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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Faith Nyasuguta Some 300 people died in an attack on villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week blamed on the M23 rebel group, state minister Julien Paluku said on Monday. For months, the government has been locked in a conflict with the notorious armed group M23 — with the latest violence coming just […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South Africa’s head of state Cyril Ramaphosa has officially filed court papers to have a report which revealed that he may have violated the nation’s constitution reviewed. Ramaphosa wants the Constitutional Court to declare the findings of the panel unlawful and to set them aside. He went ahead to mention that the panel […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An auction house in Belgium was forced to cancel the sale of three skulls of Africans killed during the colonial period in what is now the modern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the BBC on Thursday. The skulls, which belonged to people killed between January 1893 and May 1894, were put up […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, fighting with heavy weapons resumed in eastern DRC between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army. This comes after five days of a truce following the decisions of the Luanda summit on November 23. The summit had settled on a ceasefire between Friday 25 at 6:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT), followed […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The government of Nigeria has announced a policy aimed at boosting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages instead of English. According to Education Minister Adamu Adamu who was speaking to journalists on Wednesday, the new framework known as the National Language Policy had been approved for implementation. It outlines that […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the nation through a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 has died aged 96, sparking a wave of nostalgia for the more liberal times he oversaw. Jiang succumbed to leukaemia and multiple organ failure in his home city of Shanghai just […]
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Faith Nyasuguta According to scientists, a huge meteorite that fell to Earth contains two minerals never seen before on our planet. Canadian researchers note that the rock was found in rural Somalia two years ago, but locals believe it is much older. They have dubbed the stone Nightfall, and say it is documented in poems, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The emergence of female techies in Africa is happening at a meteoric pace. As a fact, the narrative surrounding the tech space in Africa is that men largely dominate the industry. However, this is hardly the case, as male dominance in Africa’s tech ecosystem is rapidly dwindling. Annually, more and more women achieve […]
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