Kenya’s Charlot Magayi was among the winners in the 2022 edition of the Earth shot Prize. How did she win? Magayi won with her clean cooking innovation, Mukuru Clean Stoves, which aims to bring cleaner-burning stoves to women in Kenya and the African continent. With more than 950 million people in sub-Saharan Africa relying on…
The federal government of Nigeria has announced that the number of people living in poverty in Nigeria is as high as 63% of the country’s population. Is this a new report? This was disclosed on Thursday, during Nigeria’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Survey, where President Muhammadu Buhari was represented by his chief of staff Prof….
Four months from now Oyo state electorates would be at the polls to elect their preferred candidate for the governorship seat. More than 10 candidates are in the race for the March 11, 2023 election, including the incumbent governor Seyi Makinde who is seeking a second term. Makinde’s runner-up in the 2019 edition was Adebayo…
A London court on Thursday ordered the UK unit of the mining and commodity trading group Glencore to pay £281m in fines and confiscated profit. What’s the company’s crime? Bribery of officials in several African countries. According to the ruling by Judge Peter Fraser, the actions of Glencore’s UK subsidiary indicated “corporate corruption on a…
In our newsletter yesterday November 2, 2022, we reported that it appears that there was still a long way to go before peace was achieved in the Horn of Africa. Well, the long-lost peace has eventually found its way sooner than anticipated. What do you mean? Representatives of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the…
Raila Odinga, a defeated presidential candidate in the just concluded Kenya’s presidential election has filed a petition in Kenya’s top court, challenging the result of the August 9 election which saw incumbent Deputy President William Ruto emerging victorious. Tell me more Odinga, a long-time opposition leader, who ran for Kenya’s top job with the backing…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked for suggestions on a possible name change for the world’s latest health concern, Monkeypox. The stigma on Monkeys, and the African continent, which has a significant population of animals. The UN’s health agency is making the call for a new name for the disease after some experts warned…
The World Health Organization and the international vaccine alliance, Gavi, have invited countries to apply for funding to roll out the recently approved Malaria vaccine. How much can they access? The initial rollout will be funded with $155.7m from the Gavi alliance between 2022 and 2025. According to the WHO, at least 100 million doses…
Residents of the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique have had to deal with insurgency and its effects for years now, but were shocked after at least five lives were lost, not to violence, but to an attack by elephants. The deaths were reported in the Macomia region of northern Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, in…
