Faith Nyasuguta Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal have submitted a world-record bid for Kylian Mbappé, understood to be worth €300m ($332m), and are willing to pay the forward €200m for a one-season stay if that is what it takes to get the deal done. The move comes after Paris Saint-Germain left Mbappé out of their squad […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The few hospitals still open in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, are being endangered by the increasing violence against health workers. This is according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) after its employees were beaten and whipped by armed men late last week. The MSF team was attacked some 700 metres from […]
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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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