African presidents, like Uganda’s Museveni have made Gen Zs view old and elderly in politics as greedy, selfish and dishonest
In Uganda, the British colonial rulers conducted the first multi-party elections in March 1961, which brought Democratic Party’s Benedicto Kiwanuka into power as the first chief minister of Uganda. However, he was not really given the instruments of power until they were about to conduct another general election in April 1962.
Threat of cheetah extinction prods zoologist in Namibia to start sperm bank to protect the species
Conservationists mark World Cheetah Day on Thursday with less than 7,000 of them left in the wild, similar numbers to the critically endangered black rhino.
US to restrict visas for Nigerians and their families implicated in violence against Christians
The attacks on the community are part of a longstanding and extremely complex security crisis in Nigeria – a nation recently singled out by US President Donald Trump for “the killing of Christians” by “radical Islamists.”
US Presidents Trump hosts DRC and Rwanda presidents to sign peace deal for in eastern Congo, Kenya attends as guarantor
Lauded by the White House as a “historic” agreement brokered by Trump, the so-called Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity between Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda follows months-long peace efforts by the US and partners, including the African Union and Qatar, and finalizes an earlier deal signed in June.
Pests destroy macadamia worth $21.6m annually as increased pesticide use threatens Kenyan produce in word markets
MACNUT Chair Maigua said Kenya produces 45,000 metric tonnes of macadamia annually, with 44,100 tonnes being marketable, yet 17,640 tonnes is lost to insect damage, including 2,222.64 metric tonnes of high-value exportable kernels, translating into billions in lost revenue.
State bureaucracy frustrates 200,000 people who’ve applied for refuge, asylum in Kenya
According to Deu Kamuzinzi, a refugee and advocacy lead at Youth Voices Community, delays in clearing the piling backlog of applications has locked out thousands of refugees from contributing to the country’s economy.
Kenya embarks on robust campaign to rid the country of single-use plastics
Group Executive Director at Sila Africa and Chair of the Kenya Plastics Pact (KPP) Steering Committee Akshay Shah noted the progress achieved over the past five years in advancing circular economy principles.
Environmentalist links poor farming practices, deforestation in Kenyan highlands to shrinking Rift Valley lakes
According to an environmentalist Job Kareithi, poor farming practices and deforestation in highland regions have accelerated soil erosion, washing massive amounts of soil and sediment into the lakes.
Why industrialisation remains President Museveni’s figment of imagination in intellectually depraved Uganda
An industry is a self-sustaining ecosystem of factories, which feed into and originate from each other, mutually reinforcing each other and continually achieving high levels of integration with each other.
