Kenyan chef Maliha Mohammed breaks Guinness World Record by cooking for 75 hours straight

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Ms. Maliha Mohammed, a Mombasa-based Kenyan chef, has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent cooking. Chef Maliha cooked for 7...

Maliha Mohammed

Smart gas cooking seeks to break African cities’ dirty charcoal habit

By VOA,

The widespread use of charcoal for cooking in African cities can cause devastating damage to forests up to 300 kilometers away, scientist Sebastian Ro...

charcoal , digital platform , forests , mobile money , pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system , Smart gas

Omtatah files case challenging new law on exchange of gas cylinders

By Dzuya Walter,

Activist Okiya Omtatah has moved to court to challenge the new Petroleum (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) Regulation, 2019 saying that it is unconstitutional...

Activist Okiya Omtata , Petroleum Regulations

The wildcat gold miners who get rich sick in Ghana

By Reuters,

A few years after coming as a teenager to this town in Ghana to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry his sweetheart and build a ...

Ghana , Gold Mining

China says Africa projects should be sustainable, denounces criticism

By Reuters,

Chinese development projects in Africa must be sustainable, the government’s top diplomat told senior African ministers on Tuesday, as he denounced ...

africa , china , Xi Jinping

Kirinyaga: Man burns wife for cooking him rice instead of Githeri

By Johnson Muriithi,

A 27-year-old woman is nursing injuries at a private hospital in Kirinyaga County after she was attacked by her husband following a disagreement invol...

Githeri , Kirinyaga County.

Cuban Gov’t starts rationing chicken, eggs, rice & soap

By VOA,

The Cuban government announced Friday that it was launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the f...

cuban

Six hospitalised after cholera outbreak in Embu

By Anthony Ndwiga,

Six cases of cholera have so far been recorded in Embu County since the outbreak of the disease was reported one week ago. According to the Embu Co...

cholera , Embu County. , Rosaline Kaungi

Drought effects push inflation rate to 18-month high

By Kepha Muiruri,

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has released its monthly consumer price index for the month of April quoting inflation at 6.58 percent....

Ugandan mum of multiple quadruplets struggles to provide for 38 kids

By Reuters,

Mariam Nabatanzi gave birth to twins a year after she was married off at the age of 12. Five more sets of twins followed - along with four sets of tri...

mariam nabatanzi , Quadruplets , uganda

‘We have become social pariahs’: A Chibok mother’s anguish five years on

By CNN,

On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram, the violent extremist group operating in the Lake Chad region, abducted 276 girls from their school dormitory in north-e...

Boko Haram , Chibok , lake chad , Nigeria

If not for women, there would be no tequila

By CNN,

Located 45 miles northwest of Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, the town of Tequila is known as the birthplace of the drink that bears its...

tequila

U.N. ups Zimbabwe aid appeal after cyclone

By Reuters,

The United Nations asked donors on Friday for an extra $60 million to help Zimbabwe recover from a cyclone that tore through eastern regions last mont...

Zimbabwe

Cholera cases reported as hunger, disease stalk African cyclone survivors

By Reuters,

Cholera cases were reported on Friday in the Mozambican city of Beira, adding a risk of deadly illnesses for hundreds of thousands of people who are s...

africa , cholera , Cyclone

U.N. warns of millions of premature deaths by 2050 due to environmental damage

By Reuters,

Environmental damage caused by man-made activities is having a devastating toll on human health, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning of mill...

Joyeeta Gupta , U.N. Environment Assembly

The pregnancy of Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex

By Reuters,

The Duchess of Sussex, former U.S. actress Meghan Markle, is due to give birth this Spring to her first child with husband Prince Harry, 34, Queen Eli...

Duchess of sussex , Meghan Markle. , Prince Harry , Queen Elizabeth

From flying toilets to ‘froggers’ – Kenya struggles with slum waste

By Reuters,

Most of Patrick ‘Moreno’ Osunda’s neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it’s the smell of money. Osunda is...

Kibera

Harry and Meghan wrap up Morocco visit with tea ceremony hosted by king

By Reuters,

Britain’s Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan wrapped up a visit to Morocco with a tea ceremony on Monday afternoon hosted by King Mohammed VI...

Harry and Meghan , Morocco

Harry and Meghan to champion girls’ education in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains

By Reuters,

Britain’s Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan will show their support for rural girls’ education in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains on Sunday. ...

Casablanca , Meghan , Prince Harry , Rabat

‘Salt Queen’ working to transform health of Senegal citizens

By CNN,

Marie Diouf, 35, is on her cellphone speaking swiftly in Wolof, a lyrical Senegalese language, as salt flies past her. Dressed in a red boubou, a l...

Marie Diouf , SALT