Paramount in talks to sell Black Entertainment Television Network to management-led group
Paramount is controlled by the Shari Redstone-led media company that owns 77 per cent of Paramount’s Class A voting shares.
German Covid vaccine giant BioNTech unveils plans to set up factory in Rwanda in 2025
Rival Moderna in March this year unveiled plans to establish an mRNA manufacturing facility in Kenya, which would be its first such facility in Africa.
Portuguese ship that vanished in 16th century excavated in Namibian desert with gold, copper
The condition that the ship was found in suggests that the storm that caused the shipwreck was especially violent, although an absence of human remains (besides a few scattered bone fragments) in the site suggests that most of the crew on board survived the wreck or died at sea.
While Kenyan president is upbeat about the economy, local currency is in turbulence
Kenya’s shilling is seen slipping on increased foreign-currency demand from the manufacturing sector and as Kenyans living abroad ask for higher exchange rates to part with their dollars.
Kenya looks to lower deficit in current financial year, high-ranking Treasury official says
The tighter monetary stance will work, Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung’u told the same budget preparation forum, helping to stabilise the macroeconomic fundamentals.
How abduction of Somali journalist in Mogadishu led to unearthing of cybercriminals in Wyoming, USA
When Qurium investigated, it eventually traced a source of the outage to a surprising place: Wyoming. Although Qurium said it wasn’t able to get to a lock on who pulled the trigger on the cyberattack, it did discover that the sabotage was carried out with the help of a limited liability company (LLC) based out of the vast western state.
Kenya’s president defends punitive economic plans as the East African nation marks 60th birthday
Recent attempts at reforms include a mandatory housing levy which courts struck down last month for being “discriminatory, irrational, arbitrary and against the constitution.”
WHO: Kenya and Uganda among five countries in East, Southern Africa hit by anthrax outbreak
In a separate assessment of the Zambia outbreak, which was the most concerning, WHO said that 684 suspected cases had been reported in the southern African nation as of November 20, with four deaths. Human cases of anthrax had been reported in nine out of Zambia’s 10 provinces.
Fake: Influential ‘Financial Times’ newspaper rubbishes story on US probe into Kenya Eurobond
In a November 30 post to X (archived), Sevastopulo also said the image was “a complete fake”, adding: “I did not write any story about Kenya.”
Conservationists upgrade ‘Large-toothed Robber’ fish in Kenya’s Lake Turkana to ‘vulnerable’ status
Also at risk is Atlantic Salmon, which swims in both freshwater and saltwater. It slid down a category from ‘Least Concern’ to ‘Near Threatened’ on evidence its global population fell by 23 per cent between 2006 and 2020, IUCN said. It cited mortality due to salmon lice from farms as well as the rise of invasive species as some of the factors.
