Category: Africa

It has been this way since 1950 when the colonial government first established the scheme using cheap Mau Mau labour.

Covid-19 lockdowns were particularly hard on undertakings where many people gather or have close contact: Schools, sports, clubbing, African weddings, and Sunday mass, to name a few.

Of course, I grew up to be an agnostic. Christmas became commercial by the 1990s, which irritated me and, by the 2000s, I was an experienced Grinch. Agnosticism is very good for this. People try to fight atheists whereas agnostics get left alone because we...

The group, which had been for weeks asked to leave occupied territories by regional leaders, said they were preparing a withdrawal on Friday and would cede ground to the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) deployed last month.

The Atmo supercomputer US firm, Atmo Inc has committed to bringing high tech weather forecasting systems to Uganda aimed at improving climatic predictions. The commitment was made at the business executives meeting during the just concluded US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC. The new system which...

A Dutch appeals court ruled last year, following 13 years of legal battles, that Shell's Nigerian branch must pay out for a series of leaks and that the parent company must install new pipeline equipment to prevent further devastating spills.

Patrick Ayota The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in partnership with MasterCard Foundation has earmarked over Shs 7.6bn seed funding to 100 indigenous women-owned businesses under the third cohort of the NSSF Hi-innovator programme, an innovation initiative. This was revealed at the launch of the...

Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition.