Nearly Half Of Tanzania Female Journalists Offer Sexual Bribery, Survey Finds
Dar es Salaam — Widespread economic doldrums and the rising wave of moral decay have forced an unprecedented number of female journalists into the trap of sexual bribery where...
Kenya suffers the effects of Coronavirus outbreak even without a single case reported.
Nairobi, March 11 — As the world scare from the coronavirus also known as the COVID-19 intensifies, many businesses across the world continue to register losses due to movement...
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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...
Somalia Threatens To Leave Regional Bloc As Row With Kenya Escalates
On November 29 last year, the Federal government of Somalia broke its diplomatic ties with Kenya, after accusing Nairobi of meddling with its internal and political affairs. This was...
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...
Suspected Coronavirus patient bolts away from hospital in Zimbabwe
HARARE — A suspected coronavirus patient who is a Thai citizen and recently came to Zimbabwe, allegedly bolted out of Wilkins hospital in the Zimbabwean capital where the patient...
Towards The Progressive Acquisition Of Consciousness
Africans and other blacks abroad need to develop a historical consciousness that enables them to revisit their forefathers’ history to validate the true journey of the black race. Slavery,...
How An Organization Is Using “Safe Spaces” To Fight Forced Early Marriages Of Girls...
Ganyurey, Kenya August 10 — It is 4 PM in the evening, and Halima Hassan, a pupil in Ganyurey Primary School, has just returned from a COVID-19 pandemic awareness...
IGAD Member States Bank On Financing Model For Infrastructural Development
Nairobi, Kenya November 6, 2020 — Officials from the eight-nation Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) converged in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi to assess the development of the regional infrastructure master...
Zimbabwe Relents, Gives Workers United States Dollars
Harare, June 17 — Clobbered into submission by simmering discontent among its civil servants, the Zimbabwean government today offered what it branded a COVID-19 allowance of 75 USD and...
Tea farmers in Kenya find reprieve as international market opens up for their produce.
Kericho, April 20 — On a fine Monday morning, and as the sun beats down on the tea farms in Kaptoroi village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Sarah Keter plucks...
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...
Public Leaders Wealth Declaration in Tanzania Goes Digital
Dar es Salaam — As part of its broader push for transparency and efficiency, Tanzania has launched a new digital platform that allows public leaders to declare their assets...
Rights violations trending in Zimbabwe
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe — He now moves around with the aid of a wheelchair, himself a common feature now at a shopping center in Chitungwiza, a dormitory town in Zimbabwe,...
EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of debate on black aesthetics in...
Civil Society Warns Against Bilateral Treaties With Tax Haven Jurisdictions
Nairobi, August 22 — Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) and the East African Tax and Governance Network (EATGN) has cautioned the government of Kenya in its pursuit of new...
Recurring Diplomatic Row Between Kenya And Tanzania Likely To Threaten AfCFTA Success
Nairobi, September 3 — The recent diplomatic tiff between Kenya and its neighbor, Tanzania is likely to spell doom for the East African Community (EAC) and by extension the...
Zimbabwe Court Tells Ubuntu Times Journalist He Has Case To Answer
A Zimbabwe magistrate in the southern city of Bulawayo, Mark Nzira, on March 15 dismissed an application for discharge at the close of the State case by Ubuntu Times...
Zimbabwe Hit By Sixty COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours
Harare — Zimbabwe was on Monday hit by 60 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, this at a time the country has lost a total of 773 people since the first...
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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