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Author Archives: Newstime Africa
Tanzania: African Development Bank Group signs loan agreements for $14...
The funds will be used to construct the plant and an evacuation transmission line, as well as to add 4,250 rural electrification connections
UN chief following Mali crisis ‘with concern’ as Security ...
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — According to news reports, the detention on Monday of top civilian leaders by Colonel Assimi Goita – acting Vice President – who led the overthrow of former ...
Zimbabwe detains NY Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo over alleged accredi...
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release New York Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo and drop baseless charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalist...
Inside Mali’s coup within a coup
Boubacar Haidara, Université Bordeaux Montaigne On the afternoon of May 24, the Malian transitional president, Bah Ndaw, and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, were arrested by members of the arm...
Tricked and uninformed: why so many young girls in Kenya are getting p...
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, African Population and Health Research Center The rate of early unintended pregnancy in Kenya is shockingly high. About one in five girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have begun...
Low trust in authorities affects vaccine uptake: evidence from 22 Afri...
Jean-Francois Maystadt, Lancaster University; Kalle Hirvonen, The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) , and Nik Stoop, University of Antwerp In a time when the world is focusing on C...
The Guardian Reports – Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainfor...
Britain’s most reputable newspaper, The Guardian, is reporting that the government of Sierra Leone headed by the notorious Kleptocrat Julius Maada Bio has struck a $55m (£39m) deal with the Chi...
Why Zambia’s upcoming poll risks tipping the balance against dem...
Nicole Beardsworth, University of Warwick Zambia is one of the fastest eroding democracies in the world. This is according to the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-dem), one of the most trusted sourc...
Why President Uhuru Kenyatta should not isolate Deputy William Ruto
I am extremely baffled to learn that President Uhuru Kenyatta is deliberately snubbing his Deputy, William Ruto, I independently supported the duo during the 2012 Elections by offering free PR work u...