East African Bloc
The 2025 AU Summit Should Place Poverty Alleviation, Infrastructure, and Economic Development at the Top of its Agenda
African leaders will gather again in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, for the 2025 African…
Sunken Stories of the Not-So-Dark Continent: Unearthing South Africa’s Hidden Histories
The rugged coastlines of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape conceal secrets beneath the waves secrets…
Ethiopia Develops Strategy To Become Medical Tourism Hub
During the three-day Ethio Health Exhibition Ministry of Health Senior Advisor Esayas Mesele said that…
China Is Facilitating The Development of African Railways Through Educational Programmes
As the train engine roars, doors of the wagons gently open at 07:30 a.m., with…
Feature: Kenya’s Railway Evolution Over A Century
“It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country,” Sir Charles Eliot, then commissioner of British East Africa, made the bold statement in 1903. Eliot, “who initiated the policy of white supremacy in the British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya),” according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica website, was referring to the meter gauge railway built by British colonialists in East Africa between 1896 and 1901. The railway, emblematic…
East African Bloc Boosts Kenya’s Disease Surveillance At Border Points
NAIROBI, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, provided Kenya with 8.95 million U.S. dollars worth of equipment to help strengthen disease surveillance at border points on Monday. Fatuma Adan, IGAD head of mission to Kenya, said the equipment, including seven laptops and 37 desktop computers, will significantly contribute to the country’s Universal Health program. Adan, who spoke during the donation ceremony in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, noted that digitization is an important…