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Pangolins in the dock: Is the mammal really guilty as charged?
By Dorcas Wangira,
1007, February 28, 2021 (EAT)
The pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal. No one truly knows its conservation status in Kenya. When COVID-19 broke out in early 2020, some...
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Fifa Regional Development Office inaugurated in Kigali
By Agencies,
1115, February 20, 2021 (EAT)
The long-term development of football in east Africa received a substantial boost with the inauguration of a new FIFA Regional Development Office in K...
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Equity BCDC unveils new identity in DRC
By Citizen Reporter,
1206, February 12, 2021 (EAT)
Equity Banque Commercial du Congo (Equity BCDC) has launched its new identity following the successful merger of Equity Bank Congo (EBC) and Banque Co...
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Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions
By CNN,
939, January 29, 2021 (EAT)
President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expand...
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Biden begins sweeping away travel ban on African, Muslim-majority countries
By Reuters,
907, January 21, 2021 (EAT)
U.S. President Joe Biden signed half a dozen executive orders on Wednesday including immediately lifting a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and...
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Second COVID-19 wave hits West and Central Africa
By Reuters,
1508, December 19, 2020 (EAT)
A second wave of coronavirus infections is hitting West and Central Africa, and experts are warning it could be worse than the first as cooler weather...
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Kenya slides down to position 113 in world prosperity ranking
By Kepha Muiruri,
1037, November 16, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya has fallen one spot in the world’s prosperity ranking to wound up at position 113 in the world out of a survey of 167 countries. This accor...
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Highlights from President Kenyatta’s State of the Nation Address
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1853, November 12, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has sought to reassure Kenyans that the State of the Nation is strong despite the economic disruptions brought about by the C...
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Atletico sign Kondogbia as Partey replacement
By Agencies,
1548, November 3, 2020 (EAT)
Atletico Madrid have signed Central African Republic midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia from Spanish rivals Valencia. Kondogbia, 27, has joined Atletico...
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Rapid COVID-19 tests for Kenyan truckers revive African Economie
By VOA,
1133, October 31, 2020 (EAT)
The International Organization for Migration is providing rapid COVID-19 tests to thousands of truck drivers across Kenya as part of an effort to rein...
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Organization forced to apologize for putting an African man on display in its Monkey House
By Tonny Ndungu,
1322, July 31, 2020 (EAT)
For one week in 1906, the Bronx Zoo in New York kept a man from Central Africa in an enclosure in its monkey house There, he stayed trapped in an i...
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Refugees in Africa face hunger as COVID-19 worsens food shortages, agencies warn
By Citizen Reporter,
1821, July 9, 2020 (EAT)
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply ch...
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President Kenyatta says Africa’s COVID-19 response much better than rest of the world
By PSCU,
1323, July 5, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended Africa's concerted response to COVID-19 saying measures being implemented by African countries are helping slow...
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David Ansell retires as Equity Group Board Chair, Prof. Isaac Macharia takes over
By Citizen Reporter,
1752, July 1, 2020 (EAT)
The Equity Group Board has appointed Prof. Isaac Macharia Equity Group Holdings Board Chairman to take over from David Ansell. Ansell did not offer...
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Five dead in new Ebola outbreak
By CNN,
825, June 2, 2020 (EAT)
Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, have died of Ebola in a fresh outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations...
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Worldwide optimism about future of gender equality even as many see advantages for men
By Guest Writer,
1859, April 30, 2020 (EAT)
Support for gender equality is strong around the globe, a new Pew Research Center report finds. Across 34 countries polled, a median of 94% think i...
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South Sudan, a country of 12 million people, has only 4 ventilators
By CNN,
1043, April 19, 2020 (EAT)
Covid-19 cases have topped 2.2 million globally and countries around the world are scrambling to buy life-saving equipment as the pandemic places ...
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Africa’s leaders forced to confront healthcare systems they neglected for years
By CNN,
1704, April 10, 2020 (EAT)
Africa's ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own co...
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Coronavirus in Africa: March 30, 2020
By Agencies,
1346, March 30, 2020 (EAT)
Nine days ago, Kenya had reported seven cases of the novel coronavirus but on Sunday, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe announced that the number that has been r...
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Nearly 1 billion people confined to homes globally due to coronavirus
By Tonny Ndungu,
1912, March 21, 2020 (EAT)
Close to one billion people worldwide were confined to their homes on Saturday as the global coronavirus death toll shot past 11,000 and U.S. states r...
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