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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Maureen Kinyanjui |Hassan Mohamed |Lucy Mumbi |Erick Kariuki
Wealthy Africans often don’t pay tax: the answer lies in smarter collection - expert This shows that wealthy Africans face lower effective tax rates than average citizens, replicating a trend already demonstrated for the relative tax burden of small and large companies. Faced with some of the worse debt levels in over a decade, African countries are struggling to find ways to balance their books. Increasing revenue sources from their citizens is an obvious place to look.
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Lucy Mumbi |Erick Kariuki |Maureen Kinyanjui |Hassan Mohamed
What is apartheid? New book for young readers explains South Africa’s racist system In separating people by race, apartheid created so-called independent self-governing states known as Bantustans or homelands for African people and then the Republic of South Africa for the white people in order to prevent them from mixing.
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1 month ago | 
shorturl.at | Lucy Mumbi |Erick Kariuki |Maureen Kinyanjui |Hassan Mohamed
Gabon started the game aggressively, putting Kenya under pressure early on. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal in the 16th minute validated their efforts. Kenya’s hopes of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup suffered a blow after a 2-1 defeat to Gabon at Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday. This rare home appearance for the Harambee Stars ended in disappointment, as the visitors capitalised on key moments to secure victory.
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Erick Kariuki |Michael Kirwa |Issa Hussein |Margaret Wanjiru
Congo M23 rebels to reposition forces from seized town, rebel alliance says Trending
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Erick Kariuki |Michael Kirwa |Issa Hussein |Margaret Wanjiru
Uganda military says it killed 242 rebels in east Congo this week Uganda military spokesperson Chris Magezi said hundreds of CODECO fighters attacked a Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) military post in the Congo locality of Fataki, in the province of Ituri, on Wednesday and Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Erick Kariuki |Michael Kirwa |Issa Hussein |Margaret Wanjiru
Hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced, while more than 100,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries in less than three months due to fighting between the M23 group and the Congolese army, according to the UNHCR. Thousands are without lifesaving aid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo due to critical funding gaps, the United Nations Refugee Agency said on Friday.
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Erick Kariuki |Issa Hussein |Michael Kirwa |Margaret Wanjiru
Ethiopia's army says it killed more than 300 Fano militiamen in two days of fighting The Fano militia fought alongside the army and Eritrean forces in a two-year civil war that pitted Addis Ababa against the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which controls the northern region of Tigray. Ethiopia's army said on Friday its troops had killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara region.
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1 month ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Erick Kariuki |Issa Hussein |Michael Kirwa |Margaret Wanjiru
Some 1.3 million children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition risk losing access to lifesaving support this year in Ethiopia and Nigeria, UNICEF says. The United Nations children's agency said on Friday it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Nigeria within the next two months due to lack of funding exacerbated by Trump administration cuts to foreign aid.
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2 months ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Abdirahman Khalif |Erick Kariuki |Mwangi Maina |Maureen Kinyanjui
Gang violence in Haiti continues to have a devastating impact on the population, according to a new report from the UN office in the country (BINUH) on human rights violations recorded during the last quarter of 2024.
Released on Tuesday, the new report highlights that at least 5,626 people have been killed and more than 2,213 injured in the past year, due to the armed gangs who control much of the capital and the country at large.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Vincent Ombati |Erick Kariuki |Alfred Onyango |Mwangi Maina
Sudan By | WHO official Margaret Harris said in a media call that 11,327 cholera cases with 316 deaths had been reported. The humanitarian crisis from the civil war in Sudan is also exacerbating infections, including cholera, and the bacterial disease has killed more than 300 people in the region, a World Health Organisation official said on Friday.
