Faith Nyasuguta According to a senior US official, Eritrean troops have still not yet withdrawn from Ethiopia contrary to what Ethiopian authorities’ claim. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US representative to the United Nations, says Eritrean forces only moved back to the border but still remain in Ethiopia. She made the remarks at a weekend news conference while […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South Africa has signed a deal with India to reintroduce dozens of cheetahs to the South Asian country after eight of the big cats were sent from neighboring Namibia in 2022. Batch one of 12 cheetahs is to be flown over in February, according to a statement from South Africa’s environmental department, which added […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A fresh report on African governance released on Wednesday has revealed that much of the continent is “less safe, secure and democratic” than it was 10 years ago, citing a surge in military coups and armed conflicts. The democratic slip now threatens to reverse decades of progress made in Africa, according to an […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Speaking during the opening conference of the ‘The Dakar 2 Summit on Feeding Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience’, Senegalese President and the African Union boss, Macky Sall, said that “Africa must learn to feed itself“. “To transform our potential into reality, we need to allocate at least 10% of the national budget to […]
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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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