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China’s top diplomat heads to Africa as West’s attention dwindles Yesterday - 3 min read PRIME ‘Biya don’t run’, Catholic bishops plead Yesterday - 5 min read M23 rebels seize 2 towns in North Kivu Jan 05 - 2 min read Kenya records third twin elephants birth in three years
Ruto, Lourenço seek joint EAC-SADC push for peace in DRC
1 day ago · During the Luanda meeting, which marked a significant step in strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between Kenya and Angola, the two leaders also discussed pertinent issues in the African continent, including institutional reforms and the election of the next chairperson of the African Union Commission next month, in which President Ruto will be touting former prime minister Raila Odinga ...
New refugee wave as M23 rebels seize 2 towns in North Kivu
6 days ago · Rebel group M23 have captured two more towns in North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources say, after fierce fighting on Saturday afternoon. Masisi-Centre and Lushebere in northeast Kivu came under rebel control after the Congolese army made a “strategic withdrawal to avoid ...
Kenya posts slowest Q3 economic growth since Covid pandemic
3 days ago · Kenya's economy grew by four percent in the three months to September last year, the slowest pace in four years, as contractions in the construction and mining sectors weighed on growth. The gross domestic growth (GDP), or the country’s total output, grew at a slower pace compared to six percent ...
Museveni: Moving freely, trading with each other will end poverty
6 days ago · Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is advocating an effective and operational larger East African Common Market to create wealth for its citizens and promote regional integration. President Museveni emphasised the need for East Africa Community (EAC) citizens to move freely and trade in goods and ...
Kenya slouching towards a police state - The EastAfrican
Jan 4, 2025 · Riot police officers ride horses as they attempt to disperse protesters demonstrating against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government critics, along the Aga Khan Walk in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on December 30, 2024.
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Dec 04 - 5 min read World Food Program’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors - internal report The UN's main food aid agency, the WFP, is struggling to feed millions of people in Sudan, which is suffering one of the world's worst hunger crises.
Kenya torn between pleasing refugees, local communities
Jul 7, 2024 · The governor was on June 20 (the World Refugee Day), part of a key stakeholders’ appraisal forum in Nairobi to formally adopt the plan as part of World Refugees Day commemoration that was also attended UNHCR Country Representative Caroline Van Buren, UN-Resident Coordinator Dr Stephen Jackson, Principal Secretary for State Department of Foreign Affairs Dr Korir Sing’oei and his Immigration ...