Faith Nyasuguta This month, a survey involving over 4,500 Africans from Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana revealed that 91.7 per cent of Africans are likely to use technology solutions made in Africa. Dubbed ‘The Africa Innovation Impact Report’ the study compiled by Talking Drum Communications and Survey54 noted that the recent wave of technology innovation coming […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Burundi will soon open a window for sugar and cement importation to meet a shortfall that has created a black market in which prices have shot up. The move was publicised through a Cabinet statement released Wednesday after a Council of Ministers meeting in Gitega last week. “There are discrepancies between the reference […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Tuesday, Kenya’s elections witnessed sporadic failures of kits used to manage voters’ roll and transmission. In a number of stations, the polling clerks were pushed into identifying voters using the manual registers after the gadgets failed. WHAT THE LAW SAYS According to the law, the electoral agency was given a nod to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Logistical delays and a failure of the identification kit in some parts of Kenya marred a largely peaceful election day in Kenya. Polls were officially closed at 5pm local time but voting was extended in places that opened late. This vote follows an intense campaign dominated by debates about living costs, unemployment and […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Ese Brume, who won gold in the women’s long jump competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, emphasized that Team Nigeria’s women’s performance on the penultimate day of the Games will encourage girls in the nation to take up sport. A day after Tobi Amusan won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles, the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s Supreme Court has declared the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) illegal. On Monday, the apex court ruled that allowing legislators to manage the funds is against the Division of Revenue and Public Finance law. “A declaration is hereby made that the Constituency Development Fund Act, 2013 is unconstitutional,” the verdict given by the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta East Africa’s Rwanda has trashed accusations that its army supported the M23 rebels in attacking the Democratic Republic of Congo; allegations outlined in a report by the UN Group of Experts yet to be publicised. The content of the unpublished report that leaked to international media also accused the Congolese army of providing […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has cautioned African nations against supporting Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, saying the continent had gained little from siding with Moscow. Speaking to a group of African journalists, Zelensky said it was in Africa’s interest to shun the Russian invasion of Ukraine as it would amount to supporting “the truth.” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In a public address, South Sudan’s unity government has announced a two-year extension of the post-civil war “transitional period”, scheduled to end in 2023, in a fresh “roadmap” to the peace deal decried by a number of external sponsors. “After lengthy deliberations, the committee agreed to extend the transition period by 24 months,” […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in Rwanda and DRC this coming week to aid amends in ties between the two neighbours, who had a public spat in July over the fanning of rebels. However, the top envoy will first tour Cambodia and the Philippines and grace a ministerial gathering […]
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