Faith Nyasuguta The Ugandan police have announced that they are suspending “until further notice” a nationwide mobilization campaign launched by the main opposition party, led by Bobi Wine, because of public order problems. The authorities had directed this operation, launched on September 2 by the National Unity Platform (NUP), an unprecedented decision in a nation […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Libyan authorities have expressed fear that the number of victims will exceed 12,000 people. A large number of those affected by the storms and flooding are likely to be migrants and internally displaced people. Thousands are feared dead and missing in the aftermath of storm Daniel which made landfall in Libya on Sunday, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A quarter of schools are now shut down in Burkina Faso after an increase in fighting between militants and the government, according to a new report that warns of a looming education crisis in the region. Over the past year, the number of schools closed in the West African country shot up by […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A chain of companies in the United States under the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (Agoa) have stopped buying textiles from Uganda, citing the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023. This was disclosed by President Yoweri Museveni during the passing-out of Uganda Prisons Service officers at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala early this week. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta This week, the government of Rwandan signed an agreement with a German-Canadian start-up to build an “experimental” civil nuclear reactor, in order to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. The reactor should be ready for testing in 2026, according to the start-up that will build it, Dual Fluid Energy. These “reactors can be […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, Apple announced the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, and the big news is a USB-C port. Finally! The masses have been waiting for the day that the iPhone would switch to the widely used USB-C standard instead of Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector. In 2022, Apple confirmed that it would make the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Amnesty International has accused multinationals of forced evictions, threats, intimidation and deception against local people at cobalt and copper mining sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a report published Tuesday and dubbed “Fuelling change or the status quo?”, Amnesty and the DRC-based Initiative for Good Governance and Human Rights looked […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) has been granted the right to register by the Supreme Court after being denied registration by Kenya’s NGO Coordinating Board 10 years ago due to accusations of promoting same-sex behaviour. In February, the court’s ruling found that the board’s refusal was discriminatory, and on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa came under fire for appointing his son, David Kudakwashe Mnangagwa, as the deputy finance minister in a new cabinet following his re-election. The move has sparked major concerns about nepotism within the government. David Mnangagwa, 34, is set to serve as the deputy to Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Upto 2,000 people may have been drowned after a powerful storm unleashed catastrophic floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, according to the head of one of the nation’s two rival governments. Speaking on Libyan network Almasar, Ossama Hamad, the prime minister of the east-based government, reported “more than 2,000 dead and […]
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