Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has applied to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry has said. If allowed, BRICS could soon become BRICSE. The term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to describe the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tembu Daniel, a Cameroonian skit maker fondly called Town Cryer, is determined to break the Guinness World Record(GWR) for the longest crying time by an individual. He embarked on a cry-a-thon on Sunday, July 9, 2023, and intends to cry continuously for 100 hours (four days). A video making the rounds on social […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has commenced his first African tour, which Iran aims to use to expand political and economic relations across the continent. Earlier, Raisi was scheduled to depart Tehran on Tuesday for a trip that would take him to Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe in the first by an Iranian president to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, the Sudanese government refused to join a regional meeting aimed at ending three months of brutal fighting, accusing Kenya, the chair of the talks, of favoring the rival paramilitaries. A power struggle between Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania and India have agreed on an arrangement that will no longer make the US dollar indispensable in trade between the countries. The bilateral trade settlement arrangement allows Tanzania and India to use their own currencies (the Tanzanian shilling and Indian rupee) in transactions. India is one of Tanzania’s biggest trading partners, with […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen won the British Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris on Sunday. Verstappen finished the 52-lap race in an hour, 25 minutes, and 16 seconds at the Silverstone Circuit on a 5.9-kilometer (3.6-mile) track. The 25-year-old driver won the eighth race of the season to take six consecutive […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An air strike in the Sudanese city of Omdurman on Saturday killed at least 22 people with an unspecified number of people injured as the country witnessed three months of fighting between the country’s rival generals. The attack, was termed as one of the deadliest air raids yet in the three months of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta France’s star footballer Kylian Mbappe arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father’s village. Most of those that greeted the 24-year-old forward were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team’s football jersey for the occasion. According […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Wednesday, Ghana’s Parliament unanimously passed a motion that further tightens laws against the LGBTIQ+ community in the country. The motion proposed by the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee to amend a controversial bill against the LGBTIQ+ community was passed by the 275 members of the unicameral Parliament. The “Promotion of Appropriate […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new app billed as a rival to Twitter has seen 10 million people sign up in its first seven hours. Threads, created by Facebook and Instagram owners Meta, went live at midnight on Thursday. Linked to Instagram, it allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five […]
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