archive 03/2023

REPORTAGE

Green and azure peace of Lake Jipe

Passage in a pristine and unknown place in Kenya

31-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

When it comes to Kenya's lakes, Lake Jipe is, who knows why...

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EVENTS

Malindi's farewell to Franco Rosso

Memories, emotion and flowers in "his" Indian Ocean

31-03-2023 by Leni Frau

A touching but also meaningful remembrance of Italian entrepreneur Franco Rosso was staged yesterday...

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COOPERATION

Italian aid for development around Malindi

Our cooperation agency's program kicks off

30-03-2023 by redazione

The 11.5-kilometer asphalt road from Malindi-Lamu to the Luigi Broglio Italian Space Center in Ngomeni, an...

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EDITORIAL

Kenya: tourist season at an end, but not for everyone

If "Malindi empties out," there are those who stay, arrive and return

30-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

A positive season for Italian tourism on the Kenyan coast draws to a close. As it does every year and, accomplice...

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NEWS

Beware of new phone scam in Kenya

Tries to target TV users with decoders

29-03-2023 by redazione

After telephone scams against Kenyans and foreigners by fake operators of the Safaricom company, who...

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CEREMONY

Thursday, March 30, memorial service for Franco Rosso in Malindi

Last farewell to the Italian entrepreneur at the Dream Garden

29-03-2023 by redazione

A memorial service for Turin entrepreneur and Kenya tourism pioneer Franco Rosso will be held...

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EXHIBITION

"Looking Beyond," free visit to the Nairobi Museum on the 31st

IIC initiative for exhibition of satellite images

28-03-2023 by redazione

These days at the National Museum of Kenya, in the "Creativity Gallery" space, the Italian...

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NEWS

Another Monday of protests in Nairobi and Kisumu

Paralyzed cities, clashes over opposition marches

28-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

The second Monday of anti-carota protests by the opposition to President William Ruto's government again...

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RICORDO

Safari Njema, Franco Rosso

Friend's Roberto Macri remembrance

28-03-2023 by Roberto Macrì

With great sadness Franco embarked on his last safari. A "request of his that I could not...

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NEWS

Disruptions for those going to the airport in Mombasa

Possible traffic jams due to ongoing work in Kilifi

27-03-2023 by redazione

There are major works underway affecting the road system between Mombasa and Malindi. The...

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NEWS

Malindi landfill will be moved out of town

PWAM's battle is bearing fruit: sign up

27-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

One of the battles embraced by the responsible citizens of Malindi, united under the acronym...

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MOURNING

Farewell Franco Rosso, tourism pioneer with Kenya in his heart

He was the first to bet on the coastal destination

27-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Not only an Italian tourism pioneer, but the first entrepreneur in the industry to bet on Kenya not...

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EVENTS

Talking about Kenya: an appointment not to be missed

Wednesday 29 Africa magazine webinar with many guests

26-03-2023 by redazione

A three hundred and sixty degree virtual journey through Kenya today, with a series of experts who will...

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EDITORIAL

More flights to Malindi, to increase tourism

Kilifi Governor and Italian Embassy asked

25-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

The success of interest and attendance in Kenya's seaside destinations, and in particular Watamu, Malindi...

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PROMOTION

Kenya promote itself in Nairobi

We are at Holidays Tourism Fair 2023

24-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

The end of 2022 and the beginning of this year marked the return of Kenya among the most...

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RELIGION

Ramadan starts: how is in Kenya

A particular month especially on the coast

23-03-2023 by redazione

Also in Kenya, as of yesterday, Ramadan, the Muslim month of 'spiritual cleansing' that...

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NEWS

Lufthansa increases flights to Kenya

One a day to Nairobi, four a week to Mombasa

22-03-2023 by Leni Frau

The German national airline Lufthansa is betting more and more on Kenya as a...

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EDITORIAL

Relief, the rains are coming to the north of Kenya

Good omens to break the great drought

21-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

They awaited them as a blessing, a gift from the God of melting snows, dried-up springs, desertified plateaus. For...

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NEWS

Nairobi blocked for a day of protests

Not much violence and all quiet in the rest of Kenya

21-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Nairobi blocked for a day of protests, already announced by Kenyan opposition leader Raila...

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VISTI

Visa renewal: how to avoid problems

This is why Italians are stopped at the exit

20-03-2023 by redazione

As many of you will have come to appreciate over the years (and we will soon be 15...) Malindikenya.net is...

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Fruits

African mango, the sweetiest medicine

The qualities and their beneficial properties

19-03-2023 by Leni Frau

If life in Kenya is sweet, part of the credit goes to the fruit, and the mango is certainly one of...

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NEWS

Kenya and Italy, Mattarella's legacy

A new start after the historic visit

17-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Four historic days in which the friendship between Italy and Kenya emerged decisively...

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NEWS

Mattarella's meeting with Italians in Kenya

The tale of a historic evening full of u(ma)nity

16-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

A meeting with Italians in Kenya in the sign of great humanity, which in this case does much more than...

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NEWS

Italy-Kenya, between tax breaks and agreements

Strengthened relations, in the words of the two Presidents

15-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Relations between Kenya and Italy emerge decisively strengthened from yesterday's day in...

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NEWS

Today Mattarella at Broglio Space Center

Quick visit in Ngomeni (and not in Malindi)

15-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

This morning the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will fly from Nairobi to...

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NEWS

This morning Ruto meets italian President Mattarella

Historical event at Nairobi State House

14-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

This morning at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya's 'White House', the historic meeting between...

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NEWS

President Mattarella arrives in Kenya today

Historic visit of the Head of State, between Nairobi and Malindi

13-03-2023 by redazione

Malindikenya.net, on 6 February, was the first site in Italian to break the news of Italian President Sergio Mattarella...

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SERVICES

Wednesday the 2 Malaika in Malindi closed

One day only closure for the two venues

13-03-2023 by redazione

The management of Malaika Town and Malaika Beach in Malindi announces that on Wednesday...

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ECONOMICS

11-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

EDITORIAL

Malindi International Airport, what's going on

New "year zero" for open sky policy and direct flights

10-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

One of the constants in Malindi is that cyclically we come back to the international airport and its...

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INITIATIVES

Freddie and Sbringo deliver 3,000 meals for Kenyan students

Proceeds from the album delivered to Karibuni in Langobaya farm

09-03-2023 by redazione

What better place than the farm, the Langobaya "shamba" of the Italian nonprofit Karibuni, for a ceremony to...

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NEWS

Kenya tops among destinations that have recovered tourists

Statistics: big jump after pandemic

09-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Kenya has been ranked among the world's fastest recovering countries in tourism revenue after the...

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Why celebrating women in Africa has more sense

The female-continent and some kenyan women to remember

08-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

"If Africa were not a woman, it would be called Africo'.
The bad joke...

EVENTS

Bananas Overdose for women in Malindi

The ethiopian artist on 8th march at Baby Marrow

08-03-2023 by redazione

The Ethiopian artist known as Bananasoverdose, will be on stage tonight at Baby Marrow Art&Food...

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INFO

Travel to Kenya: what to bring and what not

Infos, rules and tips for europeans

08-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

For those preparing to travel to Kenya, a review of the international rules for importing items, objects...

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EDITORIAL

Kenya, the tourism season's long wave

Up to Easter still many arrivals

07-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

We had hoped for it and did not predict it out of sheer superstition, even when things looked like they might...

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EVENTS

German-Italian jazz at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi

For March 8, guest appearance by Kenyan guitarist Eddie Grey

07-03-2023 by redazione

The Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi is pleased to invite its compatriots to a jazz concert by the duo...

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FILM

Kenyan film on African podium of the year

Angela Wamai's "Shimoni" awarded at Fespaco

06-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

A Kenyan debut director's film takes the podium at the most prestigious African film...

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SHOWS

Freddie and Sbringo's mission accomplished

Doing good by telling the story of Italians in Kenya

06-03-2023 by redazione

If the Italian tourist season in Malindi and Watamu turned out to be positive beyond the most optimistic...

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EDITORIAL

Paradoxes and motives of homophobic Kenya

No to LGBTQIA+ rights brings everyone together

04-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

In a ruling that many were quick to call historic, a few days ago Kenya's Supreme Court overturned after...

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SHOW

Tonight the Italians of Freddie and Sbringo

Season finale at Olimpia Beach in Malindi.

04-03-2023 by redazione

Going on stage tonight, Saturday, March 4, at Olimpia Beach Club in Malindi, is the last of the seasonal shows of...

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NEWS

Double taxation: Italy and Kenya talk about it again

Fruitful meeting between Ambassador Natali and Treasury Minister

03-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Everything had come to a halt before the pandemic, then the long election season, and now finally, thanks to...

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EDITORIAL

Watamu, it's now or never: working to secure it

02-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

It is still exhausting to process a grief that is so difficult to accept. Not so much because those who live...

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VOLI

Another airline suspends domestic flights

748 announces closure of routes to the coast as well

02-03-2023 by redazione

Another domestic flight airline abandons routes from Nairobi to all destinations in the country, including...

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NEWS

Watamu, meeting Governor-tourism sector

County already committed on fire brigade and health

01-03-2023 by redazione

The good news is that the entire tourism sector in Watamu requested a meeting with Kilifi County Governor...

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Michela, the Italian tourist burned in Watamu, has died

The woman, who was hospitalized in Mombasa, did not make it

01-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Michela Boldrini, the 39-year-old tourist from Sarnico, in the province of Bergamo, who had been hospitalized...

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NEWS

Michela, the beautiful but useless chain of solidarity

Watamu community united, between blood donations and helicopters

01-03-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Among the hundreds of tourists vacationing in Watamu and among residents and Kenyans themselves, including...

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