Faith Nyasuguta More than four in every 10 women in eastern and central Africa are battered by intimate partners, a new study says. Generally, women in sub-Saharan African nations were the worst off globally. During their lifetime, at least 44 percent of the women in central Africa and 38 percent in eastern Africa among ever-married […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya has confirmed the deportation of the French chief executive of one of the biggest oil marketers in Kenya amid a ravaging fuel shortage crisis. Following a move by Kenya’s energy regulator to act against oil marketers creating an artificial fuel shortage in the nation, Rubis Energy Kenya CEO Jean-Christian Bergeron was the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, Elon Musk took aim at Twitter with a $43 billion cash offer saying the social media giant needs to be taken to private ownership to grow and become a platform for free speech. “Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it,” Musk, who is already the company’s second-largest shareholder, said via […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Rwanda and the United Kingdom have signed a migration deal that will see asylum seekers who arrive illegally in the UK on small boats, across the English Channel, given a one-way ticket to Kigali to wait out their applications. UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel, who is in Kigali, signed the “Rwanda-UK Migration and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Bobi Wine, Ugandan opposition leader has called on the international community to walk the talk on Museveni’s 2021 “electoral fraud”. The politician revealed this during the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy last week. He noted that leaders who tolerate dictators and treat them as legitimate partners are complicit in their crimes. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Below is Bobi Wine’s full speech during the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy last week: Thank you for the opportunity to share my story which also represents many Ugandans who have endured gross human rights Violations for the last 36 years. I never intended to get into politics and neither did […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Africa’s internet economy has the potential to boost the continent’s trade and logistics capabilities and become a significant global player in food security. According to Vera Songwe, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca), the internet economy in Africa can be easily worth US $180 billion by 2025. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Over 30 people have been killed during two days of attacks by gunmen in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Red Cross. The attacks happened in Ituri province, which along with neighbouring North Kivu, are under an official state of siege in an effort by the government to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta About 3.5 million Kenyans are in dire need of food assistance following an excruciating drought last seen four decades ago, according to an Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) report. The report comes against the backdrop of a forecast of poor March to May long rains indicating that the food situation can only get […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Necessity is the mother of invention, and the Rwandan government seems to master this more than most following the launch of the Centre of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR). “With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the rapid innovations witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an increased urgency to develop […]
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