While Kenyan opponent Raila Odinga and his coalition continue to reject the election result, the head of the electoral commission, Wafula Chebukati, on Wednesday raised the issue of the attempt to manipulate the figures. According to the chairperson of the electoral commission, quoted by RFI, four commissioners tried to put …
Read More »Japan: authorities encourage alcohol consumption among young people
Authorities in Japan are venturing down an unexpected path to make up for their budgetary shortfall: reviving alcohol consumption among young people. To achieve this goal, tax authorities launched a campaign to collect ideas from young people aged 20 to 39 to make the drink popular again. Decline in alcohol …
Read More »Emirates airline makes important announcement on flights to Nigeria
Emirates airline announced that it will suspend flights to Nigeria from the start of September as Nigeria has been unable to repatriate its money from Nigeria. The problem arose because Nigeria restricted access to foreign currency, Reuters news agency reports. In a statement, Emirates said it made considerable efforts to …
Read More »Here is the name of the richest pastor in the world
Founder of the Living Faith Tabernacle also known as Winner’s Chapel, David Oyedepo is today ranked as the richest pastor in the world with 150 million dollars. “(…) Nowadays, our books are published in different languages around the world without us having to pay and yet they send us copyrights. …
Read More »Tanzania installs high-speed Internet on Kilimanjaro
Tanzanian government announced that it installed a high-speed internet service on the top of Kilimanjaro in order to improve safety of porters and climbers during their ascent to the highest point on the African continent, The Guardian reported. The network was installed at 3720 meters above sea level. During the …
Read More »What fate for coastal countries in the fight against terrorism in Africa?
Deadly attacks by armed groups are increasingly frequent in the Sahel, where terrorist threat extends from the northern regions of coastal countries. Should coastal countries prepare and anticipate their security and political responses? Now that France left Mali at the insistence of the Bamako junta while the situation is worse …
Read More »Nigerian singer in trouble for spitting on police
Nigerian musician Buju BNXN will have questions to answer after boasting on Twitter of how he spat on a police officer’s face, police have said. The musician, whose real name is Daniel Benson, has since deleted the tweet. A spokesman of Lagos state police said the star “will surely answer …
Read More »Saudi Arabia: woman sentenced to 34 years for Twitter posts
A Saudi court has sentenced Salma al-Shehab, a student to 34 years in prison for “providing assistance” through her tweets to political opponents who seek to “disturb public order”, according to a court document seen by AFP on Wednesday. This is bad news for Salma al-Shehab who is not only …
Read More »“Colour of skin may be why Tigray crisis is not getting attention”, WHO chief
World Health Organization chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said racism is at the root of the lack of international attention given to the ongoing civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Calling it the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, with 6 million people unable to access basic services, Dr Tedros …
Read More »Wikileaks: Julian Assange’s lawyers sue CIA and Mike Pompeo
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a lawsuit on Monday against the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo, accused of recording their conversations and copying content onto their phones and computers. The lawyers and two journalists who joined the suit are all Americans and claim the intelligence agency …
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