Faith Nyasuguta Humanitarian organisations have cautioned that across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, one person is dying every 48 seconds from acute hunger tied to conflict, the climate crisis and the rising cost of food. An Oxfam and Save the Children report estimates that around the world, 181 million people will experience crisis levels of hunger […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s military junta has disclosed that it halted an attempted coup spearheaded by “Western-backed” soldiers last week. The alleged foiled coup took place on the night between 11 and 12 May, the junta said in a statement without providing evidence. The statement publicised on state television on Monday said: “The attempt was thwarted […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In South Africa, a white student has been dismissed from university after he was accused of urinating on the property of a black student at Stellenbosch University, the institution confirmed. According to the institution of higher learning, the incident will be investigated and further action including expulsion and criminal charges may be taken, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Kigali court has cleared a rape charge against the Miss Rwanda pageant organiser but has noted that he will be prosecuted for other alleged sex crimes. On Monday, the court also denied the accused, Dieudonné Ishimwe, bail following his arrest late last month. Read here… Mr Ishimwe faced charges on rape, soliciting […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda and Tanzania have committed to build the 400kV Masaka-Mutukula-Kyaka-Nyakanazi-Mwanza transmission line from which Uganda will sell surplus power and Tanzania will meet its demand for electricity. As she visited Kampala last week, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu and her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni witnessed the signing of an inter-governmental Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has named Martha Karua as his running mate, making the veteran politician the first woman to run on a major political party’s presidential ticket. Raila made the announcement on Monday at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). Ms Karua, an ex-justice minister and presidential candidate, is from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ex-Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud was on Sunday night re-elected into office following an intense contest with the incumbent Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo. The win was publicized after three rounds of voting in which he beat his competitor 214 to 110 votes. The election outcome was a replica of the February 8, 2017 contest […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An Indian couple has sued their son and his wife for taking too long to give them a grandchild, adding that they either get a baby in the next 12 months or pay $650,000. Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad, 61 and 57, say they used up their savings raising their son, paying for his […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A British court has ruled that calling a man bald is a form of sexual harassment. Revealing that hair loss is more common among men than women, the three-judge bench opined that calling a man bald in the workplace is a form of discrimination comparable to commenting on the size of a woman’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A small passenger plane with 11 people on board crashed in a forest near Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Wednesday, the transport ministry reported. The cause of the crash was not immediately identified. However, the plane lost radio contact with air traffic controllers and was later located in the forest near Nanga Eboko, around […]
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