Faith Nyasuguta A key official of Uganda’s National Drug Authority (NDA) on Wednesday stunned MPs on the House Committee of HIV/AIDS when he confessed that they were aware of, but initially ignored the potentially deadly abuse of antiretroviral drugs to fatten farm animals. The law makers were dismayed that the regulator of such a sensitive […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Multiple witnesses have revealed that Ethiopian soldiers killed more than 70 civilians and looted property in a town in Amhara. The killings took place in Majete, a rural town in north-eastern Ethiopia, after two weeks of heavy fighting between federal soldiers and the Fano, an Amhara militia. The alleged atrocities took place after […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The Gabonese junta has released ousted President Ali Bongo over medical grounds. His release comes about a week after he was deposed by the military over what they dubbed as ‘rigged elections’. The ouster came shortly after he was declared winner of the Gabon presidential election. Gabon’s state TV, Gabon 24 on Wednesday […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The president of Egypt, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has said that the nation needs to slow its birth rate to avoid a catastrophe. He noted that Egypt has to lower its annual births to 400,000 from the current more than two million for the country to efficiently provide jobs and social services to its […]
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Faith Nyasuguta African leaders have requested for debt relief across the continent to allow nations to get on with responding to the climate crisis, as they publish the Nairobi Declaration at the end of the first African climate summit. The declaration, which had a heavy focus on climate finance, also included a call for global […]
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Faith Nyasuguta France is reportedly in talks with Niger’s military on possible pullout of French troops from the West African nation in the wake of the erosion of ties following a coup in July, according to French media reports. Verifying the information, former French ambassador to Mali and Senegal Nicolas Normand revealed that according to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Monday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi lauded African countries for resisting “colonialism” during a visit by Burkina Faso’s foreign minister. Burkina Faso, as well as Mali, are currently ruled by military juntas that severed military ties with France — a former colonial power — and bolstered relations with Russia. Niger, where a military […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Researchers based in Berlin have identified living relatives of people whose remains were stolen from Tanzania and taken to Germany for “scientific” experiments during the colonial era. Since 2017, Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History has been carrying out research on about 1,100 skulls taken from what was then known as German […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Africa will benefit from new UK-backed projects worth £49 million ($61.5 million) geared towards mitigating the effects of Climate Change. The funding is set to help in creation of jobs, grow economies and improve the lives of women, farmers and at-risk communities. This includes £34 million ($42.7) for new projects across 15 African […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The United Nations refugee agency has disclosed that it expects over 1.8 million people from Sudan to arrive in five neighboring nations by the end of the year and appealed for $1 billion to help them amid reports of rising disease and death rates. Currently, the estimate for those fleeing violence is about […]
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