East Africa: Beyond the Tokenism Women’s Political Participation in the Greater Horn of Africa is at a Dangerous Impasse
We as the women’s rights activists of the We Cannot Wait Consortium* are in mourning after the loss of MP Amina Mohamed Abdi who was killed along with 47 others in a suicide bomb attack in Beledweyn. Amina was a member of the Union for Peace and Development Party and an MP on the committee […]
Calls For Support as Drought Ravages Horn of Africa
The Somali government is asking the international community for humanitarian aid for the 6.9 million people affected by the severe drought currently ravaging several parts of the country. Prime Minister Mohamed Roble in a statement issued in capital city Mogadishu, on March 14, 2022, urging donors to hasten aid as conditions are deteriorating. The UN […]
Enough With Party Colours! Women Kick Off Fresh Gender Rule Battle
Even though Article 27(8) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 provides for the two-thirds gender rule, its implementation has been arduous. It mandates the State to ensure that not more than two-thirds of members of all elective and appointive positions are of the same gender. However, ten years after the enactment of the law, it […]
EAC Tourism Sector Lost U.S.$4.8 Billion, 2 Million Jobs
The East African region lost more than $4.8 billion and two million jobs in the tourism sector in 2020 due to the pandemic, according to a new report. The August report titled “EABC Studies on Impact of Covid-19 on Selected Sectors: Tourism & Hospitality Industry; Light Manufacturing Sector and Agriculture & Food Security” found that […]
Region Trade Balances Improve Despite Pandemic
Regional balance of trade improved in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, with lower imports, as Kenya’s manufactured products and demand for Tanzanian minerals held up the economies. According to a report by the United Nations Economic for Africa (Uneca) and Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) released Wednesday, Kenya registered an increase in exports of […]
Vehicle Plunges Into the Indian Ocean Leaving Woman, 33, Dead
Winnie Achieng was already up by 6am yesterday, ready to go to Shell Service Station in Bonje, Changamwe, where she works. Ms Achieng then left the house in Hakika estate to get her vehicle from her brother’s house in Migadini. “I was with her yesterday night. I dropped her home and she allowed me to […]
Refugees In Kenya Suffer Aid Cuts Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
The roughly half-million refugees living in Kenya are experiencing steep reductions in aid as the coronavirus pandemic causes some rich countries to limit their donations. Cash allotments for the purchase of food have had to be cut by 30 per cent for residents of the Dadaab and Kakuma camps, the United Nations’ World Food Programme […]
Women Seek Bigger Roles In Peace Process
Women are worried about losing the gains they made in peace processes now that governments are redirecting resources to combatting Covid-19 pandemic. Participants in the 12th session of the Advisory Board for Women, Peace and Security in the Great Lakes region conducted via videoconference on May 12, said gender-based violence was on the rise at […]
East Africa Strides Ahead On Gender Parity
East Africa is ahead of the continent in gender equality, says a report by McKinsey Global Institute on the Power of parity in advancing women’s equality in Africa. Rwanda leads with a gender parity score of 0.69, Ethiopia has a score of 0.63 while Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have 0.62 each–which is slightly above the […]
East Africa Locust Swarms Airborne In 3 to 4 Weeks, UN Warns
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Sunday that nymph (baby) desert locusts maturing in Somalia’s rebel-held backcountry, where aerial spraying is next to unrealizable, will develop wings in the “next three or four weeks” and threaten millions of people already short of food. Once in flight and hungry, the swarm could be the […]
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