Faith Nyasuguta The London Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal filed by immigration rights advocates and public employee unions seeking an injunction to temporarily block deportation flights, which are scheduled to begin Tuesday. A planeload of 31 claimants is due to depart Tuesday (today). Raza Husain, one of the migrants lawyers, had argued that […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The globe’s richest man, Elon Musk has announced that his internet service provider, Star link has gotten approval to provide high-speed internet in Africa. At the moment, the company has been approved by both Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Mozambique 🇲🇿. The billionaire announced the mega news via a tweet which attracted so many reactions […]
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Faith Nyasuguta African youth have lost confidence in their own countries and Africa as a whole to meet their aspirations and a rising number are considering moving abroad, a new survey of young people from 15 countries shows. Covid-19, climate change, political instability and violence have all had a hand in making young people “jittery” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta While the Central Africa Republic took a bold step months ago to legalise digital currency(Bitcoin), Ethiopia’s central bank has cautioned citizens against engaging in “illegal” transactions in digital currencies. The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) said digital currencies like crypto-currencies and bitcoins haven’t been recognized by the institution as a transactional and payment […]
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Faith Nyasuguta With Britain pushing ahead with plans to send migrants to Rwanda, Hadi, a gay asylum-seeker who fled Iraq, says ut would be better if he were sentenced to death. A controversial law passed in April details UK plans to send asylum-seekers deemed to have arrived illegally on British soil to Rwanda, an East […]
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Faith Nyasuguta They are mostly exhausted and demoralized, after decades of hard work for meager earnings in impoverished hospitals: in Zimbabwe, Virginia, Josephine and many other nurses dream only of exile from a collapsing health system. Still adorning her blue nursing uniform, Virginia Mutsamwira collects the day’s takings in the grocery store she runs in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Belgian 🇧🇪 King Philippe has accepted that his nation’s colonial past in the DR Congo 🇨🇩 was based on racism, in a bid to undo his predecessors’ misdeeds in the 20th century. Speaking in Kinshasa for the first time since ascending to the throne, King Philippe noted that his country takes full responsibility […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s electoral agency has revealed that an ongoing audit of its voters’ roll has found the names of nearly 250,000 deceased voters on the register. Further, about half a million more voters were found to have duplicate records and over 226,000 people were registered using documents that do not belong to them. Via […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Talks seeking to end Sudan’s ongoing political deadlock have kicked off, according to the United Nations. The nation’s main pro-democracy alliance is boycotting the meeting following a continued police crackdown on those protesting last October’s military coup. The U.N. political mission in Sudan, the African Union, and the eight-nation East African regional group […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Sudan’s patients requiring urgent medical care are feeling the pinch of the ongoing political turmoil, as well as high-level inflation, as the price of drugs hits the roof. The combination of the two issues have seen prices of basic medicine rise uncontrollably as ordinary citizens struggle to use the ever-weakening Sudanese pound to […]
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