It is still early on a hot and dusty Wednesday morning, but the temperature is already above 35 degrees centigrade. Residents say that it rained just a month ago, although there is no evidence of this. Plants have shed their leaves and all the green vegetation has now changed colour. Seven-year-old Moli Kituvi strides with [...]
The Comic Relief show Rich, Famous and in the slum aired on BBC1 on the 3rd March. It saw four British (for want of a better word) celebrities spend a week living like newly arrived migrants in Africa’s largest slum, Kibera. The slum, on the outskirts of Nairobi, is home to approximately I million people. [...]
A new Regus business centre in the country’s capital, Kampala, offers a valuable platform for businesses to explore revenue opportunities in East Africa. It is global workspace provider Regus’ first centre here, and brings the number of countries where it operates to 87, of which 13 are in Africa. ‘Uganda’s economic stability makes it a [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on the 25th February that across six malaria infected African countries as many as 30% of anti-malaria drugs tested were not up to the required international quality standard. The sample was taken from Cameroon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. On top of this 11.6% from the sample were [...]
Amnesty International is urging the authorities here to ensure that government officials suspected of being implicated in post-election violence in ‘08 comply with a summons from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC on Tuesday 8th March issued two summonses to six Kenyans including the Deputy Prime Minister and the former chief of police, but [...]
For over thirteen years the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy here has been home to the Three Brothers. The brothers are three extraordinary cheetahs who managed to form themselves into an unstoppable hunting trio. Not satisfied with the typical cheetah menu of gazelles and impalas, the ambitious Three Brothers acquired a taste for rather more satisfying dishes [...]
At the beginning of February a Rwandan court sentenced two journalists to long spells of imprisonment, having convicted them of stirring up hatred. A month and a half earlier, the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted six prominent Kenyans for crimes against humanity relating to the post-election violence of ‘07-‘08 – one of those [...]
The fact that many African countries will not reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set for 2015 will not hamper capacity building in Africa. This was the clear message presented by a number of African heads-of-state and development institute leaders during the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) summit to celebrate its 20th anniversary, held in [...]
The authorities here have seized 300kg (660 lbs) of illegal ivory hidden in coffins on a plane bound for Laos. The haul included 16 elephant tusks and black rhinoceros horns. Officials said the blood on the ivory suggested the animals had been killed very recently. The flight – which stopped in Nairobi – originated in [...]
Sister organisations of transparency international (TI) in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have reported in their first ever bribery index that the Kenya police is the most corrupt institution in East Africa. The survey conducted between 16th April and 15th May this year, indicates that Kenya has the highest incidence of corruption at 45% while the [...]
