Faith Nyasuguta Tanzanian schools have begun, this month, to adopt English as the compulsory medium of instruction. The directive was issued by Benjamin Oganga, an officer attached to the Ministry of Education. “We’ve banned the use of Swahili in all our secondary schools. We need to ensure our students understand and are able to use […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The new year started off on a high note for Africa’s second richest man Johann Rupert, following the $400 million financial bump he experienced in the first week of 2023. This is a welcomed development considering that the billionaire experienced a loss of $1.09 billion in 2022, resulting from a downturn in the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Kenya LGBTQ+ activist whose body was found last week in a trunk was smothered, with socks found in his mouth, a state pathologist said Wednesday after an autopsy. The body of Edwin Chiloba, a 25-year-old designer and model, was found on January 4 in a trunk on the side of the road […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda’s latest Ebola virus outbreak is over, the government and the World Health Organization has announced. Health Minister Ruth Aceng, speaking to journalists said that no new cases had been registered in the past 42 days. This outbreak was the first in a decade of the less common Sudan strain which, unlike the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For years, sexual abuse and exploitation of children has taken place in secrecy due to the shame and stigma some communities attach to it, allowing the crimes to prosper. Annually, over 400 million children around the globe are exposed to child sexual exploitation and abuse, according to a new report by Economist Impact. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Now and then an artefact or two is returned to Africa in a bid to show remorse for the egregious theft levels that defined the colonial era, but this is barely enough to wipe away the damage that had been wrought on the affected regions. Hoarded African treasures, still demonstrate a pattern of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe has registered its largest wheat harvest in the year 2022, some 375,000 tons, making the austral African country a self-sufficient agricultural powerhouse. With 375 thousand tons of wheat harvest registered for 2022, Zimbabwe is set to become a self-sufficient agricultural powerhouse. A very unique performance in Africa indeed. The 2022 harvest was 13% higher […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Sudan’s mineral resources company has announced a record-breaking year for gold production, with over 18 tons produced in 2022. This figure marks the highest productivity in the country’s mineral sector since time immemorial. According to Engineer Alaeldin Ali, the Director of the General Administration for Supervision and Control of Production Companies who spoke […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Depending on who you ask, Africa’s elections have either been improving or regressing. According to doubters, a recent outbreak of coups and coup attempts suggests low belief in elections as a means of choosing leaders. Proponents argue that the frequency of elections shows that people and politicians are now more confident about being […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A leading global reputation firm, the Reputation Poll International, has released the 2023 list of the 100 most reputable Africans. The list features individuals from diverse sectors including governance, human rights, education, entertainment, and business. The selection criteria includes integrity, impact and visibility. Kenya’s Amina Chawahir Mohamed, South Africa’s Bonang Mohale, Chancellor at the […]
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