By Fathi Mohamed AhmedMogadishu It was the discovery of the body of a 22-year-old woman on the streets of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, last year that brought into the open the problem of female drug addiction in the city. Health workers said she died from an opioid overdose. Friends of the social media influencer said…
By Rédaction Africanews BURKINA FASO At least 10 persons were killed and several others injured when their minibus hit a roadside bomb in eastern Burkina Faso on christmas day. The passenger minibus was travelling near the village of Bougui on Sunday afternoon, local time, when it hit a mine, Colonel Hubert Yameogo said in a…
By Bird Story Agency What you need to know : As telcos and internet service providers strengthen their broadband infrastructure across the continent, the new year could also herald more high-speed internet from space. African countries are looking to roll out more broadband networks in 2023 as mobile and internet service providers expand their investment in…
By AFP Fourteen Iranian fishermen seized by the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia, some as long as eight years ago, have returned home, news outlets in the Islamic republic said Sunday. The fishermen were abducted in international waters near Somalia and released after “lengthy negotiations with government officials, tribal chiefs and Somali elders”, the ISNA news…
By Onyango K’Onyango Reporter Nation Media Group A storm is brewing in President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza coalition, with affiliate parties accusing the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) of sidelining and bullying them. Leaders of some of the parties which inked pre-election deals with founding members of the coalition – UDA, Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ford…
By Kassim Adinasi Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga has made a scathing attack on the Church over what he described as its failure to act firmly against injustices in society. Mr Odinga who was addressing the congregation at Nyamira Anglican Church at Kang’o Kajaramogi in Bondo said the church had failed to speak out against injustices. …
By LUKE ANAMI The business idea was hatched during the search for a washroom in Maryland. Today, Swahili Village is one of the finest African cuisine restaurants in the US. Kevin Onyona founded the chain in 2016, and today it boasts of three restaurants. “I took my family out for dinner but the restaurant didn’t…
What you need to know : Hundreds of thousands of people have fled an advance by M23 rebels, who have captured swathes of territory in recent months, with many displaced people settling in flimsy makeshift shelters on lava fields near Goma Few in the giant displacement camps north of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of…
By AFP What you need to know : Videos on social media showed a huge fireball under the bridge, which the tanker appeared to have been too high to go under The blast severely damaged hospital’s accident and emergency unit and X-ray department The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a South African city east…
By BERNARD BUSUULWA The International Monetary Fund has offered a $240 million three-year loan to Uganda to support a radical public sector reform agenda anchored on fighting corruption, cutting financial waste and promoting financial inclusion while sending positive signals to international creditors and credit rating agencies about the country’s debt burden. The loan offer comes…