Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives will meet on Tuesday (February 15) to debate and decide on whether to vacate a nationwide state of emergency imposed six months ago. The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called parliamentarians for an emergency meeting, recalling them back from recess that was set to last until […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A book for 12-year-old grade seven pupils in Mozambique has been withdrawn from its education curriculum for containing some ‘controversial subjects’ on sexuality. The book on natural sciences is said to address subjects including masturbation and sexual orientation. According to the education ministry, the book has been in use since 2004 but the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Uganda’s opposition legislators are boycotting sittings to push the government into addressing increased cases of arbitrary arrests, brutality and extra-judicial torture by security agencies. Last week, MPs stormed out of a plenary session to show solidarity towards their supporters, some of whom have spent over a year in detention without trial. Last Tuesday, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The East African Community Council of Ministers has given a nod to the admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo into the regional bloc. The approval follows negotiations held between the EAC and the DRC between January 15 and 24 in Nairobi, Kenya. The regional bloc’s Negotiations Team was spearheaded by Dr. Alice […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Spanish company operating in Ghana has been slapped a $6 milion fine by the ministry of lands and Natural resources after its truck conveying explosives to a mining site exploded, resulting in the death of some 13 Ghanaians. Many more were wounded. It is reported that the Maxam company truck was ferrying […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Insects! Some cringe at the mention of the word since they may come across as filthy, ugly and nasty creatures that transfer germs from one source to another, but in essence, they are worth more than that. In its view, the World Bank projects that insect farming could be the answer to the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The airlines operating scheduled passenger flights within the East and Central Africa region risk paying up to 10 percent of their turnover generated within the bloc in fines if found guilty of breaching customers’ rights. The competition observer for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) said a completed probe has […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A fire that raged Kenya’s Aberdare National Park for two days straight has been put off after torching hundreds of hectares of wilderness, a state forest official has said. The blaze started on Saturday with scores of forest rangers, firefighters and volunteers struggling to control the fire from spreading amid increasing suspicions of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Following the landfall of tropical storm Ana on January 24 that damaged Malawi’s Chikwawa dam, the nation’s main power station has stopped operating. The nation bordering Zambia is expected to go through six months of power cuts, according to the national electricity company Egenco. Over 90 people died in the storm across southern […]
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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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