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Dr. Henry Ddungu: The unexpected toll of traffic accidents
High rates of road accidents are a devastatingly common issue across Africa which records the highest number of road traffic incidents in the world, every year. In Kenya last year, at least 21,760 people were involved in road accidents last year, and 4,690 died, according to figures from the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). While these statistics are concerning,…
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Charity Migwi: Advancing Africa’s Renewable Future – A Call for Genuine Climate Leadership at the Africa Climate Summit
Billed as Africa’s premier climate summit, the Africa Climate Summit, scheduled for September 4-8, has already sparked intense debate and anticipation among climate activists across the continent. At the heart of this discussion is a critical question: Will this summit truly prioritize the needs and aspirations of Africa, or will it succumb to the pressures of external interests? Climate activists…
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Dickson Naftali: Youth involvement in agriculture is key to accelerating climate action in Africa
Africa is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate shocks. The continent’s overdependence on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism exposes it to the vagaries of climate change. As a result, hunger affects 282 million Africans, a number that will grow to 350 million by 2050. Many of these victims are young people who are increasingly jobless on account of the failing farms and other enterprises across the agricultural value chain. This large youth population is constantly…
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Guest Post: Why Cyprian Is Nyakundi and His Followers are Misogynistic and Sexist
If you are wondering who Cyprian, Is Nyakundi is, he is simply a controversial blogger who yaps lots of nothings about women but says much about his fellow men indirectly(especially those who support his ideologies): that they are weaklings, inadequate, insecure, control freaks who get high by putting women in their places by practicing misogyny and sexism. Contrary to the…
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Guest Post: My Unpopular Opinion – The Flip Side
Listen. I am a sucker for cold beer or a good whisky. I cannot turn down neither. The grim reaper could swoop down on me; dark as death, sneer on his face seething brimstone from his teeth ready to take me to hell. But the moment one of the guys hits me up for some plot I would put him…
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