Southern African governments extend stay of peacekeepers in war-torn eastern Congo by a year
The UN peacekeepers were meant to leave Congo next month, but soaring violence in the east by Rwanda-backed rebels has meant they are staying, with the country’s communication minister, Patrick Muyaya, stating there would be a new timeline for the force’s departure, although he didn’t give details.
Kenyan lender KCB Group nine-month profit rises to $445 million from $314.7 million
It said loan-loss provisions rose to 17.78 billion shillings from 15.85 billion shillings in the year-ago period.
Kenya’s diplomacy tested again after Ugandan opposition leader kidnapped in Nairobi surfaces in Kampala military court
Kizza Besigye’s wife wife Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAIDS, wrote on the social platform X on Wednesday that her husband was “kidnapped” on Saturday in Kenya and that she was “reliably informed” that he was being held in a military jail.
Senior government says Kenya looking for fresh $750m from World Bank, $200m from AfDB
Raphael Owino, the director general of the Finance Ministry’s public debt management office, said the IMF’s October approval of the seventh and eigth reviews, which paved the way for a $606 million loan
Kenya eyes budget deficit of less than 3.8 per cent of gross domestic product in next fiscal year
The fiscal target for the next year will be lower than the 4.3 per cent of GDP in this financial year. The government was forced to raise the budget deficit for this year after deadly protests that forced President William Ruto to abandon proposed tax hikes.
Kenya’s president on the spot again over human rights violations after Ugandan opposition leader is arrested and deported
Dr Kizza Besigye, who was Museveni’s physician during the guerrilla war but later became an outspoken critic, was kidnapped on Saturday during the launch of a book by veteran Kenyan opposition politician Martha Karua, Byanyima wrote on the social media platform X.
Opposition clinches presidency in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland, calls for economic benefits from Ethiopia deal
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi of the main opposition Waddani Party received more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. Abdullahi, 69, served as Somaliland’s parliament speaker in 2005.
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.
