Faith Nyasuguta Historically, obesity levels have been relatively low in Africa. However, they are steadily rising across the continent as a result of urbanisation, sedentary lifestyles, and fat-rich diets. Projections now show that one in five adults and one in 10 children and teenagers will be obese by December 2023 if no robust measures are […]
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Faith Nyasuguta United Nations countries have given a nod to a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, rivers and landscape. Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the United Nations Environment Assembly has taken up a resolution detailing what to do about plastic pollution. It calls for two years of negotiations toward […]
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Faith Nyasuguta States of the East African Community (EAC) are set to commence using a single currency by 2024. Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda already decided they will merge their respective shillings with Rwanda and Burundian Francs to form the single legal tender for the bloc in two years. South Sudan is also expected to lose […]
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Faith Nyasuguta As national examinations are approaching, the society of Atheists in Kenya has written to Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha urging him to bar mandatory prayer days in schools. According to the society, it has received numerous complaints from learners in Kenyan schools saying they were being forced to attend church services and the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A man, identified only as Luwizo, has tied the knot with identical triplets on the same day in Congo in a colourful wedding ceremony. The groom, 32 years, says he met one of the triplets called Natalie via Facebook, and exchanged messages for a while before falling in love with her. Afterwards, according […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, 106 Tunisian students landed in their home country. They were among the first North African nationals to safely leave Ukraine. Since time immemorial, airport embraces have often been emotional. On Tuesday morning, tears were shed in the Tunis airport, they were tears of joy. The tears marked the end of an […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The African Union has revealed it is disturbed by reports indicating that Africans in Ukraine are being denied the right to cross the border to safety. The body has now called on all nations to respect international law and offer assistance to everyone fleeing the war irrespective of their race. Senegalese President Macky […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Fourteen people are still missing after a Saturday crash of a Tanzanian plane. It is said that the light aircraft registered in Tanzania and owned by a Zanzibar-based firm crashed into the sea off the coast of Comoros. Airline AB Aviation said its small Cessna plane disappeared from the radar about 2.5 kilometres […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has revealed that his party has joined an opposition coalition ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections in August. This, he says, is in a bid to clean up politics of “crooks“. The declaration comes after Kenyatta’s anointed successor William Ruto, who seeks to contest the presidential election, was […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, wheat and other grains are back at the heart of geopolitics. The two nations play a key role in the world’s agricultural market. For decades, there has been significant agricultural trade between nations in Africa, Russia and Ukraine. In 2020 African countries imported agricultural products worth $4 billion […]
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