50 passengers escape death narrowly after bus rolls
Tana River,KENYA:Over fifty passengers on Monday escaped death narrowly after the bus they were traveling with rolled at Chuma Mrefu along Bura – Hola road in Tana river county. Speaking to Baraka FM after the accident victims, Ms Muumina Molu and David Mui said the bus rolled when it slipped on the slippery road following […]
Education sector hurts in aftermath of floods in Tana River
Tana River,KENYA: Education in Tana River County is deteriorating as farmers from Bura irrigation scheme count losses of approximately 100 million shillings due to floods. Speaking to Baraka FM on Monday, scheme chairman Mr. Joseph Mutisya said farmers in the Bura scheme are currently unable to raise funds to cater for fees to their children […]
Livestock quarantined in Tana delta over Rift valley fever outbreak
Tana River,KENYA:Department of veterinary in Tana River county has confirmed closing down all slaughter houses and meat market in Tana Delta following rift valley fever cases. Speaking to Baraka Fm through a phone call, the department director in the county Dr. Anthony Kinyua said that there was one incident where officers from the area discovered […]
Tana River County avails prophylactic drugs to combat cholera outbreak
Tana River, KENYA: The county government of Tana River has put in measures to contain the Cholera outbreak in Madogo area that has since left one person dead. Speaking to the Baraka FM on Monday, County Commissioner Oning’oi Olesosio said medical officers had identified the source of the outbreak and hence supplied people drawing water […]
One confirmed dead in Tana River Cholera outbreak
Tana River,KENYA:One person has been confirmed dead in the Cholera outbreak that is currently affecting villages in Madogo, Tana River county. According to county health officials, This is the first case since the outbreak was reported earlier in the month. Tana River county executive for health and sanitation Ms Mwanajuma Mabuke confirmed the incident saying […]
Relief food stolen in Tana River days before distribution
Tana River,KENYA: Residents of Milaluu village in Galole Sub-county on Sunday held demonstrations to protest against the disappearance of relief food. The said relief food was reportedly stolen from a store in the chief’s office a day before the distribution exercise took place. The food which was meant to assist persons displaced by floods was […]
Shortage of prophylactic drugs in hospitals blamed for Tana River Cholera surge
Tana River, KENYA: Approximately 80 people are recuperating from cholera at Madogo health center in Tana North sub-county, Tana River county. Speaking to Baraka FM at the Madogo cholera treatment unit, county executive for health and sanitation Ms. Mwanajuma Mabuke said already four villages had been affected. “We have 78 cases in the CTUs that […]
Bura village five residents displaced by floods appeal for help
Tana River, KENYA: Internally displaced people from Bura village in Tana River County are in need of over sh. 70million in order for them to be evacuated from the flooded zones. Speaking to Braka FM on Monday, Bura Farmers cooperative society secretary general Mr. Robert Aroni, said the whole of village five in the Bura […]
Floods force hungry Tana river woman to nurse labor pains on top of a tree
Tana River,KENYA:A woman in Tana River county delivered immediately after being rescued from flooded waters by Redcross and Tana River county rescue officers. Saum Omar had stayed for three days up a tree without food in a bid to escape floods that had engulfed their village. According to the officers, her family had built her […]
Death toll from Tana River floods rises to 6 after body of woman is found
Tana River,KENYA:A body of a woman who drowned on Monday evening has been found at Bilbil, Bura in Tana River County today morning. According to an eye witness Abdullahi Mude , the woman had been travelling on a Tcoach bus from Garissa to Mombasa when she and other passengers encountered flooded waters of river Hirimani whose […]