Faith Nyasuguta On Wednesday, the East African Community (EAC) on officially launched the verification mission to assess the Federal Republic of Somalia’s readiness to join the regional bloc. The verification team of experts from the EAC Partner States are set to spend time in the nation until February 3, 2023. Among other duties, the team […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The African Development Bank (AfDB) has noted that Africa’s economies are set to grow faster than global projections this year. However, the budget and trade deficits will continue weighing down majority of the countries as risks persist. In its Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report released Thursday, the AfDB said the continent’s GDP […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday commissioned the nation’s first of four oil rigs to commence drilling at the Kingfisher field on the shores of Lake Albert as the country eyes production in 2025. The three other rigs will be installed at Tilenga. The East African nation discovered crude reserves estimated at 6.5 […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The increase in weather disasters, which push millions of people onto the roads, is now one of the “main causes” of human trafficking, according to a UN report published Tuesday, also mentioning the risks posed by the war in Ukraine. “Climate change increases vulnerability to trafficking,” the study by the UN Office on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The leader of opposition in Kenya, Raila Odinga, has affirmed that his political coalition does not recognise William Ruto as the President of Kenya and has dubbed the new Kenyan government as “illegitimate“. Ruto beat him in last August’s poll, but Mr Odinga – who appeared at Nairobi’s Kamukunji Stadium alongside his running […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya is currently earning more foreign exchange from diaspora remittances than each of its major exports – coffee, tea and horticulture – despite persistent criticism of a poor diaspora policy. The latest figures from the Central Bank of Kenya show that the nation’s diaspora remittances jumped by 8.34 percent to $4.027 billion in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A 34-year-old South African woman guilty of trying to sell an albino child to a traditional healer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a South African court in northern KwaZulu-Natal area. The woman reportedly wanted the traditional healer to pay R100 000 (USD 5,852.79) for the 11-year-old child, reports said. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta According to Samia Suluhu Hassan, the President of Tanzania, Africa is rich in natural resources and has the potential to play a key role in the global energy transition. Speaking at the 53rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Suluhu called for more private sector investment in Africa to tap into the continent’s resources […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday as Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm’s downtown San Francisco headquarters. The online auction of “surplus corporate office assets of Twitter” lasted for over 24 hours and featured a 10-foot neon light in the shape of Twitter’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Wednesday, the United Nations revealed that peacekeepers discovered mass graves in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a series of attacks blamed on a local militia. Peacekeepers made the discoveries while patrolling the troubled Ituri province following violent attacks by suspected CODECO militants. “Our colleagues there report that […]
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