Headlines: • Déjà vu Sudan • Pakistan Turns to IMF Again • New Bill to Remove British Citizenship Déjà vu Sudan After being removed in a coup a month ago Abdalla Hamdok has reinstated by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after signing a political agreement. Twelve cabinet ministers submitted their resignation in protest against the political […]
Headlines: • China-US Virtual Summit • The Battle for Libya • Afghanistan on the Brink of Economic Collapse China-US Virtual Summit The US president and Chinese premier Xi Jinping held a virtual summit on 16 November 2021. There was no joint press conference or a press statement after the virtual conference. This is because expectations […]
Tanzanian government on 1/11/2021 started the relocation of petty traders commonly known as “machingas” as directives from the President to regional commissioners and their subordinates. Comment: Issue of reallocating the petty traders to the so-called more convenient areas is not a new one, there have been several similar past operations such as of 2016 to […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal from November 15-20, underscoring the depth and breadth of our relationships with African partners. (The Star, 12/11/2021).
Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi has condemned the attack on Deputy President William Ruto’s tour of the Western Region on Saturday 23rd October 2021. Several vehicles from Ruto’s motorcade were destroyed when a section of youth protested his tour of Busia Town. Eight suspects have already been arrested in connection to the violence.
Figures from Jubilee Debt Campaign show that 34 of the world’s poorest countries are spending $29.4bn on debt payments a year compared with $5.4bn on measures to reduce the impact of the climate emergency. Uganda said it would spend $537m between 2016 and 2020, including funds from international agencies and donors, on climate related projects […]
The Ugandan Government has a new policy to tackle corruption by making children spy on their families. One project that has become a new homework exercise has been to teach children to detect the difference between the money their father owns and luxury goods. They are requested to submit any odd observation to the teacher […]
Headlines: Coup in Sudan Bangladesh to Remove Islam from its Constitution India Signs First Investment Deal in Kashmir with UAE
On the 19th of October 2021, The BBC reported that an airstrike in the Ethiopian city of Tigray killed civilians. The region is currently facing tension with the rebel Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) fighting the established Ethiopian government.
On Thursday, 07/10/2021, retired Professor of English and Post-Colonial Literatures at the University of Kent and novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the prestigious award of Nobel Prize for Literature worth a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.14m) after recognition on his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of […]
Kenyan media reported that a High Court Judge, Teresia Matheka has declared that being a housewife should be considered a full-time payable job. The judge said: “It is easy for the spouse working away from home and sending money to lay claim to the whole property purchased and developed with that money by the spouse […]
Nakura, Kenya, 29 – A Nakuru-based doctor who hit the headlines after he reportedly murdered his two children and later died while undergoing treatment at the Nakuru Level V Hospital has been laid to rest. Doctor James Mureithi was buried together with his two children at the family’s home in Gilgil on Tuesday. His remains […]
Headlines: President Biden Urges Unity Failed Coup on Sudan
On 2nd September 2021, the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in Tanzania, Mr. Camillius Wambura revealed in his report that Hamza Mohamed (30), a businessman and a prominent member of the ruling party (CCM), who was shot dead by Police on August 25, 2021 after he had killed three police officers and security guard in […]
Headlines: Zionist PM meets President el-Sisi in Egypt France warns Mali against Russian Wagner mercenary deal IMF Offers Lebanon $1 billion
The Standard Newspaper on its website posted on 21st August, 2021 a story: “Police gone rogue? IPOA now probing 105 deaths”. The story covered rampant cases of police brutality resulting to maiming and death have reached alarming levels.
On Friday, 13th August 2021, over 22 Muslims were killed and 14 others injured in a newly attack in Nigeria’s central Jos city. According to the Police statement, a group of attackers suspected to be Irigwe youths (predominantly Christian) attacked a convoy of five buses with Muslim faithfuls returning from the neighboring state Bauchi State, […]
On August 06, 2021, the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court mentioned a case of Tanzania’s main opposition party (Chadema) leader Freeman Mbowe who faces two charges of conspiracy to commit crimes and financing of terrorist acts, while three of his co-accused face seven charges.
On Thursday, 22 July 2021 the Israel Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced that Israel has rejoined African Union (AU) as an observer state. He said Thursday was a day of celebration for Israel-Africa relations, noting that Israel currently has relations with 46 African countries. After the announcement was confirmed by the Chairperson of the African […]
Taliban Sweep Afghanistan to Now Hold Half of its Provincial Capitals According to an Associated Press report on Friday, in a lightning offensive barrelling through their southern heartland the Afghan mujahideen took four more provincial capitals giving them control over half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals and two thirds of the country, including also in the […]
Every election season in Kenya brings about new political alliances. As next poll draws closer, the political class are engaging in the formulation on new alliances as the presidential tenure of Uhuru Kenyatta comes to an end.
Headlines: * Tunisia: U.S. Calls On Tunisia to Finalise Negotiations with IMF As Soon As Possible * Afghan Government Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ * The US and China say They want to Avoid Military Conflict, but no One can Agree on How * US Step Up Airstrikes Against Taliban * Egypt to Increase Bread Prices * […]
The Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority in Tanzania (EWURA) has issued the new wholesale and retail Cap Prices for petroleum products to be applied in Tanzania Mainland effective from Thursday, 01/07/2021, following the amendments on the Finance Act 2021 upon which fuel levy has increased by Tsh 100 for each one litre of petrol, […]
In mid-June this year, there were reports of kidnappings of girls and adults. These incidents have raised serious concerns for citizens who are now forced to turn to social media to find missing relatives.
On Tuesday, 18 May 2021, Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan while launching the Police uniform sewing factory stated that The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has dropped 147 framing cases and directed the Police to do the same.
On Friday, 07th May 2021, President Samia Suluhu Hassan addressed Dar es Salaam elders at Mlimani City Hall in Dar es Salaam. The elders presented a list of challenges they face including: access to health care, delayed pensions, lack of old age protection law and etc.
According to the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, the Danish Minister of Integration and Migration, Mattias Tesfaye and the Minister of Development, Flemming Møller Mortensen, signed two co-operation agreements with the Rwandan government on asylum and migration co-operation, following a visit to Rwanda.
Headlines: • US Formally Removes Turkey from F-35 Programme • Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey Urge Taliban to Commit to Afghan Peace Talks • Strategic Competition Act Further Pushes China-US ties Toward Confrontation • Biden Uses Russia to Pressure Europe • Chad, Pakistan, illegal Jewish entity • Denmark Targets Muslim Women
On Wednesday 17/03/2021, John Magufuli (61) who was the President of the United Republic of Tanzania died from heart complications at Mzena Hospital in Dar es Salaam and Samia Suluhu Hassan (61) who was the Vice President sworn in as new Tanzania’s President on Friday, 19/03/2021.
Headlines: Biden Announces Withdrawal from Afghanistan by 9/11 Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria US Warns China against Aggressive Moves in Contested South China Sea India, Pakistan Foreign Ministers in UAE Uncertainty Surrounds US Pullout from Afghanistan
