Faith Nyasuguta In Kenya, over 3.5 million people get malaria every year, according to CDC estimates. Out of the numbers, over 10,000 Kenyans die from it every year. According to Francis Ndungu, a malaria immunologist at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust: “In the case of malaria, a mosquito bites you and injects a parasite form called sporozoites into […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s opposition has said it will resume anti-government protests from May 2, nearly three weeks after suspending rallies to take part in a dialogue with authorities. “We will resume rallies from May 2, the demonstrations will be limited to Nairobi,” the Kenyan capital, Dennis Onyango, spokesman for Raila Odinga, a veteran opposition leader […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A ballooning list of nations have evacuated diplomats and citizens from Sudan’s capital as fierce fighting continues to rage in Khartoum. On Sunday, the US and the UK announced that they had flown diplomats out of the country. France, Germany, Italy and Spain are among other nations that also carried out evacuations. So […]
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Avellon Williams SOUTH AFRICA- It appears that South Africans are becoming poorer, according to data from Capitec. One-third of South Africans rely on the lender for banking services, which says income levels did not keep up with inflation in the last financial year end-February. While the bank’s clients switched to more affordable products, they spent 16% more […]
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Avellon Williams YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON— A total of five people have died from cholera in Yaounde in the last month, according to the health ministry, which warned that the disease is on the rise. Since last month, five people have died from the disease, and more than 88 cases have been identified in the central region of the country, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of earth’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will send it back to parliament for “strengthening”, the ruling party’s chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to make it law, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Wednesday, a Ukrainian Nobel peace prize winner called on South Africa not to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS summit in the country in August. Oleksandra Romantsova, the head of an NGO that became the winner of Ukraine’s first ever peace prize last year, urged the South African government […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Data from the Kenyan treasury indicates that the government’s financial position was better in March than in February despite the larger debt payments, contradicting public statements by officials portraying the government as broke. Recently, President William Ruto, his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua and a host of top administration officials blamed delays in paying civil […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation’s chief called for the parties in the conflict in Sudan to provide access to medical facilities to all those requiring care, warning that medical supplies and personnel in the capital are running low. “I want to be very clear: All parties must ensure unrestricted and safe access […]
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Avellon Williams NIGERIA- In the early hours of Monday, April 3, 2023, eight female students from Government Secondary School, Awon, Kachia Local Council, Kaduna State, who were kidnapped by terrorists on their way home from school, escaped from their captors. According to preliminary briefings, the students escaped from a thick forest around the Kaduna/Niger border, Kaduna State Commissioner for […]
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