A Raft of Factors Hinder the Passing On of Kenya’s Vernaculars
Kenya is a multilingual nation with dozens of Indigenous languages. But it risks losing this language diversity unless Kenyan children are taught them at school. Around 4 million people speak Luo in the East African nation, mainly in the west. Other Luo speakers live in Uganda and Tanzania. Luo, also known as Dholuo, is one […]
Westminster Abbey Agrees “in Principle” to Return a Sacred Tablet to Ethiopia
The tabot – a blackened flat piece of wood featuring a carved inscription that symbolically represents the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments – has been at the Abbey since British forces returned with it from the Battle of Maqdala, where it was looted in 1868. The move by Westminster Abbey will put […]
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have Much to Lose if their Departure from Ecowas Curtails Mobility
Ecowas covers a variety of sectors, but migration is a major one. The bloc’s protocols since 1979 have long been seen as a shining example of free movement on the continent. They gave citizens the right to move between countries in the region without a visa, and a prospective right of residence and setting up […]
Russia says it has Shipped 200,000 tons of Grain in Humanitarian Aid to Six African Nations
Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said that Burkina Faso, Mali, Eritrea, and Zimbabwe each received 25,000 tons of grain while the Central African Republic and Somalia got 50,000 tons each, according to Russian state news agency. Shortly after backing out of a crucial deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey that enabled the export of […]
X, Formerly known as Twitter, has Finally Paid Off the Staff it Sacked in its African Headquarters
Agency Seven Seven, the company providing legal representation to the staff, said it had been successful in its quest to get a redundancy settlement and repatriation expenses for foreign staff, although it did not specify the amount of the pay-out. Most had only been in the job, based in Ghana’s capital, Accra, for a few […]
Nuclear Power is Key to Ghana’s Transition to Greener Energy but the Switch is Facing Delays
The West African nation wants one or two nuclear power plants to be up and running by 2030. But Stephen Yamoah, executive director of state-run Nuclear Power Ghana, says the country is behind schedule. “We should probably have been starting construction now, but we’re still engaging to identify the [right] vendor,” the nuclear power chief […]
