Kenya marks five years since single use plastic bag ban

Follow us on all social media, type “HICGI News Agency” A ban on single-use plastic carrier bags has been in place in Kenya for slightly over five years now. It has led to a cleaner environment, as plastic bags were clogging drains, filling dumpsites, and endangering the lives of livestock that consumed them. However, one…

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Inside Airtel Money’s hucked systems and how it stopped.

New details have emerged about how black hats used the website of a gaming platform in Uganda to plunder money from the systems of Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited (AMCUL).  While the licensed betting firm’s website prides itself on making “use of standard encryption to protect the data of its users”, this publication has been…

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Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump’s Twitter account after taking poll

The people have spoken,’ says site’s owner, having acknowledged during online poll that automated bots were voting too Dan Milmo Global technology editor Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump’s Twitter account after users on the social media platform voted by a slim majority to lift a ban on the former US president. Trump’s account was suspended in…

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Hosts Qatar overwhelmed by Ecuador in opening World Cup match

Ecuador put two unanswered goals past Qatar for victory in the World Cup’s opening match. Al Khor, Qatar – World Cup hosts Qatar have had a disappointing start to their campaign, with a 2-0 defeat to Ecuador leaving them facing an uphill struggle to make it out of their group in their first-ever World Cup. It looked…

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Tanzania sees 32 percent reduction in TB infections

By Halligan Agade Tuberculosis (TB) infections in Tanzania have gone down from 306 patients out of 100,000 people in 2015 to 208 patients out of 100,000 people in 2021, a senior official said on Friday. “The reduction of infections of TB is about 32 percent,” said Catherine Joachim, Head of the Health Sector Resource Secretariat…

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Elon Musk: Twitter closes offices until next week

By James Clayton in San Francisco and Peter Hoskins in Singapore Twitter has told employees that the company’s office buildings will be temporarily closed, effective immediately. In a message seen by media, workers were told that the offices would reopen on Monday 21 November. It did not give a reason for the move. The announcement…

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Nancy Pelosi stands down as leader of US House Democrats

By Sam Cabral Nancy Pelosi, who has led Democrats in the US House of Representatives for almost two decades, has announced she is standing down from the role. The 82-year-old is the most powerful Democrat in Congress and the first woman to serve as speaker of the House. She will continue to represent her California…

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