SPOTLIGHT EAST AFRICA

Kenyan doctors working in government hospitals began a countrywide strike on Monday over inadequate insurance benefits and lack of protective equipment while treating COVID-19 patients, their union said. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union said on Twitter late on Sunday that there had been no resolution of grievances raised over the last eight months. "The Kenya government has neglected the Welfare, Safety & Health of health care workers," the unio

Ugandan member of Parliament Zaake, victim of torture by dictator Museveni, is on his hospital bed.  Demands for an investigation by Uganda’s donor countries into the brutal torture of opposition member of Parliament continues with both the U.S. and the E.U. weighing in. As previously reported by Black Star News, Zaake was tortured by military dictator Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s secret police after he had distributed food to his starving constituents from his home. Ugandans f

The governor of Nairobi, Kenya was blasted on social media after announcing his plans to include “small bottles of Hennessy” in food packs being distributed to the city’s poor families amid the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Mike Sonko presented the plans during a Tuesday media briefing. “From the research which has been conducted by World Health Organization (WHO) and various health organizations, it has been revealed that alcohol plays a very major role in killing the coron