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Kenya’s new Finance Minister Njuguna Ndung’u has good credential...

October 14, 2022 no comments

Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images XN Iraki, University of Nairobi President William Ruto has nominated Njuguna Ndung’u to head Kenya’s National Treasury. A Central Bank of Kenya governor for...

The EU joins hands with civil society and communities to clean up Kawe...

September 5, 2021 no comments

BRUSSELS – PRN Africa – The European Union in partnership with the Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (FORUMCC) organised a Beach clean-up on 26th June 2021 at Kawe Beach, Kinondoni Mu...

Tanzania: African Development Bank Group signs loan agreements for $14...

May 30, 2021 no comments

The funds will be used to construct the plant and an evacuation transmission line, as well as to add 4,250 rural electrification connections

Tricked and uninformed: why so many young girls in Kenya are getting p...

May 30, 2021 no comments

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...

Why President Uhuru Kenyatta should not isolate Deputy William Ruto

May 6, 2021 no comments

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...

Somalia: toxic elite politics and the need for cautious external media...

April 28, 2021 no comments

Claire Elder, London School of Economics and Political Science The current government’s decision on April 12th to seek a two-year extension has thrown Somalia’s fragile political process into disarra...

Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab

March 29, 2021 no comments

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen, Technical University of Mombasa The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment tactics has evolved. In ...

In Magufuli’s shadow: the stark choices facing Tanzania’s ...

March 29, 2021 no comments

Michaela Collord, University of Oxford and Thabit Jacob, Roskilde University The sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli has thrown the East African nation into a period of political...

Tanzania’s new president faces a tough ‘to do’ list

March 27, 2021 no comments

Rob Ahearne, University of East London A major political transition is under way in Tanzania after the laying to rest of former president John Pombe Magufuli. The East African nation’s new leader Sam...

Deep concern for thousands of Eritrean refugees ‘scattered&#8217...

March 27, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK, 26 March 2021 – PRN Africa — UN humanitarians reported on Friday that aid teams have reached two camps for Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region for the f...