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Ugandan academic exposes breasts in protest at jail term

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A Ugandan academic will be spending 18 months in prison after a court sentenced her over some of her comments on Facebook about President Yoweri Museveni. In protest at her jail term, Stella Nyanzi exposed her breasts via a video link during Friday’s sentencing. Nyanzi was jailed for cyber harassment but activists say her sentencing undermines Uganda’s commitment to freedom… Read More
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Kenya’s cancer crisis: Citizens demand urgent action

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Kenya is getting overwhelmed by a surge in cancer related deaths and citizens are demanding urgent action. On Thursday hundreds of patients and service providers staged a protest in the capital Nairobi. They want the government to declare the disease a national disaster and allocate needed resources to fight it. At least 33,000 people die from cancer annually in Kenya.… Read More
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Kenya: 57 students detained for watching porn

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57 secondary school students in Kenya were detained on Wednesday for watching pornographic content at a business area. Three shop-owners were also arrested for allowing the students into their premises and showing  them porn. According to a Kenyan official, the students detained were from three Nakuru schools. Nakuru East official James Kinari said “After a thorough investigation we discovered that… Read More
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Ethiopia: Bid to plant record 200 million trees in a day begins

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Ethiopia on Monday begun an ambitious project to plant 200 million trees in a day. It is targeted at protecting it’s environment. Should the country be able to achieve the 200 million target, it would be a world record. The record for the highest number of trees planted in a day, according to the Guiness Book of Records, is held… Read More
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Tanzania is building fourth largest hydro dam in Africa

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Tanzania is starting the process of building the fourth largest hydro dam in Africa and the ninth largest in the world. Tanzanian President John Magufuli is to lay the foundation stone for the construction of Stiegler’s Gorge hydroelectric power project. The project according to government officials will cost $3 billion. The 2,115 megawatts hydroelectric dam when completed will produce 5,920GWh… Read More
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Changing gender in Tanzania costs ‘$100 a month’

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There are many people making the move to change their gender but it comes with a cost. In Tanzania, it could cost as much as $100 a month to take the injections needed to alter your hormones to change the body. A trans person transitioning to become a man has told the BBC that it is costing her $100 a… Read More
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Ugandan MP Bobi Wine to run for president

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37 year old Ugandan opposition MP Bobi Wine has said that he intends running for president in the 2021 election. He told a gathering in Kampala that he wants to challenge President Yoweri Museveni to a free and fair election. President Museveni is expected to run for another term after Uganda’s parliament approved changes to the constitution to scrap the… Read More
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Eritrean shot at because of skin colour in Germany

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An Eritrean man was shot in the stomach by a gunman in Germany in a xenophobic attack, according to police. Frankfurt prosecutors say the African was left wounded in the attack after the gunman deliberately targeted him. Prosecutor Alexander Badle has said that the victim of the attack was targeted at “completely at random and purely because of the colour… Read More
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Somalia: At least 17 killed in bomb attack in Mogadishu

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At least 17 people are reported dead following a bomb blast outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The blast on Monday according to medical officials also left 27 others wounded. The city’s Madina hospital is where most of the bodies and those injured were taken to. The Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab has claimed… Read More
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Kenya’s finance minister arrested over corruption charges

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Kenya’s Finance Minister Henry Rotich has been arrested on fraud and corruption charges. Rotich and other officials have been indicted in some corrupt dealings related to the construction of two dams. The Director of Kenya’s Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji ordered the arrest of Rotich and seven others. Haji said on Monday that Rotich and other top government officials will have… Read More
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