Summary Mr Chialo was born in Bonn in 1970 as the son of the late Tanzanian Ambassador Isaya Mr Chialo, who served many years in Germany, China and Japan during his career Berlin. Mr Joe Chialo has been appointed Berlin’s first cultural minister with Tanzanian roots, marking a first in German and European politics. Mr Chialo was born in…
Leaders on the continent have vowed that if there is another pandemic, they won’t be shut out of the vaccine market. By Stephanie Nolen Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine…
Sudan’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting today, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said the U.S. and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the agreement first and said it followed two days of intense negotiations. The two…
Military flights will take ‘thousands’ of nationals with a UK passport out of the country as three-day ceasefire comes into effect The UK government will begin evacuating British citizens trapped in Sudan today, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said after he was accused of ‘abandoning’ thousands of civilians in the war-torn country. Military flights will now evacuate at least 2,000…
CRDB Bank Chief Executive Officer has been named as one of the 25 leaders with a great economic contribution to Africa. The recognition by UK’s African Leadership Magazine (ALM) came almost five years since he was appointed head of the largest lender in the country. ALM Magazine, Group Managing Editor Mr Kingsley Okeke said the list of these leaders…
Three men have been arrested in South Africa for stealing a 2.5-meter (8-feet) long Nile crocodile worth about $1,300 from a farm in the North West province, police said Monday. The men, who are all aged between 20 and 35, are believed to have used a pick-up truck to take the animal from a crocodile farm in the Hartbeesfontein…
Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday vowed to crack down on “unacceptable” religious movements after police discovered the bodies of 51 people suspected of belonging to a Christian cult that practised starvation. A major search is underway in a forest near the coastal town of Malindi where dozens of corpses were exhumed over the weekend, with authorities fearing more…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police have recovered 58 bodies from mass graves in the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, the inspector general of police said on Monday. ___ Source here
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police have recovered 58 bodies from mass graves in the Shakahola forest in eastern Kenya, thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves, the inspector general of police said on Monday. ___ Source here
A cheetah brought from South Africa to India has died, wildlife officials said, the second such death within a month in a country where the big spotted cat was declared extinct seven decades ago. So far, 12 cheetahs from South Africa and eight from Namibia have been brought to India after its top court ruled in 2020 that the…