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Ugandan lawmakers vote to pass stricter anti-LGBTQ law

Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday passed into law a stricter anti-gay bill which outlines harsher punishment for people who engage in same-sex activities. Penalties under the...

Lightning kills Kenyan football players

Lightning struck two football players to death while playing a football match in Kisii county in western Kenya. According to local media reports, two other...

Tanzania bans sex education books for children

Tanzanian has banned children books on sex education from schools. The government said the books violate "cultural and moral standards" of the country. Some critics...

Kenyan legislator ejected over menstrual stain

A Kenyan legislator had the shock of her life when she was ejected from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit...

Eritrea accuses US of supporting rebels in Tigray conflict

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has accused the US of supporting Tigrayan rebels during the civil war in northern Ethiopia. The recently concluded conflict led to...

Kenya: Cops given heavy sentences for murdering a lawyer

A Kenyan court has handed long prison sentences to a former police officer, two others still serving and their civilian informant for the 2016 murder...

Kenya top court rules that divorcing couples don’t have equal rights to assets

Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that divorcing couples are not automatically entitled to 50 per cent share of matrimonial property. The landmark ruling seems to...

Kenya to reduce the number of pubs to fight alcoholism

Government administrators in Kenya have been ordered to enforce a one-pub-per-town directive to fight alcoholism. Kenya's deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua ordered administrators especially in the...

New strain of gonorrhoea detected in Kenya’s Nairobi

Researchers from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) have detected a new strain of gonorrhoea. They say the new strain of the sexually transmitted disease...

Rwanda to reject refugees from DR Congo

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said his country will no longer accept people fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DR Congo has continuously...

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