The senior resident magistrate in the town of Malindi, Olga Onalo, instead found Mackenzie guilty of operating a TV studio and distributing films without a licence from the Kenya Film Classification Board. The preacher has been in police custody for more than six months now since he was arrested in April, following the discovery of hundreds…
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Komfo Anokye kola tree: Ghana outrage after 300-year-old tree felled
By Thomas Naadi Accra The authorities in Ghana have launched a manhunt for the people who cut down a famous 300-year-old kola tree, which was believed to have healing powers. The tree dates back to the Ashanti Kingdom, part of modern-day Ghana. Local people says the tree grew in the spot where renowned priest Komfo…
G7 launches $600bn trans-African railway to counter China’s Belt and Road
The US and the EU have joined forces with the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the Africa Finance Corporation to launch the west’s latest attempt to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The parties have signed a memorandum of understanding setting out plans to develop the “Lobito Corridor” and the Zambia–Lobito railway, which will together…
US Takes Up China’s Infrastructure Mantle in Africa
JOHANNESBURG — This week, the U.S. State Department confirmed that Washington’s plan to refurbish and extend the Lobito Corridor — a railway that will run through mineral-rich Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to an Atlantic port in Angola — is moving full steam ahead. Such ambitious infrastructure investments by other powers in Africa…
Uganda denounces Washington’s exclusion from trade agreement
The Ugandan government on Wednesday slammed the United States’ announcement that it would withdraw the country from a trade agreement because of human rights violations, saying the move would hurt its farmers and small businesses. Washington announced this week that it was excluding Uganda, along with the Central African Republic, Gabon and Niger, from the…
King Charles Refuses to apologise for British Colonial Crimes in Kenya as Police bar activists holding protests
66 years after Kenyan liberation icon Dedan Kimathi was executed by the British colonial rulers, calls for unequivocal apology still echo. Kenyan police on Wednesday (Nov. 1) blocked a group known as the Social Justice network, from holding demonstrations in Nairobi to protest King Charles visit. Around 30 members of the group chanted songs and…
German president apologizes for colonial-era crimes in Tanzania
Germany’s president on Wednesday (Nov.01) apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania as he met descendants of Chief Songea Mbano executed for leading a revolt. In Songea, southwestern Tanzania, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier vowed to seek answers to questions regarding the German East Africa era. The German East Africa was a colony part of the German…
Senegal’s Ousmane Sonko in intensive care unit, according to his lawyer
Opponent Ousmane Sonko, who has been denouncing his detention since the end of July and who resumed his hunger strike eight days ago, is in a “very weak” state in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Dakar, said his lawyer told media on Wednesday. “He fell into a coma on October 23. He…
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