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Here’s what to know about the risk of blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine
By CNN,
1159, April 3, 2021 (EAT)
The UK's medicines regulator has said that at least 30 people in the United Kingdom have experienced rare types of blood clots after receiving the Oxf...
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Four killed in bombing of Afghan government bus, nine die in helicopter crash
By Reuters,
1006, March 18, 2021 (EAT)
Four people were killed and nine wounded when a roadside bomb hit a bus carrying Afghan government employees in Kabul on Thursday, while nine Afghan s...
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Women and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from 12 markets
By Reuters,
402, March 11, 2021 (EAT)
The clear majority of top editors across 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across four continents are men, a Reuters I...
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Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala makes history as first woman, first African WTO head
By Reuters,
910, February 16, 2021 (EAT)
Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to...
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Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist after four years in detention
By Reuters,
1228, February 7, 2021 (EAT)
Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for mor...
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Tanzanian officials slapped with U.S. visa ban over ‘flawed’ election
By Citizen Reporter,
2033, January 19, 2021 (EAT)
The United States Government has announced a visa ban on Tanzanian elections who are said to have been complicit during last year's general elections....
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UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests
By Reuters,
857, December 30, 2020 (EAT)
United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and ac...
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Uganda’s Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was ‘deliberately’ run over and killed
By CNN,
819, December 28, 2020 (EAT)
Ugandan presidential opposition candidate Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed Sunday by a military police truck, while taking...
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George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98
By Reuters,
1748, December 27, 2020 (EAT)
George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliat...
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One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty
By Reuters,
1056, December 11, 2020 (EAT)
For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, ju...
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Tigray fighting is spiraling out of control, U.N. Human Rights chief warns
By VOA,
2242, December 9, 2020 (EAT)
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warns that fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is spiraling out of control...
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‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero arrested on terrorism charges
By Reuters,
2040, August 31, 2020 (EAT)
Rwanda said it had arrested Paul Rusesabagina - the man who was hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about the country’s 1994 genocide - on terrorism ...
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COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Crowded jails, detention centres and Kenyan journalist who bore the brunt
By VOA,
1316, August 24, 2020 (EAT)
Ethiopia arrested thousands of protesters, opposition members and journalists during July's sectarian unrest. Also Read: Kenyan journalist Yassin J...
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Coronavirus infections accelerate in Africa
By Tonny Ndungu,
1323, July 23, 2020 (EAT)
The spread of the coronavirus in Africa has lagged much of the globe, but it’s picking up speed. Health authorities say the highly infectious virus ...
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OPINION: Africa’s twin battles – COVID-19 and fake news
By Guest Writer,
2053, June 27, 2020 (EAT)
By Yemisi Adegoke Just under four months after Africa recorded its first coronavirus case, the number of confirmed cases has reached more than 250,...
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Kipruto: In bagging bronze, I felt the loneliness as Ethiopians stuck to their plan
By Philip Muchiri,
1328, October 6, 2019 (EAT)
Philip Muchiri in Doha, Qatar Kenya picked a total of four medals on the penultimate day of this year’s World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qata...
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Uganda internet registration stirs free speech concerns
By VOA,
1018, August 15, 2019 (EAT)
Uganda is ramping up efforts to curtail online content deemed immoral or hateful, a move critics say will silence dissent. Since March 2018, the Ug...
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Hong Kong activists defy police ban to protest triad attack
By Reuters,
1643, July 27, 2019 (EAT)
Several thousand protesters defied a police ban on Saturday to converge on a rural Hong Kong town where suspected triad gangsters attacked protesters ...
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We’re out to revenge, Tanzania’s Bocco warns Kenya ahead of Stars clash
By Jacob Icia,
1547, July 27, 2019 (EAT)
Jacob Icia in Dar,Tanzania Taifa Stars captain for African Nations Championship (CHAN) John Raphael Bocco has stressed Sunday's qualifier against K...
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‘This is our land’: Uncertain future for Ugandans facing eviction from wildlife reserve
By Reuters,
953, July 23, 2019 (EAT)
The landscape is bucolic: shoulder-high grass, patches of woodland and the occasional homestead, all sloping down to the east bank of Uganda’s River...
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