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In his first year in office, President Hakainde made education free for all learners in Zambia. They will pay zero school fees. Besides there will be no exam fees and 120 schools will be built in 2022. There will also be sanitary pads for all girls and huge budget allocated to the education sector. Now, imagine finding President Museveni’s or ...

The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has renamed a metropolis hospital after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s wife, Margaret Kenyatta. This happened after a Kshs400 million improvement. They renamed the Mathare-Korogocho Degree V Hospital to Mama Margaret Kenyatta Hospital. The NMS Director Normal, Mohamed Badi officiated the naming. They had closed the well-being facility down for 5 months to permit the improvement that ...

Ethiopia has filed a complaint with Twitter for shutting down their accounts. The accounts suspended apparently are critical of Tigrayan rebels. The Ethiopian government has been fighting this group of rebels for a long time. Both sides have been using social media to shape the narrative of the conflict. This conflict between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray ...

Solan Kolli, an Ethiopian journalist on Tuesday won the Rory Peck prize for his coverage of the Tigray region. He won in the news category for a report commissioned by Agence France-Presse on massacres of civilians. Upon granting the award, the judges noted that the conflict had been underreported. They added that Kolli’s work contextualized and addressed the political realities ...

The Kenya Bureau of Standard (KEBS) has moved in to further enforce regulations governing the importation of used cars. The body did this while cautioning against the purchase of cars older than the allowed eight years since its manufacturing. The government agency released a notice on Tuesday, November 9 through which it announced the new directive. It stated that they ...