Tanzania government to foot medical bills of people injured in collapsed building in commercial capital
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Sunday that more than 20 people were receiving medical treatment and the government would cover the costs.
Uganda became a ‘thinking desert’ when command-order pedagogism robbed education of reasoning
One thing is true! Students who have been exposed to interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, transdisplinarity and extradisciplinary teaching and learning are able to evaluate complex problems and to suggest solutions to them. As Sudderth has surmised, interdisciplinarity supports critical thinking by helping students to understand multiple viewpoints, evaluate conflicting perspectives and build structural knowledge (Oweyegha-Afunaduula, 2023, 2023). They have advanced critical thinking and reasoning skills.
After helping Ethiopia’s federal government repel Tigray rebels, Amhara’s Fano militia now aim fire at former allies
Amhara anger with the government in Addis Ababa escalated into confrontation between Fano and regional forces. By July, major cities were under attack and the regional government requested federal help. The ENDF restored order the next month, but there were many civilian casualties in the process.
Against smouldering embers of Tigray Ethiopia struggles to put out Amhara inferno lit by Fano rebellion
Human rights groups have accused the Ethiopian authorities of extrajudicial killings, mass arrests and attacks on schools and hospitals.
Uganda’s political pastors aspire to the heaven in State House where eternity awaits them with Museveni
Presidentialism is a vice because the holder of the title of president is in everything small and big and exudes fear personally and officially, and is also fearful of everything, including the people he rules. He takes the people as enemy number one of the state but uses authoritarian populism to create the impression that is for them while doing everything within his power to undermine the various types of democracy and democratisation in all dimensions to enhance his personal power, influence and wealth. He frequently presides over the making of policies and laws that disempowers and impoverish the people and weaken state institutions.
Ravages of drought force farmers along Kenyan coast to abandon maize, cassava for seaweed
It is Tanzania’s third largest export and employs over 26,000 farmers, said George Maina, a scientist at The Nature Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit that supports seaweed farmers in Kenya and Tanzania.
New research says patients with ‘persistent’ Covid have slim recovery chances
One British study suggested almost a third of those reporting symptoms at 12 weeks recovered after 12 months. Others, particularly among patients who had been hospitalized, show far lower rates of recovery.
Kenyan president’s key American ‘saleswoman’, Ambassador Meg Whitman, quits to signal imminent hard times for Nairobi
Former US Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone (1989-1993) was a darling of the opposition due to his open and strong support, both materially and politically, to the democratic movements at the time in Kenya.
Climate change: World meets in Baku as Uganda grapples with scourge of environmental refugees
A time or temporal dimension of the environment does exist so that we can talk of four dimensions of the environment (the ecological-biological, the socioeconomic, the sociocultural and the temporal). However, the dimensions are not mutually exclusive but are mutually inclusive. Some causes of refugee migrations are a result of interactions of the phenomena occurring in the dimensions of the environment.
Nairobi’s vehicles with modified with ramps and swivel seats are a relief for disabled commuters
Users can book rides through the Ace Mobility app. Drivers are trained as caregivers, ensuring they understand how to provide respectful and appropriate assistance to passengers with disabilities.
