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.
Kenya’s national wrestling team gears for Africa beach wrestling championship in Morocco
Wrestling coach Oriri also called for increased funding to support the promotion of wrestling in schools, acknowledging that a lack of resources has hindered many talented athletes from competing at international events.
While Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwest Kenya is already bigger than many African cities, UN thinking of evolving it into a city
Now the Kenyan government and humanitarian agencies have come up with an ambitious plan for Kakuma to evolve into a city. Although it remains under the United Nations’ management, Kakuma has been re-designated a municipality, one that local government officials later will run.
Black comedian, Amber Ruffin, shut out of White House correspondents annual event after angering Trump’s team
An annual event where journalists often invite entertainers as guests, the dinner has featured comics such as Stephen Colbert, Colin Jost and Trevor Noah. Memorably, in 2011, it had as a guest a stone-faced Donald Trump, former star of The Apprentice, listening to jokes told by President Barack Obama at his expense.
