Kenya government spokesman Isaac Mwaura dropped updates about disability rights during international awareness day celebrations, and he said the 2025 Persons with Disabilities Act syncs up with UN conventions while the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda pushes equal access to jobs and social programs. Cash transfers under Inua Jamii support over 50,000 households, and the Disability Empowerment Department trains county champions plus rolls out community frameworks for better local services.
President William Ruto approved 20 million shillings last year for upgrades at Thika High School for the Blind, and schools for disabled students keep getting fresh infrastructure plus learning materials. The government keeps expanding teacher...
Kenya ships roughly 13 to 17 tonnes of miraa to Somalia daily, according to Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, who shut down claims about 40-plus tonnes leaving the country by calling those numbers completely fake. The government synced up export tracking between the Agriculture and Food Authority, KenTrade, and Kenya Revenue Authority through one digital system that finally makes the data actually match up across agencies.
Around 110,000 farmers grow the crop on 360,940 acres, and it supports over 1.4 million people while generating 13 billion shillings annually from 32,000 metric tonnes of production. Most gets consumed locally, but Somalia takes the bulk of exports after European markets banned it for a decade until 2022...
Kenyan President William Ruto landed in Washington after Trump invited him to witness the DRC-Rwanda peace deal getting inked at the White House. Ruto joins Rwandan leader Paul Kagame and DRC President Félix Tshisekedi for the signing ceremony that caps off months of backroom negotiations aimed at ending decades of bloodshed in Eastern Congo. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi met Ruto when he touched down with other government officials tagging along.
The agreement locks both Kigali and Kinshasa into pulling troops back, dismantling armed militias, and cracking open trade routes for humanitarian aid. Ruto chairs the East African Community and keeps pushing all sides to talk things out instead of fighting. Kenya positioned itself...
Former rugby player Campbell Nyakudya showed up for his rape trial, but the whole thing got pushed back because prosecutors never handed over CCTV clips to his defense lawyers. The state claims he spiked a woman's drink at Karma Night Club after her friends bailed, then ditched her naked at Chisipite Shops while stealing her iPhone 14 Pro Max, wig, and 1,200 bucks.
Security camera recordings allegedly caught Nyakudya dropping something sketchy into her glass before dragging her to his vehicle. Witnesses at the shops said random people dumped her from a car and peeled out fast. The complainant woke up confused and covered by fabric with all her stuff missing, and she filed a police report after piecing together what went down.
Chikurubi Female Prison in Zimbabwe hit a record with 24 babies living behind bars alongside their incarcerated mothers, and prison officials said eight more women are pregnant. The facility holds 424 inmates despite being designed for 315 people, and Chief Correctional Officer Rumbidzayi Mugomba confirmed this marks the highest inmate count since the complex opened in 1970.
Visiting Commissioner General Phindile Dhlamini from Eswatini suggested parole systems could help reduce the number of kids stuck in lockup, and she praised Zimbabwe for setting up a preschool plus mixing prison babies with outside children to prevent development issues. The prison assigned a male officer to help infants get comfortable around father figures before...
Convicted fraudsters Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu begged a Zimbabwe judge for lighter sentences after getting nailed in a goat scheme that cost the government 7.38 million dollars, and they claimed their two dozen kids need them around. Chimombe runs three households with 15 minors, while Mpofu supports nine children, and both guys said their combined wealth hits around 3 million, with monthly income previously ranging between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars each.
The state wants them locked up for 35 years since they derailed a national agricultural program by delivering only 4,208 goats out of over 100,000 promised. Mpofu apologized for not checking fake tax documents from ZIMRA and NSSA, while Chimombe argued he was barely involved in...
Independent candidate Mbuso Fuzwayo thinks he can beat Zanu PF in the Nkulumane Constituency by-election despite nine total candidates splitting the ballot, and he says voter turnout matters way more than a crowded field. The longtime activist grew up in the area and claims the ruling party gets consistently wrecked there, pulling maybe 2,000 votes against 11,000 opposition ballots last cycle.
Fuzwayo's campaign focuses on door-to-door meetups instead of digital outreach since he lacks party funding for merch and resources. He promises grassroots accountability where constituents directly tell him what Parliament should handle, and he plans to keep pushing Gukurahundi justice issues even after leaving his leadership spot at Ibhetshu...
Tanzania's central bank just teamed up with the accountants' board to push digital systems across financial reporting and audit processes. Bank of Tanzania Governor Emmanuel Tutuba and NBAA Chairperson Prof Sylvia Temu locked in the partnership deal at a massive conference packed with 4,500 attendees from public and private sectors, and the move targets transparency plus better investor confidence. The digital platform lets registered auditors upload reports that banks, tax authorities, and investors can access directly.
Temu mentioned global accounting standards keep shifting toward sustainability metrics and tech integration, while Tutuba said clean financial data backs the country's economic stability goals. ACPA Magdalena Osima...
Tanzania's cops dropped a warning about protest calls blowing up across social media for a demonstration set to go down next week. Force spokesperson David Misime said online chatter includes sketchy instructions like getting armed people to front the marches, torching cell towers, blocking port access routes, and ransacking hospitals. Police flagged threats targeting government workers, plus calls for looting stores under hunger excuses.
Authorities claim the unlimited demo plan violates citizens' economic rights by forcing business shutdowns, and they call it a major security threat. Cops told families to shut down anyone pushing violence since the country had already caught damage from the late October unrest.
The force urged...
