Diana Warira wins Africa Evidence Leadership Award

By Rachel Ombaka,

Diana Warira, a policy manager at a global research center, has won this year's Africa Evidence Leadership Award. The award seeks to recognise indi...

warira

500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site

By CNN,

Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the compan...

LinkedIn

Brazil records 4,195 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours

By CNN,

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shrugged off criticisms that he is "genocidal" in his opposition to Covid-19 restrictions, as the nation record...

Brazil , COVID-19

OPINION: Fool proof digital vaccine certificates management system key in aviation sector recovery

By Guest Writer,

By Captain Hussein Mohammed Vaccination efforts against COVID-19 are finally underway in Kenya. This is a major feat in building back lost conf...

PSC to scale down operations in wake of third coronavirus wave

By Citizen Reporter,

The Public Service Commission (PSC) will from next week scale down its operations citing the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. PSC Secretary/CEO...

coronavirus , PSC

OPINION: We are no longer mourning but celebrating the life of Robin Njogu

By Guest Writer,

By Victor Bwire It is no longer mourning. We are celebrating the passing on of a professional colleague, friend, journalism mentor, sociable and co...

coronavirus , Robin Njogu

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan urges citizens to avoid pointing fingers

By Reuters,

Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Friday the country should unite and avoid pointing fingers after the death of John Magufuli, ur...

magufuli , Samia Suluhu , Tanzania

Late Tanzania President John Magufuli’s frosty relationship with Kenya

By Francis Gachuri,

Diplomatic flare-ups and tension between Kenya and Tanzania characterised the late president John Pombe Magufuli’s almost 6-year tenure. His on a...

East African Community , President John \pombe Magufuli , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Tanzania

After Magufuli’s death, Tanzania’s opposition now wants VP sworn in immediately

By Reuters,

Condolences poured in following the announcement of the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, while an opposition leader called for the immed...

John Magufuli , Tanzania

Donald Trump call found in trash folder on Georgia investigator’s device

By CNN,

Officials in the Georgia Secretary of State's Office located a recently released recording of former President Donald Trump's call to a state investig...

Donald Trump

Kenyans to receive COVID-19 vaccine free of charge during phase 1

By Dorcas Wangira,

The long-awaited arrival of Kenya's first consignment of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine has now set the wheel in motion for the planned rollout. ...

Huawei CEO: We won’t give up the ideal of globalization

By Agencies,

Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has pledged to stick to a globalization strategy despite external pressure. He has called on the new US administration to come...

Huawei , Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei

WHO says 1.5 billion people suffer hearing loss globally

By VOA,

To mark World Hearing Day, the World Health Organization is calling for action to stem the epidemic of hearing loss which currently affects 1.5 billi...

hearing loss , hearing problems

Rising e-waste crisis is being reckoned with in Rwanda, one gadget at a time

By CNN,

For Eric Nshimiyimanain, who owns two small electronic repair shops in Kigali, Rwanda, the startup chime of an old Windows laptop is the sound of a bu...

e-waste , Rwanda

Nyayo estate residents protest alleged plans by private developer to grab land

By Raquel Muigai,

Residents of Nyayo Estate in Embakasi have raised concerns about land grabbing by an unknown developer. They claim that people pretending to be fro...

Nyayo Estate

Prominent Ugandan news websites implicated in gov’t-aligned social media campaign

By Guest Writer,

By Tessa Knight and Alyssa Kann Seven Ugandan news websites were implicated in the January 8 Facebook takedown that involved government employees ...

bobi , Museveni , Uganda elections

Exiled in Kenya, Stella Nyanzi continues to speak out

By VOA,

As a child, Stella Nyanzi’s parents fled from then-Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada in the 1970s, forcing her to live in Kenya as a refugee for five ...

bobi , Museveni , Stella Nyanzi , uganda

Is online trading a safe way to invest in markets?

By Citizen Reporter,

COVID-19 has definitely disrupted several economies resulting in catastrophic losses but if one were to look at the financial markets' conditions, it ...

Elon Musk , Forex , GameStop , online trading

Facebook removes inauthentic assets linked to Ugandan government

By Guest Writer,

By Tessa Knight On January 8, 2020, Facebook removed 32 pages, 220 user accounts, 59 groups, and 139 Instagram profiles working to promote Ugandan ...

bobi , facebook , Museveni , Uganda elections

Why you should update your iPhone now

By CNN,

Apple is urging iPhone and iPad users to promptly update their operating systems to fix security bugs that may have already been exploited by hackers....

apple , iphone