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...
Thomas Sankara Trial Set To Resume
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — Thomas Sankara's trial is set to resume on Wednesday, February 2nd after a military court restored the constitution on Monday, January 31.
The trial was due...
Market Reacted Positively As Zambia’s New President Took Oath
Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema assumed office last week Tuesday as the economy showed a positive reaction to his victory over outgoing president Edgar Lungu.
The 59-year-old was declared...
Tanzanians Raise Eyebrow Over $100 COVID Screening Fee
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Amidst rumours of the rising number of people with respiratory diseases in private hospitals, Tanzania authorities have issued new policy directives requiring national and...
New White Paper Raises Alarm Over Tanzania’s Presidential Campaigns
Dar es Salaam, October 8 — Tanzania’s ruling party—Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the government have come under strong criticism for allegedly attacking citizens’ rights and processes necessary to...
Tanzania Military Expels Smugglers From Gemstone Mine
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — As a newly-wed couple who visited Tiffany and Co Store in New York can attest, the finely crafted wedding rings fitted with velvet blue...
Fish traders in Kenya’s lakeside city of Kisumu enjoy an economic boom amid Coronavirus
Kisumu, April 8 — At 7 am in the morning, fishermen are docking in their fishing boats on the Dunga Beach in Kisumu’s Lake Victoria shores in western Kenya....
Potential Security Risks In Southern Africa As Zambia Hosts AFRICOM
The United States of America’s military footprint has been felt in Southern Africa after a security pact signed between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema and the US embassy in Lusaka...
Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Arrested Zim Journalist Mentally Strong Under Inhumane Conditions
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Desert Locusts Invasion Cause Panic In Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — At first glance, Hilder Tarimo, a local farmer in a sleepy Ngai Nairobi village in Tanzania’s Siha district, thought the dark dense blot darkening...
Poverty ravages Southern Africa’s aging population
LILONGWE, Malawi — At the age of 94, Malawi’s widower Kenneth Banda resides alone at his aging rural home — a thatched kitchen hut and a two-roomed house roofed...
Researchers Tout Healthy Food Recipes To Boost Nutrition, Cut Costs In Tanzania’s Schools
MANYARA — The tolling of the afternoon bell marks the end of lessons at Babati Day Secondary School in Tanzania’s northern Manyara region.
It ushers in a moment of joy...
The Untold Suffering of East Africa’s Donkey Community Owners!
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Dr. Dennis Bahati is the Programs Manager (Animal Care) at Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW)
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Ghana’s Supreme Court Upholds Akufo-Addo’s Election Victory
Ghana’s Supreme Court has upheld President Akufo-Addo's victory in the December 2020 presidential election after dismissing an election petition filed by the opposition leader John Mahama.
Mr. Mahama, a former...
Gravel soil, sand poaching fuel water bodies’ siltation in Zimbabwe
HARARE — At the top of a hill, bulldozers and caterpillars maneuver their way, slicing off the hill of its remaining sections as they almost approach an enormous concrete...
Villagers Recount Horror As Terrorists Embark On Shooting Rampage In Tanzania
Mtwara, Tanzania — Tanzanian villagers who watched in horror their loved ones shot at point-blank while others including children kidnapped have spoken about their horrifying ordeal carried out by...
It Is Not Yet Dawn For Zimbabwe’s Informal Economies As Government Extends Lockdown ‘Indefinitely’
Mutare, May 23 — A medium build 35-year old Blaster Chemugaira is seated in a chair just outside the gate of a house he rents in Chikanga, a high-density...
The Resource Curse: Indigenous Pastoral Communities And Africa’s Largest Wind Power Tussle In Kenya’s...
Sarima, Marsabit County —In Sarima, a dry, desolate land, traditionally seen as too inhospitable to inhabit in the corner of Kenya’s north sits the country’s largest private investment. Upon...
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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