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BUWEMBO: Contemporary Uganda has three certainties in 3 Ds: Debt, Dishonesty and (environmental) Degradation. Thankfully, of the three Ds, the government has taken concrete measures to tackle one — Degradation.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/there-are-two-ways-to-enslave-a-nation-sword-and-debt--4659038
South Sudan is facing growing pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to disclose its oil production agreements.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/south-sudan-under-pressure-to-disclose-oil-production-deals--4658790
Once unthinkable, the deal between two sharply antagonistic parties is the most momentous political shift in South Africa since end of apartheid.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/white-led-da-party-joins-anc-in-south-african-unity-government-4657934
South Africa has reported a second death from the Mpox outbreak.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/south-africa-says-men-most-affected-by-mpox-outbreak-4657680
Kenya has proposed to remove excise duty on eggs, potatoes and onions from the East African Community (EAC) in measures that could promote intra-trade within the bloc.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/kenya-to-drop-excise-duty-on-eggs-onions-from-eac-4657182
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwandan finance ministers will be outlining their budgetary allocations to key priority sectors and taxation measures.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/eac-finance-ministers-present-2024-25-national-budgets-4656658
Human Rights Watch has accused police guarding the North Mara Gold Mine in northern Tanzania of complicity in the deaths of at least six people and injuries sustained by several others in clashes around the mine in the past four months.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/tanzania-police-face-new-murder-claims-at-barrick-gold-mine-4655548
Tanzania warns of strong winds and large waves
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/science-health/tanzania-warns-of-strong-winds-and-large-waves-4655390
The ICC's chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/icc-prosecutor-warns-of-war-crimes-committed-darfur-al-fashir-4654664
Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others on board a military aircraft that went missing on Monday were killed in a plane crash, President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/malawi-vice-president-saulos-chilima-killed-in-plane-crash-4654348
Malawi has reached out to neighbouring countries, and the US, Britain, Norway and the Israeli governments for support in the search and rescue efforts of the missing plane.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/search-on-for-missing-aircraft-carrying-malawi-vice-president-4654096
A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/fighting-between-two-somalia-clans-kills-at-least-55-4653174
African leaders gathering in Seoul on Tuesday agreed to ensure an organised, stable supply of minerals to South Korea, enabling the Asian country new entry to critical raw material for energy transition.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/africa-agrees-to-stable-supply-of-minerals-to-south-korea-4651132
SADC troops in eastern DR Congo have been involved in armed combat against the M23 rebels, making peaceful negotiations a distant reality. https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/sadc-forces-engage-rebels-in-eastern-dr-congo-4651312
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Airlines book exchange losses as Nigeria clears 98 percent of blocked funds https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/airlines-book-exchange-losses-4651146
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American fund management firm BlackRock Inc is selling off its equity investments in emerging and frontier markets -- including Kenya and Nigeria -- citing liquidity challenges in these markets and difficulty in repatriating funds in dollars.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/blow-to-nairobi-bourse-as-us-firm-announces-exit--4658624
With the $2 billion equity funds raised by Eacop shareholders depleted, the project developers are faced with a cash crisis to plug the funding gap, which threatens to see ongoing physical works on the project stall by July 1.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/china-loans-delay-plunges-eacop-partners-in-crisis--4658878
President Museveni: “We are going to stamp out corruption…I don’t know how they [the corrupt] forget that we have got a lot of power [and] capacity, which we shall use, if necessary.”
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/graft-charges-against-3-mps-rattle-uganda-parliament-4657902
Public debt has been mounting as the government of President Yoweri Museveni splurges on big infrastructure projects, prompting warnings from its central bank.
https://theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/uganda-to-curb-commercial-borrowing-to-limit-debt-build-up-4657634
A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya's capital Nairobi before being killed in a shootout.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/policeman-shoots-and-injures-magistrate-in-kenyan-court-4657076
Rwanda has named statistics official Yusuf Murangwa as its new finance minister, Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente said, while the foreign minister will be Olivier Nduhungirehe, its ambassador to the Netherlands.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/rwanda-appoints-new-finance-foreign-ministers-4656490
The Kenyan government seeks to offload shares it holds in a cement firm, the securities exchange, two banks, an insurance company and battery maker.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/kenya-cabinet-approves-stake-sale-in-six-listed-companies-4655404
Rwanda said the UN refugee agency had lied when the organisation told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/rwanda-says-un-refugee-agency-lying-in-uk-asylum-policy-case-4655356
Former South African president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party has applied to the country's top court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting this week on the grounds that the May 29 vote was marred by fraud.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/zuma-mk-party-block-new-south-african-parliament-convening-4654340
NGUGI: Since 2003, the National Prayer Breakfast congregants pray for the same things...You don’t need God to end corruption. On the next benchmarking trip, those who govern us should ask the Chinese or Koreans how they deal with their corrupt officials.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/sorry-our-gallant-prayer-warriors-god-isn-t-listening-4651280
BUWEMBO: Six decades later, after thousands of engineers have been produced by our universities, with occurrence of all the minerals in the soil of Africa accurately mapped, why do Africans need outside help to build roads?
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/it-s-disheartening-to-see-kenya-acting-so-helpless-4651296
Rich countries and organisations that were previously sending grants to Africa as official development assistance (ODA) have now resorted to lending instead, worsening the debt crisis that African countries face, a new report shows.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/africa-in-debt-crisis-as-donors-resort-to-lending-4651198
ONYANGO-OBBO: The EAC is a high-maintenance operation, and some drastic reforms need to be undertaken to reduce it to an organisation that runs on $60 million a year.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/here-s-how-to-deal-with-eac-s-defaulters-4651226
US urges Kenya to tighten rules on wildlife trafficking https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/us-wants-tighter-rules-on-wildlife-trafficking-4651212
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Veronica Nduva, the new EAC secretary general, joins the bloc at a bad time when it is afflicted by multiple crises, worse of which is a cash crunch that has threatened to bring operations to a halt. https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/nduva-hits-the-ground-running-but-she-has-a-full-in-tray-4651006
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