FERDINAND OMONDI

Journalist. Storyteller. Communication Strategist.
Climate Justice. Human Rights. People First. Views own.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

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[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Mpenzi Mtazamaji,

Kenya's trees are disappearing.
Roads are eating forests.
"Development" is eating forests.
Ugly cabro is eating forests.

Before a single tree falls:

Who decides?
Who benefits?
Who bears the harm?
Whose knowledge counts?

Live and direct tonight, mic in hand, at Sauti Sessions Live, joining @CiruMuriuki.

Just like good old BBC days.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Says a glorified secretary.

[CPA Peter Ndirangu @pitandirangu]

I am looking for a Trainer in Facility management and project
Management in Nairobi next week .

Reach out if you can do this .

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

The USS Abraham Lincoln was sent to project power. Now It is projecting tetanus.
Touch it and you need a vaccine.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Wow. Safaricom are now giving 75GB for 3k on the monthly bundle.

Used to be 40GB, then I thought I saw 65.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

ipo siku.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Madagascar's former Senate president has been sentenced to 10 years of hard labour over his alleged role in the violent crackdown on youth-led protests that helped bring down the previous government last year.

https://t.co/XOCR2uJN07

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

The Israeli Consul General from New York, a member of the ambassador's team in the U.S., came to Harvard University to lecture students on "Israel's just struggle" and how even a neutral stance on the conflict is "antisemitic," let alone condemning Israel for war crimes in Palestine.

At the start of the speech, all the students stood up and walked out in solidarity with more than 4,000 Palestinian children brutally killed in less than a month.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

@Candice_Chirwa 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[John-Allan Namu @johnallannamu]

Again, the brutality is the point. Believe your lying eyes. You can't afford what you used to, and you're pointed to a road being built and told the economy is working. You're abducted, or beaten, and told "si sorry bas, we have a good constitution". Goons roam the streets and you're told security starts with you. This is an argument between Kenya's past and its future.

[Elvis Tunde @Tunnykvng]

You love Enzo Fernandez more than Chelsea? Feel free to join him at Man City

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

@FabrizioRomano Bye 👋

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

As Keir Starmer announces his resignation as an MP, here's a snapshot of his legacy in politics:

- Saying Israel had the right to cut off water and electricity from Gaza
- The F-35 carve out, allowing UK-made fighter jet parts to flow to Israel
- Hundreds of spy flights over Gaza
- Denying the genocide in Gaza
- Inviting Israeli war criminals to Britain
- The proscription of Palestine Action
- Thousands of terrorism arrests
- Allowing the US to bomb Iran from British bases
- Facilitating Trump's deadly bombing of Yemen
- Silence in the face of US kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Kenya's response plan to El Niño is necessary. The problem is that Kenya is always preparing to respond rather than preparing to prevent, and that gap is measured in lives and livelihoods.

Long before El Niño, the counties on this year's hotspot map were flooding. Largely the same ones, in 2023, 2024 and 2026. Flooding, drowning, displacement, disease outbreaks and devastating losses to crops and livelihoods are an annual event for these communities.

The 2024 long rains killed more than 300 people and displaced over 400,000 across 33 counties. This March, with no El Niño at all, floods killed at least 88 and displaced more than 70,000.

The deeper problem is that Kenya keeps building the same temporary response plan. The drains being desilted this month will silt up again next year. Each cycle treats the same symptom in the same places, and the underlying exposure never actually shrinks.

Climate action here is still run as disaster response. It activates on a forecast, spends from contingency lines, and stands down when the water recedes.

Kenya does not budget for roads, hospitals or schools this way. Those sit in development plans and expenditure frameworks with named officers who answer for delivery. Flood exposure belongs in the same documents.

The cost falls where it always falls. Smallholders who lose a season overnight. Pastoralists who lose herds built over decades. Families in informal settlements rebuilding from nothing every year, with no help arriving before the water does.

Extreme weather is here to stay until the world stops expanding fossil fuels. Until then, our adaptation has to match the documents it is written on.

[Ministry of Interior | Kenya @InteriorKE]

WARNING: High Risk of El Nino in Kenya.

Globally, several countries are already experiencing El Nino with the probability in Kenya forecasted to be above 90% and the impact very strong.

The National and County Governments have activated 7 key measures to strengthen preparedness for the anticipated above normal rains.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Some people look intelligent until they open their mouths.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Israel's crimes are an old story.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Not half bad.
Bring on September.

[21 🥭 @wannaBeMase]

August photo dump, anyone?

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Makes sense. Let him go and cook under De Zerbi then come back

[senpai @Senpaisaysbye]

I genuinely don’t understand how we are supposed to casually process that a glacier literally collapsed in Nepal, erasing 19 bridges and killing over 600 people, because the planet is too hot. And instead of stopping it, billionaires are building more data centres. It is completely psychotic.

[FERDINAND OMONDI @FerdyOmondi]

Martinez already looking like a 100m signing.