Faith Nyasuguta An analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit has indicated that recent attacks in Mali were executed in areas where there used to be a high concentration of foreign forces. “The attacks that took place, they took place in northern Mali and northern Mali was where a lot of the French forces were concentrated […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda has now turned to local pension funds as a survival mechanism following external freezing of funding from the World Bank. According to a local news outlet, the government is in talks with the World Bank for the lender to rescind its decision to withhold budget support for Kampala worth Ush6.7 trillion ($1.787 […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia has announced that it has filled its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile, the source of a long-running water dispute with downstream Egypt and Sudan. The news sparked a prompt condemnation from Egypt, who denounced it as illegal. Ethiopia’s announcement comes just a fortnight after the three nations resumed negotiations, after a […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The earthquake that struck Morocco late on Friday has killed more than 2,100 people, a death toll that is set to rise as rescuers are struggling to reach some rural and mountainous areas. Listed below are some of the deadliest earthquakes of the past 25 years: 8 September 2023: Morocco. A magnitude 6.8 […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Al-Nassr and Portugal attacker Cristiano Ronaldo has declared an end to his rivalry with Lionel Messi as the two footballing icons reach the twilight of their careers. For the last 15 years, Ronaldo and Messi’s battle for individual supremacy has captivated the sporting world, as the two attacking stars continue to push each […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A key official of Uganda’s National Drug Authority (NDA) on Wednesday stunned MPs on the House Committee of HIV/AIDS when he confessed that they were aware of, but initially ignored the potentially deadly abuse of antiretroviral drugs to fatten farm animals. The law makers were dismayed that the regulator of such a sensitive […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Multiple witnesses have revealed that Ethiopian soldiers killed more than 70 civilians and looted property in a town in Amhara. The killings took place in Majete, a rural town in north-eastern Ethiopia, after two weeks of heavy fighting between federal soldiers and the Fano, an Amhara militia. The alleged atrocities took place after […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Gabonese junta has released ousted President Ali Bongo over medical grounds. His release comes about a week after he was deposed by the military over what they dubbed as ‘rigged elections’. The ouster came shortly after he was declared winner of the Gabon presidential election. Gabon’s state TV, Gabon 24 on Wednesday […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The president of Egypt, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has said that the nation needs to slow its birth rate to avoid a catastrophe. He noted that Egypt has to lower its annual births to 400,000 from the current more than two million for the country to efficiently provide jobs and social services to its […]
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Faith Nyasuguta African leaders have requested for debt relief across the continent to allow nations to get on with responding to the climate crisis, as they publish the Nairobi Declaration at the end of the first African climate summit. The declaration, which had a heavy focus on climate finance, also included a call for global […]
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