Coronavirus rapidly spreading across Africa

By VOA,

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly spreading across Africa and a lack of adequate testing is preventing health care professionals from being able to ass...

coronavirus

The Gravedigger’s Truth: Coronavirus hits Somalia

By Guest Writer,

BBC Africa Eye has been given unprecedented access to Somalia’s only Covid-19 ward at the Martini hospital in Mogadishu, where two young doctors are...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , somalia

Kenya records 960 new COVID-19 cases

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Kenya has recorded 960 new coronavirus cases pushing the country's total caseload so far to 17,603. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ministry o...

coronavirus , COVID-19

Somalia’s parliament ousts prime minister in no-confidence vote

By Reuters,

Somalia’s parliament ousted Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a no-confidence vote on Saturday, the speaker of the house said, due to criticism of...

parliament , President Mohamed Abdullahi , Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire , somalia

President Kenyatta commends progress in South Sudan peace process despite COVID-19 disruption

By PSCU,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended parties to the South Sudan peace process for the progress achieved in recent months despite the health and econ...

peace process , south sudan

North Eastern athletes tell tales of struggle

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich    in Garissa While it is almost a routine to meet an athlete in the Rift Valley region doing a morning run at the crack of dawn,...

athletes , Athletics Kenya , garissa , Mandera , North and North Eastern Development Initiative , Wajir

Suicide car bomber hits checkpoint at Somalia’s Mogadishu port

By Reuters,

An explosion shook parts of the Somali capital of Mogadishu early on Saturday as a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint just outside the port, w...

Al Shabaab , mogadishu , Siad Barre , Somali , suicide bomber

Over 40,000 people forcefully evicted in East Africa during coronavirus crisis

By Reuters,

More than 40,000 people across East Africa have been forcibly evicted from their homes since March, putting them at risk of contracting COVID-19, said...

coronavirus , demolished

Joyous return for Stadium Mogadishu after 16-year wait

By Agencies,

A long 16-year wait has finally come to an end with a sparkling new Stadium Mogadishu reopened in the Somali capital on Tuesday evening. Civil unre...

Stadium Mogadishu

A new generation of locusts has hatched in Turkana and are eating everything in sight

By Reuters,

The branches on trees around Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. Numbers of lo...

locusts

OPINION: Africa’s twin battles – COVID-19 and fake news

By Guest Writer,

By Yemisi Adegoke Just under four months after Africa recorded its first coronavirus case, the number of confirmed cases has reached more than 250,...

BBC , coronavirus , COVID-19 , ebola , fake news , who

The silent extinction: Less than 100,000 giraffes left in the wild

By Moses Ngugi,

As the World celebrated World Giraffe Day on June 21, 2020, there remains growing concern over the endangered status of the world's tallest animal. ...

giraffe meat , somali girafe , white giraffe

Police in Mandera nab bhang worth Ksh.800K, two suspects arrested

By Amos Sambu,

Police in Mandera are holding two individuals who were arrested with 130kilograms of bhang. The suspect Ali Ibrahim Ali and his accomplice was arre...

bhang

TECNO, UNHCR to support education for African refugee children

By Citizen Reporter,

Leading smartphone brand TECNO has announced a new partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that will provide qualit...

Tecno , UNHCR

COVID-19: Kenya confirms 124 new cases, 39 recoveries and 4 deaths

By Ian Omondi,

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Thursday announced that 124 more patients had tested positive for COVID-19 from 2,640 samples tested in the l...

Afya House , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe

Business, political leaders support Duale amid push for removal as Majority Leader

By Benjamin Muriuki,

A section of business and political leaders on Thursday came out to defend Garissa Township Member of Parliament Aden Duale from an onslaught seeking ...

Aden Duale

George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds

By VOA,

Minnesota officials have ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide, saying he suffered from a loss of blood flow due to compression on his neck while be...

George Floyd

al-Shabaab suspect who used his 2 children as human shield killed in dawn attack

By Tonny Ndungu,

Police officers killed a suspected al-Shabaab millitant early Saturday morning at his house in Diani, reports say. The suspect's two children that ...

Al Shabaab

Kenya confirms 72 new Covid-19 infections; 21 cases recorded in Lang’ata

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Seventy-two more patients have tested positive for Covid-19 in Kenya, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 1,286. The new ...

80 more people test positive for coronavirus in Kenya, total rises to 1,109

By Citizen Reporter,

80 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Kenya bringing the total to 1,109. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said 77 of them are Kenyans while ...

coronavirus , kagwe