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Uganda, once a major electricity exporter to Kenya, now clears plan to buy power from Kenya after its Isimba Dam floods. https://t.co/sBxolvsOw6

Israeli cyber company Cellebrite sold the technology for hacking into cellphones to the Uganda Police, despite reports revealing extensive human rights violations by the force. https://t.co/FiXupt0Icq

.@pmwesige so, I stumbled on this short Japanese series “The Journalist” on Netflix. Very addictive. Give it a shot.

Africa’s coolest fashion designers will soon have their clothes in a store near you https://t.co/vCJsZkQEQG

Lesotho is the only country on Earth that sits entirely above 3,280 feet. About two-thirds of the kingdom consists of mountains. https://t.co/0DnHvEFXOb

"You cannot choose the days to be a nationalist and the days you will retreat to the comfort of ethnic cocoons. Being Kenyan is a full-time commitment" - Willy Mutunga, [then]-Chief Justice of Kenya, March 12, 2012. Comrade .@WMutunga you were in the zone there😉

Tanzanian govt signs contracts with local companies for the construction of 33,091 km of roads across the country during the 2022/2023 financial year. https://t.co/IZm3bDhRA2

To keep food from spoiling in Malawi, an NGO is bringing simple cool boxes to rural farmers. Using a little water, the boxes don't need any electricity and can keep things fresher longer. https://t.co/Hxuf6h7acL

Ugandans, seeing a legal challenge to #KenyanElection2022 are already circulating & furiously discussing the Kenya constitution. When this is done, Kenya should pay the rest of the East African Community reparations for causing such widespread regional electoral distress 1/2

William Ruto announced winner of the 2022 presidential election with 50.49% of the vote #KenyanElection2022

Seems we have arrived at the proverbial witching hour in #KenyanElection2022

A friend sent me this. His location will not be revealed; “These Kenyans have taken elections to another level! They make us look like jokers!”

The choirs at the results announcement ceremony at Bomas are the Kenyans who have worked hardest today #KenyaDecides2022

Parts of Gauteng, South Africa, are set for temperatures of MINUS 5°C tonight https://t.co/xec2tcO7sp

Somalia President Aden Adde in July 1967 conceded electoral defeat graciously, making history as the 2nd head of state in Africa (after Edwin Barclay in Liberia in 1944) to peacefully hand over power to a democratically elected successor.

Kenyans really don’t know a good thing when they see it. How can they can pass up on George Wajackoyah, the first man in the world to promise he’d get us all high?

One of the most closely fought presidential elections in Seychelles’ and Africa’s history in 2016 was won by just 193 votes. In a second-round runoff, James Michel garnered 50.15% of the vote against Wave Ramkalawan’s 49.85%.

The Liberal Catholic church in South Africa celebrates its centenary. “The Liberal is the open-mindedness that we have,” explains rector Rev Damon Urbani. “We don’t believe in imposing dogmas on people. We believe that a closed mind can’t grow.” https://t.co/5nzwk3EtJQ

Whichever way #kenyaelection2022, I think future Kenyan general elections should come with a big health warning printed large on them.

Kenya gets historic number of female governors from Aug. 9 vote. At least 7 of 47 incoming governors are women, compared with only 3 from the 2017 vote. That gives Kenya the highest number of female federal/regional state governors in the world, right? https://t.co/JOSEhXi9Y2

Germany is once again discussing police violence and racism after a 16-year-old refugee who had arrived as an unaccompanied minor from Senegal, was shot with a machine gun. https://t.co/irlpcbrKIH

There R 4 types of countries: 1) Where U know the winner of an election before the vote 2) Where U know the winner during the vote 3) Where U know the winner after the vote 4) Where U never know the winner at all Where does your country fit?

“I felt I was being assessed on my skin colour”: Black women around the world share their stories of pregnancy, birth – and racism 1/2 https://t.co/wWYmkLYxOH

Just south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, the US$80 million new African disease control headquarters, built and funded by China, is nearing completion amid disquiet in Washington. https://t.co/NBdfEUsCxh

It’s striking how much the African autocrats’ entourages, and global African negativists are praying for #kenyaelections2022 to go horribly wrong. They might yet get their wish, but it’s remarkable just how much the possibility of African success terrifies so many people.

It's Day 4 since the Aug. 9 #kenyaelections2022. Wait for it...

Four riders from East African squad Team Tamani – 3 from Kenya & 1 from Uganda – make their U.S. debut at Leadville and SBT GRVL. They will spend the next month racing gravel across the country. https://t.co/w1oa81j6ra

Ethiopia completes 3rd phase of filling giant River Nile dam, irking the country's downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia sees the dam as the centrepiece of its bid to become Africa's biggest power exporter, with capacity of over 6,000 megawatts. https://t.co/4oac9UX71H

Real test awaits Kenya after peaceful vote. Inflation is surging, jobs are scarce and a splurge in public spending...means that over half the tax take is needed to pay off loans. For the victor, meeting expectations could be the hardest test 1/3 https://t.co/33WigM1sJi

New Africa Super League to take off with $100 million prize money. The annual club football competition could generate money for participants at a scale never seen before on the continent. https://t.co/8rrJvpAvXM

THREAD On 4 August 1972, President Idi Amin announced that British Asians were to leave 🇺🇬. In the end, all persons of Asian descent (numbering about 80000) were required or forced to go as Amin declared an 'Economic war'. @MakerereLaw @Makerere @uculawsociety @Parliament_Ug

I’ve spent a lot of time explaining how the Kenyan election works to our international audiences. Watch the full Amanpour segment here https://t.co/VHPop3fXYJ

@cobbo3 As @Kalinaki writes today, Lord, when?🤣 For us #Facebook remains blocked since the day before election night in January 2021.

Kenyans are wondering why Ugandans are supporting their candidates more than they do. They don't know this is the only chance we have to freely support any candidate without being arrested 😂

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta queues as she waits to vote at St Mary's School polling station in Lavington, Dagoretti North Constituency in Nairobi City County. Photos by State House #KenyaDecides2022 #KenyansPolls

@cobbo3 @HustleKing01 Brutalizing the very people trying to stand up for their rights to decent housing. Human beings are very complicated. Abantu baziibu nyo

Kenya is not necessarily an East African democracy model. But when it comes to teaching how to negotiate, make deals, and divvy power through the vote in an ethnically and culturally diverse nation, it's a Grand Master, writes @cobbo3. https://t.co/LBZ5ODs0Z4 #KenyaDecides2022

We [Monitor] have given President Museveni four press secretaries. Mary Karooro Okurut, Onapito Ekomoloit, Lindah Nabusayi and @nyamadon, all trained with The Monitor ~ @wafulaoguttu, Founder, The Monitor Newspaper #MonitorAt30

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@cobbo3 Before Photoshop....we used to trim the hairline so perfectly. Then we would add black paint. As for the wrinkles....we left them as they were!

BREAKING: Superstar British racing driver Lewis Hamilton landed in Namibia this afternoon and proceeded on a chartered flight to Sossusvlei, one of Namibia's most spectacular landmarks, for holiday. Just on Sunday he ended second behind Max Verstappen in the Hungarian GP. https://t.co/bYLxO3Qd5b

A Monitor that “says little and lives on is better than a Monitor that says much but gets shut down” @cobbo3 quoted by @Kalinaki. #MonitorAt30 https://t.co/aesT0W5qM2

Cape town wind is not friendly,look at the lady in green outfit 🤣🤣🤣

I just got my souvenir @DailyMonitor @30. Have you got yours @SueNsibirwa? @cobbo3 we still await the stories you never published! Maybe one day you and @Oguttu_Wafula will let us in on those secrets! https://t.co/2LFUMoM1tQ

Bob Marley's wife, Rita, once took a bullet to the head that was aimed at Marley in an attempted assassination in Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲 Despite being shot in the head, she survived, due to her thick dreadlocks minimizing the impact of the bullet.

Flooding @ Tororo-Mbale Road @cobbo3 https://t.co/yE6g6xAQAt

This flood in the United Arab Emirates is insane. Meteorologists say that climate change is responsible for the increased frequency of heavy rains in the Emirates. https://t.co/gXnibycdYb

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