With rising fossil fuel costs and persistent power blackouts, countries like Egypt, Zambia, Nigeria, and Angola are stepping up their solar capabilities, shifting Africa’s concentration of solar power away from South Africa. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | More Africans are rushing to catch up on solar energy as the …

DROWNING: 33% of Ugandan fishermen cannot swim, making them particularly vulnerable Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Ugandan journalist Canary Mugume has narrated to an audience of stakeholders in the water sector, the trauma he went through, documenting the harsh realities faced by lakeside communities in the districts of Mayuge, Rakai, …

  Heart Institute Breaks Ground for Construction of 250 Bed Capacity Facility 🟡10 floors (4 Basement levels) 🟡 3 fully equipped operating theatres 🟡 2 Catheterization Labs 🟡 40 ICU beds 🟡 210 regular beds 🟡 Specialized Teaching Hospital Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | Uganda has started building a state-of-the-art …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  His Highness the Aga Khan is dead. Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV died “peacefully surrounded by his family” in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday February 4, Kenya’s Nation reported this morning. Prince Karim Al-Hussaini was the 49th hereditary spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili …

The councilors accused one head teacher of presiding over a decline in enrollment from 504 pupils to less than 200, misplacing the school’s mobile phone, possessing three different school stamps, and failing to cooperate with the School Management Committee (SMC) for effective planning. Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two …

Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A suspected Ebola patient has died at Tororo General Hospital. Albert Amula, the Tororo Deputy Resident District Commissioner, says that the patient passed on Monday, January 3rd, 2025. According to Amula, the suspect was admitted to the facility last week with Ebola-like symptoms including passing out …

  Migrants from six African countries – South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, Egypt and Ghana – are doing well financially in the US, on average earning more than the US average income of US $80,610 per year, according to US Census figures. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY |  Africans living …

JOHANNESBURG | Xinhua  | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday rejected related remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump recently, stressing that the country had not “confiscated land.” In a statement issued by the South African Presidency, the government also dismissed claims that the Expropriation Act was aimed at seizing …

RIYADH | Xinhua | Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa reviewed in Riyadh on Sunday bilateral relations and the latest developments in Syria. The two sides discussed ways to enhance Syria’s security and stability, as well as opportunities for …

NEW YORK | TASS | Entrepreneur Elon Musk who is in charge of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has said that the process of dismantling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is underway. “We’re shutting it down,” Musk said in a broadcast on his X social …