Tanzania to crack down on sachet-packaged liquor
DARE SALAAM – Tanzania plans to carry out a major crackdown on producers, importers, distributors and consumers of alcoholic beverages packed in plastic sachets. This...
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Thousands of hungry South Sudan refugees flee to Sudan
Tired and hungry, Rebecca James is one of hundreds of South Sudanese – mainly women and children – who gathered Monday in a “refugee center”...
Kenya Doctors’ Strike Takes Deadly Toll on Poor
NAIROBI — Doctors in Kenya’s public health facilities have refused to work since December. They are demanding the government implement an agreement it signed in 2013...
South Sudan famine: Eating water lilies to survive
Thousands of people at the epicentre of a man-made famine in South Sudan emerged from the safety of the swamps this past weekend hoping to...
Former FRONASA fighter Mawumbe Mukhwana succumbs to cancer
Jack Maumbe Mukhwana, one of the founding members of the ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM party has died. Mawumbe breathed his last at Kadama in Budaka...
Ethiopia may become the leading economy in East Africa
Kenyan media outlets have it well covered recently that Ethiopia is about to overtake Kenya and become the leading economy in East Africa. Building on...
Rwanda: President Kagame Meets Experts On African Union Reform
President Paul Kagame yesterday convened a meeting of the team of experts advising on African Union reform to discuss the implementation process. The meeting took...
Famine-hit South Sudanese surviving on weeds, water lilies
Like thousands of other South Sudanese families caught up in famine, Sara Dit and her 10 children are hiding from marauding gunmen in the swamps...
Ethiopian journalist’s wife urges UK and US to call for his release
The wife of a blogger and journalist detained in Ethiopia has called on the international community to pressure local authorities to release her husband, who...
DP World layoffs hundreds from port in Somaliland
It is believed the workers were summoned to the port last week where they were addressed by the port authority, which included representatives from DP...
