Faith Nyasuguta Kenyans holding ordinary passports will be granted entry to South Africa following a new visa-free regime between the two countries. According to President William Ruto on Wednesday, the deal had been arrived at, after an intervention by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. “From January 1, 2023, we will have a different regime. Kenyans holding […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In July this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government put 30 oil and gas blocks in the country up for auction. So far, the results of the bidding have not been announced, but while many of the nation’s politicians and citizens look to cash in on the Central African nation’s potentially […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Somali militant group Al-Shabaab is aiming at telecommunications infrastructure in areas where a concerted military effort is removing them from the villages, officials said on Tuesday. Somalia’s largest telecom firm Hormuud said its infrastructure in Galmuduug, Central Somalia, had been destroyed in an apparent futile bid to shrink communication and coordination against the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, Uganda successfully launched its first ever satellite into the international space station after its construction by three Ugandan and Japanese engineers under a multinational satellite design programme. The nation’s cube type satellite, PearlAfricaSat-1, will subsequently be deployed into low earth orbit in December this year. The country’s Ministry of Science and […]
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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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