By Faith Nyasuguta Work Profile: Health and fitness coach, Martial Artist – Over the years, more African women have gotten into the fitness industry as coaches. This comes despite statistics showing that more women still shy away from fitness as compared to men. Njoki Ndirangu, 25 years and a Kenyan has beaten the odds to […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta A self-confessed serial killer Masten Wanjala has been lynched by a mob in Bungoma, Western Kenya just days after he escaped police custody in Nairobi, reports have said. According to the area chief Boniface Ndiera, he had received a phone call from one of the residents claiming that Wanjala had been spotted. […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta The South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has dismissed the state oil corporation chair Bol Ring Mourwel. So far, no reasons have been given for the dismissal publicized by a presidential decree on the state broadcaster on Thursday night. At the moment, a new chair for the Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) is yet […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta A Kenyan man that confessed to killing way over 10 children in the country has escaped from police cells in Nairobi, the capital. Masten Wanjala was set to appear in court on Wednesday following his hand in the murder of at least 14 boys in the capital, and areas surrounding eastern and […]
Read MoreBy Faith Nyasuguta The Apple juice manufactured by South African firm Ceres has been recalled from seven African nations following high levels of patulin that can trigger vomiting ,nausea and gastrointestinal disturbances. Patulin is a mycotoxin produced by a variety of moulds found in apples and apple products. Tests from laboratories also showed that Ceres […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta The Botswana court of Appeal has commenced the hearing of the government’s attempt to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalised homosexuality. In 2019, the high court of Botswana declared prison sentences for same-sex relationships as unlawful and unconstitutional. The government now wants the ruling overturned as it believes that courts have no […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta The United Nations’ loftiest court has granted Somalia the control of most of a potentially oil and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean following a bitter legal tussle with neighbouring Kenya over a sea border. On Tuesday, the International Court of Justice(ICJ) ruled that there was “no agreed maritime boundary” and drew […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Some six Nigerian women and nine children who had been kidnapped months ago have managed to escape from their abductors. Nigerian officials said that the women and children were forced to walk for six days and nights to reach safety. It was revealed that the 15 hostages were abducted separately from farming […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Kenyans who suffer from mental illnesses lack immediate help at primary health facilities and are mostly referred elsewhere to once-a-week clinics, a new survey shows. It details that most health workers in dispensaries, health centres and level 4 hospitals have minimal training on mental disorders, which means that many patients are lost […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Migrants in Tripoli, Libya’s capital have demanded their immediate deportation to a safe location due to impoverished living standards in detention centers and ill-treatment by Libyan authorities. Severally, migrants have protested outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) headquarters in Tripoli while holding banners. One Sudanese migrant Omar Idris claimed […]
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