Faith Nyasuguta Girls in Zimbabwean rural areas have been forced to use cow dung for sanitary wear as inflation hits feminine hygiene products. At 19 years old, Constance Dimingo wriggles in her wheelchair as she tries to recall the last time she used a sanitary pad. “I last wore a pad before my mother died […]
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Faith Nyasuguta As global prices hike, the cost of buying cooking gas is becoming unbearable for the majority of Kenyans with the chase for alternatives leading some straight into the forests, for charcoal. Charcoal, an amorphous form of carbon obtained when the wood is burned in minimal oxygen, is proving to be the easiest – […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Police in Somalia have revealed that citizens of the East African nation are steaming ants to be high and get intoxicated. Some odorous house ants, whose scientific name is said to be tapinoma sessile, are known to contain formic acid. Appearing before Somali Cable TV station, a police officer noted that there are […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pronounced dead. The doctors treating him confirmed this after he was shot at an election campaign event in the city of Nara. “Shinzo Abe was transported to [the hospital] at 12:20 pm. He was in a state of cardiac arrest upon arrival. Resuscitation was administered. However, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UN has cautioned that eight of the 18 regions in Somalia are now at huge risk of sliding into famine by September, due to a devastating drought and the war in Ukraine. At the moment, about 200 children have succumbed to malnutrition and disease since January. The number of people suffering from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Boris Johnson is set to announce his resignation as British Prime Minister on Thursday (today), a government source said, after he was abandoned by ministers and his Conservative Party’s lawmakers saying he was no longer fit to govern. With eight ministers, among them two secretaries of state, stepping down in the last two […]
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Faith Nyasuguta At least 27 million people are facing food insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations. The UN projects that the situation is likely to worsen, following the recent fighting between the M23 rebel group and the army in the East of the nation, which has displaced tens of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Tunisian court has frozen the bank accounts of several key opponents to President Kais Saied, including Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. This week, the Tunisian Financial Analysis Committee issued a statement informing banks they must “immediately implement the ruling from the investigating judge of the anti-terrorism pole”. The statement […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe’s central bank has said it will start issuing gold coins as legal tender in late July. This comes as the nation battles to control the rising inflation that has considerably weakened the local currency. The gold coin is dubbed ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya‘, after Victoria Falls, and can be converted into cash according to the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Sudan’s top general has announced that the military troops would step away from the government in a bid to resolve the political crisis. Via a televised speech broadcast on Monday, coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the army would make way for a civilian government. “I call on the various components of the […]
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