By Faith Nyasuguta Niger has declared two days of national mourning starting Friday after the killing of some 69 people in an ambush by alleged Islamist insurgents. The attack took place in the country’s south-west, near the border with neighbouring Mali. According to the government, victims included a local mayor and the head of a […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta So far, 800,000 people have been affected by the increasing water levels in South Sudan since May, the United Nations(UN) has revealed. The statistics come even as the world grapples with climate change and its impact. In a press statement, the UN said that Jonglei, Unity, and Upper Nile regions are among […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia’s US embassy has called on its citizens to consider vacating the warring nation. The caution comes amid a declaration of a state of emergency after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels seized more territory in the northern region. Further, the US embassy has barred its staffers from travelling outside Addis […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Estimates reveal that currently, about 80 thousand tonnes of plastic waste litter the seaside. To avert the already bad situation, the state has now joined forces with local waste collectors, or barbechas, as they are known in order to clean up the country. For the majority, this activity is a full time […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta A British soldier was fined and discharged after confessing he had lifted the skirt of a Kenyan woman in a Kenyan mall in a Nanyuki, a UK paper has reported. According to the Sunday Times, the soldier, a colour sergeant or equivalent rank of a warrant officer, was drunk and the woman was […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopian capital city, Addis Ababa’s residents have been urged to to register their weapons in a bid to protect their neighbourhoods amid fears that rebels could advance on the city. The plea by officials comes days after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) announced it had captured two cities about 400km from Addis […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta As part of protests against the Sudan military coup, Sudanese protesters have barricaded roads in the capital, Khartoum. On Saturday, three people were killed when security fired shots and tear gas to disperse protesters in the nearby city of Omdurman, medics revealed. However, the interior ministry denied that live rounds had been […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that schools will reopen next year despite the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines. As a Covid-19 measure, Ugandan schools have been shut for nearly two years, since March 2020. “Be informed that the schools will be opened in January and the rest of the economy will […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta An investigation on the rising obesity in Kenya has landed researchers on an improbable culprit- marriage. Evidence now reveals that immediately after a couple moves in together, the duo begins to add weight. The research looked into data from the 2015 Kenya STEPwise Survey, the first nationally representative survey to objectively measure […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Popular messaging application WhatsApp will not function on millions of phones starting November this year. In a brief by WhatsApp, the application is set for an upgrade that will be incompatible with certain phones and will affect both Iphone and Android users who will not have updated their operating systems by the […]
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