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Eastleigh murders: Man’s last call with wife, daughter hours before they died

Nov 4, 2024 | nation.africa | Ngina Kirori

The husband of a woman murdered alongside their daughter and niece has revealed their conversation hours before the killings that have shocked residents of Nairobi’s Eastleigh, even as a court on Monday allowed police to detain the prime suspect for 21 days. Waris Daud, her daughter Nuseiba Dahir and her niece Amina Abdirashid went missing from their home in Eastleigh at night on October 21 only for their bodies to be discovered in separate locations the following day.
Zimbabwe | The rise of the mbingas

Oct 9, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Mukudzei Madenyika |Josephine Chinele |Taiwo Adebulu |Ngina Kirori

Many of Zimbabwe’s richest men and women are vessels for the ruling party’s looting of state coffers. Commonly called ‘mbingas’, for their penchant for the good life, these briefcase entrepreneurs drive luxury cars, own several mansions, broadcast lavish weddings and parties on online media and buy gifts for their fans. However, they rarely engage in meaningful production or create employment. Mukudzei Madenyika traces how they rose from once well-intended black empowerment schemes.
Into the Woods II

Sep 12, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Estacio Valoi |Josephine Chinele |Taiwo Adebulu |Ngina Kirori

The Quirimbas National Park in Cabo Delgado, Mozambiqe, is a UNESCO heritage site described on its website as “a hidden gem in Africa’s crown, with beautiful costal forest, secluded islands, and turquoise waters.” It has supposedly received significant amounts in “green” funds from France, Italy, the EU, the World Bank, and other donors to ensure its continued existence as a pristine biosphere. But rapacious logging inside the park is devastating the area.
Hôtel Kremlin | Niger (English)

Jul 10, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Elizabeth Banyi Tabi |Emmanuel Mutaizibwa |Ngina Kirori |Theophilus Abbah

Read the French version here. Sunday April 21, 2024. Agadez, in central Niger, is a large urban area with houses mostly built of ochre earth. There are very few trees here in this poor town, located more than 900km northeast of the capital. In the evening, the city is full of young idlers, drug addicts, and sex workers. Many of them are migrants.
Hôtel Kremlin | Mali (English)

Jul 9, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Elizabeth Banyi Tabi |Emmanuel Mutaizibwa |Ngina Kirori |Theophilus Abbah

Read the French version here. Sominé Dolo Hospital in Mopti, central Mali, Friday May 17, 2024. It is 7PM. Everything is black here. The lights are out due to the now almost continuous power cuts. The loudspeakers of the large mosque in downtown Sevaré let out the shrill cry of the muezzin calling for Maghreb evening prayers, but heads are not bent in prayer and devotion in this hospital establishment, the main health facility in the northern centre of the country.
Kenya | Seven days of rage

Jun 27, 2024 | zammagazine.com | Ngina Kirori

This past week was the week of Kenya’s youth, which came out in thousands on the streets of Nairobi to reject austerity, new heavy taxation, and government corruption. What follows is reporter Ngina Kirori’s diary of the protests. Today is the day that sets the wheels in motion. Citizens are planning to occupy Kenya’s parliament to protest the proposed high taxation that threatens to burden even further the many who are already struggling financially.
How brain surgery on wrong patient led to three years of misery and painful death

Jun 15, 2024 | nation.africa | Ngina Kirori

A cook who wrongfully underwent head surgery at Kenyatta National Hospital in 2018 died quietly three years later due to complications arising from the botched operation, Sunday Nation can reveal. Mr Samuel Kimani Wachira had his head opened up during an operation on the night of February 19, only for surgeons to shockingly realise they had the wrong patient on the operating table after failing to find a blood clot in the brain. Mr Kimani’s procedure was supposed to be on the arm, not the head.
Last words of the young doctor that Kenya let down in life and death

Jun 10, 2024 | nairobinews.nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa |Ngina Kirori

He paid the ultimate price for sacrificing to help keep others alive during the COVID-19 scourge, but in death, just like in life, his family says in a court case that the government, which deployed him to the frontline without adequate protective gear, won’t pay his dues.
The young doctor Kenya let down in life and death

Jun 7, 2024 | nation.africa | Alex Ndegwa |Ngina Kirori

He paid the ultimate price for sacrificing to help keep others alive during the Covid-19 scourge, but in death, just like in life, his family says in a court case that the government, which deployed him to the frontline without adequate protective gear, won’t pay his dues.
Daasanach:The community where girls turn to pregnancy to escape period stigma

Jun 6, 2024 | nation.africa | Ngina Kirori

The 14-year-old girl's slender frame seems overwhelmed by the growing life within her. Mina* is seven months pregnant, the result of a marriage to a 17-year-old boy last year. The baby she carries was conceived to conceal the shame Mina says she felt every month before her pregnancy. As we enter her manyatta home in Illeret village, Marsabit County, Mina sways rhythmically, folding cowhides to wear when the sun sets.