It is no secret that Kenya is one of the hottest spots to grab a great coffee in Africa.
With the recent boom in roasteries and coffee shops there, more and more professional baristas are making an impression.
Standing out above the rest is 26-year-old Martin Shabaya, who recently won the Africa Barista Championships, and is now headed to Ireland to represent Kenya at the World Championships.
But despite all his successes, it turns out drinking coffee is not even his cup of tea.
Political tension continues in Kenya. Kenyan court has detained eight Members of Parliament for four days over charges of hate speech and incitement.
The court decision will allow further investigations into allegations of “hate speech” involving the eight MPs.
The development comes on the back of growing tensions in the country and weeks of violent protests with over a year to national elections in the east African country.
The Prosecution had pushed for a four-day detention, arguing that the period was sufficient for a forensic analysis of the statements by the MPs which were captured on video, in order to come up with foolproof charges to guarantee a conviction.
The eight MPs including four pro-government and four opposition members were picked up by police after they were alerted to remarks by the politicians said to be “laced with ethnic hatred, vilification and bordering on incitement”.
Mokoko was jailed after being charged with “breaching internal state security and the illegal possession of weapons of war and ammunitions.
Lawyer for the former army general in the Republic of Congo, Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko says his client has been jailed in the capital, Brazzaville.
He was detained on Tuesday for questioning by security services.
The former army general had been grilled prior to the March 20 poll over a viral video in which he spoke about plans to overthrow the incumbent president, Denis Sassou Nguesso.
So could this arrest be for revenge purpose ...?
Some atrocities should really never be forgiven. However view what is happening in that region I wonder if judgement should be passed. Photos of a Newborn Baby Dumped Inside a Well, Rescued Alive in Niger State. Source: Lawrencia Udefe
Honduras has detained more than 100 African migrants, including some children.
The detention was carried out on Tuesday near the border with Nicaragua as they tried to make their way to the United States.
The migrants entered Honduras through the border of La Fraternidad, San Marcos de Colon, in the south, it was reported.
Immigration officers spotted the group walking along the Panamerican highway that connects the country and Nicaragua.
Migration authorities did not specify which countries they had come from but some 100 of them were said to be from Africa.
“We want to get through. That is why we are asking for an opportunity to the citizens and president of Honduras to let us through, so that we are able to continue as soon as possible because we have been travelling for a long time,” said an unidentified migrant.
A recurring situation, most immigrants entering southern Honduras do so through the border post of Guasaule.
Over 400 Oromo protesters were killed in November 2015, and thousands others were arrested by Ethiopian security forces during widespread protests against the government’s proposed expansion of the capital Addis Ababa expected to impact on Oromia farming communities.
These figures and other forms of abuses, disputed by the Ethiopian government, were detailed by Human Rights Watch in a reportthey released on Wednesday calling on the Ethiopian government to support an independent investigation into the killings, arrests and abuses.
The Ethiopian government strongly disputed the figures saying only 173 people died, including 28 policemen and officials as cited by a Commission on Human Rights, reportsAFP.
“The Ethiopian Council of Human Rights is not a friend of the government and has registered only 103 names (of victims) … Human Rights Watch is very generous with numbers when it comes to Ethiopia,” the spokesman for the Ethiopian government, Getachew Reda, said referring to another figure by the independent Ethiopian Council of Human Rights.
“Overall, the security forces behaved in a very professional and responsible manner, but there are always a few bad apples,” he added.
Human Rights Watch observed that while the protests have largely subsided since April, the government crackdown has continued as many of those arrested remain in detention and hundreds have disappeared.
34 migrants were found dead last week in the Nigerien desert in an attempt to travel to neighbouring Algeria, the Nigerien Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
Among the 34 found near Assamaka, a border post between Niger and Algeria, are five men, nine women and 20 children who “probably died of thirst, as is often the case,” it was suggested.
The statement said only two bodies, a Nigerian and a 26-year-old Nigerien woman, were identified adding that between June 6 and 12, many migrants had been abandoned by smugglers on the desert.
The Nigerien ministry also cautioned illegal migrants about the risks they face in trying to “take this perilous path managed by criminal networks”.
