Faith Nyasuguta Guinness World Records (GWR) is calling upon more Africans to follow in the footsteps of Nigerians when it comes to trying to break records. Though it comes with a warning that people must register their efforts first and follow the rules. For a while now, record breaking has become something of a craze […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In the latest global mobility ranking, the Kenyan passport has improved six places to position 67, up from the 73rd place it ranked in January while moving one step up in the continent to occupy the seventh most powerful position. The Henley Passport Index Report released on Wednesday further shows that the number […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, Netflix’s first original African animated series premiered. Its creator said she hoped it would pave the way for more productions from the continent. Set in a futuristic version of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, “Supa Team 4” tells the story of four teen girls who turn undercover superheroes after being recruited […]
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Faith Nyasuguta During a recent women’s conference in Zanzibar, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan once again grabbed attention with her bold statements about the nation’s economic muscle. Without publicly naming the neighboring nation of Kenya, President Suluhu noted that its instability had led to a significant exodus of investors who sought refuge in Tanzania’s stable […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Fans are holding exhibitions and martial arts workshops in Hong Kong this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of famed martial artist Bruce Lee in 1973. The star was a trailblazer for Asian men in Hollywood at a time when racist stereotypes were the norm. Lee showed that Asian men […]
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Faith Nyasuguta During rush hour on Wednesday, an unexplained explosion ripped through central Johannesburg tearing through a main road and injuring 41 people, South African officials said. Initially, emergency services blamed underground gas pipes, but the Egoli Gas company said it was “unlikely” the explosion — which cracked tarmac and overturned vehicles including minibus taxis […]
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Faith Nyasuguta According to an internet advocacy organization and an AFP journalist, social media networks including Facebook and Instagram were back online in Ethiopia on Wednesday after being blocked for about five months. A service run by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an association that tracks online censorship, showed that access to social […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Vladimir Putin will not attend a Brics summit in South Africa in August amid speculation that he could be detained under an international criminal court warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. South Africa’s presidential office announced that the Russian president would not be attending the summit after holding a “number […]
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Faith Nyasuguta President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the High Court in Gauteng that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin, if he travels to South Africa for the BRICS summit in August, would be a declaration of war against Russia. And the president did not want the public to know that. However, the court ruled on Tuesday […]
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Faith Nyasuguta With Kenya on the verge of tabling anti-LGBT legislation in parliament, US advocacy groups have already called for a halt in trade talks between the two nations. The legislation is set to further criminalise same-sex acts with penalties ranging from a suggested minimum of ten years in prison to the death penalty for […]
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