Tanzania Closing Hydropower Plants
All hydropower plants in Tanzania are being switched off because a lack of rain has led to low water levels in the country’s dams. Hydro-electricity generation has fallen to 20% of capacity, making it difficult for the dams to operate. It is the first time the East African nation has closed all hydro plants, which […]
Nigeria To Allow Rice Importation: National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria Not Happy
The National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria, NRMAN, said on Thursday in Abuja that the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, erred in its decision to lift the ban on importation of rice through the land borders. The Chairman of the association, Mohammed Abubakar, said the NCS overreached its statutory mandate as an enforcement agency in taking […]
Tanzania Arrests East African’s Most Wanted Ivory Trafficker
Police in Tanzanian has arrested one of the most wanted ivory traffickers in the East African region. Yang Feng Glan, nicknamed the “queen of Ivory” was tracked down by Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit (NTSCIU) over the course of a year. Having previously confessed to the crime of ivory trafficking, Yang faces […]
Kenya Names A Road After Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete
Nairobi has named a road next to State House after Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.The Jakaya Kikwete Road was previously known as Milimani Road and is 0.49km. Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero yesterday said the road was named after Kikwete because of his close relationship with President Uhuru Kenyatta. “When the President said you will be visiting, […]
African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson
The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]
Splitting South Sudan Into 28 States – Right Move, Wrong Time?
South Sudan’s fragile peace deal is already under heavy pressure. President Kiir’s decision to carve the country into 28 new states puts it under even more. President Salva Kiir’s decision, announced last Friday, to create 28 states in South Sudan, up from the current ten, risks adding another destabilising element to the peace pact signed […]
Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma
AFRICA is a contradictory place being a rich continent with poor people, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She also said development will be very slow in Africa if women are left out. During a cockatil held for her at Melia Habana Hotel on Friday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said only skills and education could be an […]
Mugabe’s Zanu PF To Revive Green Bombers: Compulsory Industrial Attachment For All O’ Level students
HE Welshman Ncube led MDC has scoffed at plans by government to introduce compulsory industrial attachment for Ordinary Level students, saying it is a veiled attempt to introduce the dreaded “Border Gezi militia national service”. State media Sunday carried an article quoting deputy minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Professor Paul Mavhima, saying those who […]
Extreme Poverty ‘To Fall Below 10%’: World Bank
The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25. It forecasts the proportion of the […]
Emails Reveal U.S. Pressured Kenya to Expand Dadaab Refugee Camp
The United States government quietly pressured Kenyan authorities to expand the Dadaab camp, as more Somali refugees poured into Kenya to flee famine and terrorists. A new trove of emails published by the State Department on Wednesday show that officials from the American government prevailed upon the then Grand Coalition government to open the Ifo […]
