Ugandan Gov’t restores social media sites except Facebook

By VOA,

Ugandan authorities restored access to the internet Wednesday, a month after blocking it ahead of the January 14 elections. Also Read: Facebook rem...

bobi , facebook , Museveni , Uganda elections

Bobi Wine, still under house arrest, says no food left for relative’s baby

By Citizen Reporter,

Besieged opposition leader Bobi Wine has revealed that he has been under house arrest with an 18 month-old-baby whose food has run out. Taking to T...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Bobi Wine says troops raided party HQs as staff planned legal challenge

By Reuters,

Bobi Wine, leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, said troops raided its headquarters on Monday as staff tried to prepare a legal challenge to Pr...

bobi , Museveni , uganda

Internet access in Uganda restored

By Waihiga Mwaura,

The digitally isolated country of Uganda is now back on the World Wide Web after the government restored the internet almost one week after it was thr...

Internet Shutdown , uganda

WAIHIGA: No emails or zoom calls, Uganda is voting

By Waihiga Mwaura,

What does it mean to be unable to access online banking for at least four days? What if the only way you could pay for your electricity was online ...

Bobi Wine , Uganda elections , yoweri museveni

Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay

By CNN,

President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion dollar coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a govern...

coronavirus

OPINION: COVID-19 crisis presents opportunity for Kenya to rethink

By Guest Writer,

By Allan Chesang Disruption. That is probably the most (mis)used word of the quarter - and rightfully so. I bet we can all agree that with a...

Can prostitution, the world’s oldest profession, survive the age of social distancing?

By CNN,

Don't kiss. Tell clients to wash their hands before they touch you. Wear a mask. Avoid face-to-face positions. And even: Put on a nurse costume and pu...

COVID-19 , lockdown , prostitution , sex workers , UNAIDS

How coronavirus is killing grassroots football in Kiambu

By Moses Ngige,

Up and down the country, amateur football is struggling to survive the shutdown of sport that was enforced by the Government and Football Kenya Federa...

coronavirus

The dire effects of Covid-19 on Kenya’s sports journalists

By Isaac Swila,

SPECIAL REPORT      Isaac Swila Under normal circumstances, Jacob Icia, Gilbert Kiprotich, Ernest Mkalla, Geoffrey Mwamburi, Godfrey Ashiali, Luqm...

Coronavirus impact , COVID-19 , Effects on sports journalists , kenya , RMS , Sports Journalim

WAIHIGA: Why Kenya should monitor East Africa’s response to coronavirus

By Waihiga Mwaura,

One of the earliest known Greek poets, identified by the single name Hesiod once said: “A bad neighbour is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a ...

coronavirus , IGAD

Stop shutting down the internet, Ethiopia told

By Girlie Kendi,

Ethiopian State officials have been urged to stop shutting down the internet. David Kaye, a UN expert, said he is concerned with the frequent inter...

Ethiopia , internet

Internet restored in Ethiopia 10 days after assassinations

By VOA,

Ethiopia has begun restoring internet access Tuesday, 10 days after it was cut following the assassination of six top government officials. On June...

Ethiopia , Internet Shutdown

U.N. rights boss says Sudan must halt repression, allow monitors access

By Reuters,

Sudanese authorities must grant human rights monitors access to the country and end “repression” against protesters and the shutdown of the Intern...

Michelle Bachelet , Sudan , United Nations

Internet restored in Ethiopia after week-long outage

By VOA,

After days without access, internet users in Ethiopia can once again get online. Ethio Telecom, Ethiopia’s sole provider, restored service Tuesda...

Ethio Telecom

Algeria braces for large demonstrations against ailing President’s re-election

By CNN,

Algerians are expected to stage the country's biggest protests in decades, days before Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika formally runs f...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Internet shutdowns mushroom across Africa

By VOA,

The last two years have been grim for internet access on the African continent, according to analyst Robert Besseling of risk-assessment firm EXX Afri...

internet africa

Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless says restores all internet and social media services

By Reuters,

Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile phone operator Econet Wireless restored all internet and social media services on Monday after a court ruled the governmen...

Econet Wireless , Minister Owen Ncube , mobile phone , Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe President returns home after violent protests

By VOA,

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa cut short his international trip and returned home Monday, after days of protests left at least 12 people dead i...

Zimbabwe president returns home

Zimbabwe crackdown challenged in court, opposition leaders in hiding

By Reuters,

Legal challenges to a brutal clampdown on dissent by Zimbabwe’s government were set in motion on Monday, as fears that the country is veering back t...

Opposition , Pastor Evan Mawarire , President Emmerson Mnangagwa , Zimbabwe