Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, former Mali president, died on January 16, 2022, at his home in Bamako at 76. Keïta served as Mali’s president from 2013 until 2020, when the military overthrew him. “President IBK (Ibrahim Boubacar Keita) died this morning at 9 am (GMT and local) at his home in Bamako,” a family member told...
Two years ago, on August 24, 2019, an American Peace Corps employee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s after having too much to drink killed a woman leaving two others injured in a series of car crashes. At the scene of the accident, bystanders attacked the man’s car and chased him on motorcycles as he attempted...
A Tanzanian lady was arrested in Dar es Salaam suspected of killing her mother in the United States then fled to Tanzania. Wyluva Ngongoseke’s mother Catherine Ngongoseke (60) was found dead at her home in Texas with stabbed wound and her daughter the main suspect. Tanzania Police force is working closely with police forces in...
The Kenya Nuclear Regulatory Authority (KNRA) confirmed it has secured the cargo ship MV Piraeus Voy in Mombasa heading to Tanzania carrying harmful radioactive. The cargo on board the MV Piraeus Voy was detained after Kenya’s Health ministry raised the alarm that it was carrying radioactive material disguised as padlocks and other hardware items. Officials...
Poor infrastructures have long affected medical supplies to remote areas in Uganda, due to that conundrum, Uganda has finally opted to put on a trial customized drones to deliver HIV drugs to designated patients in rural hamlets in Bugala Island. This trial program gears toward improving the transportation of medicines in Uganda. The program is funded...
When one hears of East Africa, there are only a few countries that come to mind, i.e. Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi meanwhile the region comprises many other countries and some mix between East Africa and East African Community (EAC). EAC was established with the aim is to widen and deepen economic, political, social,...
Burundi’s government has made it clear that it will never allow the appointed United Nations (UN) human rights rapporteur into the country. The country’s Foreign Minister, Albert Shingiro told reporters and separately told diplomats in a meeting that Burundi would “never” allow the special rapporteur to investigate the country, reported the Associated Press. The UN...