Mudslides kill at least 230 Ethiopia as unknown number of people are reported still missing
Many victims were buried on Monday as rescue workers searched the steep terrain for survivors of another mudslide the previous day. Markos Melese, director of the disaster response agency in Gofa Zone, said many rescuers remained missing.
Unemployment storm: Bangladesh court scraps most job quotas that sparked deadly protests
Experts attribute the unrest to stagnant job growth in the private sector and high youth unemployment, making public sector jobs with regular wage hikes very attractive among the group who make up nearly a fifth of the population.
Ugandan youth take a cue from neighbouring Kenya, attempt to storm parliament to flush out corrupt MPs
The protests were organised by Ugandans who hope to emulate efforts by people in neighbouring Kenya, where demonstrations recently forced the President William Ruto to dismiss almost his entire cabinet after widespread opposition to a proposal to impose new taxes.
VP Kamala Harris is sure to win Democratic ticket, but her mother’s native India is cautious about her prospects
When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in the US, residents in her maternal family’s ancestral village in southern India watched in real time, setting off fireworks, holding up portraits of her and wishing her a long life. But, four years later, as she works to become the...
Protesters clash as opposition chiefs deny allegations of bribery to support embattled Kenyan president
Kenya’s anti-government protests entered their fifth week, having started as calls for legislators to vote against a finance bill that proposed new taxes. President William Ruto declined to sign the controversial bill and has dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers, but protesters have continued calling for his resignation.
From Kenya to Uganda: Outraged African youth to turn social media to put corrupt regimes to the sword
One beneficial aspect of social media is its ability to spark outrage and incite change within the people, affecting the democratic state of a country as is currently happening in the East African nation of Kenya right now. When this happens, traditional politics does not come in. Nor does one need to evoke foreigners as the cause. However, the spread of misinformation is a digital crisis as the misinformation spreads quickly and widely. The powers that be must be well equipped to confront this not by guns but by brains to correct the impression created by misinformation.
Treasury: New economic repair plan submitted by Kenya to IMF set for review in August
The IMF did not immediately comment. The East African nation has a $3.6 billion IMF programme and the Fund had reached a staff level agreement on the seventh review of Kenya’s programme in early June.
Court case exposes how Nairobi city government turned Africa’s once cleanest city into Holy Grail with Chinese ‘tenderpreneurs’ atop garbage heap
Nairobi City government is fending off accusations that it varied a tender initially awarded to state power agency, the Kenya Electricity Generating (KenGen) Company in favour of a mysterious Chinese company under contestable circumstances. Consequently, KenGen is challeging the award of the tender to Chinese company in court. The controversy...
Kenya’s education sector sinks into abyss as president cuts budgets critical departments, including examinations council
Other than syllabus evaluation, KNEC uses the Ksh5 billion to hire police for security, logistics, monitoring, invigilation, marking and moderation, which the revised the budget dispended with. However, the austerity measures announced by President Ruto cut KNEC’s examination administration and invigilation by 100 per cent, touching off an uproar, which Milemba describes as a “serious deprivation of a basic human right by treasury.”
