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1 month ago | africauncensored.online | Mkhululi Chimoio |Africa Uncensored

By Mkhululi Chimoio Zimbabwe’s political discourse and conversations about the state of governance in the country have come under attack, and the faith of the public in mainstream media has waned as a result of information disorder – misinformation, disinformation and malinformation – that has led to the rise and rapid transmission of false narratives, making it much harder for citizens to identify where fact ends and fiction begins.

Nov 19, 2024 | africauncensored.online | Africa Uncensored

Public spending habits in Kenya reveal a lot about the priorities of the national government, starting with President Ruto, whose salary is twenty times higher than what the average Kenyan earns. There is evidence that extravagance and public wastage through travels, vehicle purchases, huge salaries, and hospitality cuts across government departments and ministries, significantly burdening taxpayers.

Nov 18, 2024 | africauncensored.online | Africa Uncensored

It’s two years since Kenyan president William Ruto, in what seemed like a political gamble, rolled out a government-run microcredit scheme popularised as the Hustler Fund. Worth 50 billion shillings (US$409 million) a year over a five-year period, the low-interest loans were touted as the “magic formula” to start or grow micro, small and medium businesses. Now the fund faces an uncertain future owing to a high default rate.

Oct 7, 2024 | africauncensored.online | Africa Uncensored

Ugandan athlete and Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei died in September 2024 after being set alight by a man she knew in Eldoret, Kenya. Cheptegei’s murder was reported to have been about a conflict over land ownership. Her attacker, Dickson Ndiema, has since died from injuries sustained in the attack. Cheptegei is not the first woman athlete to be murdered in Kenya. In 2021, Agnes Tirop, an Olympic runner, was stabbed to death in her home in Iten.

Aug 5, 2024 | theelephant.info | Africa Uncensored

More than a year after the first bodies were exhumed from Shakahola Forest, #FatalFaith follows a survivor of Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s cult and a grieving father who lost his children to the church, which led over 400 followers to their deaths in a tragic quest to ‘meet Jesus.’ In this documentary, we explore the cost of this faith and manipulation, and the slow progress of justice for the victims and their loved ones.