Lisa Mugo Almost one year later, the families of the victims who died in Travis Scott’s fatal Astroworld Festival, have settled their lawsuits with the festival’s organizers. Tony Buzbee, who represents the family of 21-year-old Axel Acosta and other victims, revealed that Axel’s family finally reached an agreement with the Astroworld legal team on Thursday, but failed to reveal the terms of their agreement. “Acosta was […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Following a funding shortage, Africa is sorely lacking in the output of groundbreaking machine inventions. The African continent is home to some of the brightest, most innovative, and most technologically advanced minds on the planet, as evidenced by the epidemic level of brain drain going on in the continent. Its innovativeness is also evidenced by the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Officials in Malawi have exhumed the bodies of 26 suspected Ethiopian migrants from a mass grave 255 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Lilongwe, according to the police. “The grave was discovered late on Tuesday but we cordoned it off and started exhuming today. So far, we have discovered 25 bodies,” police spokesman Peter […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Accra, the capital of Ghana, saw a three-day strike by traders against rising living expenses as the West African nation struggles with the economic effects of the conflict in Ukraine. Only street food vendors were standing in front of the closed stores in Accra’s Central Business District and the largest automotive spare parts district, […]
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Lisa Mugo Sergio Kitchens, better known as Gunna, has been denied bond for a third time on gang related charges by a judge in Atlanta. The rapper was arrested back in May alongside Young Thug and other YSL gang members in an attempt to crack down on all gangs related activities in Atlanta. They have been […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has called for better birth control in the east African nation in a dramatic reversal of the stance of her authoritarian predecessor, John Magufuli. Since becoming head of state last year, Samia has won praise for her efforts to counter most of Magufuli’s controversial policies, particularly his denial of […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Manchester United defeated Tottenham 2-0 at Old Trafford in the Premier League in their greatest performance of the 2022–23 campaign. Spurs put up a lifeless and indifferent performance, losing 2-0 in a match that could have been much worse. Tottenham took just nine shots compared to United’s 28, with the home team’s relentless […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe has given a nod to the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, the first for Africa as a continent. Information given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) notes that “CAB-LA may be offered to people at substantial risk of HIV acquisition as part of comprehensive HIV prevention approaches”. In […]
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Wayne Lumbasi With the FIFA World Cup 2022 just over a month away, Qatar is all set to stage an exceptional edition of the historic football showpiece on and off the field. Ticket sales for the FIFA World Cup are surpassing three million ahead of the tournament’s start on November 20. Out of the tickets sold, the […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- After demonstrators demanded the resignation of Haiti’s Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry on Monday, a senior United Nations official warned that a political solution is “no longer sufficient” to resolve the crisis. According to Helen La Lime, UN Special Representative in Haiti, there is no political solution in Haiti, and, on […]
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