Faith Nyasuguta For the second consecutive year, the Nobel Prizes in Science and Literature were awarded in the countries of the laureates without the usual pomp and color. Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah received his medal and diploma in London from the Swedish ambassador, Mikaela Kumlin Granit, at his official residence. This comes a few days […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Gambia’s Adama Barrow has been declared the winner in the 2021 elections in the first vote for decades held without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. In the Saturday vote, President Barrow received some 53 per cent with his nearest rival Ousainou Darboe garnering 28 per cent. Darboe and other candidates had initially said they […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Dozens of members of a Kenyan church choir died after the bus they were travelling in plunged into Enziu River in the nation’s Kitui County, on Saturday. On Sunday, divers recovered some seven bodies of the Mwingi Catholic Church choir members from the bus that was swept away from a bridge by the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Twitter has said it has shut down about 3,500 accounts that were posting pro-government propaganda in six countries, among them Uganda, China and Russia. In a statement, Twitter said that the bigger percentage of accounts were part of a network that “amplified Chinese Communist Party narratives related to the treatment of the Uyghur […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In a span of just two years, 89 Kenyans -with more than half of them being female domestic workers – have died in Saudi Arabia , the Kenyan foreign ministry says. One of the victims, Alice Awor Tindo had only been working in Saudi Arabia for three months when friends and relatives back […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A recent study has revealed that the current food crisis in Madagascar has been caused mostly by other factors apart from global warming. The new revelation contradicts a separate recent report by the UN that blamed the crisis on climate change. The report, put together by a group of multinational scientists and published […]
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Faith Nyasuguta One can easily pick out the name of the next Covid-19 variant just by looking at the Greek alphabet. However, the new Covid-19 variant announced by South Africa on November 23 was named Omicron yet it should have been dubbed ‘Nu’ or ‘Xi’, but these two names were skipped. Why? Last May, the World […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s capital Nairobi has been ranked by expatriates as the best city to work in, in Africa, jumping 50 places from last year following the ease of settling and finding houses. According to the Expat City Ranking 2021, Nairobi also ranks 12 out of 57 cities surveyed globally, an improvement from 62 out […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta “The youth of Tigray is perishing like leaves. Knowing it is defeated, it is being led by one who does not have a clear vision or plan,” Abiy, the winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, said in comments aired on state media. “It should surrender today to the Ethiopian National Defence […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta For days now, Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport has been in the limelight over an alleged impending takeover by China following a loan default. The Entebbe International Airport is Uganda’s major aviation hub that handles over 1.9 million passengers. It is the country’s only international airport. The last time the airport hit headlines […]
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