Faith Nyasuguta Tanzania’s first female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been named among the top 100 most influential people on earth by the renowned Time magazine. The development has seen President Suluhu join other prominent figures in the 2022 list, including US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta An Egyptian court has sentenced a businessman to three years in prison for trafficking and sexually assaulting seven underage girls at an orphanage he founded, judicial sources told AFP. He was also fined 200,000 Egyptian pounds (US$11,000). The media and real estate tycoon Mohamed el-Amin was arrested in January on accusations that he […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Somalia’s tenth President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, voted in days ago, has taken over the presidency from his predecessor Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo in a handover ceremony at the Villa Somalia (presidential palace) in Mogadishu. In attendance at the event were the speakers and deputy speakers of Somalia’s bicameral parliament (Lower and Upper Houses), MPs […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Media outlets in Europe and North America have been criticised for their use of images of black people to illustrate the outbreak of monkeypox. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a membership organisation for journalists covering Africa for the international media in Africa and the diaspora says the usage of images amounts to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has vowed that his government will not intervene in the current economic situation amid a rising cost of living. In recent months, prices of petroleum products, imported raw materials and food have been rising, a crisis being experienced globally following the war in Ukraine. In a Sunday night televised […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, jubilant crowds came out to cross South Sudan’s first permanent bridge over the River Nile after it was officially opened. The 560-metre long bridge on the edge of Juba, the capital, dubbed Freedom was constructed using a grant from the Japanese government. Construction kicked off in 2013 but had to be […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under an embattled new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks”, officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since the announcement in April , the agreement enabling Britain to send migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Some 15 African civil society organisations have cautioned that the ongoing war in Ethiopia could equal the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, unless the United Nations immediately puts the conflict on its agenda. In a letter to the UN Security Council dated May 18, the groups noted that besides war crimes […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Kenyan court has ordered a German athlete to pay a Ksh70,000 ($601) fine or spend six months in prison for cyber harassment in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet County. The harassment was in the form of text and social media messages sent to a Kenyan female athlete, who also trains in Iten, was meant […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A rare white buffalo has been seen in Tanzania’s northern Tarangire National Park. According to the country’s national resources and tourism ministry, the buffalo was first sighted in the park on Monday, attracting many tourists wanting to see the animal. Unlike others, the buffalo was bigger, local publication The Citizen reported, saying it was […]
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