Faith Nyasuguta U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly urged several African leaders to accept migrants deported by the United States – even if they are not nationals of those countries – in a controversial push to speed up deportations amid his administration’s renewed hardline stance on immigration. According to two officials who spoke to Reuters […]
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Faith Nyasuguta While many of his childhood classmates dreamed of becoming teachers, doctors, or professional athletes, Burna Boy knew exactly where he belonged – under the spotlight. “They’d hand out the papers and the question would be, ‘What do you want to be?’ … I’d write ‘rock star,’” the Afrobeats powerhouse once recalled. When a […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria’s Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, has firmly stated that Africa’s greatest battles today are against poverty and climate change – not the pursuit of nuclear weapons. Speaking in Abuja during a courtesy visit by Dr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Shettima reassured the global community that Africa remains […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s military ruler, General Assimi Goita, has secured a fresh grip on power after signing into law a controversial bill that extends his rule for five more years -with the possibility of renewing his mandate indefinitely and without elections. The new law, which Goita approved this week, stems from recommendations of national dialogue […]
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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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Faith Nyasuguta A startling new study has uncovered a hidden threat for cancer patients across parts of Africa: nearly one in six cancer drugs tested in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Cameroon were found to be either substandard or outright counterfeit. Published in The Lancet Global Health, the study sampled over 250 cancer medications from hospitals […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Russia has thrown its full support behind South Africa’s G20 presidency, describing Pretoria’s leadership as a crucial moment for amplifying the priorities of the Global South within one of the world’s most influential economic blocs. Speaking during the recent G20 Sherpas meeting in Sun City, Russia’s G20 representative, Svetlana Lukash, praised South Africa […]
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