East Africa

A 16-year-old student, a traffic police officer and a motorcyclist died following a road crash on the Lira-Soroti highway in Uganda, reports said. The accident involved a Ford Ranger belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a Bajaj Boxer motorcycle. The girl and the traffic officer died at the scene. The motorcycle rider also died …

Uganda is ready to teach the Chinese language at Advanced Level (A-Level), said the Director of National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), Ms Grace Baguma. “The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has already developed a training syllabus for teaching Chinese language that has already been approved by the Minister of Education …

Kenya’s Pamela Jelimo has received a bronze medal ten years after finishing fourth in the 800m final at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She was given the medal following the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) disqualification of Russia’s Mariya Savinova due to a doping violation in 2015.  Mariya Savinova won …

A group of Ugandan doctors have taken a knee before President Yoweri Museveni asking him to run for a seventh term. The doctors representing the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) had attended a patriotism symposium in the capital, Kampala, when they were led by their leader to kneel before the president. …

Churches and mosques in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, have been urged to be “considerate” and reduce high noise levels at their premises. In a tweet, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja said he will be having a discussion with religious leaders on regulating noise levels. The city recently banned nightclubs from operating in …

A man and his mistress were involved in an accident as he was chasing his wife and her lover in Mombasa, Kenya. The husband spotted his wife kissing her boyfriend and began chasing them at top speed, reports said. The wife’s boyfriend who is a retired Safari rally driver, sped …

Civil society groups in Kenya are complaining about a chronic shortage of free condoms across the country. The life-saving products are usually imported and distributed for free but due to high taxes suppliers are no longer providing Kenya with free condoms. The activists want the government to remove taxes on …

Learners in Uganda are heading back home after the government closed schools two weeks earlier than originally scheduled in order to slow down an outbreak of Ebola in the country. The ministry of education ordered closure of schools after more than 20 confirmed Ebola cases were recorded among students. Parents …

Operatives of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested an 18-year-old male student for pretending to be a female student at the girl’s school to meet his girlfriend The suspect, a student of Gatugi Day secondary school in Nyeri, joined a group of girls as they headed to their dormitories. He was unmasked by …

Kenyan police are actively searching for a man suspected of having had anal sex with another drunk man after locking him in his house for more than 10 hours. According to the Kenyan Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man who was making merry with his kinsmen imbibing fermented frothy …