Renson Mwakandana Over the weekend, a group of physicians in Uganda made headlines when they knelt before longtime President Yoweri Museveni and urged him to run for a seventh term. Since 1986, the 78-year-old leader has been in charge. The following general election is scheduled for 2026. According to media coverage of the occasion, the […]
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Renson Mwakandana South Africans 🇿🇦 are waiting to hear if President Cyril Ramaphosa will quit amid a complicated and highly political scandal involving animals, a sofa, and the theft of tens of thousands (and maybe millions of US dollars) of money. Now, a meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), the country’s ruling party, which […]
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Renson Mwakandana Pope Francis has rescheduled his postponed trip to Congo and South Sudan for January 31 to February 5, skipping a visit in the conflict-torn east of the Congo in favor of fulfilling a long-held desire to go with other Christian leaders to the fledgling country of South Sudan. The itinerary of the trip, […]
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Renson Mwakandana Prior to the introduction of a contentious measure on sexual offenses, the speaker of Somalia’s lower house threatened to “reject any bill that breaches Islamic principles.” Deputy Speaker Sadiya Yasin Haji Samatar, who has spoken against gender-based violence, is the bill’s sponsor. She threatened to leave the nation if the law was not enacted […]
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Renson Mwakandana In solidarity with those who have been impacted by the continuing drought in some regions of the nation, Kenyan ministers will sacrifice their salaries for a month. According to a statement from the presidency, the cabinet decided that the money raised from each member will go toward governmental actions to help the impacted Kenyans. The […]
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Renson Mwakandana According to local media reports, a Kenyan court has temporarily halted the government’s intention to overturn a restriction on the importation and distribution of genetically modified (GM) crops and animal feeds. It comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Kenyan Peasants League, a lobbying organization for small-scale farmers. According to the […]
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Renson Mwakandana During a crackdown on recreational facilities operating in residential neighborhoods, police in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, burst into nightclubs on Sunday night and told patrons to leave. It comes after complaints from locals about noise coming from pubs, restaurants, nightclubs, and locations that sell alcohol. Friday saw the cancellation of all nightclub […]
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Renson Mwakandana The UN has reported that severe fighting broke out between two competing groups of the rebel Sudanese Liberation Movement-Nur (SLM-Nur) group in Central Darfur state, western Sudan, leaving 13 people dead and 12 others missing. The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Sudan stated in a statement on Thursday that the fighting began on […]
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Renson Mwakandana Kenyan President William Ruto obtained a $1 billion grant from South Korea to support the creation of a smart city in Konza, around 60 kilometers south-east of Nairobi, the capital. After meeting with president Yoon Suk-Yeol in Seoulon Wednesday, where he has been on a three-day official visit since Tuesday, Ruto made the news. The […]
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Renson Mwakandana The execution of the ceasefire agreement between government forces and Tigray fighters in the north has been discussed in a conversation between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. In a tweet, Mr. Blinken stated that he and the Ethiopian Prime Minister ”discussed the urgent need to implement the […]
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