Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- This month marks the celebration of African American achievements and their central role in the history of the United States; Wednesday, February 1, to Wednesday, March 1, 2023, “Black Resistance”. Known also as African American History Month, this event grew from “Negro History Week,” created by notable historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. February […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Foreign trawlers from China 🇨🇳, Europe 🇪🇺 and Russia 🇷🇺 are humongous boats, the same size as a football field. These massive ships are cleaning up all fish at the West African coast leaving local fishermen without work and desperate. This is unsustainable and is destroying their livelihoods. Indigenous West African fishermen […]
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Renson Mwakandana Reports that the families of former presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi were being targeted for tax evasion have been denied by Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary, Musalia Mudavadi. Mr. Mudavadi asserted that the claims were assumptions made by the media and that President William Ruto had not specified any names in his campaign […]
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Lisa Mugo Nigerian song bird Tems, has joined the musical big leagues as she won her very first Grammy Award on Sunday night, becoming the first Nigerian female to win the prestigious award. Tems, whose real name is Temilade Openiyi, scored big in the category Best Melodic Rap Performance, for rapper Future’s ‘Wait For U’ which features her and […]
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Lisa Mugo The remaining members of Atlanta’s rap group, Migos, comprising of Offset and Quavo reportedly got into a fight backstage at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night and Cardi B had to mediate. The two cousins allegedly got into a brawl just before Quavo took the Grammys stage to perform ‘Without You’, a tribute […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of earthquakes that have now killed at least 4,800 people. According to disaster agencies, several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region, pouring misery on an area […]
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Wayne Lumbasi An international football star who was feared dead following two devastating earthquakes in Turkey has been reportedly pulled out alive from a collapsed building. Christian Atsu, who played in the English Premier League (EPL) for Newcastle and represented Ghana in the 2014 World Cup, had been trapped underneath rubble unaccounted for when a […]
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Renson Mwakandana A local electrician in Kirehe region in Rwanda, Israel Habimana,has used hydroelectricity to build a better future for his neighbors. These dams divert rivers into canals that feed a dam, which in turn feeds a small power plant through a pipeline. The distance between the water basin and Israel Habimana’s Nyagakoma hydroelectric facility is 2.5 […]
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Avellon Williams PUERTO RICO- The closed windows of Salinas, a town on Puerto Rico’s southeast coast that is considered one of the most polluted zones in the country, is a permanent fixture. There have been health concerns ranging from cancer to Alzheimer’s in this community for years due to toxic ash and chemicals from coal-fired and thermoelectric power […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s ruling junta has revealed that it is expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the UN mission there, giving him two days to leave the country. The move comes after a Malian rights activist in January denounced the security situation in the country in a speech to a UN […]
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