Sting in the tail: Nigeria bans song, ‘Tell Your Papa’ censures President Tinubu’s ‘insensitive’ policies
Since taking office in 2023, Tinubu’s policies such as the removal of subsidies on gasoline have hit hard as Nigeria grapples with fluctuating prices. Last year, at least 20 people were shot dead and hundreds more were arrested at protests demanding better opportunities and jobs for young people.
Livestock rights: Chinese voracious craving for donkey meat, skins decimating African populations
Emmanuel Sarr, the West Africa regional director of the international animal welfare group Brooke, argues that the illegal trade in donkey hides persists due to the high demand from the ejiao industry. “The situation is further exacerbated by weak enforcement and the vulnerability of local farmers,” he says
More wineskin than wine: ‘Western values’ is a framework for legitimating and justifying actions by ‘moral police’
Today, the response to Israel’s murderous campaign in Gaza has laid bare the hollowness of Western moral posturing. Governments that once lectured the world on human rights now justify mass killing and ethnic cleansing. Institutions that claimed to stand for international law now scramble to shield allies from accountability.
Kenyan opposition condemns arrest of Tanzanian opposition stalwart Tundu Lissu who faces treason charges
Tundu Lissu, chairperson of the main opposition party CHADEMA, was arrested on Wednesday night over what regional police called incitement. The opposition in Tanzania has been calling for electoral reforms to ensure the upcoming poll is free and fair.
Labour court: Kenya’s biosafety authority boss remains interdicted, disciplinary proceedings against him will go on
The disciplinary process against Mugiira began on June 6, 2024, when the board requested an explanation for several instances of financial impropriety at the Authority. He is alleged to have tempered with the investigation into claims of misappropriation of the funds by the board.
Kakamega town in western Kenya picked by African Union to build country’s largest waste electricity generation plant
The AUDA-NEPAD delegation led by their principal programme officer (energy unit AUDA-NEPAD) based in South Africa Tichakunda Simbini visited Kakamega county in western Kenya and held talks with the regional Minister for Water, Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change Peninah Mukabane where they committed to collaborate with the county government in the development of a waste energy plan as conceived in the 2063 continental master plan.
Unwanted in France, lost in Africa: Trouble with new French deportation law that hounds Africans
Interviewed, more than 40 people including five individuals said they were affected by the new law, along with rights advocates, lawyers and researchers, for a detailed look at the impact of France’s 2024 immigration reform.
Doomed to live in penury due to disability and stabbed with knife by sister, poor Maasai mom defies the odds to fend for her children
Nevertheless, everything did not move as smoothly as she had hoped. The worst happened when Pisoi lost her father who was the pillar of their family when she was a teenager. The big loss forced the family into struggling for basic needs like housing, food and clothing.
Kenya resumes alcohol levels testing on highways as IRAP reveals the country loses $3.5 billion every year through road carnage
The programme was intended to provide feedback on progress made on the Northern Corridor since the last IRAP survey in 2009 and provide critical and current insight into the safety of all road users, particularly vulnerable pedestrians and motorcyclists. The Safer Road Investment Plans will be developed to prioritise evidence-based safety improvements and inform road authority projects.
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that Covid came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The DIA has not publicly recognised the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that Covid-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed US agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.
