Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan President William Ruto has announced the deployment of troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint regional operation against a rebel offensive. Armed groups in the region have stepped up attacks, reviving ancient animosities and sparking a surge in tension with neighbouring Rwanda. In April this year, leaders of the […]
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Renson Mwakandana If the pilots’ planned strike at Kenya Airways occurs as planned, Kenya Airways stands to lose an estimated 300 million shillings ($2.5 million) every day. More than 400 pilots at the airline are represented by KALPA, which had issued a notice that will start a strike at midnight on Wednesday over pensions, accumulated back wages, […]
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Lisa Mugo Nigerian influencer, Hushpuppi, better known as Ramon Abbas’s account has been removed from Instagram ahead of his court hearing to be held on Monday in California. Hashpuppi who is also known to be an international fraudster was arrested in 2020 in Dubai on charges of hacking, impersonation, scamming, banking fraud, and identity theft. He was thereafter extradited […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Rico Luiz became the youngest player to score on his first Champions League start as he sparked Manchester City’s comeback with a 3-1 win over Sevilla. After Rafa Mir had given Sevilla an unexpected lead in the first half, the 17-year-old right-back calmly equalized. He became the youngest player in Champions League history to score on […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Glaciers across the globe – including the last ones in Africa – will be lost by 2050 due to climate change, the UN has said in a report. A third of glaciers found in UN World Heritage sites will melt within three decades, a UNESCO report revealed. It was noted that Mount Kilimanjaro’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia’s warring sides have officially agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities, an African Union special envoy said Wednesday, after a 2-year conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands. Ex-Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in the first briefing on the peace talks in South Africa, also noted that Ethiopia’s government […]
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Avellon Williams UKRAINE- Tuesday, a day after Russian missile strikes, Kyiv’s water and power supplies were fully restored, while grain exports continued despite Moscow pulling out of a deal to let ships pass. As part of the counter-offensive by Kyiv, Russian authorities announced that they would “evacuate” tens of thousands more civilians from the Russian-occupied […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Britain museum and university say they will return human remains taken from Zimbabwe during the colonial era. Zimbabwe officials want to recover the remains of some of the leaders of an uprising against British rule in the 1980s. Among the most prominent of these leaders in the uprising – known as the […]
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Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- As the FIFA World Cup draws near, the United Nations Labour agency reported a growing number of complaints about unpaid wages by migrant workers in Qatar. As a result of the new online platform, International Labour Organization (ILO) says worker complaints have more than doubled to 34,425 in a year. It calls on Qatar to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Researchers said on Tuesday that new data suggests an invasive type of malaria-carrying mosquito from Asia is expanding in Africa, where it may pose a “unique” threat to tens of millions of urban inhabitants. Over 95% of the 627,000 malaria-related deaths expected worldwide will occur in Africa. The parasite is primarily distributed in […]
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