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Probe starts on police beating of Kenyan lawmaker  Kenya's police watchdog has launched investigations into Tuesday's brutal conduct of four police officers pictured beating a female lawmaker in the capital, Nairobi.  The police were deployed to the Nairobi County Assembly to...

Clarisse Iribagiza is a computer scientist, co-founder/CEO of HeHe Limited - a mobile technology company, and is one of the UNCTAD's seven "eTrade for Women Advocates from the developing world". What else? Clarisse founded her company whilst still an undergraduate; a...

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has appointed a slimmed down cabinet to work towards a government of national unity, according to a statement from his office.

“Not knowing where your next meal will come from; not having enough money to eat a decent meal; eating only one poor meal a day; eating non-nutritious meals, eating a nutritious meal only on rare occasions.” This is how...

Today, Abiy Ahmed Ali, the Prime Minister of the the federal republic of Ethiopia, received the first electric car fully assembled in the country...

More than 60 people were reportedly killed and nearly 60 others wounded on Saturday, during an armed attack in a village in Sudan's restive Darfur region, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday. The...

It's no secret the cigarette and alcohol ban the South African government placed in its country. Cited reasons include a concerns over public health, particularly during this Covid-19 pandemic. A hindrance over getting the necessary medical supplies, and reduction...

One of the most difficult issues for any government to contend with is insurgency. The rebellion of a people against it's own government is a crises whose results could be implosive. In retrospect, the government is put in a...

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Presidential aspirant, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu known as Bobi Wine has announced that his People Power movement has become a political party, the National Unity Party.  Speaking at his People Power secretariat in Kamwokya Wednesday, Kyagulanyi said that for the last...