Three protesters arrested as Kenyan police lob teargas at rights activists marching against femicide
The police did not provide statistics for earlier periods, but according to figures compiled by the Africa Data Hub collective based on media reports, there were at least 75 femicides in 2022 and 46 the year before.
World Bank cuts Kenya’s 2024 growth estimate to 4.7 per cent on fiscal challenges
Although the growth estimate for this year is lower than last year’s rate of 5.6 per cent, it will still be higher than the sub-Saharan Africa average of 3.0 per cent, the bank said.
Mozambique’s deadly demos: Popular protests were condemned abroad, condoned in Africa
Since departing from Marxist-Leninist path, officially in 1989, the party has been following a hybrid governance model. It has in place ineffectual, formally democratic institutions, amid an authoritarian political culture. Simply put, the country’s political system falls somewhere between a genuine democracy and an authoritarian regime.
Campaign kicks off in US to blacklist cancer-causing Red Dye No3 food additive used to give popular candies, foods and drinks their cherry-red colours
While the petition currently sits with the White House Office of Management and Budget, the FDA can grant the petition on its own, without the office’s approval, said Melanie Benesh, vice president of Government Affairs for the Environmental Working Group (EWG), one of the groups backing the 2022 petition.
Syria’s rebels start forming government, restore order after Assad ouster as UN Security Council meets
With the mood in Damascus still celebratory, Assad’s prime minister, Mohammed Jalali, on Monday agreed to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government, an administration based in rebel-held territory in northwest Syria.
Elections body becomes flashpoint as Kenya teeters on brink of a constitutional crisis
The commission has not met as required by law since the August 9, 2022 elections, because among other things, it lacks a chair and assistant chair, and does not have mandatory quorum to make any decision legal and binding.
