Faith Nyasuguta The UK’s highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria’s Niger delta region to lodge pollution claims against oil giant Shell after a huge oil spill over a decade ago. According to the Supreme Court, said its five judges “unanimously” rejected an appeal over the 2011 spill, upholding prior […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In a remarkable turn of events, two infants were found floating near the shores of Lake Kivu, providing a glimmer of hope amidst the devastating aftermath of the floods that have claimed the lives of over 400 individuals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. While the infants’ parents tragically perished, the local […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Autopsies conducted on corpses found in mass graves tied to a religious cult in Kenya have shown missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said. A fresh round of exhumations resumed on Tuesday. The discovery of mass graves in April near the Indian Ocean coastal town of Malindi has stunned the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A US jury has concluded that Donald Trump sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and later defamed her by branding her a liar. The latest move has dealt a major blow to the ex-US president who seeks re-election next year. The outcome was read out on Tuesday afternoon in a […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Malawi high court has ordered all education authorities to admit learners with dreadlocks in public schools countrywide. Sitting in the eastern city of Zamba, the court was ruling on a petition filed by two Rastafarian children who were denied admission to public schools in 2016 and 2010. The two learners have, however, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A London court has jailed a rich Nigerian politician alongside his wife and a doctor for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to the United Kingdom to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Last Friday, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Fatouma, Kadidia, Hawa, Adama, Oumou, Bah, Mohammed, Oumar and Elhadji, the nonuplets that two years ago broke the Guinness record of the most living births at once, celebrated on Saturday their birthday for the first time at home in Mali. Relatives, friends and even the paediatrician of the nonuplets attended the celebration. The […]
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Faith Nyasuguta UN officials returning from a border town in Central African Republic report that nearly 9,700 people have crossed over from Sudan so far and that they expect more to come. It was revealed that about a third of them were Central Africans returning home. Some have been taken in by local families whilst […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Despite the ongoing global shocks tied to the prolonged impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the appreciation of the US dollar,Rwanda has successfully repaid its $400 million Eurobond. According to information accessed by The EastAfrican news outlet, the full payment, which was due this week, has been successfully completed. It […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has paused food distribution in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region following reports that significant amounts of aid were being diverted, the agency revealed. The announcement follows a similar one by the US Agency for International Development, which on Wednesday said it had discovered that food intended for millions […]
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