Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, Egypt’s antiquities ministry insisted that Cleopatra had “white skin and Hellenistic characteristics” in an ongoing row over a Netflix drama-documentary showing the famed beauty of antiquity as black. Queen Cleopatra, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring Adele James, is set to be released on the streaming platform on 10 May. “As Egypt’s last pharaoh, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new report released on Thursday from an international team of climate scientists has revealed that a devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming. “Human-caused climate change has made agricultural drought in the Horn of Africa about 100 times more likely,” said a summary of […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A claim that former United States (US) President Barack Obama has been appointed as a Special Envoy for US Diplomacy (SED) to Kenya is FALSE. The claim was originally made by a Kenyan newspaper as an April Fools’ Day joke. AEM has since established that Obama has not announced any plans to move […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria has witnessed a disturbing increase in cases of building collapse over the years, Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Farouk Salim has said. He noted that statistics have shown that there are over 221 cases in Nigeria, making it the topmost country in Africa with the highest number of building collapse, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania is set to be the third fastest growing economy in Africa for this year. At 5.6 percent growth, the East African nation will trail Cote d’Ivoire and Rwanda, according to a United Nations report. Cote d’Ivoire, the globe’s largest producer of cocoa (30 percent), will register a 6.5 percent growth for this […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Sudanese nationals and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Millions of Sudanese trapped in their homes since violence began April 15, between forces loyal to the country’s top two generals. Civilian […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For decades, Kenya has been known to produce the best of athletes who have put the country on the global map especially in long distance races. Many of these athletes hail from the Rift Valley region and take advantage of the high altitude training centres which boosts aerobic capacity and lactic acid tolerance. […]
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Avellon Williams GHANA- Dada Hafco, a Ghanaian highlife musician, believes that culture and creative industries hold greater fortunes for Ghana than sports. In an interview with Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, Dada Hafco expressed concern about Ghana’s lackadaisical attitude towards the arts. He believes that football investment has not yielded the desired results. “Look at how much money we’ve […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-OF-PRINCE, HAITI- Haiti’s capital has reached levels of insecurity similar to war-torn countries, the United Nations said Monday in a report that highlighted a spike in murders and kidnappings. According to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report, armed gangs expanded their territorial control into previously unaffected neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince. “With the high number of fatalities and increasing areas […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On April 6, Veronica Moraa was appointed as a sheriff of Nottinghamshire, in the UK making her the first Kenyan and the first black woman to hold the role. Making the announcement, the UK Royal Airforce stated that Moraa had been appointed to the position by the King and was officially installed. The […]
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