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More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic festival at night capsized in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said. The locally made boat, whose capacity was 100 passengers, had about 300 people onboard along the Niger River when it overturned in Niger state’s Mokwa district…

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The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) has dissociated itself from a proposal in the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2024 seeking to extend the presidential term limit from five to seven years. UDA Secretary General Omar Hassan termed the move retrogressive and primitive in a statment released Wednesday evening. He condemned Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei, the sponsor of…

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Around 23 bodies have been recovered and 40 people rescued following a boat accident on Lake Kivu, Colonel Molatelo Motau of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday. A video showed the two-deck boat tilting sideways before capsizing in calm waters. A local migration authority said that…

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Two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, killing 45 people, the UN migration agency said. The boats had departed from Yemen carrying 310 people, the International Organization for Migration said. Thousands of migrants from African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries seeking a better life in…

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Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed one more mpox case, raising the total count in the country to nine as the government strengthened public health response to the disease. Deborah Barasa, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health, said in a statement released in the Nairobi that the case had been confirmed in Nakuru. “The…

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Kenya’s State Department for Diaspora Affairs has urged Kenyans in war-torn Lebanon to register for evacuation urgently. Despite repeated reminders, the government expressed disappointment that many have yet to take advantage of this crucial initiative aimed at ensuring their safety, even as tension persists in the country. In a statement released on October 1, the…

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Kericho governor Erick Mutai was impeached. Mutai’s fate was sealed after the 31 Members of the County Assembly who debated his ouster motion unanimously voted in support. This is despite the governor having secured a court order barring the ward representatives from prosecuting the impeachment motion. Some 16 MCAs boycotted the impeachment debate in a…

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Kibwezi West MP Mwengi Mutuse formally tabled his impeachment motion in Parliament, citing that the grounds are concrete enough to kick him out of office. On Tuesday afternoon, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula read out the impeachment motion against the DP after confirming that 291 MPs had supported it hence surpassing the threshold. For any…

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Police in Imenti North, Meru County, have arrested three 17-year-olds who allegedly orchestrated a sham kidnapping in Kainginyo area before demanding KSh6 million ransom from the “victims” family. In a classic case of misguided get-rich-quick mentality, the three, two males and a female, are said to have faked the kidnapping of the female, then called…

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Claudia Sheinbaum will take the oath of office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in more than 200 years of independence, promising to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor, but facing pressing problems. The 62-year-old scientist-turned-politician will receive a country with a number of immediate challenges, foremost…

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