Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives.
Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
Charles Onyango-Obbo
A rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 74 people and infected more than 7,800.
US leader Donald Trump continues his relentless quest for the Nobel Peace Prize...
Solar accounted for 173 of the 322 power projects announced across Africa in 2025, while the continent installed a record 4.5 gigawatts of new solar capacity, up 54% year over year. – AP & SolarBytes
Two killed during protests against U.S. Ebola facility In Kenya.
49 people died of thirst in Niger when a truck broke down in a remote Sahara desert, leaving its passengers stranded without water. Two survivors managed to walk 50 Kms through the desert to a water source, and then to a town where they alerted authorities.
El Molo’s fishers catches crashed from 250+ lb hauls to near zero. El Molo school lost dorms & field—enrollment halved, crocs breed in flooded buildings. Conflicts are rising between herders and fishers.
Lake Turkana in Kenya, the world's largest desert lake, has risen sharply since 2018. A nearby tourist lodge lost 95% of its land. El Molo village became an island 660 yards offshore.
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Ethiopia has granted a unit of Nigeria’s United Capital Group the first foreign investment banking licence in the country.
Ghana has over 100,000 unemployed health workers. Jamaica is now recruiting 400 of them.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan President Paul Kagame inaugurate memorial to victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The double stele by artist Grada Kilomba overlooks the Seine in Paris.
NAIROBI, June 9 (Reuters) – Ethiopia has granted a unit of Nigeria’s United Capital Group the first foreign investment banking licence in the country, its capital markets regulator said.
