here is your latest african news kenya country orders probe into fire claims against uk troops
a kenyan court has ordered the uk and kenyan governments to address a dispute in which british
soldiers are accused of starting a wildfire during a training exercise causing damage to a wildlife
reserve in march 2021 a fire in the privately owned lol daigra reserve in central kenya damaged
roughly 12 000 acres of land a lobby group and over 1 000 local residents filed an environmental
complaint accusing the uk army of infringing their right to a clean and healthy environment after
the british army claimed sovereign immunity the court said it had jurisdiction over the
case and ordered that the matter be handled by an intergovernmental liaison committee which
will investigate the claims against the british soldiers and oversee resolution of the dispute
the judge also stated that the uk government will pay compensation to affected residents if
british troops are found liable for the claims against them the british government will also be
obliged to restore the damaged environment if the soldiers are found to have been negligent
mali thousands of miley ancient transcripts go digital google has partnered with mali's
traditional leaders to digitize tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts from the city of timbuktu
the digitization project will showcase work done over the last seven years to preserve the
documents the manuscripts contains centuries of scholarly work on topics ranging from mathematics
medicine astronomy and science up to 40 000 pages of the documents will be available online
the collection known as mali magic also contains online interactive tours of some of the country's
most significant historic sites using google street view southern africa tropical cyclone
gombe to hit mozambique and madagascar a new low pressure system named as gombe which has recently
formed in madagascar and evolved into a moderate tropical storm could reach mozambique on march 11
mozambique's national institute of metrology inam announced according to the forecast in the inam
statement the system could reach the mozambique's channel and approach the mozambican coast
soon tropical storm gombe could influence the weather in the provinces of cabo delgado
nampula and zambezia with occurrence of heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and strong
winds over the next 72 hours very heavy rainfall will be experienced and expected to continue
over most of madagascar except over southern area these provinces are still reeling from the recent
ravages of storms which passed through the country earlier this year inam says it is monitoring the
phenomenon and is appealing to the population to continue to follow the metrological information
and the warnings disseminated by the competent national authorities somalia un boss wants amisom
troops to remain in somalia united nations chief antonio guterres has recommended to the security
council that the african union maintains its staffing level in somalia through the end of the
year the african union mission in somalia amisom comprises 20 000 soldiers police and civilians
tasked with supporting the country's fragile government in the fight against insurgents
the amisom mandate expires on march 31st but the un security council is expected to vote on march
30th to replace it with the african transition mission in somalia atmos in the letter delivered
to the council on monday guterres said he prefers a plan to gradually reduce atmos in four phases to
enable and support somalia security forces to take primary responsibility for security in somalia
by the end of 2023 with complete military departure in 2024 the un chief added that under
the plan atmos fast reduction of 2000 troops would not happen until after december 2022 with more
decreases in every phase eritrea elon musk urged to launch internet link for eritrea eritreans
residing in different parts of the world are pleading with south african-born u.s billionaire
elon musk to provide their nation with internet access to end a long-standing blackout the call
comes a few days after mr musk the founder of spacex launched a satellite internet service
via starlink for ukraine to keep keeve connected to the internet which was disrupted after russia
invaded the eastern european country in eritrea barely one percent of the population has internet
access due to u.s sanctions using the campaign hashtag starlink for eritrea pro eritrea twitter
users mainly in the diaspora are calling on the billionaire to help their country with internet
access similar to what he deployed for ukraine due to devastating sanctions from the west eritrea has
one of the lowest internet access rates in africa a report by the international telecommunications
union shows that only one percent of the country's estimated population of 3.6 million has access to
the internet uganda government proposes a year in jail for public speeding the ugandan government
is proposing a law that makes it criminal for individuals found speaking in public a habit
that is deemed to be dangerous to public health the proposed public health amendment bill 2021
if passed by parliament would impose a 12-month jail time or 150 currency points 800 u.s dollars
penalty or both for the culprits the bill was stable before parliament last month and is being
scrutinized by the health committee the government contends that splitting comes with advanced health
consequences that include the spread of diseases however medical practitioners under their umbrella
body the uganda medical association uma have protested the clause advancing arguments that
spitting is a biological function which is a response to the disease in someone's body
ghana mine owner seeks to buy chelsea football club a ghanaian businessman is reportedly seeking
to become the first african owner of an english premier league club with his bid to buy chelsea
for 3.1 million us dollars bernard anthony bosiaco popularly known as chairman wuntumi is a gold mine
owner and politician whose reported offer comes as a surprise to many in ghana given he is a
relatively unknown in the sporting world he makes his money through gold mining and also owns some
radio and tv channels he has not disclosed how much he is worth chelsea's russian owner
roman abramovich has been hit by uk sanctions following russia's invasion of ukraine but his
plans to sell the club have been put on hold for now because of government-imposed asset freezes
in an earlier statement mr bosiaco had indicated that his lawyers and transaction advisers win
london to commence negotiations with chelsea's owners top football stars like manchester united's
cristiano ronaldo and paris saint-germain lionel messi are among those he said he hoped to sign
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