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Family of Ugandan Weightlifter Says He Contemplated Suicide After Olympic Disqualification
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65 Kenyans taking Prep contract HIV, ministry says
Kenya become the first African country to roll out PrEP as a national program, in the public sector, in May,… -
Rwanda extends lockdown measures against COVID-19 to consolidate gains
KIGALI, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan government on Sunday announced a five-day extension of the current lockdown measures that prohibit unnecessary…
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International News
Tanzania improves care for fistula patients
Fistula survivors in Tanzania who faced social discrimination have a glimmer of hope thanks to improved care for childbirth defects and widespread awareness campaigns that have helped dispel myths about...
Minister Sajjan to travel to East Africa
The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, today announced that he will travel to Rwanda, Kenya and...
Migrant deaths increase in East and Horn of Africa
A new report by the UN migration agency warns that the number of migrants dying in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region has increased this year compared to...
Nairobi Railway project to begin in two months
Construction works at the new Nairobi Railway City and Public Realm will start in two months. It will have eight lines and an additional four lines for freight services once...
Kiir ‘saddened’ over death of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa
JUBA – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has sent a condolence message to the people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) saying he is saddened to learn of the...
Rwanda to be living laboratory for 4IR
Rwanda is on its way to becoming "a living laboratory of emerging technologies" by leveraging its new Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR). That's according to Innocent Bagamba Muhizi,...
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Kenya gets Sh2.5bn for KDF in Somalia
Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), sit on a flat-bed truck as a convoy makes its way between the port of Kismayu and the city’s...
Tanzania improves care for fistula patients
Fistula survivors in Tanzania who faced social discrimination have a glimmer of hope thanks to improved care for childbirth defects and widespread awareness campaigns that have helped dispel myths about...
Kenyan polls and Kigame, a blind man that sees better than many Ugandans
Photo Courtesy Daily Monitor What you need to know: This blind man has a huge home library packed with serious books and is widely read. If you just confine yourself...
Minister Sajjan to travel to East Africa
The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, today announced that he will travel to Rwanda, Kenya and...
Migrant deaths increase in East and Horn of Africa
A new report by the UN migration agency warns that the number of migrants dying in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region has increased this year compared to...
Kenya gets WRC status extension
PG 28-President Uhuru Kenyatta flags off Mcrae Kimathi with his Navigator Mwangi Kioni at KICC on 24th June 2021. PHOTO-PHILIP KAMAKYA Kenya has been handed the right to host the...
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Tech CEOs including...
Jeff Bezos. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in Q3 2021, the company announced on January 3. CEOs are taking to Twitter to send their congratulations to both Bezos and his success...
Kenyan Woman’s Start...
Photo UNEP/YouTube An absolutely brilliant young woman in Kenya has started a company manufacturing bricks from recycled plastic. Nzambi Matee says she was “tired of being on the sidelines” while civil servants struggled...
Nigeria’s ‘Techprene...
As recently as 10 years ago, Africa’s technology industry was sparse. But as a result of advancements in mobile phone technology as well as better internet connections, the continent has transformed — unearthing countles...
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New findings of early man...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of two million years old stone tools, fossilized bones, and plant materials at the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. N...
UK travel ban extended to...
File photo: Tourists have still flocked to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Picture PA The UK's travel ban has been extended to include United Arab Emirates, Burundi and Rwanda, with British nationals returning from those co...
South Sudan suspends airl...
Photo Anadolu Agency South Sudan's president on Wednesday suspended the operation of South Supreme Airlines, the company owning the plane that crashed in the Pieri Town on Tuesday evening, an official statement said. “As...
Kenya's SGR night train u...
NAIROBI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- For the last two months, a government worker George Agutu, who works in Mombasa, Kenya's coastal city, has traveled to the capital Nairobi every weekend to be with his family. However, befor...
Health
Tanzania improves care for fis...
Fistula survivors in Tanzania who faced social discrimination have a glimmer of hope thanks to improved care for childbirth defects and widespread awareness campaigns that have helped dispel myt...
First cholera outbreak since 2...
Cholera has killed one person and infected another 30 in South Sudan, in the first resurgence of the illness since the cholera outbreak of 2017, the South Sudan Ministry of Health said in a stat...
Rwanda has vaccinated over 60%...
Rwanda has become one of the few African countries to achieve the goal of vaccinating over 60 percent of its population against Covid-19. By the end of 2021, the East african nation had already...
Moderna to set up vaccine plan...
Kenya has become the first messenger RNA (mRNA) hub in Africa after agreeing to host biotechnology company Moderna. Moderna Monday announced that, with the help of the United States government,...
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