Faith Nyasuguta Rwanda is the most innovative economy among low income countries on earth. The latest Global innovation index shows that the East African nation ranks first of its income group before Madagascar and Ethiopia and sits on 9th spot of the sub-Saharan African group. The 2022 Global Innovation Index or GII tracks innovation trends […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta You would think it’s a photo, but it is actually a drawing! You are not alone if you do a double-check when you see one of Eddy Ochieng’s drawings – his portraits are so lifelike. The Kenyan-born artist draws inspiration from the people around him, and his drawings have recently made rounds […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Liberia’s largest prison, the Monrovia Central Prison, has started turning away new inmates following overpopulation and fears of disease outbreak, according to the justice ministry and prison officials have said. Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean said that those being denied admission at the facility were inmates accused of minor offences. “Where no damage […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The probable impeachment of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been left hanging – at least for the time being – after he sought for the judicial review an interim report saying he “may” have a case to answer, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party has decided. Following this, the ANC national […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Earth’s only nonuplets – nine babies born at the same time – have safely jetted back into Mali, their home country. The parents and their nine babies arrived at the airport in the capital, Bamako, in the early hours of Tuesday and were welcomed by the incumbent Health Minister DiĂ©minatou SangarĂ©. Since leaving the Ain Borja clinic where […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zambian police have discovered the bodies of 27 suspected Ethiopian migrants “dead from hunger and exhaustion” in a northern district of the capital Lusaka. The victims are “all men aged between 20 and 38,” the police said in a statement on Sunday (November 11). The bodies were rushed to the morgue for identification and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Equatorial Guinea’s head of state Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who holds the world record for the longest time in power for a living head of state excluding monarchs, has been sworn in for a sixth, seven-year term. International community members, ithe US government, have raised concerns over the legitimacy of the landslide victory […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A probe by the UN has found that at least 131 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo died in a November attack by the M23 rebel group. The UN report noted that the massacre took place in two villages – Kishishe and Bambo – in the Rutsuhuru district of the eastern North […]
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Faith Nyasuguta UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia has cautioned that the country is undergoing a “catastrophic emergency” due to the most severe drought in the state’s history. Speaking during a joint meeting of the League of Arab States and the United Nations, Adam Abdelmoula noted that Somalia was suffering from its fifth consecutive failed rainy […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The globe’s wildlife populations have dropped by more than two-thirds since 1970 as forests have been cleared and oceans polluted, a recently released assessment has revealed. This “serious drop … tells us that nature is unraveling and the natural world is emptying,” said Andrew Terry, director of conservation and policy at the Zoological […]
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