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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Rachael Mutabasi |Maureen Kinyanjui |Lucy Mumbi |Margaret Wanjiru
Ghana orders foreigners to exit gold market by April 30 Africa's leading gold producer is shifting away from a system in which local and foreign companies with export licences can buy and export gold from artisanal or small-scale mining. Under the new system, the newly created gold board known as GoldBod is the only entity allowed to buy, sell, assay and export artisanal gold, Monday's statement said, and older licences have ceased to be valid.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Rachael Mutabasi |Lucy Mumbi |Maureen Kinyanjui |Margaret Wanjiru
Charles Wratto, Babes Bolyai University
The use of child soldiers is a profound human tragedy that continues to scar generations across the world.
According to the United Nations, over the years, thousands of children, some as young as six years old, have been manipulated, indoctrinated and coerced into joining armed groups.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Lucy Mumbi |Maureen Kinyanjui |Mwangi Maina |Farhiya Hussein
CHADEMA failed to sign an election code of conduct document, making it ineligible to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls expected in October. Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA said on Tuesday its disqualification from elections due later this year was unconstitutional, days after its leader was arrested and charged with treason.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Maureen Kinyanjui |Lucy Mumbi |Mwangi Maina |Farhiya Hussein
Kennedy Mbeva, University of Cambridge and Reuben Makomere, University of Tasmania
A new world order is emerging. The United States is no longer the sole force shaping global events; countries like China, Russia, India and the Gulf states are growing in influence.
This shift has intensified global competition and made international cooperation more challenging. In today’s world, power, not rules, is the key driver of global affairs.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Lucy Mumbi |Rachael Mutabasi |Maureen Kinyanjui |Joseph Ndunda
Up to 400,000 displaced from Darfur camp after Sudan RSF takeover, UN agency says The RSF seized control of the camp on Sunday after a four-day assault that the government and aid groups have said left hundreds dead or wounded.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Lucy Mumbi |Rachael Mutabasi |Maureen Kinyanjui |Joseph Ndunda
Britain said on Tuesday it would provide 120 million pounds ($158 million) more in aid to people in Sudan, which it said faces the worst humanitarian crisis on record, as it hosted a conference marking the two-year anniversary of the conflict.
The war in Sudan erupted in April 2023, sparked by a power struggle between the army and Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, shattering hopes for a transition to civilian rule.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Lucy Mumbi |BARACK ODUOR |Dennis Tarus |Joseph Ndunda
Most farmers in central regions said they were worried as plantations had not yet received enough moisture in the crucial month of April to help beans reach market-ready size and quality. Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing country, the Ivory Coast, warn that insufficient rainfall could hurt both the quality and size of the April-to-September mid-crop.
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1 week ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Abdirahman Khalif |Maureen Kinyanjui |Farhiya Hussein |Lucy Mumbi
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu survived being shot 16 times in 2017 and has been arrested on multiple occasions, but now faces an even more grave challenge after being charged with treason, a capital offence, following his calls for electoral reform.
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2 weeks ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Farhiya Hussein |Maureen Kinyanjui |Lucy Mumbi |Abdirahman Khalif
Red Cross concerned by drone attacks on critical infrastructure in Sudan After two years of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, some people are returning to Khartoum after they were forced to flee when war broke out on April 15, 2023 amidst an ongoing power struggle between the army and the RSF ahead of a transition to civilian rule.
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2 weeks ago | 
eastleighvoice.co.ke | Farhiya Hussein |Maureen Kinyanjui |Lucy Mumbi |Abdirahman Khalif
The UAE has repeatedly dismissed the filing of the case as a political game and have argued the ICJ, also known as the World Court, has no legal power to hear Sudan's claim and asked judges to throw out the case. Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in Darfur, but the UAE argued the case should be thrown out as the court lacked jurisdiction.
