Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania has said it will clamp down on “illegal immigrants” in the northern town of Loliondo, suspecting that Kenyan Maasai are crossing the border to aid the local community as opposed to the creation of a nature reserve. As reported earlier, the Maasai herders of Loliondo are opposed to the Tanzanian authorities, who […]
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Faith Nyasuguta About 22 teenagers, with the youngest possibly aged 13, died at the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, in a tragedy whose cause remains unclear. Majority of them are thought to have been students celebrating the end of their high-school exams on Saturday night, provincial officials said. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Malawi’s 🇲🇼 Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested ex-police chief George Kainja two days after he was sacked. He is facing charges tied to a mega $150m corruption scandal involving government contracts. The president stripped him of his duties on Tuesday after the ACB named him among the 53 current and former officials who […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A major hospital in Kenya has cautioned people that they cannot legally sell their kidneys to make money. The message comes as the cost of living crisis, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, continues to soar across the East African country. Kenyatta National Hospital, the country’s top referral hospital, revealed via a Facebook […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On a sunny morning, Nasser Mutesasira gives out free packets of processed coffee to farmers who sell coffee beans to his company for processing. “I’m giving you this coffee so that you can taste your own produce,” says Mutesasira, who buys coffee beans from 991 farmers in the hilly terrains of Kapchorwa, Bulambuli, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A proposition by Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga in his manifesto to eliminate trade of second-hand clothes, popularly dubbed ‘mitumba’ in Kenya, has sparked a debate on the future of the trade, with opinion divided on whether time has come to ban used clothes imports in the region. Since 2016, the East African […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera has relieved his deputy President Saulos Chilima of all delegated powers after the latter was named in a huge corruption scandal in government contracts already implicating several senior officials. “I have decided to withdraw all delegated functions from Vice President Saulos Chilima,” Lazarus Chakwera said in a televised address. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Africa is expected to have its first ever African-owned COVID-19 vaccine in the next three years, according to developers on Tuesday. They confirmed that the mRNA vaccine will be stored at temperatures used in regular refrigerators, making it easier to store and distribute in rural and remote locations where fewest people are currently […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The current meltdown in the cryptocurrency industry could push an estimated four million Kenyans holding the digital assets deeper into losses as the leading crypto Bitcoin struggles to stay above the key level of $20,000. The crypto market, known for its wild price swings, has lost more than half of its value since […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A baby boy has died in Tanzania after being snatched from his mother by a troop of monkeys which had gone into their house, authorities say. The mother was breastfeeding her one-month-old baby outside her house on Saturday afternoon when the monkeys invaded her home, snatched the baby boy and attempted to run […]
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