By Faith Nyasuguta Benin legislators have voted to legalise abortion in the West African country, where the practise was already permitted under given conditions. Under the fresh law passed late Wednesday, any woman can terminate a pregnancy within the first three months if it is likely to “aggravate or cause material, educational, professional or moral […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Some eight Nigerian men linked to an internet dating scam have appeared before a South African court following a mega multinational operation involving both the FBI and Interpol. Authorities based in the US, where the probe started off and most suspects are based, have applied for their deportation. The eight are accused […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta In a ground-breaking procedure, surgeons at a New York City hospital have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a human being, whose immune system did not immediately reject the organ. The ingenious operation could be a green light that animals can be used in life-saving transplants. The beneficiary of the procedure at […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Africa’s speeding-up climate change will melt away Africa’s few remaining glaciers within 20 years, a UN report has cautioned. Further, over 100 million poor Africans are threatened by rapid climate change. In the report released ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow, the UN pointed out the continent’s “disproportionate vulnerability” from food […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Turkish authorities have set free a Ugandan opposition supporter accused of spreading the word that President Yoweri Museveni had passed away earlier this year. It is alleged that blogger Fred Lumbuye was the mastermind behind the rumors that the Ugandan president had succumbed to Covid-19. Since his arrest on August 3, Lumbuye had been […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted the nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew effective immediately. Uhuru made the announcement on Wednesday as Kenya celebrated the 58th Mashujaa (Heroes) Day celebrations at the Wang’uru Stadium in Kirinyaga county. “I hereby order that the nationwide dusk to dawn curfew that has been in effect from 2020 be […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Estimates show that the amount of food Kenyans waste in a single year could feed the majority of the hungry people currently relying on donations, for a year. Annually, some 576,410 tonnes of food go to waste in Kenya according to the Food Waste Index Report 2021, released in March by UNEP. […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Congolese Armed Forces have accused the Rwandan military group dubbed ‘Buhumba’ of infiltrating and invading the Nyiragongo region in North Kivu located in the eastern parts of DR Congo. Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, claims that it recovered one Rwandan weapon and a few other items. It also claimed that the forces had invaded […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Google has revealed that it will invest some $1 billion in the next five years to ensure faster and more affordable internet access and support entrepreneurship across Africa. Presently, internet reliability is a major issue in Africa with a third of the continent’s 1.3 billion population connected to broadband, according to the […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Citizens against Sudan’s transition to democracy have called on the nation’s military to seize control of the nation. Over the weekend, several thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace amid a deepening political crisis in Sudan. Since the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, both the military and civilian groups […]
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