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...
Freedom For Arrested Journalist Placed On Hold
A court in Zimbabwe has further delayed passing a ruling in a matter in which Ubuntu Times correspondent Jeffrey Moyo is seeking refusal of remand.
The ruling which was expected...
Zimbabwean School Children Pay The ‘Price’ As Teachers Strike Over Poor Salaries
Harare, Zimbabwe — When schools reopened in Zimbabwe, late September, Noel Madamombe (16) thought time had arrived for him to prepare for final examinations later this year.
Little did he know...
One Dies, Two Injured In Zimbabwe’s Freight Train Disaster
Nyazura, Zimbabwe — With Zimbabwe’s railroad network in a massive state of disrepair, a goods train killed the driver and injured three crew members last week, 9th March, after it...
Pressure mounts on Cameroon for killing its own
The government of Cameroon is under intense pressure to account for and punish those responsible for the killing of at least 22 people in Ngarbuh – Ntumbaw village. The...
Tanzania, Uganda Seal $3.5bn Crude Oil Pipeline Deal
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Uganda and Tanzania have signed a multibillion dollars deal that officially kicks off the construction of a 1,445km pipeline to transport crude oil from the...
Stuck in weak healthcare system and panic, Kenya temporarily ban international conferences as coronavirus...
NAIROBI, KENYA MARCH 7,2020 — Kenya, on Friday issued a temporary ban on meetings, conferences and international events that involves attendees from countries affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19). The...
Parliament in Cameroon ignores Coronavirus preventive measure
The first ordinary session of the 2020 legislative year opened in the nation’s capital Yaounde on 20 March 2020. Members of the Senate and National Assembly had earlier been...
Civil Society Warns Against Bilateral Treaties With Tax Haven Jurisdictions
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Escalating Discrimination Against People With Albinism In Zimbabwe
Mberengwa — As a teacher, she has had very few associates. Back home, visiting relatives whisper behind her back apparently disgusted by her condition of albinism. Now, 43-year old Lindani...
Perception May Be Trumping Reason As Tensions Build Around Nigerian Retailers In Ghana
On a calm Sunday in the business hub around the Nkrumah Interchange in Accra, a Nigerian immigrant, Junior Izuwu, has crept out into the open with his tabletop where...
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...
Aquaponics Farming Helps Ugandan Women Regain Lost Livelihoods From The Pandemic
KAMPALA, Uganda — On a hill above Kampala’s city suburb of Ntinda, new farmer Peace Mukulungu looks over her aquaponics farming project she says is slowly allowing her to...
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...
Ghanaians In The Diaspora Are Tired Of Being Disenfranchised During Elections
Most Ghanaians in the diaspora are again set to miss out on the right to choose their representatives in the Legislature as well as the man who governs the...
Confusion Over South Sudanese Students’ Funds in Morocco
Juba, June 24 — In a leaked official document dated 22nd June 2020 signed by Director General for Administration and Finance in the South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
Chaotic Construction Fuels Climate Change In Zimbabwe
Harare — His house stands out in the midst of water, with the entire driveway concealed under water, apparently with nowhere to step on, yet for 15 years, 50-year-old Jimson...
Could tree regeneration hold out hope for Africa’s vulnerable smallholder farmers?
Homa Bay, Kenya MARCH 4, 2020 — With more than half of the estimated 2.2 billion people to be added to the global population by 2050 expected to be...
BREAKING: Kenya confirms first case of Novel Coronavirus as WHO declares its outbreak officially...
NAIROBI MARCH 13, 2020 — The virus which exploded in China’s Wuhan City in Hubei Province has claimed 4,600 lives with over 126,000 people infected globally out of whom...
An ‘Illegal’ Economy Fortified With Blessings Of Ruling Elite
On April 18, Zimbabwe celebrated its 41st independence anniversary from British colonial rule amid a presidential promise that the country’s mining sector will contribute US$12 billion dollars in revenue...
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