Almost 2,000 Kenyan police officers are mentally unfit to do their work, the head of the national police service says. Inspector-General Hilary Mutyambai on Tuesday told a forum of bishops and senior clergy that they had found the “surprising” number of cases after medically examining all police officers. Kenya has some 100,000 police officers working…
Kenya’s wildlife authorities say they have had to intervene to save some wild animals affected by a prolonged drought in parks and other areas in the country. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says it has been drilling boreholes and filling water pans after water sources, including seasonal rivers, dried up. It has also been providing wild animals…
Summary “The president will hold bilateral meetings with the leaders of UAE on the areas in which South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates can further strengthen their relations and cooperation in areas of mutual interest,” said Ateny Wek Ateny, who heads Kiir’s Press Office. By DAVID MAYEN More by this Author Juba, South Sudan President…
Summary A single mortar shell landed at the entrance of parliamentary building while the joint parliamentary session was in progress, injuring several people including security guards and civilian officials. MPs and Senators were advised to remain inside the fortified compound; none of them was injured. By ABDULKADIR KHALIFMore by this Author Mogadishu, Militant group Al-Shabaab has…
Eskom chief executive Andre De Ruyter says South Africa faces a bleak energy outlook, with load shedding expected to continue for much of the week. In a media briefing on Tuesday morning (19 April), De Ruyter said the power utility has total unplanned outages of 15,672MW – which is ‘unacceptably high’ and has led to…
Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court, set up to probe war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since 2003, opens its first trial Tuesday, seven years after it was created. The court was created in 2015 with the backing of the United Nations and is made up of national and international judges and prosecutors from…
Coral reefs known as underwater rainforests face threats due to blasting techniques used by fishermen and warming of waters. DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania Marine scientists and conservationists have teamed up in the East African country of Tanzania to restore coral reefs along the Indian Ocean coast. Coral reefs, an important habitat for fish species as…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of national disaster in South Africa. This comes a week after terrible floods left at least 443 people dead in the Durban area on the east coast. “The cabinet met in special session last night and decided to declare a state of national disaster,” the head of state…
Dozens of refugees and migrants in Tunisia are demanding evacuation to other countries. The refugees, mostly survivors of illegal immigration attempts by sea to Europe, have been staging a sit-in in front of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Tunisian capital, Tunis since Saturday. “We need to be…
In the midst of an energy price explosion, Western Europe is eyeing an alternative to Russia : Nigeria. But Nigerian citizens are hardly benefiting from their status as one of the largest oil producers on the continent… Since the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the European Union has been caught between a rock and a hard…