Grammy-winning icon Angélique Kidjo is set to make history as the first African artist from of Benin decendancy to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! 🇧🇯✨ Known for her powerful voice and electrifying performances, the Beninese-French legend will be honoured in the Recordings category later this year. Kidjo’s music blends Afrobeat, jazz, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has sounded the alarm over the country’s worsening urban housing crisis, revealing that about 4.8 million Ghanaians, nearly one in every three urban dwellers, live in slums or informal settlements. The Slums and Informal Settlements Report, which draws on Ghana’s 2021 Population and Housing […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new study in The Lancet projects that President Trump’s drastic 83% cut to USAID foreign aid announced in early 2025 could result in over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million deaths among children under five- approximately 700,000 child fatalities per year. Analyzing data from 133 low- and middle-income countries, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, now 80, has confirmed he will run for a seventh term in the 2026 elections – but this time he’s pledging something he says will mark a real shift: transforming Uganda into a fully knowledge-based, science-driven economy. The long-serving leader says this “final phase” will take the country beyond […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s military-led government has officially completed its takeover of the Yatela and Morila gold mines – two once-thriving sites that foreign owners abandoned years ago- marking a bold step in its mission to reclaim national control over strategic resources. The announcement, made this past weekend, is part of a wider wave of resource […]
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