Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President William Ruto has disclosed that Kenya will be the largest producer of Africa’s cheapest smartphones in the next one year. Speaking during the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Annual General meeting on Thursday, Ruto said the state is in talks to see that this comes to pass. “The real […]
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Renson Mwakandana Less than two weeks after Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter, there are already worries that the business is deciding to overlook significant dangers in its most important foreign growth regions. Reports of a major staff layoff at its only African location in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, surfaced on Friday, November 4. Since […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to South Africa’s last apartheid leader, Frederik Willem de Klerk, went missing from his Cape Town home half a year ago, his foundation reported on Wednesday. The ex-president received the prize in 1993 alongside anti-apartheid icon and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, for his key role in ushering […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea were dumped out by Brighton, Manchester City and Nottingham Forest respectively. Arsenal had gone undefeated in their previous 12 home games in all competitions. Brighton, the last away team to win at the Emirates in April, came from behind to defeat the Gunners 3-1. Arsenal took the lead through Edward […]
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Renson Mwakandana Wes Moore, a Democrat, made history by becoming Maryland’s first Black governor. He takes over from Republican Larry Hogan, a centrist who managed to win elections twice in a state that is mostly blue. Moore scooped 906,765 votes (59.8%)among the 89% of the votes in. In his victory address, the newly elected politician reassured the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyans holding ordinary passports will be granted entry to South Africa following a new visa-free regime between the two countries. According to President William Ruto on Wednesday, the deal had been arrived at, after an intervention by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. “From January 1, 2023, we will have a different regime. Kenyans holding […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In July this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government put 30 oil and gas blocks in the country up for auction. So far, the results of the bidding have not been announced, but while many of the nation’s politicians and citizens look to cash in on the Central African nation’s potentially […]
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Renson Mwakandana A proposal by one of its members to replace presidential term limits with an age limit has been rejected by Kenya’s ruling coalition. As it stands, a president can presently serve a total of two five-year terms under the country’s constitution. Salah Yakub, an MP representing Fafi Constituency, made a suggestion earlier this […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Somali militant group Al-Shabaab is aiming at telecommunications infrastructure in areas where a concerted military effort is removing them from the villages, officials said on Tuesday. Somalia’s largest telecom firm Hormuud said its infrastructure in Galmuduug, Central Somalia, had been destroyed in an apparent futile bid to shrink communication and coordination against the […]
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Lisa Mugo Ramon Abbas, better known on social media as Hushpuppi, has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars for engaging in multi-million-dollar scamming activities. The Instagram influencer has also been ordered to pay $1.7 million by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II in restitution to two fraud victims. Ramos previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy in engaging in […]
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