Faith Nyasuguta As of Monday afternoon, queues at Petrol stations in Kenya grew longer as delayed payments of subsidies meant to stabilize fuel prices led to fuel shortages across the East African nation. The government is yet to pay about 13 billion shillings ($113 million) to oil marketing companies to keep prices from rising further, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The UN refugee agency boss has called on Europe to be generous and welcoming to other migrants, just as it has been with refugees from Ukraine, following the death of scores of African migrants at sea. The development comes after 90 people died in international waters of the Mediterranean sea after setting off […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The latest edition of the World Happiness Report, a United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network publication, has used statistical analysis to determine the globe’s happiest nations. The report ranks 146 countries in their overall happiness and highlights the nations that are the happiest or unhappiest. “The World Happiness Report is changing the conversation […]
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Featured Image : Eurélia Manuel Benjamim (Centre)surprised when her relatives thought she was dead /Image, Larson Fungate/ Faith Nyasuguta In northern Mozambique, a teenager who was presumed dead and whose funeral was held last November has returned home to the village of Lindi. In the community’s view, Eurélia Manuel Benjamin has been resurrected from the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Once again, Kenya’s judges have blocked a state-backed plan to make key alterations to the constitution, suffering the president a huge blow. According to supreme court judges, president Uhuru Kenyatta had acted unlawfully when he initiated the reforms, popularly referred to as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). They noted that it should have […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A South African female ex-student who went on a spending spree after erroneously receiving about $1m (£700,000) in her bank account has been convicted of theft and jailed for five years. In June 2017, Sibongile Mani received 14m rand instead of her monthly student grant of 1,400 rand in and immediately commenced spending […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan police say they have taken disciplinary action against a policeman filmed forcing his way into a private car via a window on a busy road in the capital, Nairobi. The incident, highly circulated on social media, was captured by a local TV crew in the central business district. In the clip, the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Eight peacekeepers died in a Tuesday helicopter crash in North Kivu, a location in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Congo (Monusco), initial findings reveal that “the crash was caused by a luminous object“. The UN mission is, however, not ruling out the possibility […]
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•Only a handful of African countries, like Nigeria, Morocco, and Kenya, have enough resources to print their own currencies or mint their own coins. Faith Nyasuguta Decades after independence, over 40 African nations still print their money in Germany, France and the UK. This was revealed by a recent study examining why many African countries […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has joined the East African Community (EAC) today, March 29 in a bid to boost trade, social cohesion and security. The nation was officially admitted to the regional bloc during a virtual extraordinary summit of EAC heads of state chaired by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. DRC will […]
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