Faith Nyasuguta The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried the alarming surge in attacks and kidnappings of children in parts of Africa. In a statement,the agency’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore indicated that the cases were higher in West and Central Africa. UNICEF noted that the “non-state armed groups and parties to the conflict in […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ex-South African President Jacob Zuma will spend his first night in prison today. This comes after the former leader turned himself in to South African police early Thursday to commence his 15 month-long sentence. According to officials, Zuma was convicted of contempt of the nation’s loftiest court. Prison officials have asserted that the […]
Read MoreFaith Nyasuguta Haiti President Jovenel Moise has been assassinated by unknown assailants in his private residence at Port-au-Prince. His wife has been wounded and airlifted to a hospital in Miami, US.
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Faith Nyasuguta Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was killed on Wednesday during an ambush at his private residence, Haiti’s interim prime minister Claude Joseph has said. In a statement, Joseph dubbed the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act”. He confirmed that a group of unknown people attacked Moïse’s home on Wednesday and shot him dead. Martine […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania has reopened all its schools even as the government indicates that it is reviewing provided guidelines on countering Covid-19 spread. Abel Makub, the Health Ministry permanent Secretary noted that the government opted to review the earlier guidelines following the global rapid surge of COVID-19 cases. “The Health Ministry has been closely following […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Three men guilty of poaching 187 dik diks in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park have been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment each. Kaviha Charo, Katana Unda and Bugo Suluhu were sentenced by the Voi Law Courts on Monday in a ruling that also slapped them with $22,000 fine each. The trio was nabbed […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The United Nations has said that over 400,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray are facing famine. This comes amid a unilateral ceasefire by the federal government that could be at risk of being breached. Last Friday, the UN Security Council held the maiden public meeting in over seven months-since the Tigray war broke out. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Food prices in Nigeria have steadily risen following high inflation rates. The most populous African nation with about 210 million residents reported a food inflation rate of 22.28 per cent in May 2021. That means the local food demand is way higher than food production, steadily pushing food prices to rise. The high […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An Ivory Coast court has sentenced 10 people convicted of child trafficking to 10 years behind bars each. This is part of the government’s effort to hunt down organised networks that smuggle in unsuspecting children to work in the country’s cocoa plantations. As a whole, the leading cocoa producer and firms purchasing the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Rwanda has penned a $3.6 million deal with the European Union in a bid to boost the nation’s laboratory muscle to attract Covid-19 manufacturing investors. The funds will reinforce the Foods and Drugs Authority’s quality control for medical products so that the regulator can get necessary certification from the World Health Organisation (WHO). […]
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