The Somali government has threatened to suspend Ethiopian Airlines flights to Somalia unless concerns over “violations of Somali sovereignty” related to destinations served by Ethiopian Airlines are resolved. In a statement, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said it had previous correspondence dating to August 14 with Ethiopian Airlines about the issue. It did not […]
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MOSES K. GAHIGI Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame says he might introduce a tax on church collections, seeking to tame what has turned out to be extortion and exploitative tendencies by evangelical clerics. In his first address after taking a new oath of office in August, the Rwandan head of state, strongly criticized church leaders who […]
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Germany was a significant – and often brutal – colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist nations. A new book called The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism aims to bring the past into the light. It explores not just the […]
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WYCLIFFE MUIA More than 4,000 churches have been closed down over the last month in Rwanda for failing to comply with health and safety regulations, including not being properly soundproofed. It has affected mostly small Pentecostal churches and a few mosques – some of them operating out of caves or on the banks of rivers. […]
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TINEI TUHWE ZANU PF Information Secretary Chris Mutsvangwa has rapped South African opposition leader Julius Malema for meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs. This comes after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader urged Zimbabwean youths to rise against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration and prevent him from extending his rule beyond the constitutional limit. Malema recently called […]
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The Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, Carlos de Carvalho Rodrigues, reaffirmed Thursday August 8 in this city that policies are being adopted to reduce the prices of the main products of the basic basket in the market. The official, who is on a two-day working visit to Benguela, is x-raying the reality of […]
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APOLINARI TAIRO Tanzania’s Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources has ordered that all fees and charges in the tourism sector be paid in local currency, in line with a government directive that all local transactions be in the country’s shillings. The directive covers even Tourism Business License fees, filming permits and visiting fees. Payments previously […]
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Dressed in protective clothing and armed with a smoker, Peter Nyongesa walked through the mangroves to monitor his beehives along the Indian Ocean coastline. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. “But they would retort […]
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The visit follows the withdrawal of mining rights from Canadian and French companies by Niger’s military government. Turkey’s foreign, defense, and energy ministers visited Niger, on Wednesday, July 17 to secure access to the country’s abundant uranium resources, Bloomberg reported. Led by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and including top intelligence official Ibrahim Kalin, the delegation […]
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The House of Representatives begins the process of reviewing the request to amend Liberia’s anti-homosexuality law. BRIDGETT MILTON Liberia’s House of Representatives has instructed its committees on Gender, Health, and Judiciary to review the request for the amendment of the country’s anti-homosexuality law. The proposal seeking an amendment to Chapter 14, Subchapter D of a […]
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