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Confusion Over South Sudan Power-Sharing Deal Agreed to By President, Rebel Leader

Confusion Over South Sudan Power-Sharing Deal Agreed to By President, Rebel Leader

Talks to reach a power-sharing deal in South Sudan have ended with conflicting accounts. Some reports have stated that rebel leader Riek Machar has agreed to return to his position as vice president. South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar met for peace talks in Uganda on Saturday in an attempt to […]

Rising Fuel Prices, Higher Taxes to Push Up Kenya, Uganda Inflation

Rising Fuel Prices, Higher Taxes to Push Up Kenya, Uganda Inflation

Kenya and Uganda face a higher cost of living in the second half of this year, driven by a surge in fuel prices, increased taxation and weakened local currencies. Reports by their respective central banks have said that this will translate to higher import bills. In Kenya, goods and services prices will be pushed up […]

Celebrating the Everyday Hustlers of Nairobi

Celebrating the Everyday Hustlers of Nairobi

Nairobi News today celebrates the men and women in the non-formal sector who struggle to beat the odds to feed their families. The city is full of courageous tales of such entrepreneurs, popularly known as hustlers, who engage in menial jobs such as selling second-hand clothes, grocery vendors, roasting maize, car washes, et cetera. David […]

UK based Kenyan prostitution queen jailed for operating brothels

UK based Kenyan prostitution queen jailed for operating brothels

A Kenyan woman has been jailed for 10 years in the UK for running two brothels and enslaving a Romanian woman. Ann O’Brien was born Hannah Wambui Muya at Mt Kenya’s Kahurura forest where her parents were squatters. She later changed her name to Ann Wambui Muya. She attended Kahurura Primary School up to Standard […]

President Mokgweetsi Masisi Misses African Union Summit

President Mokgweetsi Masisi Misses African Union Summit

President Mokgweetsi Masisi will miss the 31st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union to be held in Nouakchott, Mauritania from July 1-2. President Masisi was scheduled to leave for Nouakchott today (June 30). A press release from the Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation says the trip has been cancelled due to […]

Kenya Changes to Law Seek to Beat Child Traffickers At Their Own Game

Kenya Changes to Law Seek to Beat Child Traffickers At Their Own Game

A raft of legal amendments in the National Assembly seeks to tighten laws and confront child trafficking involving wealthy and well-connected criminals. Nairobi features regularly on international reports as a source and transit point for child trafficking, feeding into the cross border crime networks by exploiting a lax enforcement regime and a compromised legal environment. […]

Legal Fate of Sudanese Teen Fuels Debate Over Child Marriage

Legal Fate of Sudanese Teen Fuels Debate Over Child Marriage

A legal battle over a teenager in Sudan who killed her husband as he tried to rape her has shone a spotlight on widespread child marriage in the African nation, campaigners said. Noura Hussein, 19, was sentenced to death in May after a Sharia court, which follows Islamic religious laws, found her guilty of premeditated […]

Polygamous Groom Reveals Why He Married Two Brides in One Wedding

Polygamous Groom Reveals Why He Married Two Brides in One Wedding

A young man who got married to two women last Friday night says he wedded the two brides at once because he wants to have many children. The wedding, which took place in Sinai village, Ahmed Dhagah district, was well attended but the guests were surprised by the strange spectacle of a groom and two […]

Rwanda Ranked Second Safest Place in Africa

Rwanda Ranked Second Safest Place in Africa

Rwanda has been ranked second by the 2018 Gallup Global Law and Order report. Gallup’s Law and Order Index gauges people’s sense of personal security and their personal experiences with crime and law enforcement. indicates that 83 per cent of Rwandan residents have confidence in the local police force. The 2018 Gallup Global Law and […]

Kenya’s rapping priest is suspended by Catholic Church — for rapping while preaching

Kenya’s rapping priest is suspended by Catholic Church — for rapping while preaching

The white robe came off, and the red bandanna came on. And then the Rev. Paul Ogalo emerged in front of his open-air congregation with a microphone. The Catholic priest started rapping, and the nuns started dancing. Teenage boys and even middle-aged women dressed in their Sunday best circled around Ogalo as he waved his […]

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