Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced the hearing of a legal bid to rejuvenate government plans to shake up the nation’s political system, just months before the general elections. The ruling by the Supreme Court on the proposed constitutional changes, expected after three days of hearings this week, could heavily impact the August […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyans on Twitter are expressing their anger and shock after recent reports of bodies being found dumped in a river in the nation’s western region. Via his Twitter handle activist Boniface Mwangi posted that he and the head of local human rights organization Haki Africa had counted over 20 decomposing bodies at Yala […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Police in Mozambique have reported that the head of a bald man has been removed by criminals who sought to sell it to a client from Mali. They confirmed that the customer disappeared, pushing the criminals to leave the head in the central town of Muandiwa. Over the years, it has been revealed […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Currently, Uganda is experiencing a fuel crisis following a build-up of fuel transporters at the major border points of Malaba and Busia in the east of the nation. Witnesses indicate that queues of waiting trucks, as long as 70km (43 miles) can still be seen. For days, truck drivers in East Africa have […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ousted Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, has died aged 76, family and former colleagues have said. Despite suffering a minor stroke two years ago, the cause of his death on Sunday was not immediately clear. Keita died at 09:00 GMT at his home in the capital Bamako, a member of his family told […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A professor in a Morocco university will spend two years behind bars for “indecent assault with violence” in a case of sexual blackmail against female students in exchange for good grades. Local media report that the economics professor at Hassan I University in Settat was convicted with “indecent assault”, “violence” and “sexual harassment” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In South Africa, a regional health minister is under attack for telling school girls to “open your books and close your legs”. Minister Phophi Ramathuba made the statement during a visit to a secondary school in a bid to promote abstinence and shrink teenage pregnancy rates. Netizens criticized the remark and questioned why […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda’s National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has directed his supporters to wear the red beret, resurrecting the battle between the army and his camp on the dress code about a year later. “As the leaders of NUP, we shall resume the wearing of the red beret after all […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In recent days, some 100 Rwandans have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claiming to be fleeing the Covid-19 vaccination, which has been mandatory in their nation. Authorities disclosed that the Rwandans came in small groups by canoe to the south of the island of Idjwi, located on Lake Kivu, which […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Seven months after banning Twitter in the nation, Nigeria has lifted the ban on the social media site. In June 2020, the Nigerian government suspended Twitter after the company deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari about punishing regional secessionists. According to local authorities, the social media giant sided with the secessionists. Later […]
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