The East African

Big names dropped in Puntland polls

President forwarded nomination list of 22 contestants to the local legislative assembly, with two seats reserved for women.

Ethiopia’s Abiy asks civilians to join war effort against TPLF

State says joining the war effort is a show of patriotism.

Somali PM Hussein Roble arrives in Kenya

Somali Prime Minister Hussein Roble arrives in Kenya.

He arrived in Mombasa on Tuesday.

UN calls for end to child marriages as Zimbabwe mourns child bride

The 14-year-old girl's death was exposed as the church was allegedly offering her nine-year-old sister as a replacement to her “husband.”

Ethiopia: Over a hundred children killed at IDP camp

More than two hundred people total were killed while sheltering at the camp.

News

Renewed fears as L. Turkana at risk of bursting banks

In a study, Unep has predicted a perilous time for 15 million people living in the area surrounding the lake due to the increase of floods.

Uganda plans new campaign to deal with plastic waste

Uganda has one of the highest rates of deforestation and wetland degradation in the region....

Relief as Lake Victoria water levels recede after destructive record high

SA massive coal plant fails to address power shortage

Drought alert in ten counties across Kenya

Burundi ravaged by flooding from rainfall, swollen Lake Tanganyika

Govt accused of 'bribery' in early 2023 Zimbabwe campaigns

S.Africa prosecutors, Zuma lawyers ask court to delay corruption hearing

Business

Completion of Karuma Dam pushed to 2022

A downstream tunnel in the Karuma Dam project

UEGL said works on the 600MW dam on the River Nile in Kiryandongo were 98.8 percent complete.

East African Community Principal Secretary Kevit Desai

Back to drawing board for EA domestic tax harmonisation

According to the EAC, the focus of harmonisation of excise duties and VAT is to achieve......

Tanzanian avocado exports poised to grace SA tables

Africa air passenger traffic fell by 66pc in 2020

Rwanda diverts cargo traffic from Mombasa to Dar es Salaam

TransCentury banks on $48m cash fix

Uchumi lands in trouble with Uganda regulator

MTN and Bralirwa defy disruption to post profit

Opinion

AKINYEMI: A summary of all that is wrong with Africa

Ethiopia’s Selemon Barega followed by Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo

The largest brain and talent drain from the African continent is self-inflicted and people gravitate towards where they feel and are actually valued.

BUWEMBO: Expenditure on fuel is one of the ways of burning your money

If then you started driving in the 1980s or early 1990s, you have been on the road for three to......

EDITORIAL: Machar’s failed ouster should be a valuable lesson

NAPIER: Kenya-UK trade deals open funding taps for green projects in EA

MURIGANDE: What Covid-19 teaches Africa about investing in education

KINUTHIA: How HR can help SMEs build their brand, grow value and retain talent

AKINYEMI: Leadership is successful only if the led feel valued

OBBO: Africa on a dangerous path as anger against govts takes toll

Magazine

Coffees, from bean to brew and everything in between

Serving coffee ice-cream at the Masai Coffee

Dessert, too, was a choice of straight-from-machine, freshly made coffee whipped cream or coffee ice-cream with coffee flake sprinkles, moringa or baobab powder.

Nestled away Meru National Park is a hidden treasure

Safari to what was formerly a poachers’ paradise wilderness gives off the feeling you could be......

SHORT STORY: The mountain was angry...

'Daring the Sun to Love Me' explores essence of human life

Leakey and Ewoi: The legacies of Baringo snakemen

A marriage of intrigue and deception in 'His only wife'

Former banker paints women living free, pushes for equality

Vaccinated Zanzibar perfect for international retreat seekers

Science & Health

African Union dispatches J&J amid Covid-19 spike

John Nkengasong, who heads the Africa CDC, says he owes his life to the vaccine after he caught the virus.

First case of deadly Marburg virus confirmed in West Africa

The disease falls into the same family as the virus that causes Ebola....

Tanzania and Kenya unite on health issues

Africa's Covid vaccine project takes a step forward

BioNTech starts work on malaria vaccines in Africa

East Africa poised to monitor carbon emission

Health officials concerned about expiry date of vaccines

Greener PPE: Inventors tackle Covid-19 plastic waste mountain

Sports

The G.O.A.T! Eliud Kipchoge retains Olympic marathon gold

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge celebrates winning men's marathon

Kipchoge defended his Olympic marathon title in style.

Kenya top in Africa as curtains fall on Tokyo Olympics

US topped the table with 113 medals, followed by China and hosts Japan....

'Most challenging' Tokyo Olympics declared closed

Peres wins gold for Kenya on Olympics' 'Super Saturday'

Kenyan Kipyegon retains 1500m gold in Olympic record

Olympic sprint queen Thompson-Herah banned by Instagram

West African Football Union endorses CAF tournament for schools

Ugandan athlete held by police after going missing in Japan

KUSI IDEAS

WASUNNA: Strong leadership fought Covid: next step is research

Most of the research taking place for Covid-19 is happening in North America and Europe, yet Africa has a different genetic profile.

NDUNG'U: Africa can turn the negative impacts of illness into a chance to build itself

The pandemic has had a devastating effect on African economies. In order to move forward, we......