Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, Netflix’s first original African animated series premiered. Its creator said she hoped it would pave the way for more productions from the continent. Set in a futuristic version of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, “Supa Team 4” tells the story of four teen girls who turn undercover superheroes after being recruited […]
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Faith Nyasuguta During a recent women’s conference in Zanzibar, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan once again grabbed attention with her bold statements about the nation’s economic muscle. Without publicly naming the neighboring nation of Kenya, President Suluhu noted that its instability had led to a significant exodus of investors who sought refuge in Tanzania’s stable […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Fans are holding exhibitions and martial arts workshops in Hong Kong this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of famed martial artist Bruce Lee in 1973. The star was a trailblazer for Asian men in Hollywood at a time when racist stereotypes were the norm. Lee showed that Asian men […]
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Faith Nyasuguta During rush hour on Wednesday, an unexplained explosion ripped through central Johannesburg tearing through a main road and injuring 41 people, South African officials said. Initially, emergency services blamed underground gas pipes, but the Egoli Gas company said it was “unlikely” the explosion — which cracked tarmac and overturned vehicles including minibus taxis […]
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Faith Nyasuguta According to an internet advocacy organization and an AFP journalist, social media networks including Facebook and Instagram were back online in Ethiopia on Wednesday after being blocked for about five months. A service run by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an association that tracks online censorship, showed that access to social […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Vladimir Putin will not attend a Brics summit in South Africa in August amid speculation that he could be detained under an international criminal court warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. South Africa’s presidential office announced that the Russian president would not be attending the summit after holding a “number […]
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Maina wa Njuguna INTRODUCTION Apart from the free breath of air we partake which is controlled by the automatic nervous system also known as the involuntary nervous system, most of other basic needs for life are increasingly getting out of reach to a significant percentage of the worlds populous. Are you as worthy as you […]
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Avellon Williams KENYA- Experts in animal protection and nutrition have urged Kenyans to reduce intensive meat consumption by seeking out alternative protein sources. According to Victor Yamo, the rapid growth of the human population, coupled with increased wealth, has resulted in an increase in consumer demand for animal protein products. Yamo works for World Animal Protection as the […]
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Avellon Williams GUYANA- As part of a settlement to avoid further lawsuits, Guyana’s government is paying $25,000 to the parents of the 20 children who were killed in a fire at a state-run high school in May. According to the country’s main opposition party, the settlement provided too little money for the families and was a […]
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Faith Nyasuguta President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the High Court in Gauteng that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin, if he travels to South Africa for the BRICS summit in August, would be a declaration of war against Russia. And the president did not want the public to know that. However, the court ruled on Tuesday […]
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