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Igad urges Kiir to disburse peace deal funds

Regional bloc asks Juba to disburse $100m pledged towards the deal’s implementation.

Tundu Lissu’s sedition case adjourned

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu speaks to journalists at the Nairobi Hospital on January 5, 2018. NMG

Hearing postponed as the firebrand politician is still recovering in a Belgian hospital.

Islam Madobe sworn in as Jubbaland president

Somalia's Jubbaland State President Ahmed Islam

Ahmed Islam 'Madobe' was re-elected with 56 of 74 votes cast by regional MPs.

Sudan's Abdalla Hamdok takes office as new PM

Sudan's new Prime Minister in the transitional government Abdalla Hamdok,

Abdalla Hamdok vows to make achieving peace and solving the country’s economic crisis.

Djibouti stays in race for UN seat

A UN Security Council meeting

Representative to the UN Mohamed Siad Doualeh says Djibouti will continue to vie for the

East Africa
Kenyan who ingested cocaine packets arrested in Thailand

East Africa
Kagame, Museveni sign pact aimed at ending tensions

Rest of Africa
Sudan swears in civilian-majority ruling council

Rest of Africa
Tshisekedi warns over risk to DRC forest reserves

East Africa
Kenya secures AU endorsement for UN seat

East Africa
Uganda abolishes mandatory death penalty

News

Death sentences upheld for Somali child rapists

Death sentences upheld for Somali child rapists

The death sentence will be carried out by firing squad once approved.

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French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes

Too late for new Brexit deal, Macron tells Johnson

French President challenges Britain to come up with alternatives to the agreed safety net

Pressure mounting on EU to end ivory trade

Gabon suspends judge in President Bongo’s health case

Museveni off to Angola to meet Kagame over tensions - VIDEO

Somalia’s Kismayu port city in lockdown

Sudan's new rulers to be sworn in

Rwandan brewery apologises for sexist beer jokes

Kenya’s discomfort with Addis’s role in Somalia politics

Business

DStv Kenya cuts charges as rivalry heats up

DStv Kenya cuts charges as rivalry heats up

DStv will from September 1 slash its monthly payments by between five and 30 percent.

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A worker cuts steel rods at a construction

Local steel firm expands in Tanzania

Tanzania’s demand for steel stands at 440,336 tonnes a year.

Technology to help curb fraud in banks

Acacia halts North Mara gold processing over leak

Uganda wants trade barriers in EA tackled

Tanzania, Kenya hotels forecast growth despite economy hurdles

Uganda planning threefold raise on deposit insurance cover

What next after review cuts SGR costs by $120m?

Industrialisation tops SADC talks

Opinion

AKINYEMI: Today’s preferred careers for the youth are vast, different

AKINYEMI: Today’s preferred careers for the youth are vast, different

There is a need for social reorientation no matter the curriculum.

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Chores come with their own satisfaction in the

EYAKUZE: Housekeeper 2.0 takes care of my household

Domestic workers’ help has allowed many women to hold down jobs.

NGUGI: Do leaders remember the chaos at home when on foreign trips?

NDERITU: Mother tongue dies, and so does your essential identity

I am writing Kabendera’s ‘obit’, hoping he will write mine

ULIMWENGU: These governors are good for laughs

NERIMA: I don’t speak in mother tongue, that’s a conscious decision

EDITORIAL: Stem societal factors fanning the spread of Ebola

OBBO: Secretariat? The EAC can be run with a mobile app

The Magazine

Leo Mkanyia: King of Swahili Blues

Leo Mkanyia: King of Swahili Blues

The multi-instrumentalist mainly plays the guitar and sings in Swahili, English and French.

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Michelle and Barack Obama.

Obamas' first film charts life in US factory under China bosses

It looks at how American and Chinese workers' lives were transformed by economic forces.

ART: Rushing headlong to the apocalypse

FOOD: French food in the heart of Nairobi

Kenyan dance parties where men are banned

Lion King remake: Much ado about nothing

DISCOVERY: Resort revives an old Kenyan town

Rwandan short film gunning for 2020 Oscars

Mrisho Mpoto: The poetic conscience of Tanzania

Science & Health

DRC to give cross-border traders Ebola vaccines

DRC to give cross-border traders Ebola vaccines

The experimental vaccine backed by several international health experts to be used.

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A child is given a dose of polio vaccine at an

Nigeria takes Africa towards polio eradication

Africa’s last case of wild polio was recorded in Nigeria’s Borno State in August 2016.

Masai giraffes face extinction

Uganda’s war on malaria

First two Ebola cases confirmed in Congo's South Kivu

S.Africa newly approved TB regimen cuts treatment time

Burundi starts vaccinating health workers against Ebola: WHO

Body odour? Bacteria-embedded bodysuit may help

Ebola survivors reunited with family in DR Congo

Sports

Nigeria's ex-coach protests against FIFA life ban

Nigeria's ex-coach protests against FIFA life ban

Samson Siasia has been banned for life over match-fixing, but denies wrongdoing.

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Enyimba FC players pose for a group photo

CAF orders closed door tie for Nigeria's Enyimba

Enyimba ordered to play league preliminary round tie behind closed doors over stadium concerns.

Caster Semenya unfazed after middle distance ban

Rwanda to host NBA's Africa League final

Semenya to miss Doha event after Swiss court ruling

'I cheat because others cheat': Kenya and doping

A painful tale of a Kenyan runner's downfall from doping

Cameroon president gifts volleyball champions

Fifa bans senior Caf official over Ebola funds