Missing rights defender’s wife petitions Zimbabwe’s President
HARARE — Five years after the abduction of Zimbabwe’s human rights activist Itai Dzamara on 9 March 2015, his wife, Sheffra has petitioned the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa over...
Kenyan Health Workers In The Pandemic Dance To Ease Their Minds
When Kenya recorded a first COVID-19 case in March, the government announced the closure of learning institutions in the country and eventually picked a few of them to be...
Freedoms Wilting Away In Zimbabwe
Harare — Closer to a month after government foiled street protests, 24-year old Benson Chomuruva, a resident of Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, still winces because of injuries sustained from...
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...
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...
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...
Violent 2023 Polls In The Offing In Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe — There are mounting fears of violent 2023 elections after government on Tuesday announced the return of the notorious National Youth Service dubbed the ‘Green Bombers’.
The militia...
Biya government come under fire for 130 ‘missing’ people
Renowned global human rights non-governmental organization, Amnesty International, has mounted fresh pressure on the government of Cameroon, calling on authorities to provide answers to the whereabouts of some 130...
SADC, AU Mistrusted By Activists As Zimbabwe Burns
Harare — Amid a mounting political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, pro-democracy activists and opposition leaders have dismissed prospects of rescue coming from the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Vaccine Diplomacy: Exposing Africa’s Untapped Human Resources
The receipt of Coronavirus vaccine donations by African countries from China increasingly expands the Asian giant’s Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) in the continent at a time the world...
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...
As Kenya Advises Minimal Movement, Kids and Families in Slums are Disadvantaged.
Nairobi, March 23 — On a fine Monday morning, the streets of Mathare slums in the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi are busy with residents engaging in the hustle...
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...
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...
S.A Delegation Blocked From Meeting Opposition In Zimbabwe
Harare, September 8 — South Africa’s delegation from the country’s governing Africa National Congress (ANC) dispatched by the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa to meet Zimbabwe’s governing party and opposition...
Economic Sanctions: Zimbabweans Pin Hope On United States President-elect Joe Biden
On the 20th of January, United States (U.S) President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of America.
Biden’s win was recently confirmed by the US Congress...
Zimbabwean Government Urged To Stop Hemorrhaging Gold And Other Minerals
Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG), a Zimbabwe-based NGO advocating for violence-free and conflict-free extraction of natural resources now wants the government to halt the scourge.
“We are gravely concerned...
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...
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...
One Dead, Others Injured As Customs, Soldiers Fired Several Shots Over Inability Of Goods...
The Yewa North Patriotic Forum has expressed its preparedness to take to the streets over a recent attack on residents by a joint patrol of the Nigerian Customs and...
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