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A tough test for Simba and an equally challenging task for the hosts as the two sides lock horns in their Champions League quarter-final return leg on Friday at the Mohamed V stadium. . The Tanzanians picked a 1-0 win at home last Saturday, earning a slim advantage over the defending champions. Wydad and Simba have met twice in the… Read More

Kenya is battling to survive bio-diversity loss and climate change, and nowhere is this more obvious than here in Kitui County. The riverbed is completely dry and Peter Kakai and his friend are digging deep, with no sign of water yet. Kenya, like other countries in the east African region is suffering drought with three years of low, or no… Read More

Africa is struggling to bring down the price of the internet. Despite advances in the field, the road to a stable digital transformation is still long. Internet, key to digital transformation According to the World Bank, it will take $100 billion by 2030 to guarantee high-speed Internet access to all of Africa and an additional half million kilometers of fiber… Read More

*Movement will be restricted in the 320-hectare ranch owned by a Kenyan pastor who is accused of directing his followers to fast to death. The country’s interior minister announced Wednesday (Apr.26) that for 30 days, the area will be subjected to a curfew between 6PM to 6 AM. Human rights activists and journalists have however questioned the move to bar… Read More

As the number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya climbed to 95 on Wednesday, relatives have been anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones at a morgue in the coastal town of Malinda. Last week, investigators unearthed mass graves on the property of cult leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, accused of driving his followers to death… Read More

Thousands of Sudanese have been crossing the northern Arqin border into Egypt as they flee fighting in their country between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that erupted in mid-April. Buses are lining up at the border area and families have been sleeping outside in the desert, waiting to be let in to the neighbouring country. “I left… Read More

The Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA, launched a new website on Thursday that closely monitors the state of democracy and human rights around the world. It will provide monthly analysis and data on 173 countries based on over 100 indicators, from holding clean elections to fair access to justice and civil liberties. Seema Shah, head of… Read More

Activities have resumed at the port of Mutsamudu on the island of Anjouan, in the Comoros archipelago. And The Comoros will allow boats arriving from Mayotte to dock once again. The port had closed for work on Monday (Apr. 24). The docking suspension had come as French authorities on the neighbouring island of Mayotte were to start expulsing undocumented migrants while… Read More

The Nigerian government has announced that it will take the first step towards the creation of a new state of the nation’s military in the coming years, according to a new report released by the Nigerian Ministry of Defence on Wednesday. The military unit was on patrol Monday in the village of Laayi, near the town of Damasak (not far… Read More

The Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, assured on Wednesday that the conditions are met to allow TotalEnergies to resume its huge natural gas exploitation project in the country, suspended since 2021 following a major jihadist attack, a few kilometers away. The poor but resource-rich northeastern province of Cabo Delgado, which has a Muslim majority and borders Tanzania, has been plagued by… Read More