African Union kicks off public participation campaign in Agenda 2063 with journalists workshop in Kericho
Agenda 2063 workshop participants explored Agenda 2063’s seven aspirations that revolve around prosperity, governance, peace and unity in Africa. The session also focused on capacity-building strategies for media professionals, ensuring they are equipped to communicate the agenda’s goals effectively.
Destination Kinshasa: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo threaten to storm DRC capital, take power
“We want to go to Kinshasa, take power and lead the country,” Corneille Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23, said during the briefing. He did not indicate how the rebels planned to advance on the capital, more than 1,500 kilometres (nearly 1,000 miles) away.
Former South African President Zuma’s daughter arrested on terrorism charges, freed on warning
The riots, which were sparked by Jacob Zuma being sent to prison for contempt of court for refusing to testify at an inquiry into widespread government corruption during the time he was president from 2009-2018, were some of the worst civil unrest South Africa has seen since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.
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?
