Kenya: Probe City Killings
The police department was quick to exonerate itself from blame over the killing of seven people in Nairobi's Dagoretti area on Wednesday night.
Uganda: It's Time to Tackle Maternal Mortality
As the government held official celebrations to mark International Women's Day in Bushenyi on Monday, some women belonging to the Inter-Party Cooperation decided to highlight the plight of women in the area of reproductive health by marching to Mulago Hospital.
Nigeria: The Warri Industrial Park
Driven by the need to speed up development in the state, the Delta State Government recently launched a business development initiative which it called the Warri Industrial Park. The master plan of the park was unveiled recently in Warri, Delta State.
Nigeria: The Presidential Advisory Council
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated a Presidential Advisory Council, the creation and membership of which he announced a week ago. It is chaired by a former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd); it has twenty-five other members most of whom are veteran bureaucrats or technocrats whose inputs are expected to add value to governance. Government expects the council to provide alternative inputs into policy formulation, help promote good governance especially in the economy, power, security, electoral process, security infrastructure sectors, and encourage the fight against corruption.
Rwanda: Two Countries Need Each Other
Friday 26, 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France visited Rwanda for four hours in a gesture aimed at mending the three year standoff between the two countries.
Nigeria: Legislative Rascality in Edo Assembly
Weapons such as axes, guns, tear gas and the speaker's gavel were used on lawmakers by their colleagues in the House who wanted to stop the change of guards that became possible following the decampment of a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Bright Omokhodion, who was thereafter elected the speaker.
Nigeria: Reducing The Country's High Maternal Mortality Rate
The statistical data on the ever-increasing maternal mortality rate in Nigeria is not only mind-boggling, but pathetic. More so, because evidence abounds that successive administrations, both military and civilian have put rhetoric before action in mitigating the effect of a scary public health issue.
Zimbabwe: Cast Anti-Corruption Net Wider
INCREASED carnage on the roads is no doubt a reflection of deteriorating standards of driving compounded by the deplorable actions of some Vehicle Inspection Department officials issuing out drivers' licences to unqualified and undeserving people who are prepared to pay bribes to get the document.
Nigeria: Is Mega Party a Stillbirth?
There are indications that the Mega Party which politicians belonging to opposition have been planning to float in the last two years has eventually hit the rocks.
Africa: The Saga of the Invisible President
Rumours about Nigerian president Yar'Adua, violence in Jos, controversy over what happened to aid money during Ethiopia's famine in the 1980s and International Women's Day all feature in Sokari Ekine's round-up of the African blogosphere. There's also good news for Zimbabwe, as a documentary about the remarkable singer Prudence Mabhena and her band Liyana scoops an Oscar, with its inspiring story about overcoming the stereotypes around disability.
