Faith Nyasuguta The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said his government will do everything in its power to peacefully resolve the ongoing conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia’s north. The PM revealed this over the weekend during the opening of the 35th African Union Head of States Summit in the capital, Addis Ababa. Noting that the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tunisia has been pushed into further political turmoil after President Kais Saied said he was suspending the nation’s major legal body, the Supreme Judicial Council. According to the head of state, the judges have been biased and involved in corruption. “Their place is not where they sit now, but where the accused stand,” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In South Africa, food manufacturer Nestlé has recalled some of its KitKat chocolate bars after a safe-check realization that they could contain glass particles. According to the company, no customer had complained but preventive measures would be taken by calling back the affected batches. Customers who had made purchases of the listed batches […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan activists have said the Ugandan government should severely punish all men impregnating girls to make them accountable for the rape. Speaking in Kampala on Wednesday, the activists told journalists that severe punishment could dissuade others from raping girls and aid halt the cycle of sexual abuse. “They should learn that if they […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Zambian soldier has been lauded across the country for aiding an expectant woman deliver her baby. Following this act, Lance Corporal Humphrey Mangisani was promoted to full corporal. The soldier had organised for a motorbike to take the mother to hospital as he followed on his own bike but unexpectedly, the lady […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Guinea-Bissau president has said he survived a coup attempt after being under heavy gunfire for some five hours. Umaro Sissoco Embalo noted that the attackers tried to kill him and his entire cabinet at the government palace. He confirmed that many others had been killed in the fighting on both sides. Local […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Ethiopian Airlines has started operating the Boeing 737 MAX for the first time since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and sparked the global grounding of the aircraft. In March 2019, flight 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi plunged six minutes after takeoff into a field […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, ex-South African president Jacob Zuma was back at the Pietermaritzburg court. The 79-year old man is challenging an October court ruling that barred his plea to replace the chief prosecutor in his corruption trial. South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma made a surprise court appearance in his latest bid to have the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A week after the Burkina Faso military seized power in a coup, regional bloc African Union (AU) has suspended the West African nation. It has been revealed that the country will be barred from all AU activities until constitutional order has been restored. The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, which suspended Burkina Faso […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Some seven people have been killed and 13 others injured after a minibus they were traveling in ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mandera, northern Kenya, on Monday morning. The public service vehicle -commonly known as matatu in Kenya- plying the Mandera Arabia road had left the Arabia township at about […]
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