By Faith Nyasuguta Benin legislators have voted to legalise abortion in the West African country, where the practise was already permitted under given conditions. Under the fresh law passed late Wednesday, any woman can terminate a pregnancy within the first three months if it is likely to “aggravate or cause material, educational, professional or moral […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Some eight Nigerian men linked to an internet dating scam have appeared before a South African court following a mega multinational operation involving both the FBI and Interpol. Authorities based in the US, where the probe started off and most suspects are based, have applied for their deportation. The eight are accused […]
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Avellon Williams Kerala, INDIA- A couple has sailed across submerged streets in a massive cooking pot to tie the knot as heavy rain floods lashed the southern state of Kerala. The bride and groom identified only by just their first name Akash and Aishwarya, borrowed the aluminium cooking pot from a local temple to get through floodwaters […]
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Avellon Williams Port-au-Prince, HAITI- Notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, has demanded a $17 million ransom- $1 million per hostage to free a Christian missionaries group that was kidnapped on Saturday. The group was abducted while traveling outside Port-au-Prince. The victims include 16 Americans and One Canadian, ranging from ages 18 to 48 and the children […]
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By Canisius Mushibwe An act of integrity has become a reason for mockery as a Liberian teenager who found US $50,000 and returned it to the owner has become a laughing stock among those who disagreed with his action. 18-year-old Emmanuel Tuloe, who makes his living in transportation by riding a motorcycle, returned the money […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta In a ground-breaking procedure, surgeons at a New York City hospital have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a human being, whose immune system did not immediately reject the organ. The ingenious operation could be a green light that animals can be used in life-saving transplants. The beneficiary of the procedure at […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Africa’s speeding-up climate change will melt away Africa’s few remaining glaciers within 20 years, a UN report has cautioned. Further, over 100 million poor Africans are threatened by rapid climate change. In the report released ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow, the UN pointed out the continent’s “disproportionate vulnerability” from food […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Turkish authorities have set free a Ugandan opposition supporter accused of spreading the word that President Yoweri Museveni had passed away earlier this year. It is alleged that blogger Fred Lumbuye was the mastermind behind the rumors that the Ugandan president had succumbed to Covid-19. Since his arrest on August 3, Lumbuye had been […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted the nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew effective immediately. Uhuru made the announcement on Wednesday as Kenya celebrated the 58th Mashujaa (Heroes) Day celebrations at the Wang’uru Stadium in Kirinyaga county. “I hereby order that the nationwide dusk to dawn curfew that has been in effect from 2020 be […]
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By Faith Nyasuguta Estimates show that the amount of food Kenyans waste in a single year could feed the majority of the hungry people currently relying on donations, for a year. Annually, some 576,410 tonnes of food go to waste in Kenya according to the Food Waste Index Report 2021, released in March by UNEP. […]
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