Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of earth’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for “strengthening”, the ruling party’s chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to make it law, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Wednesday, a Ukrainian Nobel peace prize winner called on South Africa not to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS summit in the country in August. Oleksandra Romantsova, the head of an NGO that became the winner of Ukraine’s first ever peace prize last year, urged the South African government […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Data from the Kenyan treasury indicates that the government’s financial position was better in March than in February despite the larger debt payments, contradicting public statements by officials portraying the government as broke. Recently, President William Ruto, his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua and a host of top administration officials blamed delays in paying civil […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation’s chief called for the parties in the conflict in Sudan to provide access to medical facilities to all those requiring care, warning that medical supplies and personnel in the capital are running low. “I want to be very clear: All parties must ensure unrestricted and safe access […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe’s head of state Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday vowed that general elections expected later this year would be free and fair. His comments were made during a speech to mark the country’s 43 years of independence from British colonial rule. Mnangagwa won the nation’s disputed 2018 elections that his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In November 2021 at the Dubai Airshow, Tanzania ordered for a Boeing 767-300 freighter in addition to a 787-8 Dreamliner and two 737 MAXs. The freighter was set to be used to capitalise on Africa’s growing cargo demand, according to Boeing and the Air Tanzania Company. “The 767 freighter will give Air Tanzania […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Since Saturday, fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, damaging hospitals and hampering aid. A weeks-long power struggle burst into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ten soldiers and 32 civilian auxiliaries of Burkina Faso’s army were killed over the weekend in two attacks in the north of the country, which last week declared a “general mobilisation” against recurring jihadist violence. On Saturday, a “military detachment and Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP, civilian auxiliaries to the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Women and children have been raped and subjected to other abuses during a mass expulsion of migrant workers from Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a doctor, officials and the United Nations say. In recent months, Angola has deported thousands of workers, according to UN figures, echoing previous purges over the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Bernard Arnault is now the wealthiest man on earth. The fashion industry executive from France with a net worth of $211 billion, has surpassed the Tesla founder and CEO of Twitter to become the richest person on Forbes’ 2023 billionaires list. According to Forbes, the CEO of LVMH, who is 74 years old and […]
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