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Why President Ruto is walking a tight rope on Gachagua ouster bid

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Embattled Kenyan Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday made a last-ditch attempt to block an impeachment vote against him in the National Assembly, with more than 10 pe... Read More


Why Uganda's Q3 financial inflows fell

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Uganda's capital inflows are weakening largely as a result of offshore investment outflows on domestic debt securities, declining budget and project support loans and banks increasi... Read More


Rwanda now biggest importer of Uganda sugar importer in EAC

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Rwanda has overtaken Kenya as Uganda's biggest sugar export market in the East African Community. In 2022, Uganda exported at least 1.7 MT, but the sugar full year ended December 3... Read More


Nursing shortages result in worse patient outcomes, new study shows

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- While many healthcare workers suffer emotionally, psychologically and physically from long working hours due to doctor-patient ratios, new research shows that nurse shortages lead t... Read More


Ethiopia central bank releases $175m to forestall forex crisis

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has released $175 million into the economy to forestall a foreign currency crisis linked to fuel-related payments falling due in the coming month... Read More


Sudan strife headed Libyan way, security experts warn on elusive search for peace

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Sudan's war has been so calamitous that some security experts are comparing it with Libya, which continues to run under two opposed governments, 10 years on. While that could also ... Read More


Rwanda now biggest importer of Uganda sugar in EAC

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Rwanda has overtaken Kenya as Uganda's biggest sugar export market in the East African Community. In 2022, Uganda exported at least 1.7 MT, but the sugar full year ended December 3... Read More


Read a book and make the world a better place for the human race

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- I was minding my business when a friend sent me a link to a Tweet that was quoting an article in The Atlantic Magazine: "The elite students who can't read books" by Rose Horowitch. ... Read More


Three years with no Uganda Central Bank governor, and Museveni is a happy man

Nairobi, Oct. 5 -- Uganda is close to achieving something no free country in peacetime has managed in the modern era. In under three months on January 24, 2025, it will notch three years without a sub... Read More


Muhoozi lashes at US envoy after Uganda police chiefs sanctioned

Nairobi, Oct. 4 -- On Friday, Ugandans woke up to a barrage of tweets from the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba castigating US ambassador to Uganda William W. Popp for allegedly u... Read More