By the end of last month, there were 58,330 uncollected passports at various Immigration offices across Kenya, and the government was begging fellows to pick them up.
That was on the back of over 130,000 identity cards and 40,000 driver’s licences uncollected at Huduma centres. It is not a Kenyan problem. It’s an African one.
Ugandan authorities just announced they were going to burn 50,000 uncollected passports. Last year, the country had nearly three million uncollected IDs. Nigeria closed last year with over 112,351 uncollected passport booklets, and 800,000 IDs that hadn’t been picked up by applicants. That is in...
Tensions in the Middle East flared earlier this month when Iran launched a significant missile and drone strike against Israel. The attack, numbering over 300 projectiles, marked a dramatic escalation in the ongoing regional conflict. Israel responded with a single missile strike towards Iran. Damage reported in both attacks was minimal. This exchange, however, highlighted the potential for a wider conflagration, a war that no regional power desires at this time.
The attacks follow Israel’s April 1 air strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria. The attack, which killed an Iranian military general, is seen as part of a larger...
He argued that this move is necessary to protect the islands of Zanzibar by managing the influx of people, which has reached a point where housing is becoming scarce.
The election will take place on May 6, 2024, and end a three-year transition period led by Mahamat Déby after the sudden death of his father in April 2021.
The hearing of an appeal by Equity Bank Tanzania Limited and Equity Bank Kenya Limited challenging a High Court judgement that favoured State Oil company stalled after the Court of Appeal raised some grounds about the legality of the trial proceedings.
Highlighting the bank’s role in arranging major credit facilities, the bank’s director for corporate and investment banking, Mr James Meitaron cited examples like the $200 million credit facility to the government of Zanzibar and financial lead arrangements for municipal bonds
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