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7 ways to block negativity in your life
Negativity is the opposite of anything positive; negativity will block peace, happiness, success and any beautiful thing that you should have in life.If you give negativity the chance, it’ll ruin your life. These tips will…
Kinshasa police boss fired
A police chief in the Democratic Republic of Congo, General Celestin Kanyama, who has had sanctions imposed on him by the US and the EU for allegedly being involved in violence against opposition activists, has been sacked,…
’Learn the lessons of Rwanda,’ says UN chief, calling for a future of tolerance, human rights for all
Marking the twenty-third commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres yesterday said the only way to honour the memory of the victims is to ensure such…
Burundi demands money from citizens in desperate effort to avoid economic meltdown
Burundi's government is forcing teachers, nurses and farmers in some of the country's poorest provinces to make what it calls 'voluntary contributions' to state coffers. A list compiled by the Ministry of the…
Unwanted pregnancies ruining young lives
Sexual misconduct resulting in unplanned parenthood alarmingly scourges the youth of the educational district of Kabezi.Increasing numbers of undesired pregnancies are ruining the future of students in the education…
Indigenous traders, foreigners clash over retail business
KAMPALA- Indigenous business people who operate in Kampala city have renewed their demands to the government to stop foreigners from operating retail businesses in Uganda’s capital.The business people say foreigners in…
Ethiopia sends 16 to prison for trying to create new state
Addis Ababa - An Ethiopian court has sentenced 16 people to prison after finding them guilty of trying to create a separate state in the tense Oromia region. All 16 are members of the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front. They…
Protests in Namanga over Magufuli’s deportation order
Business at the busy Namanga border town was disrupted for hours as residents clashed with police as they protested harassment by Tanzanian authorities.Trade and transport was paralysed as irate residents barricaded the…
Tanzania rapper Nay wa Mitego freed after Magufuli criticism
Tanzanian rapper Emmanuel Elibariki, known as Nay wa Mitego, has been released just a day after he was arrested for releasing a song deemed insulting to the government.The song emerged last week and has been widely shared…
ICC hands ex-DRC warlord one year jail term for bribing witnesses
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba has been sentenced to a year in jail and fined him 300,000 euros ($32,000) for bribing witnesses.Judges at the International Criminal Court handed Bemba the sentence on…
London attack: Five dead in Westminster terror attack
Five people have died and at least 40 were injured after an attacker drove a car along a pavement in Westminster, stabbed a policeman and was shot dead by police in the grounds of Parliament.The dead officer has been named…
Ending famine in Somalia, the Turkish way
Jerome Jarre's viral hashtag, #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia, was yet another attempt to draw worldwide attention to the famine in the Somali peninsula, but the Somali people are in need of both an organised, short-term as…
Mozambican footballer killed in crocodile attack
Two neighbours who witnessed the attack in Tete, Mozambique estimated the crocodile to have been about five-metres (16-feet) long.A young Mozambican football player was snatched and killed by a crocodile while training along…
Better sleep feels like winning the lottery
Improving your sleep quality is as beneficial to health and happiness as winning the lottery Improving your sleep quality is as beneficial to health and happiness as winning the lottery, according to research by the…
Why are African governments so worried by social media?
Many Kenyan social media users are worried that the government will shut down the internet during August’s general election. Kenya’s Communications Authority has attempted to reassure voters that this is unlikely. However,…
Uganda deports Rwandans as more cross over
Illegal Rwandan immigrants are causing jitters in neighboring countries, with Uganda and Kenya reporting groups of people from Rwanda finding their way into their countries in recent days, most of them economic migrants but…
Zimbabwe High Court outlaws beating of children at home and in schools
A Zimbabwean High Court earlier this week ruled that the use of corporal punishment to correct children contravened the laws of the country.According to Justice David Mangota, parents and teachers should find other ways of…
16 killed in three days of DR Congo clashes
Sixteen people have been killed in three days of fighting this week that pitted the Democratic Republic of Congo's army against a rebel militia, a military spokesman told this reporter on Thursday. Guillaume Djike, a…
Victims of 2015 crisis ready to collaborate with ICC commission of inquiry
This is included in the correspondence of 17 February sent to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court-ICC by the collective of lawyers defending the families of victims of crimes against humanity and other…
Burundi and Rwanda: Tale of two leaders and a continent
Burundi plunged again into violence in 2015 after President Pierre Nkurunziza declared he would seek a third term. This decision was denounced by the opposition as a breach of the country’s constitution, which includes a…
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