Leon Lidigu

global health & climate journalist . @ICFJ Winner 2021, 2022, @QHKAwards Winner 2023, AJEA Winner 2022,2023 . @AfricaREACH1 leadership council member.

[#TalesandTrails @augustinevickie]

Have checked out this week’s issue of The @MediaObserverK ?
Cover page pays tribute to @RitaTinina SIP 🕊️
Alafu @LeonLidigu wamekubig up pale pg 5 and 6

Anyways I always enjoying the reading #TheMediaObserverKe

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Thank you @Novartis 😃 amazing work going on by Scientists here that is focused on re-imagining medicine.

Absolutely learnt a lot this week coz it's been a super fine week for Science. 🥰

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The Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) & the Ministry of Agriculture say national maize production will be 4.2 million tonnes, 15-20 % above the 5-year average.

My dispatch is here .

https://t.co/s6X5FPv1sM

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Scientists @KEMRI_Kenya have found that 9 in 10 people from low resource settings in Kisumu County are battling depression while 5 in 10 people have PTSD .
This is why . https://t.co/SEFJipWn1h

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Kigali sun did not come to play .

@CarenKibet1 says hi . 😃

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Fine day for Science . 🥰

At a Malaria clinical study site in Kigali , Rwanda having a front row seat to the work being done to eliminate Malaria for good by Scientists .
It's not as easy as we all thought . Keep it @NationAfrica . #HealthyNation

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As African health ministers met in Yaounde ,Cameroon, over eliminating Malaria for good , a mile away Sylvie who met up with @NationAfrica team was rushing his son to hospital over the same disease that kills 580,000 annually on the continent.

https://t.co/MwVyzq9TeE

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Good morning from Kigali , Africa's greatest city ? 🤭

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Last week , there was a heated debate in the newsroom @NationAfrica about Kenyan pawpaws .

Which one between male , female & bisexual pawpaws do you think is the sweetest? 🤭

This is how Dr Patrick Maundu, a Kenyan ethnobotanist ended the stalemate . https://t.co/EZrWKxkX9L

[Aly-Khan Satchu @alykhansatchu]

He is probably the most popular Leader amongst his citizens anywhere in the World

[Aly-Khan Satchu @alykhansatchu]

@JayR4Eenk @LeonLidigu 100% and that’s why the hatred is visceral

[JayR @JayR4Eenk]

@LeonLidigu @alykhansatchu Transformational miracle after Yeltsin's blunders & West's plunder of Russia.

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@CynthiaWMwangi Landed safely ,asante.

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Goodbye Kenia ....🤭

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🇷🇺 The Grand Master has won re-election with 87.5 % of the vote as per 2024 exit polls.
His share of the vote in presidential elections:
2000: 53.4%
2004: 71.9%
2012: 63.6%
2018: 76.6%
2024: 87.5%
How does one win like this back 2 back without campaigning ? @alykhansatchu . 🤭

[Shadrack Agaki 🇰🇪 @shadrackagaki]

And as our national and regional leaders attend the Multilateral engagement, they must take with them the concerns of the local people. If we are to conserve the environment, some nature based solutions will require compensation. Working to get this for our people is key.

[Leon Lidigu @LeonLidigu]

Humbling feedback from Kenyans whose homes had been turned to torture chambers due to night clubs and churches operating in residential areas in Roysambu .
Kasarani police have been shutting them all down for the last two days .

Keep it @NationAfrica . #Journalism

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The power of journalism !

Nairobi County Chief of Business & Hustlers Zipporah Njeri closing down Jiranis Bistro over illegally occupying a resident area in Thome + noise pollution.
It took painstaking day & night work to get here .
Read all about it

https://t.co/f2c5GSbeqh

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Vybz Kartel !!
Have to go to Jamaica for that concert , won't miss it for the world ! 🤭

Long live Adidja Palmer . 🔥🔥#PrisonBreakRiddim loading...

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How come Jowie was handed death yet Kenya abolished death penalty?
What's the difference between a death sentence & life imprisonment in Kenya ?
My team-mate @SteveOtieno8 breaks it all down via @NationAfrica .

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Dear Gov @SakajaJohnson
Nairobi County yet to explain to us how they licenced them to operate in a residential area .They have closed Jiranis Bistro but PCEA GATEWAY CHURCH is still on. DP @rigathi & Gavna Sakaja last Sunday helped fundraise for a new church in same area.😔

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

'My once peaceful home in Thome is now a torture chamber. I'm surrounded by two churches and a nightclub.'