Faith Nyasuguta A man has been arrested inside the South African parliament after a huge fire severely ravaged the Parliament buildings in Cape Town. A police spokesperson said that the man was facing charges of arson, housebreaking and theft, and would appear in court on Tuesday. On Sunday, a fire broke out at the South […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya Airways (KQ) and South African Airways (SAA) will patner to form Pan-African Airline, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. The Head of State, while announcing the development, said the move will enable continental reach and global coverage. “To boost tourism, trade, and social engagement; and to bolster continental integration; our national carrier […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South Africa has bid Archbishop Desmond Tutu farewell in a funeral stripped of pomp but freighted with glowing tributes and showered with rain. Tutu, who died last Sunday at the age of 90, was the last great hero of the fight against apartheid. His death sparked grief among South Africans and tributes from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan Education Cabinet Secretary(CS) Prof. George Magoha has sparked a new controversy after ordering that students engaging in homosexuality be forbidden from boarding schools. The professor says that gay learners should be restricted to day schools closer to their homes. “Right now, there are contemporary cases of children who are homosexual and lesbians, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The WHO has projected that a Covid “tsunami” could overwhelm healthcare systems. This comes amid surging infections fuelled by the Omicron variant, dampening New year celebrations worldwide again. Governments are between a rock and a hard place as they seek to impose anti-virus restrictions and keep economies, societies open in the wake of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Gunmen in Sudan have looted a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse housing some 1,900 tonnes of food aid in Darfur amid a violence surge in the troubled western region, officials have said. According to El-Fasher residents – the capital of North Darfur state- there was heavy shooting around the warehouse late Tuesday. “We […]
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Faith Nyasuguta This week, a new $1.3 billion commuter railway in Senegal set to ease traffic gridlock and boost a crumbling public transport system made its maiden journey from the capital Dakar. The Regional Express will connect Dakar with Diamniadio, an industrial city that is being set up on a dusty plain some 40 kilometres […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Cameroonian military tribunal has imprisoned dozens of opposition supporters for terms of up to seven years for “rebellion“, their party’s deputy Secretary General has said. The 47 were nabbed in September 2020 as Maurice Kamto’s Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) and several other parties set up protests against the government […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Police have revealed that a pack of hyenas mauled two people within a 24-hour-span in a village just 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Kenya’s capital Nairobi. They confirmed that the hyenas, numbering about 20, mauled a man on Monday in the village of Kamuthi near the industrial town of Thika as he […]
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Ian Kisoti The Confederation of African Football on Sunday stated that confirmed clubs can delay the release of players to the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) until January 3. According to FIFA’s rules, the clubs have to release players by December 27 for the tournament commencing on January 9, 2022. “CAF has decided that for those […]
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