Avellon Williams BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA — According to Colombia’s human rights watchdog, 215 human rights advocates died last year, the highest death toll since a 2016 peace accord with leftist rebels. One of the last victims of 2022 was José Ricaurte Quintero, founder of the Maná Survivors Association. In December, he was assassinated on the street in Armenia. During Colombia’s […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The increase in weather disasters, which push millions of people onto the roads, is now one of the “main causes” of human trafficking, according to a UN report published Tuesday, also mentioning the risks posed by the war in Ukraine. “Climate change increases vulnerability to trafficking,” the study by the UN Office on […]
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Renson Mwakandana US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the highest American representative to the UN, is scheduled to visit Kenya on Wednesday. The UN country team is anticipated to update Ms. Thomas-Greenfield on humanitarian programs, including the regional drought response and support for refugees. She will also meet with refugees who are waiting to be resettled in the United States […]
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Lisa Mugo TV personality and beauty mogul Kylie Jenner, wore a dress with a life like lion head attached to her shoulder, at the Schiaparelli show in Paris which sparked mixed reactions on social media. Kylie’s fans were fuming after the megastar showed up wearing a real looking lion head to Paris fashion week claiming that it perpetuates the […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Morocco 🇲🇦 and Paris Saint Germain defender Achraf Hakimi has been named the Arab Sportsman of the Year for 2022. Hakimi was instrumental in the Atlas Lions reaching the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations in January, before assisting the North Africans in a record-breaking World Cup campaign. Prior to the 2022 […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The leader of opposition in Kenya, Raila Odinga, has affirmed that his political coalition does not recognise William Ruto as the President of Kenya and has dubbed the new Kenyan government as “illegitimate“. Ruto beat him in last August’s poll, but Mr Odinga – who appeared at Nairobi’s Kamukunji Stadium alongside his running […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- Almost four months after cholera reappeared in this French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member, 496 people have died. According to the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), the country has already registered 25,182 suspected cases and 21,407 hospitalizations, 73 of them new; 312 of the 496 deaths have occurred in hospitals and […]
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Avellon Williams PARIS- Following reports that Burkina Faso authorities have ordered French troops to leave within a month, French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he’s waiting for clarifications from the new regime’s leader. With junta leader Ibrahim Traore away from the capital, Ouagadougou, Macron called the message from Burkina Faso “confusing.” According to Burkina Faso’s national […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya is currently earning more foreign exchange from diaspora remittances than each of its major exports – coffee, tea and horticulture – despite persistent criticism of a poor diaspora policy. The latest figures from the Central Bank of Kenya show that the nation’s diaspora remittances jumped by 8.34 percent to $4.027 billion in […]
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Renson Mwakandana Five people were murdered when extremists with ties to al-Qaida assaulted a regional government office in the capital of Somalia on Sunday, according to the administration. Abdulkadir Adan, the founder of an organization that provides free ambulance services in Somalia, notes that his crew evacuated 16 injured persons from the area. The terrorist organization al-Shabab took […]
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