Kenya President UhuruKenyatta has reshuffled the Cabinet days after talking tough on mega corruption in his government, the Daily Nation reports. In the changes announced on Friday morning, Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa has been fired and replaced by his Education counterpart Amina Mohamed. Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) Chairman
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni Thursday congratulated Muhammadu Buhari for being re-elected Nigeria’s President for the second term. He also said that Uganda and Nigeria will continue to work towards strengthening their social, political and economic ties. “I congratulate His Excellency @MBuhari upon his re-election as President of Nigeria. I also
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, final results from Saturday's general election show. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of just under four million votes. Mr Abubakar's People's Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Delays
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Police in Kenya say they have a busted a seven-man syndicate which allegedly impersonated President Uhuru Kenyatta and other government officials to defraud local business tycoon Naushad Merali of a huge sum of money. One of the men phoned Mr Merali, the chairman of Sameer Africa, mimicking the president's voice
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The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has obtained orders freezing 11 accounts associated with businessman Humphrey Kariuki over alleged tax evasion amounting to KSh3 billion (UShs109.9bn), Daily Nation reports. The accounts are scattered in seven banks, including Equity, National Bank of Kenya and Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), and are linked to
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A special tribunal is to be set up in South Africa with powers to fast-track prosecutions and recover the proceeds of corruption, BBC reports. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the tribunal would consider cases brought by the Special Investigating Unit. After 25 years in power, the African National Congress has become
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Almost every Nigerian vote since independence in 1960 has been dogged by varying degrees of conflict and allegations of rigging. That’s one reason why the 2015 election that saw Muhammadu Buhari, now 76, become the first candidate in the nation’s history to topple a sitting president through the ballot box
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There is growing international concern about fighting between rival armed groups in South Sudan. Thousands of people have fled over the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days to escape the violence. Norway, the UK and the US - known as the Troika - say they are
Read MoreWith a significant drop-out rate of girls from primary school to secondary school and college, one new initiative in Ghana aims to improve the country's innovation, competitiveness and productivity by bringing more girls into the formal digital fold. A report by the World Wide Web foundation found that women in
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Uganda doesn’t conduct its diplomatic relations with other countries in the media like the case is with the Rwandan, the Ugandan Government has said. This is after Rwanda President, Paul Kagame attributed the tensions between the two nations on Ugandan government listening to rumors from people who are opposing the
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