Avellon Williams DIAMNIADIO, SENEGAL- Restrictions on travel to South Africa and other African countriesin light of the omicron variant are hypocritical, harsh, and unsupported by science, South Africa’spresident declared Monday. Among his references was the U.N. chief, who called suchrestrictions “travel apartheid.” President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at the Dakar International Forum for Peace and Security, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An ex-director of the Kigali main prison has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Rwandan court for stealing money from a British inmate. According to a court document, Innocent Kayumba, who was sentenced on Friday evening alongside his ex-deputy Eric Ntakirutimana, has appealed against the judgement. In court, it was […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For the second consecutive year, the Nobel Prizes in Science and Literature were awarded in the countries of the laureates without the usual pomp and color. Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah received his medal and diploma in London from the Swedish ambassador, Mikaela Kumlin Granit, at his official residence. This comes a few days […]
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Avellon Williams LONDON, ENGLAND — One of the scientists working on the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine warns that unless more money is spent on research and preparations to deal with emerging viruses, the next pandemic may be even more contagious and lethal. Ahead of a speech on Monday, Professor Sarah Gilbert released an excerpt of her […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — According to an Ohio-based religious group, the gang holding missionaries’ hostages in Haiti has released three more. Twelve others remain captive. “The people were released on Sunday, and they are safe and in good spirits,” Christian Aid Ministries reported. Two of the seventeen hostages kidnapped in mid-October were released on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Gambia’s Adama Barrow has been declared the winner in the 2021 elections in the first vote for decades held without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. In the Saturday vote, President Barrow received some 53 per cent with his nearest rival Ousainou Darboe garnering 28 per cent. Darboe and other candidates had initially said they […]
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Avellon Williams HAVANA, CUBA- The South African government is waiting for an explanation from Villa Clara University authorities regarding the beating of medical students from their country during a party last November that descended into chaos. Deputy Minister of Health Sibongiseni Dhlomo reacted to the investigation he announced a few days ago in front of a commission of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Dozens of members of a Kenyan church choir died after the bus they were travelling in plunged into Enziu River in the nation’s Kitui County, on Saturday. On Sunday, divers recovered some seven bodies of the Mwingi Catholic Church choir members from the bus that was swept away from a bridge by the […]
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Staff writer According to Hofstra University professor and historian Alan Singer, Ahmaud Arbery arrest and subsequent murder was the result of deep, entrenched and racist legacy of citizen’s arrest laws. The federal government between 1793 – 1850 passed fugitive slaves laws that sanctioned Blacks could be stopped, whether they were free or not. The burden […]
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Canisius Mushibwe The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted Zambia a three-year debt relief package worth US$ 1.4 billion. This development is set to help restructure the country’s extensive debts, provided authorities make intensive and ambitious reforms including imposing extensive financial austerity measures. The three-year package is a huge stride towards Zambia’s new president Hakainde […]
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