West African militaries reduced to sitting ducks as resurgent Islamic States attacks in northeast Nigeria take worrying trend
In January, ISWAP overran an army base in Mallam Fatori near the Niger border, seizing weapons and killing the commanding officer. Events started to accelerate in March, especially in southern Borno, with attacks in Wajiroko, Kumshe and Katafila, among others.
International Telecommunication Union ranks Kenya top in Africa, 20th in the world in ICT
The ITU further rated Kenya’s ICT regulatory framework at the apex level of advanced fourth generation (G4), acknowledging the country’s competitive and inclusive ICT regulatory framework.
Genocide: Irony of Uganda President Museveni investment in military equipment to defend himselfe against his own people
Besides, there is increasing arrogance of our political, military and police leaders, with spiralling joint determination to push indigenous civilians out of the leadership and governance of Uganda or to render them to the position of playing second fiddle to the dominant ethnic group. They are grabbing land in order to erase the indigenous belonging and ownership of the country in favour of their people.
Despite its vast potential, sports given a short shrift in Kakamega County budget as recurrent expenditure gets Ksh6 billion
In the budget estimates, the public service and administration has been allocated Ksh7.4billion taking the lion’s share, which translates to 40.8 per cent of the budget. The department of Roads, Public works and Energy has been allocated Ksh1.68billion translating to 9.3 per cent of the proposed budget.
Former president who ‘allowed the poorest of Zambians to get close to the corridors of power’ dies
Edgar Lungu suffered from a rare disorder that caused a narrowing of the food pipe, for which he had been treated in South Africa before. Shortly after he took office in 2015 he fell ill and underwent a procedure in South Africa, which the presidency said at the time was not available in Zambia.
Ghana endorses Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara after similar stands by Kenya, the UK
Ghana and Morocco also agreed to promote defence cooperation and work on a visa waiver deal. With Morocco home to fertilizers and phosphates giant OCP, the two countries agreed to cooperate on food security, the statement said.
Trump advised to deport ‘illegal alien’ Musk as row with world’s powerful and wealthiest man threatens US defence systems
Bannon urged the president to immediately invoke the Defence Production Act to take control of Musk’s rocket company in response to the billionaire entrepreneur’s declaration that he would decommission the SpaceX craft used to shuttle astronauts back and forth from the International Space Station (ISS).
State maintains ban on raw macadamia export as central Kenya complains of a glut
The ban has not gone down well with some farmers who argue that it will hurt them and traders who rely on direct export. They say the ban restricts them from selling their produce at competitive prices in the global markets, thus adversely affecting potential economic benefits.
Trump, Elon Musk brawl over contracts and impeachment as their bromance turns murky
The trouble between the two started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation’s $36.2 trillion in debt.
US shuts down research centre founded by former White House advisor on health who bribed and lied world on origins of Covid
In March 2020, Andersen co-authored ‘The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,’ published in Nature Medicine. The paper – widely known as the ‘Proximal Origin’ paper – concluded that Covid-19 had a zoonotic origin. It became one of that year’s most-cited papers, accessed over six million times.
