Nato’s wide-ranging sanctions expected to hurt Russian war industry and military exports to Africa
Russia war industry, a key foreign exchange faces a bleak future following economic sanctions imposed by North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) after it attacked Ukraine. The wide-ranging sanctions will have serious implications for Africa, especially the continent’s ability to procure and maintain military hardware from Russia. Russia, along with the...
Ethiopian government releases 14 TPLF supporters detained over separatist uprising in the north
Ethiopia has released several former government officials from prison, a lawyer working with them has said. The group of ethnic Tigrayans included former members of the government-appointed administration and a member of the ruling party. The state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on March 18 that at least eight officials...
Qatar 2022: Fancied Egypt, Nigeria tossed out of Fifa World Cup as CAF finalists Senegal, Cameroon stamp their authority
Liverpool star Sadio Mane converted a shoot-out penalty on Tuesday to take African champions Senegal to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the expense of Egypt. Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco and Tunisia also booked their places in the finals on a frantic night of play-off action. Senegal won the second...
Beauty, brains and holiness: Pageantries have roots in Christianity, remind the living of wholeness of humanity
As a country, Kenya has had its fair share of fetching lasses who ran away with beauty pageants on national and international runways. Beautiful women like the late Gaudencia Aura and Khadija Adams, easily come to mind when we talk about pageantry. Service to mankind, though, remains a remote subject,...
Russian soldiers suspected of stealing from Chernobyl nuclear plant material used to manufacture dirty bombs
Scientists at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant say that radioactive material was stolen by looters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine Radioactive material has been stolen from a laboratory near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant during the chaos caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the danger of a...
Amisom evolves into Atmis with mandate to degrade Al Shabaab, defend fragile Somali government
The African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will be replaced by the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on April 1, the African Union (AU), United Nations (UN) and Somali government have decided. The new mission will end in 2024, after which all responsibilities will be handed to the Somali...
