Faith Nyasuguta South African businessman Johann Rupert, 73, has displaced Nigeria’s foremost billionaire, Aliko Dangote as the richest man on the continent. Johann Rupert, whose net worth is estimated at $12 billion was named by Forbes Magazine in its Real-time global Billionaires ranking while Dangote trails behind with a net worth of $10.8 billion. Dangote’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Grieving families prepared to bury their dead in western Uganda while others desperately searched for loved ones still missing after militants killed dozens of pupils in a school attack. Officials noted that at least 41 people, mostly pupils, were massacred on Friday in the worst attack of its kind in Uganda since 2010. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Sunday, Russia reported fierce fighting on three sections of the front line in Ukraine, a day after hosting an African peace mission that failed to spark enthusiasm from either Moscow or Kyiv. According to a Russian-installed official, Ukraine had recaptured Piatykhatky, a village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, and were entrenching themselves […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zambia has disclosed its intention to cancel a building contract given to General Electric Co. and Power Building Corp. of China because the project to build a 2,400-megawatt power station on the Zambezi River is too expensive. In remarks aired this week on the state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corp., and reported by the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa travelled to Poland en route to Ukraine and Russia as part of an African peace mission, his office said.. Ramaphosa and other African leaders are set to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ukraine on Friday and with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The governor of West Darfur state and head of the Sudanese Alliance, Khamis Abdallah Abkar, was killed on Wednesday, two months after the start of the armed conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum. Khamis’s assassination came two hours after a telephone interview with Al-Hadath TV in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Reports of gender-based violence (GBV) against girls and women there increased by 37 per cent during the first three months of the year, compared to the same period a year ago, according to the GBV coordination group for North Kivu. More than 38,000 cases of GBV were reported for all of 2022 in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta It is now official, African artists will have a category in the Grammy Awards preserved for them in the upcoming ceremonies. This week, the American recording academy announced that there will be the Best African Music Performance category that will attract contestants from the African continent only. According to the Grammy Awards, the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In Ethiopia, for every 5,000 needed surgeries per 100,000 people, the country’s health system can only provide 192. Yet, this is Africa’s second largest population, with over 120 million people. The recently concluded two-year war in the northern part of the country further exacerbated the situation. While creating demand for access to surgery through bullet […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Vice President of Ghana , Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that a Ghanaian company is considering setting up an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in the country . He is optimistic that the company will commence operations in 2024. Dr. Bawumia made the disclosure when speaking at the NPP International Women’s Conference in […]
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