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.
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.
