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Pierra Nyaruai

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Pierra Nyaruai

Pierra Nyaruai is an agricultural blogger, farmer, and freelance journalist based in Nakuru, Kenya.

File photo: A farmer walks among coffee trees in Kenya.(Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP)
BIOFUEL

Biofuels: A new era of extraction

Counting on African farmers to grow biofuel crops, Italian oil giant Eni is making big promises to help the air and shipping industries get carbon neutral. In a year-long…

  • Pierra Nyaruai
8 min read
Criminal activity among children has increased in areas such as Kivumbini, Flamingo and Kwa Rhonda in Nakuru. These low-income estates have become hotspots for Confirm, a gang made up of young people that specialises in cellphone-based crime and phone- and bag- snatching.
BAG SNATCHING

With school suspended, Kenya’s children become students of gang culture

Schools in Kenya will reopen only in 2021. Meanwhile, children are getting their education on the streets, through becoming involved in petty crime

  • Pierra Nyaruai
3 min read
On March 15, Kenya’s government shut down the country’s schools. 17 million learners were told to stay at home in an effort to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
CORONAVIRUS

Covid-19 deepens Kenya’s educational divide

Children are expected to keep learning at home during the coronavirus lockdown, but a lack of resources makes this a tricky prospect for some of them

  • Pierra Nyaruai
4 min read