Bukavu City in eastern Congo mourns as scores of students and teachers who died in inferno are laid to rest
At the cemetery, rows of coffins were placed before the graves as inconsolable relatives looked on. Red Cross teams carried them one by one toward the burial sites. Some family members stood silently. Others broke down in tears as the coffins were lowered into the ground.
First African neurosurgeon: How emergence of Edwin Sifuna in politics is firing up western Kenya to dig up long history of firsts in Africa and entire African Diaspora
After completing his basic medical training, Dr Nabwangu elected neurosurgery as his specialty and studied under the pioneers of modern neurosurgery, such as Dr Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
El-Nino: State sets aside $16.22 million for protection of livestock in northern Kenya against extreme weather forecast for October-December
The counties forecast to experience El Nino are Garissa, Tana River, Lamu, Kilifi, Isiolo, Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana, Samburu, Narok, Kajiado, Baringo, West Pokot, Busia, Kisumu, Siaya, Migori, Homa Bay, Kitui, Makueni, Machakos, Meru and Embu
Nigerian government strike secret ceasefire deal with Boko Haram as country prepares for elections
After 17 years of a war that has indirectly cost close to 350,000 civilian lives, the idea of negotiations with Boko Haram – officially Jama’at Ahl al Sunna li Da’wa wal Jihad (JAS) – and other armed groups sharply divides Nigerians. Those living closest to the conflict tend to be far more supportive of dialogue than the rest of the country.
Hopelessness from soaring joblessness force young Kenyans to resort acrobatics to earn a painful penny during Nairobi’s traffic gridlocks
Nairobi’s street acrobats first began appearing in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and they have since become normalised at traffic stops in and around the city, with acrobats taking advantage of gridlocks to perform in exchange for cash tips. It is how they earn a living.
China grapples with bulging numbers of aging countryside, made worse by equally aging caregivers
By the end of 2025, China had 320 million people aged 60 or above, accounting for 23 per cent of the population. In recent years, the country has expanded its rural eldercare network. As of June 2024, there were about 16,000 rural homes for the elderly with 1.68 million beds, along with roughly 145,000 mutual-aid eldercare facilities.
With one billion Africans still dependent on wood-fuel, carbon credit financing is emerging as continent’s best bet for clean energy
An efficient biomass stove that would normally retail for about $40 can cost customers as little as $5 after carbon subsidies. More expensive induction cookers are financed through carbon credits and short-term pay-as-you-go plans that spread payments over several months.
With nearly one billion Africans still dependent of wood fuel, carbon credit financing is emerging as continent’s bet for clean energy
Nearly 1 billion Africans still rely on charcoal or firewood for everyday cooking. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that household air pollution from these fuels contributes to about 850,000 deaths annually on the continent.
For more than 50 years, Namibia capital, Windhoek, has been drinking its own sewage’, now America and Canadian cities are following suit
The plant running today is not the 1968 original. The New Goreangab Reclamation Plant was finished in 2002. Veolia puts its daily output at 21,000 cubic metres, and the whole trip from sewer to tap takes about a day, serving a city of around 350,000 people.
Schools in Congo welcome back 31 million students, but parents in Ebola-ravaged east lament the reopening ‘came too soon’
The reopening comes as nearly 31 million pupils are expected to attend school across the country this academic year, according to DRC Minister of State for National Education Raissa Malu, who officially launched the new school year on Tuesday in the capital Kinshasa against a national backdrop marked by both armed insecurity and serious public health risks.