Covid-19: Kenya Scraps Mandatory Mask-Wearing, Temperature Screening In Public

AfricaCoronavirusNewsCovid-19: Kenya Scraps Mandatory Mask-Wearing, Temperature Screening In Public

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 11, 2022

Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced a relaxation of the COVID-19 containment measures following relatively fewer cases as well as positivity rates over the past couple of months. The Health Minister, Mutahi Kagwe, in a press address on Friday, announced that Kenyans are no longer obligated to wear face masks in public places. The Minister, however, encouraged Kenyans to keep wearing their face masks during indoor meetings, where all attendees must have undertaken the jab...

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OPINION: Reflections: Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Dilemmas Diplomats Face

AfricaColumnsForeign PolicyUnited StatesOPINION: Reflections: Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on the Dilemmas Diplomats Face

PilotnewsMarch 9, 2022

Former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Russ Feingold reflects on his time as U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other diplomatic roles he has held throughout his career. Welcome to Reflections, a bimonthly series of conversations that invites former senior U.S.-Africa policymakers to discuss difficult issues that they confronted in their careers with the benefit of hindsight. The second conversation in the series features Russ Feingold, who served...

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OPINION: Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict from an African Standpoint

AfricaColumnsOpinionWar & CrisisOPINION: Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict from an African Standpoint

PilotnewsMarch 4, 2022

African countries’ reservations on condemning Russia’s invasion to Ukraine can be explored through growing Russian ties with African leaders. Those who did condemn also called out Western double standards on international law.   How will African countries react to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and what diplomatic fissures are likely to be opened by the conflict as it drags on? Early indications are that African countries will line up behind the United States and its...

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OPINION: Ukraine Crisis Should Hasten Efforts to Rethink Policy Toward Africa

AfricaColumnsWar & CrisisOPINION: Ukraine Crisis Should Hasten Efforts to Rethink Policy Toward Africa

PilotnewsMarch 1, 2022

Citizens of African states are natural partners in the fight to support a rules-based international order that curbs authoritarian regimes’ excesses.   By Michelle Gavin, Guest Columnist and Blogger As the world’s attention is riveted by the dramatic and consequential struggle for Ukraine, last week it was a voice from Africa—that of Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations Martin Kimani—who clarified the stakes in Ukraine for the rest of the world. His defense of rules-based multilateralism and...

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Buhari Leaves Abuja to Attend Special Session on UNEP@50 in Kenya

AfricaEnvironmentBuhari Leaves Abuja to Attend Special Session on UNEP@50 in Kenya

PilotnewsMarch 1, 2022

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Tuesday, to participate in the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP@50). The event is to hold from March 3 to March 4  in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said Buhari’s trip to Kenya was sequel to an invitation extended to him by his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, The...

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Torture in Uganda Prompts U.S. Introspection

AfricaColumnsUnited StatesTorture in Uganda Prompts U.S. Introspection

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2022

The United States is reconsidering its longstanding partnership with Uganda’s abusive government.   By Michelle Gavin, Guest Columnist, and Blogger The harrowing story of Kakwenza Rukirabashaija—a Ugandan writer whose tweets critical of President Yoweri Museveni and his powerful son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, landed him in detention—has made it impossible to pretend that the repression and political violence that accompanied the 2021 election cycle were temporary features of Uganda’s political landscape. Rukirabashaija, who was held incommunicado and claims to...

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Joe Muriuki, First Kenyan To Disclose HIV Status, Dies of Cancer At 62

AfricaHealthJoe Muriuki, First Kenyan To Disclose HIV Status, Dies of Cancer At 62

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 17, 2022

Dr. Joe Muriuki, the first Kenyan to go public about his Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status over 35 years ago, has died at the age of 62. The National Empowerment Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK) announced his demise in a statement on its Twitter page on February 15, 2022. According to Nelson Otuoma, the National Coordinator of NEPHAK, Muriuki had been discharged from the Kenyatta National Hospital about a week ago...

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Nigeria Re-elected Into The African Union Peace, Security Council

AfricaNational SecurityNigeria Re-elected Into The African Union Peace, Security Council

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 6, 2022

ADDIS ABABA — The Federal Republic of Nigeria has been re-elected into the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) for another three (3) year mandate (2022-2025), to represent the West African region. Nigeria pulled 44 votes in the first round to secure the statutory 2/3 votes required to win the election. The election of the 15-member Council was held on 3rd February 2022 during the 40th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the...

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Welfare of Poor and Vulnerable Nigerians Remain my Priorities Till 2023 – Buhari

AfricaNational DevelopmentWelfare of Poor and Vulnerable Nigerians Remain my Priorities Till 2023 – Buhari

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 5, 2022

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, said he would remain committed to protecting and lifting the poor and vulnerable out of the poverty circle till he leaves office in 2023. The President gave the assurance while speaking at the virtual official presentation of the Country Review Report of Nigeria to the 31st Africa Peer Review Forum of the African Union, according to a statement by his spokesman,...

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Burkina Faso Suspended In African Union

AfricaNewsBurkina Faso Suspended In African Union

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 31, 2022

The African Union on Monday announced the suspension of Burkina Faso as its response to the January 24 coup that ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The bloc’s 15-member Peace and Security Council said on Twitter it had voted “to suspend the participation of #BurkinaFaso in all AU activities until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country”. Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, had already condemned the coup the day...

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