Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania is set to be the third fastest growing economy in Africa for this year. At 5.6 percent growth, the East African nation will trail Cote d’Ivoire and Rwanda, according to a United Nations report. Cote d’Ivoire, the globe’s largest producer of cocoa (30 percent), will register a 6.5 percent growth for this […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Sudanese nationals and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Millions of Sudanese trapped in their homes since violence began April 15, between forces loyal to the country’s top two generals. Civilian […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For decades, Kenya has been known to produce the best of athletes who have put the country on the global map especially in long distance races. Many of these athletes hail from the Rift Valley region and take advantage of the high altitude training centres which boosts aerobic capacity and lactic acid tolerance. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On April 6, Veronica Moraa was appointed as a sheriff of Nottinghamshire, in the UK making her the first Kenyan and the first black woman to hold the role. Making the announcement, the UK Royal Airforce stated that Moraa had been appointed to the position by the King and was officially installed. The […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In Kenya, over 3.5 million people get malaria every year, according to CDC estimates. Out of the numbers, over 10,000 Kenyans die from it every year. According to Francis Ndungu, a malaria immunologist at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust: “In the case of malaria, a mosquito bites you and injects a parasite form called sporozoites into […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s opposition has said it will resume anti-government protests from May 2, nearly three weeks after suspending rallies to take part in a dialogue with authorities. “We will resume rallies from May 2, the demonstrations will be limited to Nairobi,” the Kenyan capital, Dennis Onyango, spokesman for Raila Odinga, a veteran opposition leader […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A ballooning list of nations have evacuated diplomats and citizens from Sudan’s capital as fierce fighting continues to rage in Khartoum. On Sunday, the US and the UK announced that they had flown diplomats out of the country. France, Germany, Italy and Spain are among other nations that also carried out evacuations. So […]
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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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