Rwanda Abolishes Over 1,000 Colonial-Era Laws
Paul Kagame - Rwanda President
Rwanda‘s parliament has passed a law scrapping over 1,000 laws considered colonial and outdated.
For months the country debated and discussed plans to scrap all the country’s colonial-era laws.
Local media New Times reported that some of these ... Read More
Rwanda Sets New World Record On Female Representation In Par...
Rwanda has the most inclusive parliament of women representation in the world
Rwanda has broken its current world record of 64 per cent female representation in Parliament, setting a new one of 67.5 per cent.
Out of 80 seats, women now occupy ... Read More
Rwanda Launches ‘First Made-In-Africa’ Smartphones
Rwanda has opened Africa’s first smartphone manufacturing plant in the capital, Kigali, in an event attended by President Paul Kagame.
Manufactured by technology company Mara Group – the Mara X and Mara Z smartphones – will use Google’s Android operating system ... Read More
More Than 1,000 People Drowned Crossing Mediterranean In 201...
More than 1,000 people have drowned in 2019 so far trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday.
Some 1,028 people are assumed to have died as of Tuesday, Dominik Bartsch, representative of the ... Read More
Tributes Paid After BBC News Journalist Hanna Yusuf Dies Age...
Hanna Yusuf
BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged 27.
The BBC's Fran Unsworth, director of news, said Hanna was a "talented young journalist who was widely ... Read More
Ugandan’s Solomon Serwanjja Wins 2019 BBC Komla Dumor ...
Solomon Serwanjja wants to carry on Komla Dumor's legacy of changing the narrative about Africa
Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.
Serwanjja is a presenter at Uganda's NBS TV, ... Read More
Robert Mugabe To Be Buried In His Home Village
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that ex-president Robert Mugabe will be buried at his home village in Zvimba as requested by his family.
The government said the family of the former leader, who died in Singapore on September 6 aged ... Read More
Harry And Meghan Begin Tour Of Africa With Baby Archie
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in South Africa with their four-month-old son Archie, for their first official tour as a family.
The 10-day visit will see the royals celebrate the continent’s people and culture.
It has begun in Cape ... Read More
ECOWAS Parliament Calls For Reversal of Nigeria’s Bord...
The recent closure of the Nigerian borders with West African neighbors might hamper the implementation of the free trade movement within the sub-region of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the regional bloc's parliament has said.
Whilst seeking a ... Read More
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya And Egypt Named World’s M...
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt were named among the world’s most dangerous places to live and work in, for expatriates.
The latest Expat Insider Survey, done by InterNations, polled 20,259 expats representing 182 nationalities and living in 187 countries or ... Read More