Rising access to electricity in Kenya, worries conservationists as 500 colobus monkeys, 5,000 birds are electrocuted by power transmission lines
Colobus Conservation in collaboration with KPLC in 2017 removed 12 kilometres of uninsulated powerlines in Diani at the Kenya coast and replaced them with insulated lines. The agencies also moved transformers, which given their location, were causing multiple primate electrocutions.
How Sierra Leon teenage defender outfoxed Valladolid to sign for Manchester City in six days
Bah was enthused by the idea of joining City – the group, which includes 13 teams worldwide from the United States to Japan, Brazil and Australia – and will receive good money for doing so.
How climate change and counterfeits are hurting Kenyan farmers and raising concerns about who can share seeds
Kenya is not alone facing food security pressures. According to a UN Food and Agriculture and Organization (FAO) report in 2023, over a billion people across the African continent are unable to afford healthy diets, and the number of hungry people is increasing.
Trump’s orders on aid freeze meet with legal resistance, force White House to revoke spending pause
At the virtual hearing from Providence, Rhode Island, McConnell, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the states have convinced him that the “inappropriate effects” of the now-rescinded funding freeze directive “are going to continue and that hasn’t changed based on comments by the president’s press secretary.”
ECOWAS leaves to ‘keep door open’ as three coup-hit West African state to return to bloc
The split “worsens a legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS which has often failed people’s expectations in upholding the rule of law,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Out of sight, out of mind: Refugee agencies scramble after Trump orders a stop on federally funded work
The federal refugee program – a form of legal migration to the US – has been in place for decades and assists those who have escaped war, natural disaster or persecution. Despite longstanding support for accepting refugees, the program has become politicized in recent years.
The powder keg in Museveni’s hands: There is reason to fear Uganda’s nuclear plant in Busoga is a tinderbox
One academic who retired from Makerere University service recently asked me, “Can Uganda with its incompetence manage a nuclear plant without the risk of nuclear leakage? Can Uganda that is not yet a fully stable nation state sustains a nuclear plant without the risk of some rebel group throwing a bomb in the plant and next time we here all Basoga are poisoned with nuclear pollution?
Fall of Goma is game-changer: World powers’ reluctance to take on Rwanda means it’s going to be harder to push back M23 from Congo
A reluctance by world powers to take on Rwanda, other global distractions and on-the-ground military realities will complicate efforts to defeat the rebels in Goma and across eastern Congo and allow millions of civilians, like Nzambonimpa, to return to their homes, analysts and diplomats say.
Risk of pandemics explosion worldwide rises as Trump orders CDC to stop working with WHO
President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the US meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The US also must provide a one-year notice.
Interpol links increased activity of ISIS in Kenya, Tanzania and DRC to political instability and socioeconomic challenges
Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across East Africa over the past two months, the global police body Interpol said on Monday. Interpol, which is headquartered in France, said the arrests had been made during November and December during operations conducted jointly with the...
