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News - The East African
WEBComment BUWEMBO: The things we could do with the 30W idling in Kampala garbage! Comment OBBO: Mwafrika can be saved by the wisdom of her ancestors. Comment Needed: Equity-driven pandemic treaty. Comment EYAKUZE: We have Mpox, we had Covid-19, we have vaccines: Stay healthy. Authoritative news and analysis from East Africa, Africa and World.
East Africa - The East African
WEBEast Africa Africa’s youth ‘losing faith in authority’. East Africa Swiss freeze $310m linked to Adani as fraud claims resurface. East Africa Ruto: Labour export to Germany is not brain drain. East Africa In South Sudan, floods drown hopes. East Africa The war in Tshisekedi’s party. East Africa Guinea Bissau president rules out run for ...
$24bn windfall in Africa’s transition minerals - The East African
WEBSep 7, 2024 · African countries could raise their GDP by at least $24 billion annually and create 2.3 million jobs through manufacturing and creating favourable trade policies, by investing more in the production of transition minerals. This is according to new economic modelling from civil society network Publish What You Pay.
As Ethiopia seeks sea access, Egypt-Somalia alliance blooms
WEB6 days ago · Egypt’s long-standing dispute with Ethiopia over the construction of a major dam on the Nile has added to the fresh regional tensions. Ethiopia has since continued to fill the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) amid Egyptian protests. Following a recent military agreement between Somalia and Egypt, the latter agreed to deploy troops to ...
Tanzania abductions: Samia tells foreign envoys to keep off probe
WEB5 days ago · President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday warned foreign diplomats against “meddling” in Tanzania’s affairs, as she fights off allegations that state security agencies are responsible for the recent spate of abductions and killings of opposition leaders. The worrying trend comes as the country prepares for local government elections in ...
Business - The East African
WEBBusiness $24bn windfall in Africa’s transition minerals. Business Indonesia woos Africa using ‘big boys’ script. Comment BUWEMBO: China, just teach our leaders how to make $51bn. Comment NGUGI: East African Community of the oppressed. Comment ULIMWENGU: Electoral cycle is here; so too is the worst in our political leaders.
Rest of Africa - The East African
WEBRest of Africa Morocco pardons nearly 5,000 cannabis farming convicts. Rest of Africa Ethiopia bans diplomatic missions from importing fossil fuel cars. Rest of Africa Sudan faces a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as peace talks fail. Rest of Africa Sudan war: Why army is battling to keep Darfur’s El Fasher. Rest of Africa Sudan to allow use ...
Kenya’s never-ending gaffes on Somaliland - The East African
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Kenya’s Senate Speaker Amason Jeffah Kingi became the latest senior government official to goof on the one-Somalia policy, naming the breakaway Somaliland region as a republic with which Kenya “enjoy ties that stretch back to its days under British colonial rule, which bequeathed them almost similar systems and structures of governance at independence.”
You’ll know them by their garbage: What waste reveals about …
WEBAug 25, 2024 · The latter, bad governance, perhaps has the most intriguing link to the crisis of garbage. Without naming and shaming the “refuse states”, if one looks at the countries with the worst waste management, where pollution of the air and land is extensive, nearly 75 per cent of them happen to be in the bottom half of various African corruption rankings.