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Category: East Africa

Below is the List of East African Countries. Burundi. Tanzania. Kenya. Uganda. Rwanda. Djibouti. Eritrea. Ethiopia.

Kenya Solar Energy East Africa 

Low-income earners in Kenya can now access Solar energy through d.light Partnership with Microfinance Institutions

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Microfinance institutions remove the cost barrier by extending credit to customers to acquire a solar home system, which they then pay back over time through mobile money.   10 May 2017, San Francisco, CA; Nairobi, Kenya; New Delhi, India. Off-grid solar solutions provider d.light has signed a new partnership with micro lender Musoni to enable low-income consumers in Kenya to… Read More
Stella Nyanzi East Africa 

Uganda: Stella Nyanzi free but ludicrous charges must be dropped

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Responding to news that outspoken feminist academic Stella Nyanzi has been released on bail after four weeks in prison, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said: “It is a great relief that Stella Nyanzi is no longer behind bars, as she should never have been arrested in the first place.… Read More
: Minister Abas Abdullahi Sheikh East Africa 

Tragedy: Security forces mistakenly kill Somali Minister

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MOGADISHU-(AGV) – Somalia security forces, this week shot dead a 31-year old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist. According to BBC the late Minister Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, was killed in his vehicle near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu.   Following Abas’ killing, the country’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, has cut short his visit to Ethiopia. Read More
East Africa Sudan 

Families flee from South Sudan to Uganda in Africa’s biggest exodus since 1994 Rwandan genocide

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At least 832,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Uganda since fighting erupted in July last year, in the biggest cross-border exodus in Africa since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Overall, the fighting has uprooted more than three million people, and by July 5.5 million – nearly half the population – are unlikely to have a reliable food supply, according to… Read More
Breast Protest in Uganda East Africa OP-ED 

Why Women’s Rights May Never Be Guaranteed In Africa And The Middle East!

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The large craving for gender equality and a continuous upgrade in affirmative action for women, may yield a generous amount of progress in the liberal world, but will continue quite sadly, to suffer reoccurring setbacks in Africa and the Middle East! • THE SUPERVISED ENTITLEMENTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA Africa is traditionally built around draconian cultures that frown at the… Read More
kenya landforms East Africa 

New Momentum to Resolve Challenges in Land Management in Kenya

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The quest for an end to the perennial challenges in land management in Kenya has today benefited from a new thrust. This followed a resolution by over thirty land sector actors to launch the National Engagement Strategy, which provides for a multi-stakeholder platform, to coordinate activities towards resolving the perennial land management challenges in Kenya. The decision followed a two-day… Read More
Idrissa Haji Abdalla Development East Africa 

Winners of Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature announced

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The 2016 winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced by Abdilatif Abdalla, chair of the prize’s board of trustees. Fiction category winners are Idrissa Haji Abdalla for Kilio cha Mwanamke and Hussein Wamaywa for Moyo Wangu Unaungua; both are from Tanzania. Ahmed Hussein Ahmed, from Kenya, received the poetry prize for Haile Ngoma ya… Read More
Shamim Jjingo Nakawooya East Africa 

Magistrate Court to punish the convicted for assaulting a female journalist in Uganda

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda welcomed the judgment of Magistrate’ Court that convicted Eddie Ssansa Luwaga for assaulting a Daily Monitor journalist, Shamim Jjingo Nakawooya and maliciously damaging her work tools. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Uganda to ensure protection of media practitioners… Read More
dadaab camp East Africa 

Kenya: High Court to hear petition against closure of Dadaab refugee camp

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The High Court in Kenya will on Monday 7 November hear a petition filed by two civil society organizations challenging the government’s decision to close down Dadaab refugee camp and disband the Department of Refugee Affairs (DRA). Amnesty International is participating in the proceedings as an interested party and has filed submissions on Kenya’s obligations under international law to ensure… Read More
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