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News

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

Shipping

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

22 Mar 2024

File photo: The Nairobi skyline is seen in the background as zebras walk through the Nairobi National Park, near Nairobi, Kenya, 3 December 2018. Reuters/Amir Cohen/File Photo

Legislation

UPDATED: Kenyan court strikes down housing levy in finance law

Humphrey Malalo and Bhargav Acharya 28 Nov 2023

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Food Security

Kenyan court throws out challenge aimed at blocking GM crops

Humphrey Malalo 13 Oct 2023

African leaders are proposing new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help fund climate change action, setting up their negotiating position ahead of November's COP28 summit. Some countries already have taxes on carbon, but a global tax has never gained much traction. Source: Reuters

Climate Change

African leaders call for new global taxes to fund climate change action

Duncan Miriri 7 Sep 2023

A man carries his bicycle over a flooded area in Muloza on the border with Mozambique after the tropical Cyclone Freddy, around 100km outside Blantyre, Malawi, 18 March 2023. Reuters/Esa Alexander

Climate Change

Extreme weather events under the spotlight as Africa Climate Summit kicks off

Hereward Holland 4 Sep 2023

Uber rolls out new electric motorbike fleet in Kenya

Transport

Uber rolls out new electric motorbike fleet in Kenya

4 Sep 2023

File photo: A police officer walks next to an electric mass transit bus assembled by electric vehicle manufacturer Roam at the Green Park Terminus in Nairobi, Kenya 19 October 2022. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Climate Change

Large investments expected at first Africa climate summit

Duncan Miriri 22 Aug 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

File photo: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a Reuters interview at his farm in Kisozi settlement of Gomba district, in the Central Region of Uganda, January 16, 2022. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

Legislation

Uganda parliament passes harsh anti-LGBTQ bill mostly unchanged

Aaron Ross 2 May 2023

File Photo: An LGBT activist wears a badge as he attends a court hearing in the Milimani high Court in Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya. 22 February 2019. Reuters/Baz Ratner

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

For LGBTQ Kenyans, court win prompts backlash as threats escalate

Ayenat Mersie 18 Apr 2023

Ugandan legislators participate in the debate of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations during a sitting at the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda 21 March 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

Elias Biryabarema 22 Mar 2023

Social Media

Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderators

Aaron Ross, Hereward Holland, Sandra Maler, Emelia Si 22 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Image: Kenya's Supreme Court judges led by Chief Justice Martha Koome flanked by her deputy, Philomena Mwilu and Supreme Court judge Mohammed Ibrahim attend the final hearing day over a petition seeking to invalidate the outcome of the recent presidential election, at the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Kenya 2 September 2022. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Law Practice

Kenya's top court to rule on disputed presidential election

Aaron Ross 5 Sep 2022

DRC oil-blocks auction draws warnings of environmental catastrophe

Coal, Oil & Gas

DRC oil-blocks auction draws warnings of environmental catastrophe

Benoit Nyemba and Aaron Ross 29 Jul 2022

Source: REUTERS.

Covid-19

New vaccine plant in Senegal gets €75m from EIB

6 Jun 2022

Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh, who is also a presidential candidate for the Alliance for Patriotic Re-orientation and Construction (APRC), smiles during a rally in Banjul, Gambia, 29 November 2016. Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon

Criminal Law

Gambian government says it will prosecute exiled ex-president Jammeh

Pap Saine 26 May 2022

French ride-hailing app aims to reinvent taxis experience in Senegal

Public Transport

French ride-hailing app aims to reinvent taxis experience in Senegal

Nellie Peyton and Elodie Toto 15 Mar 2022

Senegal's president calls on Africa to harmonise oil legislation

Coal, Oil & Gas

Senegal's president calls on Africa to harmonise oil legislation

Aaron Ross and Bate Felix 17 Dec 2021

TV

Ivory Coast TV presenter convicted of glorifying rape

Aaron Ross 2 Sep 2021

Ivory Coast, Ghana push cocoa industry to boost premium payments

Agro-processing

Ivory Coast, Ghana push cocoa industry to boost premium payments

Ange Aboa 14 May 2021

Biggest marathon ever of The Walking Dead coming to Fox this festive season

TV

Biggest marathon ever of The Walking Dead coming to Fox this festive season

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 25 Nov 2020