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Sports Betting in Africa Debunked

Sports Betting in Africa Debunked

Many assume Africa is a continent delayed in the field of technology. Some have even assumed that wildlife is in every resident’s backyard. The...
Day two of Kenyans’ protest

Day two of Kenyans’ protest

A group of irritated demonstrators in Kenya have held a protest in the western town of Kisumu following the killing of a local politician...
Kenyan security forces abuse residents

Kenyan security forces abuse residents

Kenyan security forces have been abusing residents in crackdowns and caring act of vengeance in other to chase suspected supporter of Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab...
Police officers in Kenya injured following a grenade attack

Police officers in Kenya injured following a grenade attack

At least 10 police officers have been badly wounded following a grenade attack, while officers were searching a house in Coast state near...
John Teelwa, the Kenyan who wants to kiss a million of  women

John Teelwa, the Kenyan who wants to kiss a million of women

John Telwa is a kenyan of 28 years. He has decided to embrace one million women to be included in the...
Kenya: bloody battle between Orma and Pokomo

Kenya: bloody battle between Orma and Pokomo

A mass grave was discovered Tuesday in the district of Tena River in southeastern Kenya, where Orma and Pokomo two rival ethnic groups in...
Airtel unveils Pan-African Rising Stars Championship

Airtel unveils Pan-African Rising Stars Championship

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 13, 2012/African Press Organization (APO). Over 400 Boys and Girls to participate in the inaugural Pan-African tournament. Draw and fixtures for...
Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees, dies

Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees, dies

Kenya’s Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71. A mother of...
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Texting helps monitor HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Between May 2007 and October 2008, an experiment was conducted in Kenya that involved sending a weekly text message to patients on antiretroviral drugs...
Ethiopian court throws OLF members into jail for life

Ethiopian court throws OLF members into jail for life

Three Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) leaders have been imprisoned for life by the Ethiopian High Court after they were found guilty of carrying out...
Ethiopia: Kenyan protests could compromise mega electric project?

Ethiopia: Kenyan protests could compromise mega electric project?

After massive protests in Nairobi, Kenya, last weekend, against the construction of Ethiopia's mega hydro electric dam, Gilgel Gibe III, calling on China to...
Ethiopia: Mega irrigation project on disputed river planned

Ethiopia: Mega irrigation project on disputed river planned

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has announced plans to start an irrigation project on the trans-boundary Omo River. The announcement comes in spite of...
Uganda: President denies campaign help from Kenya

Uganda: President denies campaign help from Kenya

President Yoweri Museveni who is also the Presidential Candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has hit back at opposition critics who claimed that...
Ugandans angry as Kenyan Vice President joins Museveni campaigns

Ugandans angry as Kenyan Vice President joins Museveni campaigns

Opposition in Uganda has attacked president Museveni for involving foreign politicians in his campaigns. This comes after Kenyan Vice President Dr Steven Kalonzo Musyoka joined Museveni's campaign...
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Uganda Will Not Abandon Somali Brothers and Sisters

Uganda will not abandon its Somali brothers and sisters, even if terrorists who hit Uganda on July 11, 2010 and those threatening to hit...
Africa’s big social media explosion

Africa’s big social media explosion

In the mid-1990s, as the use of mobile phones spread in much of the developed world, few thought of Africa as a potential market....
SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally

SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally

A growing number of sub-Saharan African countries – South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and more recently, Ghana – now require that...
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The ancient coin that gives impetus to China-Africa trade

An ancient Chinese coin that dates from the 15th century, discovered on the northern coast of Kenya, reveals the existence of advanced commercial and...
The tragedy of remaining a slave: The art of Black on Black hatred

The tragedy of remaining a slave: The art of Black on Black hatred

Diatribe it is not. Certainly not vitriolic. Anger at a sad situation? Maybe. Fury at our inability to be free? Perhaps. Here I am,...
Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants

Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants

The United States will invest $130 million over the next five years to transform African medical education and increase the number of health care...
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An Eurocentric Nobel Prize and African literature

African literature is generally ignored by the Nobel committee. Since 1901, only four writers from the continent have been rewarded, two of whom...
Kenya’s Akuku Danger goes to the Polygamy Hall Of Fame

Kenya’s Akuku Danger goes to the Polygamy Hall Of Fame

Famed internationally for his practice of extreme polygamy, 94 year old Acentus Akuku, aka "Danger", kicked the bucket on October 3 in Kenya after...
Africa’s high return rate for the “frontier market investor”

Africa’s high return rate for the “frontier market investor”

Africa is the place to go for the “frontier market investor” who is seeking a new investment venue with a high rate of return,...
2 more Kenyans  charged with al-Shabab Uganda blasts

2 more Kenyans charged with al-Shabab Uganda blasts

The number of Kenyans so far charged with being involved in the July 11th 2011 bomb blasts in Kampala in which over 70...
Kenyan journalist nabbed over Uganda islamist attack

Kenyan journalist nabbed over Uganda islamist attack

Kenyan security agencies on Saturday arrested a journalist working for an Islamic media house in the coastal city of Mombasa suspected to have been...
Kenya’s rapid population growth and over-stretched resources

Kenya’s rapid population growth and over-stretched resources

The Kenyan population has grown exponentially over the past 10 years reaching 38.6 million, up from the 28.7 million recorded in 1999, according to...
Kenya: Celebrating a ‘renewed optimism’

Kenya: Celebrating a ‘renewed optimism’

Thousands of Kenyans braved the early Friday morning chill in Nairobi as they thronged to Uhuru Park to witness the promulgation of the new...
Somali terrorists training in Uganda

Somali terrorists training in Uganda

The Uganda inspector general of police, Kale Kayihura, has revealed that terrorists are using the eastern and northern districts of Uganda as training grounds. While...
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East Africa not ready for electoral violence

The states that make up East African Community (EAC) have said that they are not ready to handle post electoral violence. Even today, East Africa...
Kenya: U.S. launches East Africa software competition “Apps 4 Africa”

Kenya: U.S. launches East Africa software competition “Apps 4 Africa”

United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale launched the “Apps 4 Africa” contest at the Innovation Hub...