Sun sets on Kenya’s economy-minded former President Mwai Kibaki aged 91 years
Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki died on Friday 22, April, after a long battle with unspecified disease. However, it is in public domain that just three months before he won the 2002 presidential election and succeeded his predecessor Daniel arap Moi, Kibaki was seriously injured in a road accident that...
Resetting Afghan woman’s agenda: How woman defied Taliban, went to school, opened and now driving her car
When the Taliban seized power across Afghanistan last August, Aaila’s first reaction was to stage an act of quiet protest. As Taliban fighters swept into Bamiyan, the ancient city in central Afghanistan, the 37-year-old got behind the wheel of her white Toyota and drove around town. “I wanted to tell...
AI colonialism: South African experts argue that Artificial Intelligence is repeating patterns of apartheid history
Thami Nkosi points to the tell-tale black box atop a utility pole on a street once home to two Nobel Peace Prize laureates: South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, and the anti-apartheid activist and theologian Desmond Tutu. It always happens this way, Nkosi says. First the fibre; then the...
UNSC failure to renew Somali coast piracy resolution fuels speculation the threat is no more in Indian Ocean
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has for the first time since 2002 not renewed piracy resolution that was used to manage the Somali coast of the Indian Ocean, leading to assumptions that the menace has been rolled back to insignificance or eliminated completely. Consequently, the expiry of the UNSC’s...
US accuses Russia of recruiting ex-Ethiopian soldiers to fight in Ukraine, embassy in Addis Ababa denies
Hundreds of Ethiopians reportedly have been lined up for days outside the Russian embassy in Addis Ababa this week in hopes of being recruited to fight for Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine. But the embassy has dismissed claims it is recruiting foreign fighters and says the Ethiopians are there...
Fresh fears in Horn of Africa about Somalia’s stability as Amisom winds up, mandate given to fragile government
The African Union Mission in Somalia – Amisom – has ended its 15-year political and military experiment in post-conflict state building. On April 1, 2022, a shift took place as the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) came into being. The transition’s mission is to pave the way for...
African migrants stage protest at UNHCR office in Tunisia to demand evacuation to alternative countries
Dozens of refugees and migrants in Tunisia are demanding evacuation to other countries. The refugees, who are mostly survivors of illegal immigration attempts by sea to Europe, have been staging a sit-in in front of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Tunisian capital,...
How fallout from war in Ukraine will affect cost of food and fuel as ‘real risk of famine’ looms in Horn of Africa
Time is fast running out, the UN agency warned, with Somalia facing “the very real risk of famine” in the coming six months. Meanwhile, an estimated 7.2 million Ethiopians are already not getting enough to eat, and half a million Kenyans are just a step away from catastrophic levels of...
Al Shaabab militants claim responsibility for Monday mortar attack on Somali parliament
Terrorist group al-Shaabab has claimed responsibility for a mortar fire attack on Somalia’s parliament on Monday that injured at least six people during a joint session. Explosions were heard in the middle of a parliamentary session. Several people were injured, but no elected officials were hit by the shrapnel that...
As Putin bombs hospitals in Ukraine, besieged health workers and patients should not be forsaken as happened in Syria
Many Syrians are experiencing heart-wrenching flashbacks as we watch the mounting devastation in Ukraine and the millions of refugees fleeing. As a Syrian physician who provided medical care amid the war in my country, it’s especially painful when clinics or hospitals are bombed. I’m haunted by the escalating attacks on...
