Faith Nyasuguta Starting December 15 this year, Nigeria will start circulating newly redesigned currencies as President Muhammadu Buhari says there is no going back on the policy. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced its scheduled redesign of N200, N500 and N1,000 notes with the current notes in circulation ceasing to be legal tender […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The World Health Organization reports that no food or medicine has reached the Ethiopian region of Tigray despite the signing of a ceasefire last week. According to the United Nations, Ethiopia is using starvation as a weapon of war in Tigray, where it says a humanitarian blockade put 90% of the population at […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President William Ruto has disclosed that Kenya will be the largest producer of Africa’s cheapest smartphones in the next one year. Speaking during the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Annual General meeting on Thursday, Ruto said the state is in talks to see that this comes to pass. “The real […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to South Africa’s last apartheid leader, Frederik Willem de Klerk, went missing from his Cape Town home half a year ago, his foundation reported on Wednesday. The ex-president received the prize in 1993 alongside anti-apartheid icon and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, for his key role in ushering […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyans holding ordinary passports will be granted entry to South Africa following a new visa-free regime between the two countries. According to President William Ruto on Wednesday, the deal had been arrived at, after an intervention by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. “From January 1, 2023, we will have a different regime. Kenyans holding […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In July this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government put 30 oil and gas blocks in the country up for auction. So far, the results of the bidding have not been announced, but while many of the nation’s politicians and citizens look to cash in on the Central African nation’s potentially […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Somali militant group Al-Shabaab is aiming at telecommunications infrastructure in areas where a concerted military effort is removing them from the villages, officials said on Tuesday. Somalia’s largest telecom firm Hormuud said its infrastructure in Galmuduug, Central Somalia, had been destroyed in an apparent futile bid to shrink communication and coordination against the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, Uganda successfully launched its first ever satellite into the international space station after its construction by three Ugandan and Japanese engineers under a multinational satellite design programme. The nation’s cube type satellite, PearlAfricaSat-1, will subsequently be deployed into low earth orbit in December this year. The country’s Ministry of Science and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tigray doctors and aid workers are currently racing against time to keep desperately sick or malnourished patients alive as they await aid after an unexpected peace deal potentially halted the conflict in northern Ethiopia. In the pact, signed on Wednesday in South Africa, the Ethiopian government vowed to end the blockade on Tigray […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In a move that has shocked many residents, drought-stricken Kenya has donated a planeload of relief supplies to neighbouring Somalia. The donation has been met with an uproar on social media as over 25 percent of Kenyans living in arid and semi-arid areas are facing acute food insecurity, according to UN data. The […]
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