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Safaricom has appointed former East African Breweries Limited finance director Peter Ndegwa as the new chief executive. “Safaricom PLC board of directors has resolved to appoint Mr Peter Ndegwa as the company’s chief executive effective April 1, 2020,” said Safaricom chairman Nicholas Ng’ang’a...

Some see the ruling as a positive step toward equal access to land but others fear it undermines the traditional laws that have guided generations A few months ago, the idea of coming home with a hoe in one hand and … Read more via AllAfrica News: Kenya – http://bit.ly/2x9nrOu Get more...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has retired four top military generals who served under former President Robert Mugabe and were once direct subordinates to then defence forces commander and now Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.... Read more via AllAfrica News: Zimbabwe – http://bit.ly/2X6Yr65...

A 35-year-old medical doctor appeared before Mutare Magistrates Court yesterday charged with extortion after he demanded $1000 or 100 rounds of sexual intercourse from his ex-girlfriend or risk having her nude pictures spread on social media. According to the state, on 9 February Lazarus …...

Milano Marathon champion Lucy Kabuu of Kenya has tested positive to a banned performance enhancing substance. The IAAF Athletes Integrity Unit’s has already contacted Kabuu after she was... read more via AllAfrica News: Kenya – https://ift.tt/2vicB8a Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa is facing a cash crunch that has led to salary delays for its workers in the last three months, signalling tough times facing higher learning institutions due to decline in number of students. The university has since developed … Read more via...

By Waikwa Maina Residents of Kieni in Ol Kalou constituency, Nyandarua County, are reeling in shock after man killed his three-year-old niece and attacked his mother, leaving her for the dead. The suspect, Joel Gachau, later tried to kill himself by slitting his neck. Confirming the incident...

A 23-year-old woman was on Thursday charged in an Eldoret court with causing grievous harm to her husband’s private parts. Erika Iminza Shihenda was charged with skinning John Kisuvana Thsumala’s penis with a sharp knife while he was asleep at their home in Huruma … Read more via AllAfrica...

Harare — A 22-year-old woman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for inserting her fingers into a juvenile’s privates claiming she wanted to see if she was still a virgin. Read more via AllAfrica News: Zimbabwe – https://ift.tt/2FUqEmM Get More Nigeria Metro News

One of the late former MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s sisters died of asthma and heart disease complications after her family was forced to withdraw her from Parirenyatwa Hospital due to the strike by nurses. Miriro Tsvangirai (47) died at home on Friday..... Read more via AllAfrica News...

A presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari did not know about the absence of the Inspector General of Police in Benue because he is "not omniscient". Mr. Adesina made this known while appearing on a RayPower FM public affairs programme, Political...

A former governor of Jigawa State and Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Sule Lamido, on Saturday kicked off his electioneering campaign by declaring at a rally that he was confident of becoming Nigeria's president after the 2019 general elections. Read more via nigeria –...

The United Kingdom branch of Christ Embassy, owned by popular Nigerian televangelist, Chris Oyakhilome, is broke and has been declared insolvent by the Charity Commission, the agency that regulates charity organisations in the country. The ministry also admitted in its belated 2015 financial...

Governments and regulators in East Africa are facing a herculean task of expanding and deepening financial markets to spur sustainable economic growth. A survey of stockmarkets in 17 African countries showed that only Kenya’s financial markets rank among the top five leading markets on the...

THE umbrella body of all Muslim organisations in Kwara State, the Council of Muslim Organisations, CMO, has demanded that Firdaus Amasa, who was denied induction by the Nigerian Law School, be called to bar immediately. CMO, which commended Amasa’s resoluteness and courage in the drama to...

A clear poor performance of the APC led federal government has since changed the mood of Nigerians as regards 2019 presidential election. The general feeling amongst Nigerians is no more if APC could retain the presidency, but who is the best material in the opposition … via AllAfrica News...

By Timawus Mathias President Muhammadu Buhari is in a fix. He is between the hammer and the anvil, the Fulani and other tribes of Nigeria. It is not an enviable position if you imagine how any object on the anvil is pummeled but unbreakable contending forces. Yet those who … via AllAfrica...