Tanzania border. We spent much of the night scaring elephants away from peoples farms. It is even more congested now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kenya: Four arrested over suspected poisoning of elephants
An investigation is looking into whether the deaths were caused by pesticides sprayed on tomato crops.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah
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Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
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Chris Byrne @chris-byrne.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From an extraordinary evening in Amboseli #kenya
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Samburu warrior on a bicycle near Maralal.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I love how the deep orange light from the setting sun highlights the manes of these giraffes. Borana Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Ewaso Ng’iro River. A ribbon of life in the deep dry of July. Here it is the border between Isiolo and Samburu counties, and we are looking across to Samburu National Park. Kenya
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Mount Kenya - Africa’s second-highest mountain (5199m) as seen from Ethi in Laikipia (Ethi is around 2200m). This extinct volcano hasn’t erupted for around 3 million years, but the legacy of past eruptions are everywhere in the landscape surrounding it.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Good night Bsky
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Kenya Airways Captain Ahmed gives passengers a stunning view of Africa’s tallest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro. [📹eric.thimba] Original post
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Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Railways Chips Point; 235F+2CC, Nanyuki, Kenya www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&q…
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The wind started early this year, drying things even quicker than normal. We enter July, already feeling like we have been there a while. It is hazy, dusty, windy and cold (ish). The light seems to be filtering through rice paper. It is winter in northern parts of Kenya.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
With goats, without goats. Nobody wants fences. Not the locals, not the wildlife people, not the tour guides or their visitors. But here in Laikipia, like so many other places, the environmental damage from too many livestock is making fences essential in order to protect and rehabilitate the land.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A thin sliver of moon just after sunset tonight. Also, a little bit of cloud, I feel July coming on. Isiolo County, Kenya.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
On the back road to Shaba in Isiolo County, Kenya.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Already this year Mandera has recorded the highest ever June temperature in Kenya. Today El Niño conditions were officially reached, and while climate changes make the impacts less predictable, we can be fairly sure it's just going to get hotter. www.noaa.gov/news-release...
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El Nino forms, expected to strengthen, say NOAA forecasters
Prolonged period of above-average temperatures in the equatorial Pacific expected to peak this winter
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Depressing, but this is now the standard response in Kenya to any form of public protest, however calm or benign. And what the hell is the government doing building on a National Park anyway?! So much greed. www.reuters.com/business/env...
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Kenya police fire tear gas, arrest ex chief justice at national park protest
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse ​scores of protesters rallying on Monday ‌against plans to build on part of a national park in Kenya's capital.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/06/2026
Uber plans to double its fleet of electric motorcycles in Kenya by the end of the year, as the company races toward becoming a zero-emissions mobility platform globally by 2040
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Uber Targets Doubling Its Fleet of Electric Motorcycles in Kenya
Uber Technologies Inc plans to double its fleet of electric motorcycles in Kenya by the end of the year, as the company races toward becoming a zero-emissions mobility platform globally by 2040.
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 03/06/2026
Most people know Kenya for wildlife. Far fewer know it already operates one of the cleanest electricity systems on Earth. Around 91% of electricity now comes from renewable sources, while fossil generation has fallen from roughly 48% in 2010 to around 10% in 2025. #Bettrification
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
To quote Kenyan human rights lawyer, journalist, & politician Gitobu Imanyara, "If Ebola is too dangerous for the US, why is it safe enough for Kenya?" [I think we all know the answer, which is to do with how different people's lives are or are not valued] www.standardmedia.co.ke/opinion/arti...
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If Ebola is too dangerous for the US, why is it safe enough for Kenya?
If Ebola poses enough risk to justify keeping exposed individuals away from the United States, why should the same risk be acceptable for Kenya?
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
RECORD HEAT IN KENYA With a temperature of 38.6C The town of Mandera (Northeast:near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia) recorded the HIGHEST JUNE TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN KENYA While Lodwar (Northwest) missed its own record by just 0.1C.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a brilliant post. How young people in particular, all across the continent, are now seeing themselves and their societies in comparison to the rest of the world. open.substack.com/pub/africata...
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Comparison, Thief of Joy
The First Time Africa Saw Itself in the World’s Mirror
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Across Africa, agricultural productivity growth has dropped by 34% since the 1960s, more than any other region in the world.” — I came across this startling fact in Elemental by @snellarthur.bsky.social He links to this WMO report archive.is/hBGHB
https://archive.is/hBGHB
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
So, two people were shot dead protesting against an Ebola quarantine centre here in Kenya. Sadly that is probably 2 deaths more than are actually likely to occur from Ebola in Kenya. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nanyuki protests against US Ebola quarantine centre plan: Two people shot dead in Kenya
The US plan has sparked public anger and led to demonstrations near the site of the proposed treatment facility.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Laikipia, Kenya. Both these photos were taken yesterday, about 50m apart. One area was fenced 6 months ago, the other open to communal grazing. In much of Kenya's rangeland, land restoration doesn't need complex or expensive action. You just need to keep the livestock off. #landrestoration
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Government intensifies conservation efforts in Mukogodo Forest www.kenyanews.go.ke/government-i... #Laikipia #Kenya
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Government intensifies conservation efforts in Mukogodo Forest – Kenya News AgencyFacebookTwitterYouTube
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Exceptional heavy rain in Isiolo tonight. This was the cloud building up just before sunset, then it deposited more rain in the last hour and a half than I've seen in many years.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Sun halo over Isiolo today. #Isiolo #Kenya
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In an arid part of Turkana, with few watering points, women are being shot when they go to fetch water. The article doesn't explain why. It seems likely that it is a continuation of the ethnic rivalry that has made this area one of the most dangerous in the country. nation.africa/kenya/health...
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Water crisis, gun-toting bandits and deaths: The unending woes of Lomelo residents
County government accused of failing to address water crisis even as bandits turn water points into danger zones
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