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Uganda has issued Red Light warning to a local textile firm, before closing the same, following the worrisome red liquid discharge from the factory into River Nile. The overflow from the textile factory in Jinja was turning river nile…

River Nile is turning red in Uganda. Is it environmental pollution or some curse like what was written in Old Testament as God warned Pharaos in Egypt?

There is a tragic boat accident in the Pemba channel of the Indian Ocean.

Four years to the polls and already the election fever is boiling among some state officials in Tanzania. However, President Samia Suluhu is quite aware of this, soon the political 'Jonahs' will be cast overboard from her ship.

SHOULD LAKE VICTORIA BE RENAMED? ... Connecting Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, while also being main reservoir for River Nile, Victoria is a truly Pan African Lake. In fact some residents feel it is high time the original, native names for…

Trust Tanzanians for modifying cars. But while they can sometimes be forgiven for tampering with larger vehicles, we are not sure what Suzuki people have to say after seeing what they did with their Carry model...

The Last of the famous Leakey's paleoanthropologists line, Richard Leakey has died in Nairobi in the second day of the year. Known as Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, the scientist and politician who was born on the 19th of December 1944,…

Charles Njonjo, the man who played pivotal role during the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi eras succumbed to death, a day after New Year 2022 at the time when his country's politics are simmering towards the August polls. …

It was scary at first, then people started getting used to cheetahs jumping onto safari cars. Eventually they would even take selfie shots with the cats, posting them online thus encouraging the new craze...

The Year 2022 is here. So, what could the next 12 months have in store for Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and South-Sudan, economically? The IMF has its crystal ball handy here...