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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Faith Nyasuguta Some eight million South Sudanese people equal to two thirds of the population in the deeply troubled country are at risk of hunger, the United Nations cautioned in a report on Thursday. One of the globe’s poorest nations, South Sudan, has spent over half of its life as a nation at war, with […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President William Ruto has announced the deployment of troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint regional operation against a rebel offensive. Armed groups in the region have stepped up attacks, reviving ancient animosities and sparking a surge in tension with neighbouring Rwanda. In April this year, leaders of the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Glaciers across the globe – including the last ones in Africa – will be lost by 2050 due to climate change, the UN has said in a report. A third of glaciers found in UN World Heritage sites will melt within three decades, a UNESCO report revealed. It was noted that Mount Kilimanjaro’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia’s warring sides have officially agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities, an African Union special envoy said Wednesday, after a 2-year conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands. Ex-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in the first briefing on the peace talks in South Africa, also noted that Ethiopia’s government […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Britain museum and university say they will return human remains taken from Zimbabwe during the colonial era. Zimbabwe officials want to recover the remains of some of the leaders of an uprising against British rule in the 1980s. Among the most prominent of these leaders in the uprising – known as the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Kenyan elephant, believed to have been Africa’s largest female tusker, has died of old age, wildlife officials have reported. Dida, also referred to as Queen of Tsavo, was aged between 60 and 65 years, the upper age limit of an elephant in the wild. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) have lauded her […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Takeoff, one of the founding members of the popular rap group Migos along with Quavo and Offset, has reportedly been shot and killed over a dice game in Houston, according to social media reports. He was 28. According to the report, a person was fatally shot on 1200 Polk Street in Downtown Houston, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s opposition has promised to push back hard against genetically modified (GMO) food imports into the nation, launching a new political battlefront with President William Ruto’s government. President Ruto, in one of his first major decisions in office,in September, lifted a 10-year-old ban on GMO foods and allowed cultivation of crop varieties developed […]
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