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I won’t stand for president again, Raila says after Uhuru defeat
Raila Odinga has declared he will never be a presidential candidate again following the August 8 defeat by President Uhuru Kenyatta.IEBC's official announcement on Friday named Uhuru winner with 1.4 million votes more…
Calm before the Kenyan election storm
Kenya is holding its breath as the blaring speakers of the election campaign cars finally fall silent ahead of Tuesday's vote. Ten years ago there was terrible post-election ethnic violence in the country, which nobody…
40 passengers escape death as Jaguar bus catches fire
A Jaguar bus on its way from Uganda’s capital Kampala destined for the eastern DR Congo city of Goma caught fire in Kisoro district Monday morning.All the 40 passengers escaped unhurt. The bus had left Kampala and was…
Two members of missing Burundi robotics team found, U.S. police say
Two members of a teenage robotics team from Burundi who went missing after a competition in Washington last week have been located and are safe, the city's Metropolitan Police Department said on Tuesday.The teens, Don…
Mini-skirts and morals in Uganda
A new crackdown on what civil servants can wear in Uganda has reignited a fierce debate about morality, clothes and women's rights in the country.The new directive brings new definitions to "dressing decently".…
FIDH attacks “dictatorship” and “repression” of President Nkurunziza’s regime in a report
The International Federation for Human Rights produced the report in collaboration with six Burundi human rights organisations that the government has banned.FIDH report claims President Pierre Nkurunziza and his Cndd-Fdd…
Residents abuzz after snowfall in Nyahururu
Residents in Nyahururu experienced snowfall on Tuesday as temperatures dropped with the current cold season.A few centimetres of snow covered roads and adjacent farms affecting the Rumuruti-Nyahururu road and the…
Top 10 Places to Visit in East Africa
Here at Krochet Kids intl. we are lucky enough to call multiple locations “home”. From our sunny HQ in Southern California to our empowerment projects in both Uganda and Peru, we commit to rooting ourselves in each of these…
Why youth and women enterprises fail in Africa
Informality has been singled out as a major setback for youth and women’s business ventures in Africa. Presenting the keynote address during the Partnership for Economic Policy conference at a Nairobi hotel on youth and…
Exclusion of “wanted” civil society leaders causes controversy at Burundi peace talks
The celebrated human rights defender Pierre Claver Mbonimpa on Thursday expressed his “surprise” that the inter-Burundian dialogue process excludes a number of key civil society leaders because they are in conflict with the…
China ’At the Bedside’ of Burundi
The Chinese Vice President made a three-day visit to Burundi last week. A breath of fresh air for Bujumbura.Strengthening its cooperation in the fields of education, energy, mining and infrastructure was Beijing’s priority…
DW correspondent released from Congolese jail
Antediteste Niragira has been freed by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, five days after he was detained. The journalist had been covering the refugee crisis on the DRC-Burundi borderGermany's…
Burundi: ICTs infrastructure left unexploited because of lack of culture
Minister of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) says, despite the country having enough basic infrastructure, Burundi falls back in the use of ICTs.“We have found that Burundi has a fairly well-developed ICT…
Poor Economy? Police officer sells bullets at Shs6000, arrested
At the time of his arrest, Bamugireko had just received Shs 400,000 from the buyers in exchange for 63 bullets. In Summary Preliminary investigations reveal that Bamugireko had also previously sold out two handcuffs at…
Why men in Uganda can’t stop peeing in public
I am not liking the direction that this business of economic slowdown, economic downturn, economic crisis, economic this and economic that is taking. Not just me, all the women in Uganda do not like it. It is giving men a…
Rhinos return to Rwanda after ten-year extinction
Eastern black rhinos are coming back to Rwanda after the last individual was documented in the country 10 years ago – a historic move for the nation and the species.African Parks, a conservation non-profit…
Singer Chameleone’s wife files for divorce
Daniella Atim, wife of musician Joseph Mayanja alias Jose Chameleone has asked the Nakawa Chief Magistrate's Court to annul her marriage on grounds of cruelty. She stated in her petition number 72 of 2017, filed on April…
East Africa leads the pack in economic growth
East Africa last year registered the fastest economic growth on the continent — 5.5 per cent — compared with the other regions, according to a new report by the Economic Commission for Africa.The report, Urbanisation and…
’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…
Why Ethiopia is building a space programme
THE ancient holy town of Lalibela, perched some 2,500 metres above sea-level in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, boasts some of the clearest night skies imaginable.Ethiopian stargazers dream that the mountains around Lalibela…
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