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TONIGHT on Eleweka! Young people are being asked to choose careers at a time when jobs, technology and the meaning of work are changing rapidly. Joe Munene talks to Mwikali Muthiani about career confusion, youth unemployment, education,employability and the impact of AI on work.

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@Lawton_Times Why is it Incredible? After more than four decades without a single African host, Nairobi winning the bid is not Europe being unfairly excluded or wronged. It is the sport recognising its global constituency. This sounds like entitlement dressed up as a concern. #Eleweka

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Kenya’s public universities reportedly owed Sh69.23bn as of June 2025. This is evidence of a university system whose obligations and financing no longer align. Affects suppliers, pension schemes,maintenance, staffing, research et al. We need recovery plans made public. #Eleweka

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@ntvkenya This clarification was necessary and is welcome. No African should be threatened merely for being a foreigner in Kenya. We are judged not just by what we say about integration, but by how safely other Africans can live and work among us. #Eleweka

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@naval Dispersing access does not disperse the risk. Powerful AI in millions of hands can still cause systemic harm. We need neither corporate monopoly nor a free-for-all, but democratic national oversight anchored in global rules that constrain companies and states alike. #Eleweka

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@Gatimu Public sector jobs currently stand at app 1.07M and account for only 5% of Kenya's current app 21.6M jobs. Replacing older workers doesn't resolve the jobs challenge. You offload older workers but they are still part of society. We must focus on creation of new jobs. #Eleweka

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A strong message on the need for effective oversight and guardrails on AI. Perhaps also a challenge that humanity is overdue for a software update called common sense. #Eleweka

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Around 30 robots demonstrated outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry in Warsaw, chanting 'we want law, we want rules' to demand stronger AI oversight

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@Kenyans PLO’s frustration is understandable. But the failure may lie less with Governor Nyong’o than with the organisers who interrupted substance to perform protocol. Yes, give due courtesy but the Governor needed to be ushered in quietly as the programme was already underway.

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Kenya holds minerals worth billions. But resources alone do not create prosperity. Who processes them and owns the capability? Who supplies the industry? What do the local communities & Kenya gain? Are the contracts transparent? Industrialisation, not just extraction is the goal.

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@ahmednasirlaw When controlling public money offers a faster route to wealth than creating value, 'talent' moves from enterprise to patronage. Kenya must make unexplained political wealth a very costly affair and doing honest business, much easier. #Eleweka

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@ReubenKigame Africa’s strength will come from building a common identity rooted in dignity, solidarity, justice and belief in one another. When these values become stronger than our ethnicities, divide-and-rule loses its power. #Eleweka

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@ntvkenya Transferring functions to counties without financing them is devolution in name only. "Resources must follow functions" should become an auditable rule, not a recurring negotiation. But the public also needs evidence that additional money produces improved services. #Eleweka

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@Edbiziman Regional integration exists psychologically as well as legally. People will not exercise EAC mobility rights if they believe a political mood can suddenly make them unsafe. We are one people. #Eleweka

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Why Is Public Infrastructure So Expensive in Kenya? Where Does the Money... https://t.co/bOqwcv72g0 via @YouTube

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Why Is Public Infrastructure So Expensive in Kenya? Where Does the Money... https://t.co/bOqwcv72g0 via @YouTube

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@MrJamesKe Africa’s strength will come from building a common identity rooted in dignity, solidarity, justice and belief in one another. When these values become stronger than our ethnicities, divide-and-rule loses its power. #Eleweka

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So the deeper question, then, is this - Are we deliberately building a viable industrial ecosystem - or merely announcing an ambition driven by political expediency or other interests? #Eleweka

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2/3 If Kenya lacks affordable energy, skills, infrastructure and predictable regulation, the ban may suppress exports without creating the expected factories. Need to keep an eye on actual processing investments, transition periods, electricity costs and export earnings.#Eleweka

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1/3The Govt wants to stop exporting raw minerals. This is not fundamentally an export policy. It's an attempt to change Kenya’s position in the global value chain. Accordingly, mining companies may have to invest in local processing and may be forced to reduce production.#Eleweka