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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Faith Nyasuguta Twitter is set to charge users with the blue verification badge on a monthly basis. According to reports by Platformer, executives at the Elon Musk-owned company spent the weekend discussing the move and making plans tied to the project. The report said if the project makes it forward, users who subscribe to Twitter […]
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Faith Nyasuguta So far, at least 100 people have been confirmed dead after two car bombs exploded near Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday. The death toll is expected to rise. Over 300 others were wounded in the attack, according to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a video statement posted on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Tanzanian authorities have began rationing water in the economic capital Dar es Salaam following a drop of water levels in the main source, Ruvu River, which dried up. The Indian Ocean city’s 5.5 million residents will be deprived of running water for 24 hours on alternate days, the Dar es Salaam Water […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Five in ten people globally are likely experiencing hidden hunger — with about 98 million preschool-age children in sub-Saharan Africa living it. A study published in The Lancet Global Health, led by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Gain) through the USAid Advancing Nutrition project, also found that two in three women between the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new analysis has shown that an oil pipeline under construction in east Africa will produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide. The project is set to result in 379m tonnes of climate-heating pollution, according to an expert assessment. This is over 25 times the combined annual emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, the host […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Africa Union-brokered peace talks between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has commenced in South Africa. This was revealed by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s mouthpiece Vincent Magwenya to reporters on Wednesday. He further revealed that the talks will end on October 30, 2022. According to Magwenya the talks “have […]
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