Faith Nyasuguta The government of the Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, headed by President Denis Sassou Nguesso has denied rumors of an attempted coup in his country. On Sunday, several social media accounts claimed a coup attempt was ongoing in the country while the president was away. However, the country’s Minister of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have inked a mutual defense pact, as the three Sahel nations aim to help each other against possible threats of armed rebellion or external aggression. The charter, known as the Alliance of Sahel States, signed on Saturday binds the signatories to assist one another – including militarily – […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Morocco has announced the launch of an aid programme to support and rehouse the residents of about 50,000 buildings damaged in last week’s devastating earthquake. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake — Morocco’s strongest ever — has killed nearly 3,000 people and wounded over 5,600 since it hit last Friday in Al-Haouz province, south of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Ugandan police have announced that they are suspending “until further notice” a nationwide mobilization campaign launched by the main opposition party, led by Bobi Wine, because of public order problems. The authorities had directed this operation, launched on September 2 by the National Unity Platform (NUP), an unprecedented decision in a nation […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Libyan authorities have expressed fear that the number of victims will exceed 12,000 people. A large number of those affected by the storms and flooding are likely to be migrants and internally displaced people. Thousands are feared dead and missing in the aftermath of storm Daniel which made landfall in Libya on Sunday, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A quarter of schools are now shut down in Burkina Faso after an increase in fighting between militants and the government, according to a new report that warns of a looming education crisis in the region. Over the past year, the number of schools closed in the West African country shot up by […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A chain of companies in the United States under the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa) have stopped buying textiles from Uganda, citing the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. This was disclosed by President Yoweri Museveni during the passing-out of Uganda Prisons Service officers at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala early this week. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta This week, the government of Rwandan signed an agreement with a German-Canadian start-up to build an “experimental” civil nuclear reactor, in order to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. The reactor should be ready for testing in 2026, according to the start-up that will build it, Dual Fluid Energy. These “reactors can be […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, Apple announced the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, and the big news is a USB-C port. Finally! The masses have been waiting for the day that the iPhone would switch to the widely used USB-C standard instead of Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector. In 2022, Apple confirmed that it would make the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Amnesty International has accused multinationals of forced evictions, threats, intimidation and deception against local people at cobalt and copper mining sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a report published Tuesday and dubbed “Fuelling change or the status quo?”, Amnesty and the DRC-based Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights looked […]
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