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Kenya-Tanzania bilateral trade has hit USD 905.5 million in 2021 for the period January –November 2021 according to the Central Bank of Kenya. This was highlighted during the East African Business Council Trade Facilitation Forum at Namanga One-Stop Border Post. Speaking at the Forum, Mr. John Bosco Kalisa said “Kenya imports from Tanzania stood...

The Indian Army's Chinar Corps warriors have evacuated a woman from Baraub area of Bandipur district of Jammu and Kashmir and carried her to a helipad crossing a long stretch of snow on Saturday. "Chinar warriors along with Civil Helicopter Services and Block Medical Office, Dawar, evacuated Fazali Begum, from Baraub and carried her...

Several students in Pakistan participated in a march this week to mark the 38th anniversary of the ban on student unions imposed by former president General Ziaul Haq, reported local media. The protesters asked all political parties to unanimously pass legislation in parliament to decriminalise student politics, reported Dawn. Criminalising politics...

Burundi parliament earlier this week passed new law on what it called an increased cybercrime related cases in the country, the law was passed by both parliament and the senate pending the country’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye to put it into force. Burundi’s minister for Internal Affairs Gervais Ndarakobuca while presenting the bill to the...

A college teacher has been sentenced to life imprisonment over blasphemy in Pakistan with a fine of Rs50, 000. Nautan Lal, who is a teacher at the Government Degree College, was arrested in 2019 and he has been in jail since as an under-trial prisoner until this week when he was sentenced by a...

Burundi’s government has suspended the Slam festival organised by “Buja sans taboo” after what it called a move to preserve and safeguard the country’s culture and heritage. In a letter dated February 8th 2022, Burundi’s minister for Youth, Sports and Culture Ezekiel Nibigira said that the drummers did not respect the “sacred principles of...

Pakistan-Protesters gathered outside the National Press Club on the call of Minorities Alliance Pakistan (MAP) to condemn attacks on Christian pastors in Peshawar in which a pastor was killed and another seriously injured. Pastor William Siraj was killed and Pastor Patrick Naeem injured last week. The protesters called on the government...

A new report by Reporters without Borders has shown that journalists in Afghanistan are facing increased harassment from the Taliban. The report says that the Taliban regime known as 'Istikhbarat', and the Ministry for Promoting Virtue and Suppressing Vice are cited for violating Afghanistan's press law under which journalists operate. "Reporters...

Burundi has celebrated 31 years since a referendum on the Charter of the country’s unity was signed back in 1991. A referendum on the Charter of National Unity was held in Burundi on 9 February 1991. The charter was signed in efforts to abolish ethnic discrimination and give a mandate for the government to write a new...

The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a grant of US$1.5m to advance intra-regional harmonization of electricity regulations and drive cross-border power trading in the COMESA region. This will be implemented through COMESA’s energy regulatory arm -the Regional Association of Energy Regulators for Eastern and Southern Africa (RAERESA). The two-year project...