Faith Nyasuguta The era of Dollar dominance in Africa could soon be decimated if nations opt to ditch their reliance on the USD and peg their currency to gold just like Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe recently announced that it will begin issuing gold coins to its citizens as a hedge against inflation this month. On Monday, the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South African Head of State Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed the head of the appeals court, Mandisa Maya, as the nation’s deputy chief justice – becoming the first woman to occupy the position. Her appointment is effective from 1 September, the Presidency said in a statement on Monday. She was also the first female […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Across the globe, millions of refugees and migrants are living in vulnerable situations. Following this, they face poorer health outcomes compared to their host communities, particularly where living and working conditions are sub-standard, according to the first WHO World report on the health of refugees and migrants. This has dire consequences with the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe is choking under ballooning international debt as it commenced to pay the price for borrowing heavily from China for infrastructure projects at the tail end of Robert Mugabe’s rule. Among other major projects. Beijing financed the expansion of Victoria Falls International Airport and that of the southern African country’s main source of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tech giant Meta has pulled down thousands of posts targeting Kenyan users on its social media platform Facebook for violating its policies days before the August general elections. A few years ago, bosses at the now-defunct British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica were apparently filmed boasting of the control they had exerted in Kenya’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta With memes mostly used in casual set-ups, it is hard to believe what a typical Gen Z meme can do in an official situation. This is the story of one job seeker who managed to land herself an interview despite receiving a rejection letter earlier. Carly, from the US, has been applying for […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Investigators have identified the toxic chemical methanol as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London in June. Methanol was found in all of their bodies and probe is ongoing to determine whether the levels of the toxic chemical were enough […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Criminals in Kenya have resorted to witchcraft and other unorthodox methods in a bid to evade detection by detectives. The revelation comes as a Kenyan woman who allegedly stole money from a government official’s homestead where she worked as a domestic worker has been nabbed at a witchdoctor’s shrine, police say. According to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A report by the UK-based Debt Justice released this week shows that African governments owe three times as much debt to private creditors in the West as they do to China. Using data from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Debt Justice estimates that 35 percent of the continent’s external debt […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An Ethiopian university student who carried firewood during his graduation in honour of his hardworking mother’s painful sacrifice to help him attain higher-education has been lauded globally. The good gesture has also landed the lad a job offer to enable him support his family. Images of Ephrem Belete, a graduate of computer science […]
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