Train Accident In Tanzania Highlight Country’s Vulnerability To Extreme Weather
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — The fatal accident of a passenger train which derailed on Sunday, January 3rd near Tanzania’s capital city, Dodoma, killing three people while injuring 66...
Gold Mining Boom In Uganda Fuels Mercury Pollution, Spells Doom For The Environment
It’s before sunrise but artisanal gold miner Rose Namukasa is already scouring muddy water for small nuggets of gold in this mining area in Mubende, central Uganda, one of...
Ghana’s Opposition Leader John Mahama Heads To Court To Force Re-run Of Polls
Ghana’s main opposition presidential candidate in the December 2020 elections has filed a petition at the country’s Supreme Court seeking to annul President Nana Akufo-Addo's re-election.
John Mahama of the...
Healthcare Staff Nationwide Strike Exacerbates Kenya’s Health Crisis
Kenya’s public hospitals are likely to ground to a halt as nurses and clinicians vow to stay off work even as millions are facing three weeks in a row...
One Dead, Others Injured As Customs, Soldiers Fired Several Shots Over Inability Of Goods...
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Zimbabwean Schools Face Perpetual Dilapidation
Binga — With its classrooms thatched, its walls built using home-made bricks and located in Binga, a remote area in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland North Province, Zumana Secondary school apparently stands weighed...
Fear Of Terrorism Spillage In Southern Africa Region
Harare — There are growing fears that Mozambique’s terrorism insurgents could spill into several countries across Southern Africa.
In Zimbabwe, many fear terrorists operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado,...
A Million Livelihoods In Kenya, Tanzania At Risk As Mara River Fish Driven To...
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Rorya, Tanzania — At Koryo village, in Tanzania’s northern Rorya district brightly dressed women flock to the river with piles of their laundry bags.
Some of them walk for...
Former Tanzanian Opposition Leader Granted Asylum In Canada
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Former Tanzanian opposition leader, Godbless Lema and his family, who fled Kenya a month ago fearing for his life, has been granted asylum in...
Ghana President Akufo-Addo Wins Reelection As Opposition Rejects Results
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has won reelection in the West African country’s eighth straight democratic election.
Akufo-Addo of the center-right New Patriotic Party obtained 51.3% of the vote in the...
Frontrunners Expected To Emulate Their Past Selves As Ghanaians Prepare To Vote In Election
Over 17 million Ghanaians are heading to the polls for an eighth straight democratic election on Monday, December 7.
Once again, the incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo and former President John...
The Voices Of The Forgotten Population In Rural Kenya During COVID-19
Every morning, a harmonious voice crosses the airwaves and finally lands in the countryside of Kajiongo village in Tharaka Nithi county. Here it meets people shut from modernization, and...
Feared Zimbabwe Regime Dishes TV Broadcasting Licenses
Harare — In a move that has been taken with a pinch of salt by local pro-democracy activists, the Zimbabwean regime on November 20 announced that it had dished out...
Three Years After Zimbabwe’s Military Coup, False Hope And A Return To The Old...
Harare, Zimbabwe — Fiona Nyaungwa (24) still recalls marching towards the State House in Harare on the 18th of November in 2017 to put pressure on the then Zimbabwean...
Soldiers Kill In Nigerian Town After Anti-police Protests
Nnamdi Okorie said in late October, after the widespread protests against police brutality in Nigeria resulted in days of tumult in Oyigbo, a crowded suburb of the oil hub...
Africa Could Be Staring At Antimicrobial Resistance As Next Deadlier Pandemic If Swift Action...
Nairobi, 18 November 2020 – With Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) threatening development and health in Africa, six international and continental organizations are launching the first partnership of its kind to...
Protests Hit Uganda After Politicians Arrest
Kampala, November 20 — Dozens of people have been killed in raucous street clashes pitting supporters of presidential candidate Bobi wine and security forces, the country’s worst election-related violence since President Yoweri...
Tanzania’s Accidental Journalist To Serve One Year Suspended Sentence
Dar es Salaam — A Tanzanian court on Tuesday, November 17 sentenced a well-known media entrepreneur to one year suspended sentence after he was found guilty of obstructing police...
African CSOs Call On Governments To Participate In The FACTI Panel High-Level Africa Regional...
Nairobi, Kenya November 19 — Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) meeting at the 8th Pan African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation in Nairobi have expressed deep concern over...
The Budding Movement Urging A Voter Boycott Of Ghana’s General Election
It is a scorching Thursday morning around one of the biggest malls in Ghana’s capital city. Two members of the Economic Fighters League (EFL) stand on a sidewalk with...
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