Kenya’s only ice hockey team gets dream trip Canada fast food company Tim Hortons surprised Kenya’s only ice hockey team by flying them to Toronto to play a competitive game. The 12 members of the Kenya Ice Lions met top ice hockey players, Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon. The team has been training in the only rink in Kenya, which… Read more »
The county of Zimbabwe has eighty-one prisoners in custody that are on death row and are awaiting execution. Some of the prisoners have been waiting for the penalty for over ten years now. The last execution was held in 2005 by hanging. In Zimbabwe a single person is in charge of carrying out the act. This person is known as… Read more »
Human trafficking in Africa is a serious problem. Just like pirating and terrorism this isn’t the first occasion. Trafficking in Africa isn’t for feeding families though. Trafficking is used either to sell people to other rich people or to enslave people. This again seems to be a problem in Africa that could be fixed. It seems to start with the… Read more »
The legendary Kenyan gold medalist, Kipchoge Keino, who inspired a generation of athletes in his country, has handed himself in to police in Nairobi to face a corruption charge.
Two people have been arrested in Uganda on human-trafficking charges following the death of a Ugandan woman in Jordan, apparently after her kidneys were removed, police are quoted by local media as saying. Juliet Nakiyimba, said to be a 31-year-old mother of five, died in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on 4 September, and her body was repatriated to Uganda on 24… Read more »
A former Nigerian pharmaceuticals executive who was implicated in a BBC investigation into the illegal sale of addictive opioids has been arrested. Chukwunonye Madubuike was detained west of Lagos, close to the border with Benin, police said. He went on the run in May after he was filmed illegally selling codeine syrup to an undercover BBC reporter.
An Egyptian court has sentenced an activist to two years in jail over a video she posted on social media criticising the government for failing to protect women against sexual harassment and over poor living conditions, her lawyer said. Amal Fathy, a member of the now banned April 6 youth movement which played a role in 2011 protests that forced… Read more »
By Hafez Ghanem, World Bank Vice President for Africa Progress in the fight against extreme poverty in Africa has been way too slow. Although the poverty rate has declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015, a rapid population growth of 2.6 percent per year has offset these gains, resulting in 130 million more poor people. Today… Read more »
Responding to the murder of aid worker Hauwa Liman by Boko Haram, Osai Ojigho, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said: “With yet another horrific killing of a humanitarian worker, Boko Haram has again demonstrated its brazen disregard for life. Hauwa Liman was providing desperately-needed humanitarian services to people affected by the conflict in the northeast of Nigeria. Her killing is… Read more »
By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWE Prisons says it has in its custody, a total of 81 death row inmates with some now having been on the list for more than 10 years.