Africa

Kenyan lawmaker Andrew Okiya Omtatah was among protested arrested by the Kenyan Police during a protest on New Year's eve against growing cases of police abductions in the country. Omtatah has since been freed and a high court in the East African nation rejected an application by the police to further detain the Busia County parliamentary representative. Senator Omtatah had joined hundreds of peaceful protesters on the streets of Nairobi […]

A yet to be identified space debris weighing up to 1,100 pounds has crashed into the Kenyan village of Mukuku, leaving villagers shocked, the Kenyan Space Agency has confirmed. Officials from the agency said in a statement that they are investigating fragments of metal which they believe is from a rocket. Furthermore, the KSA said a metallic ring roughly 8 feet in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds, crashed into […]

Human rights advocates Amnesty International have hailed the country for the efforts to abolish the law and describe it "beacon of hope for the abolitionist movement in the region". Southern Africa country Zimbabwe have abolished its national death penalty law. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved the law with immediate effect. Mnangagwa's approval comes after the national parliament voted in earlier December 2024 to scrap the penalty law. The last time […]

Kenyan politician, Gloria Orwoba, has demanded a retraction and apology from a Kenyan newspaper that claimed she allegedly had a secret affair with former Ghana President John Kufuor. On December 20, 2024, a Kenyan newspaper made a publication in which they alleged that the Kisii, Nairobi-based politician had a secret affair with the former Ghanaian leader leading to the birth of a child for the Ghanaian man. Her reaction comes […]

Tokyo-based Bayside Entertainment and fast-growing African-oriented online radio JafriQ Radio has made a donation of vital equipment to the Ashanti Police Clinic in Ghana. The items, which include stethoscopes and sphygmomanometers, were presented to the hospital on behalf of Bayside and JafriQ Radio by Superintendent Jerry John Boye on December 18, 2024. Upon receiving the items Superintendent Dr. Albert Paintsil stressed the importance of receiving the items from Bayside-JafriQ. "This […]