Faith Nyasuguta Earth’s only nonuplets – nine babies born at the same time – have safely jetted back into Mali, their home country. The parents and their nine babies arrived at the airport in the capital, Bamako, in the early hours of Tuesday and were welcomed by the incumbent Health Minister Diéminatou Sangaré. Since leaving the Ain Borja clinic where […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zambian police have discovered the bodies of 27 suspected Ethiopian migrants “dead from hunger and exhaustion” in a northern district of the capital Lusaka. The victims are “all men aged between 20 and 38,” the police said in a statement on Sunday (November 11). The bodies were rushed to the morgue for identification and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Equatorial Guinea’s head of state Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who holds the world record for the longest time in power for a living head of state excluding monarchs, has been sworn in for a sixth, seven-year term. International community members, ithe US government, have raised concerns over the legitimacy of the landslide victory […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A probe by the UN has found that at least 131 civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo died in a November attack by the M23 rebel group. The UN report noted that the massacre took place in two villages – Kishishe and Bambo – in the Rutsuhuru district of the eastern North […]
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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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