Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria’s ‘president-elect’, Bola Tinubu, will be sworn in on May 29 despite numerous court cases challenging his victory, Lai Mohammed, the information and culture minister, has said. According to Mohammed, opposition political parties have the right to challenge the outcome of the presidential election in court. AEM had reported that the Independent National […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Clashes between Arab and non-Arab groups in Sudan’s Darfur region have left at least 24 people dead, dozens of homes burned, and thousands displaced, an official said on Wednesday. The latest violence in Sudan’s westernmost region near Chad erupted between members of Arab tribes and the Masalit non-Arab group in the town of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigerian lawmakers have commenced a probe into the sale of stolen 48 million barrels of crude oil to China. “It is quite alarming that illegal deals with China cost Nigeria $2.4 billion revenue loss from the sale of stolen 48 million barrels,” Nigeria’s Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila said in Abuja […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Currently, the question on everyone’s lips is: When will the Sudanese ruling junta and civilian groups establish a civilian-led transitional government? The signatories of the deal meant to organise a gradual transfer of power to civilians known as Framework agreement, have missed a key deadline to advance towards a return to democracy. According […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Some 63 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia are being held by Tanzanian authorities, with about 40 others said to be on the run. According to the police, about 100 Ethiopian immigrants sneaked into Tanzania via Nairobi and Mombasa on their way to South Africa but the lorry they were travelling in was intercepted following […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Over 15 out of every 100 people in Africa are suffering from infertility, according to data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. The new estimates show limited variation in the prevalence of infertility between regions, indicating that this is a major health challenge globally. Lifetime prevalence was 17.8 percent in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Musa Hasahya Kasera has so many children that he cannot recall most of their names. The Ugandan villager is struggling to provide for his huge family that he says includes 12 wives, 102 children and 578 grandchildren, and now feels enough is enough. “At first it was a joke… but now this has […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The offspring of perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi living abroad have continued to engage in the genocide ideology, government officials say. Genocide ideology has been described as an aggregate of thoughts characterised by conduct, speeches, documents and other acts aiming at exterminating or inciting others to exterminate people basing on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta It is often claimed that records are set only to be surpassed and subsequently replaced with better ones. For years, the Guinness Book of World Records has acted as an authoritative source for evaluating human records and outstanding accomplishments. Since its debut in 1955, many individuals today actively want to have their names added to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the Catholic church. The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after […]
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