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Loneliness rises among Nairobi youth –Experts
They link social exclusion to poor mental health and emotional disconnection.

Exclusion leads to loneliness.
They sit among dozens of classmates every day and share dining halls and sports with them. Yet most still feel extremely lonely and emotionally cut off from the people around them.

That is the painful irony for most Nairobi children, researchers have said after speaking to 1,972 young people aged between 14 and 25 in schools and colleges in Nairobi. The researchers asked the students how often they felt lonely at school and at home.

They found that most young people in Nairobi are lonelier at school than at home, yet school is often the place with the largest social circle in their lives.

Most urban families today have one to three children, which means many teenagers actually spend more time around age mates in school than at home. Yet the place with the most people around them appears to be where loneliness is strongest.

Prof David Ndetei, a psychiatrist at the University of Nairobi who led the study, said this raises concerns about the emotional climate inside Kenyan schools.

“These findings come at a critical time as concerns about youth mental health continue to rise highlighting loneliness as an urgent but often overlooked public health issue among young people in Kenya,” he said.

“This study calls for immediate action to strengthen psychosocial support systems within school environments including the implementation of comprehensive anti-bullying strategies peer support programs and interventions that promote inclusion belonging and meaningful social connections.”

The findings, titled 'A Comparative Study on the Intensity of Loneliness among Kenyan Youth in School and Home Environments' were published in the journal Global Mental Health.

“These findings highlight that Kenyan youth experience significantly higher levels of loneliness in school environments compared to home identifying schools as a key setting for targeted mental health and social support interventions,” Prof Ndetei said.

The researchers found that loneliness appeared across nearly every part of school life. More than half of participants said no one really knew them well at school. Nearly half felt that people were around them “but not with them”.

Others described feeling excluded misunderstood and emotionally disconnected from classmates.
Across all 20 questions used in the loneliness scale students consistently reported higher loneliness scores in school settings compared to home environments.

“In our study, students reported higher levels of loneliness at school as reflected in the greater frequency of responses such as ‘often’ and ‘sometimes’ across multiple items compared to the home setting where ‘never’ responses were more common,” the researchers wrote.

“This aligns with global research identifying school as a context where social stressors such as peer exclusion identity formation and academic pressure contribute to heightened loneliness among adolescents and young adults.”

The findings suggest that crowded schools and constant social interaction do not necessarily protect young people from emotional isolation.

Researchers said bullying may be one major reason.

“Our findings suggest the possibility that shifting family dynamics urbanisation and reduced communal support structures have made the school less protective for many young people for example the high prevalence of bullying in Kenyan schools,” the study says.

“This raises the question of whether school environments may have become less socially protective potentially reflecting perceived increases in bullying and psychosocial stressors rather than objectively measured changes in school safety.”

The study also found the problem may be particularly severe in boarding schools where young people spend long periods away from family support systems.
Researchers warned that separation from home combined with pressure to fit in socially can intensify loneliness among students.
The research said girls initially appeared to report higher loneliness than boys both at school and at home.

However, when researchers adjusted for social and economic conditions male participants reported slightly higher loneliness overall. Older youth aged between 19 and 25 also experienced greater loneliness than younger adolescents.

Poverty also shaped emotional wellbeing.

Young people from poorer households reported higher loneliness compared to those from middle-income homes.

Access to electricity, piped water and cooking gas was linked to lower loneliness scores, especially at home. Television ownership also appeared to reduce loneliness possibly because families spend time watching together.

“Loneliness is not simply an individual emotional experience. It is shaped by social environments economic conditions and relationships requiring coordinated action across schools families and communities,” Ndetei said.

Researchers also raised concerns about smartphones and social media. While digital platforms may help young people stay connected they may also increase isolation inside homes and reduce meaningful face-to-face interaction.

“However the increased availability of smartphones and access to social media has the potential to increase loneliness among family members and less loneliness across social contacts. Only further studies will unravel this complexity,” the study says.

The loneliness being reported in Kenya mirrors experiences elsewhere around the world. In Britain universities have reported rising levels of student loneliness despite busy campus life. In Japan, researchers have linked youth isolation to social withdrawal and growing mental distress.

The Kenyan researchers acknowledged several limitations. The study focused only on youth in Nairobi Metropolitan Area, which may limit comparisons with rural Kenya.

Because the study captured experiences at one point in time it could not prove direct cause and effect. Researchers also noted that self-reported questionnaires can sometimes be influenced by social desirability bias.

“Addressing loneliness requires a holistic approach that combines school-based inclusivity programs family-centred support and broader policy initiatives to strengthen social bonds and emotional well-being,” they said.

Instant analysis
The study reveals a troubling paradox in Nairobi’s youth experience: high levels of loneliness persist despite constant social exposure in schools and colleges. It challenges the assumption that crowded learning environments naturally foster connection, instead pointing to emotional isolation driven by bullying, social exclusion and weak psychosocial support systems. The findings also highlight how economic inequality and household conditions shape mental wellbeing, with poorer students reporting deeper loneliness. Importantly, schools emerge as critical but underperforming social spaces. The research underscores a growing mental health concern among urban youth, calling for urgent interventions in school counselling, inclusion policies and family support systems.
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21/05/2026

Mau Mau, the first great African liberation movement, precipitated what was probably the gravest crisis in the history of Britain's African colonies. The Mau Mau rebellion began in late 1952, leading the government of Kenya to declare a State of Emergency. The rebellion was eventually crushed with heavy loss of life but, until the end of 1954, it appeared to many in the British Government that the Mau Mau rebels were winning. The rebellion was largely confined to one African "tribe", the Kikuyu, and the Mau Mau rebels were poorly armed with no outside source of weapons or financial support. Still, it took 21,000 paramilitary police, many thousands of armed "loyalist" Africans, plus the equivalent of a full division of British troops, supported by the Royal Air Force with Vampire jets and heavy bombers, more than 4 years to neutralize the Mau Mau military threat, and the State of Emergency was not officially ended until 1960. . .
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Zimperium Arms SOC & Fraud Teams with a Force Multiplier Against Mobile App Threats
May 13, 2026 Zimperium
Mobile apps and devices are now the most vulnerable attack surface in the enterprise. Fraud-driven malware, compromised devices, rogue networks, bots, and emulators are targeting the apps your customers and employees depend on every day. And cybercriminals are not slowing down. They have a mobile-first attack strategy and are using AI to launch sophisticated attacks at scale.The SOC and Fraud teams responsible for defending those apps are often drowning in alerts. 76% of SOC teams cannot keep up with the pace of AI-driven attacks. 90% lack the mobile expertise needed to defend against modern mobile threats. The tools these teams rely on were never built for mobile.

Today Zimperium is closing the gap.

We are launching Mobile App Response Agent, an AI-empowered add-on to the Zimperium Mobile App Protection Suite (MAPS), purpose-built for the SOC and Fraud teams defending the enterprise against mobile app threats. The Mobile App Response Agent is an agentic AI solution that helps SOC and Fraud teams investigate mobile app threats in minutes instead of hours, or days.
For the first time, every SOC and Fraud analyst can investigate mobile app threats with the depth of a mobile security specialist. The agent is a true force multiplier.

For SOC Teams. Answers in Minutes, Not Hours.

The Mobile App Response Agent gives SOC teams a confidence-rated verdict on whether a threat alert resulted in an incident in just minutes.When an app is under attack, it does not trigger a single threat alert. It triggers a cascade. Malware, bots, compromised device states, rogue networks, and emulators can all surface as separate threat events across a timeline, each generating its own forensic data. A SOC analyst investigating a single incident may be looking at dozens of threat events, each requiring context, correlation, and expertise to confirm and take action, leading to overloaded security analysts that may be too late to stop fraud in time.
The Mobile App Response Agent solves this by automatically correlating all threat signals on a device and delivering a confidence-rated verdict on whether a real incident occurred. The analyst triggers an on-demand investigation on the device where the alert happened with a single action. The agent then correlates the related signals on that device, confirms whether a real incident occurred, and builds a full attack narrative mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics with step-by-step response guidance.The SOC analyst walks away with the complete attack picture and a clear response plan in just minutes. They can confidently brief management and hand AppSec the right vulnerabilities to prioritize and fix.

Faster Verdicts. Reduced Fraud.

The Mobile App Response Agent gives fraud teams a clear answer on whether a mobile app threat resulted in fraud, in minutes.Traditionally when a suspicious transaction surfaces, either your fraud management system flags it, or a customer calls support saying they did not make the charge. Now a fraud analyst has to figure out what actually happened on the device. Was it malware? A compromised account? A bot? While the analyst tries to correlate traditional fraud signals and app threats, hours pass and the fraudulent transaction clears.
The Mobile App Response Agent bridges that gap by analyzing mobile app threat telemetry and determining whether a threat led to fraud with confidence. With the agent, fraud analysts no longer have to guess.Fraud teams walk away with a clear picture of what happened to the app on the device and how the attack unfolded. This context gives fraud teams the intelligence to not only respond but to tune their fraud engine, catch real fraud earlier, and lower fraud-related costs over time.

Built for Mobile. Built for Your Enterprise.

Unlike other AI SOC agents designed for traditional endpoints and networks, the Mobile App Response Agent was built exclusively for mobile from the ground up, powered by Zimperium's proprietary threat intelligence from 500M+ devices and 1,000+ apps globally.
That is not an incremental improvement. It is a fundamentally different capability.
The Mobile App Response Agent gives every SOC and Fraud analyst the mobile security expertise of a specialist, so they can investigate and respond to mobile app threats with speed and confidence.

The Mobile App Response Agent is available immediately for current and new MAPS customers.
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March 02, 2026
The NIS2 Directive: Everything to Know About NIS2 Legislation in the European Union
By Ariën van Wetten
NIS 2.0
The increasing rise of cybersecurity incidents led the European Union (EU) to take a hard look at industries and suppliers that, if compromised, could potentially be detrimental. Industries such as energy, transport, and finance, were preeminent concerns when the leaders of the EU met in 2016 to create cybersecurity legislation for all critical suppliers across the EU. With the goal of improving the supplier’s cybersecurity resilience, the initial NIS initiative was born.

When was the NIS Directive introduced?
In 2016, the NIS Directive was introduced by the EU to strengthen the existing legal framework to keep up with increased digitization and an evolving cybersecurity threat landscape. NIS did this by expanding the scope of cybersecurity rules to new sectors and entities, improving resilience and incident response capacities of public and private entities, and set common rules around cybersecurity to boost the overall level of cybersecurity across the EU.

In the years since, it became apparent that the original legislation had some shortfalls that needed to be looked at and expanded on.

The NIS2 Directive
The initial NIS Directive left many EU member states interpreting the directive differently, leaving gaps in security and challenging the original intent of the directive. NIS2 is an update to the original NIS EU cybersecurity directive that resolves these gaps by mandating what cybersecurity practices are important and what essential suppliers must have in place by 2024, as well as how breaches must be reported to the European authorities.

What is the purpose of the NIS2 Directive?
The COVID-19 crisis and the rapid digital transformation that stemmed from it, along with growing threats due to digitalization and interconnectedness, forced the EU to revisit the original NIS Directive, analyze the impact, and identify the deficiencies created by this new digital era.

What the commission found was the following deficiencies from the previous NIS Directive:

Insufficient cyber resilience levels of businesses operating in the EU
inconsistent resilience across member states and sectors
insufficient common understanding of the main threats and challenges among EU
lack of joint crisis response
The NIS2 Directive expands the baseline for cybersecurity risk management measures and reporting obligations across the EU in initial sectors including energy and transportation. The new NIS2 includes health and digital infrastructure. It expands rules for a regulatory framework and lays down mechanisms for effective cooperation across the EU. It also updates the list of sectors and activities subject to cybersecurity obligations and provides remedies and sanctions to ensure enforcement.

When does NIS2 go into effect?
This past November the Council adopted the NIS2 Directive and published the new directive December 2022 officially replacing and repealing the NIS Directive (Directive 2016/1148/EC). Member states must incorporate the provisions of the NIS2 Directive into national law in 21 months (about 2 years) from the entry into force of the directive.

Who does NIS2 apply to?
NIS2 applies to all companies, suppliers, and organizations (referred to as “entities”) that deliver essential or important services for the European economy and society. If you fit within one of the categories listed below, then NIS2 applies to you.

Examples of “Essential Entities” (EE) include:
transport
energy
banking
health
water
public administration
managed service provider

Examples of “Important Entities” (IE) include:-
postal and courier services
waste management
chemical production and processing
food
manufacturing of medical devices
digital providers (search engines, social networking platforms, etc.)
NIS2 also applies to suppliers outside the EU if they provide essential or important services to the European economy and society.

NIS2 will likely not apply to entities with less than 50 employees or 10 million in annual revenue unless they have a critical role in the EU’s economy or society.

NIS2 holds management accountable for the following:

ensuring that cybersecurity risk assessments are carried out;
implementing technical and organizational security measures;
staying on top of cybersecurity through training and risk management programs, and ultimately
managing risks appropriately
Failure to demonstrate that risk and cybersecurity practices that have been addressed could result in authorities being able to rely on a robust set of enforcement and investigation powers. These could include the ability to conduct raids, perform security audits and request data, information and documents (amongst others).

Further, member states must provide authorities the ability to impose considerable fines:

For essential entities, of at least up to €10 million or 2% of the worldwide annual turnover.
For important entities, of at least up to €7 million or 1.4% of the worldwide annual turnover.
Does NIS2 apply to the UK?
UK Government has confirmed that it is moving forward with plans to update the NIS regulations as they apply to the UK. While there has been alignment since the UK’s exit from the EU, UK officials have confirmed that there will be differences going forward in the way that the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure will be regulated.

What’s new in NIS2?
As mentioned earlier in this post the NIS2 Directive was created to address the shortcomings of the original NIS Directive. A few of these include eliminating the distinction between operators of essential services and digital service providers. Entities would be classified based on their importance, and divided into essential and important categories, which will be subjected to different supervisory regimes.

The proposal strengthens and streamlines security and reporting requirements for companies by imposing a risk management approach, which provides a minimum list of basic security elements that must be applied. The proposal introduces more precise provisions on the process for incident reporting, content of the reports and timelines.

Furthermore, the Commission proposes to address security of supply chains and supplier relationships by requiring individual companies to address cybersecurity risks in supply chains and supplier relationships.

What does this mean if you are a Small to Medium Business (SMB) or a Managed Service Provider (MSP)? Under the old NIS Directive member states were responsible for determining which entities would meet the criteria to qualify as operators of essential services, the new NIS2 Directive introduces a size-cap rule. This means that all medium-sized companies in selected sectors will be included in the scope. At the same time, it leaves a certain discretion to the member states to identify smaller entities with a high security risk profile that should also be covered. NIS2 also addresses security of supply chains and supplier relationships by requiring individual companies to address cybersecurity risks in the supply chains and supplier relationships.

NIS2 seeks to set minimum rules for regulatory frameworks used by governments and businesses, establishing clearer and stronger minimum cybersecurity measures. This includes the following list of security measures, suppliers’ vulnerabilities, and cybersecurity practices that those falling into these new categories are “encouraged” to incorporate into their cybersecurity measures and/or contractual arrangements with their direct supply chains:

risk analysis and information system security policies;
incident handling;
business continuity and crisis management;
supply chain security;
secure network and systems acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure;
policies and procedures to assess effectiveness of measures;
basic computer hygiene practices and cybersecurity training;
policies and procedures regarding use of cryptography/encryption;
HR security; and,
The use of MFA, secured comms and secured emergency comms.
How Datto can help you comply with the NIS2 Directive
NIS2 prescribes a variety of cybersecurity actions, most notably ones relating to risk analysis, incident response, business continuity and vulnerability management. Datto helps address these issues and has a range of solutions that help organizations improve their NIS2 posture.

For example, Datto RMM provides visibility into network assets and can automate the process of patch management. By doing so, administrators improve their vulnerability standing that also saves them time by automating patch management. Furthermore, Datto RMM in conjunction with Datto Ransomware Detection further reduces risk by eliminating ransomware attacks.

As for incident response, Datto has two offerings that help with this need. Datto EDR, an easy to use endpoint detection and response tool, stops advanced threats that other endpoint antivirus solutions miss. In addition, Datto also offers a managed detection and response service, Datto Managed SOC, powered by RocketCyber. With Datto Managed SOC, businesses that do not have a security operations center (SOC), can use the service to get 24×7 threat detection and response, as well as threat hunting, which further reduces their risk exposure.

Lastly, when it comes to business continuity, Datto is the market leader. Datto offers a multitude of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions so that when a cyberattack occurs, businesses can recover in record time as if nothing happened at all.

The NIS2 Directive aims to strengthen security across critical sectors in the EU government and companies that operate in or within the EU. Implementation of this directive is now in the hands of the member states to enact laws and regulations to comply with it. Businesses that work within the EU will need to look at their security practices and solutions to ensure they align with these new laws. The Datto Managed SOC team is available to help your business navigate and comply with NIS2. (https://www.datto.com/products/managed-soc/)
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