Uganda’s Nancy Kacungira Wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
Former NTV Uganda news anchor Nancy Kacungira has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor award, beating almost 200 other applicants. The award was established to honour Komla Dumor, a Ghanian presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41. Currently, Kacungira is a news anchor for Kenya’s KTN television channel and is […]
‘When I Pose Naked I Will Just Be Doing My Job’ Says Stacy Aamito Lagum
The second Kampala Fashion Week (KFW) seminar tackling photography and modeling was recently concluded in Kampala at the Goethe Zentrum. Stacy Aamito Lagum, winner of Africa’s Next Top Model, and an international professional model, spoke as a guest at the seminar, and found herself on the receiving end of a number of sensitive questions about […]
Barack Obama’s Visit To Kenya Cost $80 Million Dollars
The recent trip by US president Barack Obama to Kenya and Ethiopia is expected to have cost American taxpayers up to Sh8 billion, according to security experts and the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. Air Force One, the President’s plane, costs Sh21 million ($210,000 for each hour that it is in the air, according to the […]
‘Killer Brew’ Addicts In Kenya Face Penis Cut-Off Threat
Authorities in Kenya are cracking down on illicitly brewed alcohol following a recent spate of deaths. Homemade alcohol, sometimes called “killer brew”, is popular among poorer Kenyans in central parts of the country. Addiction is having a devastating impact on many communities and,some wives have been driven to desperate measures such as to promise cutting […]
President Obama Leaves US for Kenya Without His Familly
President Barack Obama left Washington for Kenya on Thursday on a trip that will also include a stop in the Ethiopian capital and a visit to the home of the African Union. The landmark trip to Mr Obama’s ancestral homeland of Kenya, where his father was born, is his first as president and is also […]
Sir Richard Branson Meets African Billionaires In Kenya
Kenya is a model investment destination in Africa, founder and CEO of the Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson said Saturday. Sir Branson made the remark when he led a group of investors in talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta at his Harambee House office. The meeting explored how to make the most of Kenya’s abundant potential […]
ISIS linked Boko Haram shows the beheading of Nigerian troops
Boko Haram has set a terrifying new precedent by releasing its first gruesome video of a beheading since it pledged allegiance to ISIS. The video adopts many of the same style-points as the hundreds of barbaric videos released by ISIS over the last year. The ‘west Africa’ insignia in the top-left corner suggests the terror […]
Uganda Please Vote back Museveni into Office, Pleads Kenya
A group of leaders hailing from the South Pokot in Kenya have appealed to Ugandans to vote back President Museveni to office come 2016 general elections. Mr Joseph Akoule, the director of Sikom organisation, who led a Kenyan delegation to Uganda that traveled to Amudat District, to attend the Pokot Culture Day last Wednesday, said […]
Kenya protesters ban Obama from talking about gay rights in Kenya
Kenyan anti-gay protesters marched in Nairobi Monday warning US President Barack Obama not to speak about gay rights when he visits the country of his ancestors later this month. “We do not want Obama and Obama, we do not want Michelle and Michelle,” they chanted. “We want Obama and Michelle and we want a child!” […]
Why Is It so Easy To Turn Young Girls Into Terrorists ?
In East Africa and across the globe, the Internet is increasingly being used to recruit and radicalise young women into extremist groups. In March, three young women two Kenyans and one from Tanzania were arrested en route to Somalia, where they were allegedly headed to join extremist group al-Shabaab. The incident raised concerns about a […]
