By Nangayi Guyson – Uganda’s largest Owino market, for the second time has been burnt to ashes causing a loss of billions to over 30000 market traders. On Sunday night the fire started consuming the market at a very high speed. Uganda police and fire fighters were seen on the scene but still nothing was recovered. Over 30,000 traders operate in the area, most dealing in clothes, shoes and similar merchandise. The Sunday night fire comes barely two years after the market was gutted down by another inferno. Most of the traders dealing in second hand clothes and shoes among... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – President Yahya Jammeh has vowed that he would never tolerate tribalism in this country, calling on the youth, for whom he said the sky is the limit, to fight against tribalism. Jammeh, who was addressing meetings in Lamin and Bundung as part of his meet-the-people tour on Wednesday, also called on Gambian youths not to follow “those who do not want their future progress.” “Let me make it very clear that as long as I’m the President of this country, I will never tolerate tribalism,” Jammeh told thousands of supporters. According to him, the opposition... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – Liberia, Africa oldest Independent and Democratic Republic, has celebrated its 164th Independence Anniversary. The Republic of Liberia gained its Independence on July 26, 1847. Speaking Tuesday Voinjama, Lofa County during the official celebration to mark the Anniversary, the National Orator for Liberia’s July 26 Independence Day celebration called on Liberians to consider the prime interest of the country as they cast their votes in the upcoming general and presidential elections. Mrs. Estella Garmai Korboi Calvins urged Liberians to look beyond the pictures of candidates and instead focus on the Liberian nation. According to her, Election is... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigeria has recorded a major medical breakthrough by performing successful kidney transplantation. The medical feat was achieved by a team of surgeons of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Lagos the commercial nerve centre of the nation. It was the second successful kidney transplantation in Nigeria, by Nigerians. An official source at the LUTH told newsmen that the four-hour operation “went very well”, noting that the kidney recipient “was responding positively” at the hospital. Shout-Africa.com gathered information that the authorities in LUTH would make a formal announcement of the medical breakthrough at a... Continue Reading
By Kizito Makoye, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania’s revolutionary party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is facing legitimacy crisis as grand corruption scams continue to shake up powerful figures of its top echelon. The party woke up to bitter reality after one of its staunch supporters; Rostam Aziz resigned after he was linked to graft. Amid mounting pressure: Mr. Aziz’s stepping down will certainly leave an indelible mark in the country’s political landscape. Three politicians including Edward Lowassa- the former Prime Minister and Andrew Chenge- the former Attorney General had been given ultimatums by CCM to leave their leadership positions. Rostam... Continue Reading
