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FACT: Kenyan authorities have arrested a fake lawyer, Brian Mwenda, who has falsely been presenting himself as an Advocate of the high court of Kenya.
He argued 26 cases before High Court Judges, Magistrates, and Court of Appeal Judges. He won all the 26 cases before his arrest.
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IMAGE: A Kenyan protester kicking back a teargas canister at security officers quelling protests in Kenya over hike in taxes and high cost of living.
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FACT: A Kenyan man has turned up in a mask to collect his $313,143 winnings from sports betting.
📸: Abdulahi Adan
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FACT: Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki was considered as one of the greatest economists in the world by the World Bank.
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FACT: Zambia is the second best English speaking country in Africa after Uganda.
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FACT: Fiona Akoth is the first female Kenyan Pilot to serve in the US Air Force.
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FACT: Tanzania's former president John Magufuli is the only African president that never travelled outside of Africa while still in office.
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FACT: Uganda is the second biggest consumer of alcohol in the world and biggest consumer of pork in Africa.
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FACT: Uganda is the best English speaking country in Africa.
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FACT: Tanzania's President John Magufuli has not travelled outside East Africa since becoming president in 2015. His longest journey was to Ethiopia to attend an AU meeting in January 2017.
In his first year, Tanzania saved $430m by limiting foreign trips for public servants.
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FACT: Kenya has a road network of about 177,800 km, the best in East Africa and second best in Africa.
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FACT: Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan has ordered for the resignation of government officials involved in the purchase of Air Tanzania cargo plane after its invoice was inflated by $49 million.
"The nation cannot be governed in such a manner." She said.
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FACT: The East African Community member states have commenced the processes of adopting a single currency by 2024.
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FACT: American actor Terrence Howard is on a vacation in Uganda.
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FACT: This photo is currently the most trending in Uganda.
It's a photo of Hajji Abdul Nadduli, a former Ugandan minister and bush war hero who just lost his son after being detained by security forces.
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FACT: Tanzania is set to start the construction of the $10 billion Bagamoyo Port next year using its own resources.
The Port is aimed at reducing congestion at Dar es Salaam port. Once complete, it will make Tanzania East Africa's top shipping and logistics centre.
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QUOTE: It is not intelligent for 54 African Presidents to go and sit before one President from another country for a summit. Sometimes we are mistreated. We are loaded onto buses like school kids. It is not right.
-William Ruto-
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FACT: For 41 years, Muammar Gaddafi repeatedly tried to unite and empower the whole of Africa.
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FACT: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu has ordered the construction of two new modern stadiums in Arusha and Dodoma.
This is after East Africa won the bid to host the 2027 Afcon tournament.
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FACT: The European Parliament has passed a motion asking Uganda and Tanzania to stop the construction of the 1,443km East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
The Pipeline runs from Hoima western Uganda to Tanga Port in Tanzania.
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FACT: Kenya's Adelle Onyango has become the first Radio Personality in East Africa to have a syndicated radio podcast. Her podcast "Legally Clueless", will be aired by Trace 95.3 FM every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m.
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FACT: Serengeti National Park in Tanzania has been named the best national park in the world by Trip Advisor.
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FACT: Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is Africa's top safari park.
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African leaders that have strongly campaigned for a United States of Africa;
1. Muammar Gadaffi
2. Kwame Nkrumah
3. Emperor Haile Selassie
4. Julius Nyerere
5. Yoweri Museveni
6. Thomas Sankara
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FACT: Electrically charged stones that can power generators have been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The stones are believed to be vibranium, which featured in the "Black Panther" movie.
The stones could serve as a primary source of electricity.
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FACT: Somalia has one of the lowest HIV infection rates in the world with a prevalence rate of 0.1%.
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FACT: Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has;
⚫️400 Vehicles for his office
⚫️129 Drivers
⚫️82 Presidential advisors
⚫️80 Gardeners
⚫️59 Waitresses
⚫️50 Cleaners
⚫️40 private secretaries
⚫️35 Cooks
⚫️27 Presidential assistants
⚫️14 Room attendants
⚫️12 Chefs
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FACT: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni travels with his own food whenever he travels abroad.
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FACT: Rwanda is not the richest country in Africa or the most powerful country in terms of military equipment.
But deploying 1000 troops to Mozambique to help fight Islamic insurgents, shows that African problems can be solved by Africans in the best interest of Africans.
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JUST IN: Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine has been shot at in the capital Kampala.
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FACT: Julius Nyerere offered to delay his country's independence in an attempt to unify Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania into one country.
He was even willing to let Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya be the leader of the United States of East Africa.
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VIDEO: Uganda Cranes forward Denis Omedi has gone viral after scoring a potential Puskas Award winning goal in a preseason friendly game on August 6, 2024.
🎥FUFA TV
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FACT: Lake Malawi has more distinct fish species than any other lake in the world.
The lake contains more than 2,000 fish species, and for this reason it's considered a global biodiversity treasure.
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FACT: Zambia has approached Aliko Dangote Africa's richest man, seeking assistance from him to develop the country's agricultural sector.
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FACT: Julius Nyerere was in power for 24 years, but he was not even among the richest people in Tanzania.
He is remembered as one of the few presidents in Africa who lived a simple, moderate and exemplary life.
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FACT: 1962, Nelson Mandela was given an Ethiopian passport by Emperor Haile Selassie, and classified as a journalist under the name "David Motsamayi".
This enabled him to travel around the world in fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
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FACT: Uganda's Ariokot Faith Patricia has set a new world record of hugging a tree for 15 hours and 19 minutes.
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FACT: Victoria Falls is among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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FACT: Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled this year's Independence Day celebrations due December 9.
She has ordered that the $445,000 budgeted for the event be used to build a care home for children with special needs.
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IMAGES: Sunset in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
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FACT: American YouTuber Mr Beast has drilled 100 boreholes in Africa, 52 of them being in Kenya.
Mr Beast has said he also built bridges and also provided computers to some schools in Kenya.
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FACT: Julius Nyerere wanted to unify Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. He offered to delay Tanganyika's independence, to wait for the three East African countries' independence in the hope of unifying them.
He was willing to let Jomo Kenyatta be the leader of the wider East Africa.
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FACT: Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni is apparently the only African leader championing the Unification of Africa.
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FACT: Kenyans online have created a ChatGPT tool that exposes all corrupt politicians.
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FACT: Uganda is the most food secure country in East Africa.
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FACT: A new US study has labelled Uganda a fragile state.
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FACT: Tanzania's DJ Joozey has become the world's first DJ to play on the peak of Africa's highest mountain Kilimanjaro.
📸 The CitizenTZ
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QUOTE: I trained four years to run nine seconds, and most people give up when they don't see results in two months.
-Usain Bolt-
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FACT: Victoria Falls is among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
It's 1.7 kilometres wide and is shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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FACT: Nairobi City has the highest number of millionaires in East Africa.
The Kenyan capital has a total of 5,400 individuals with a net worth of over $1 million.
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FACT: Construction of Ntare School Rwanda Chapter in Bugesera District is complete.
Its construction was conceptualized by former students of Ntare School in Uganda, and among them is President Yoweri Museveni and president Paul Kagame.
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QUOTE: Africans cannot be assisted forever. God did not put this great continent and its over 1.3 billion people, and decided that they will go to waste just to live in poverty, fed by others, pitied, abused, assisted and you believe it?
-Paul Kagame-
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FACT: Rwanda is eradicating slums through offering decent housing facilities to its citizens living in poorer conditions.
Hundreds of slum dwellers in Kangondo have already relocated to this newly built Busanza Estate.
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FACT: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is;
Africa’s fifth most populous city
Africa’s fifth largest city.
The largest city in East Africa
Among Africa’s busiest cities
Home to Africa’s first naturally formed tech district
The second-fastest growing city in the world
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FACT: Thomas Sankara never owned a luxury car, and would at times ride his bicycle despite being president of Burkina Faso.
His ministers and public servants also never owned luxury cars and often travelled in economy class.
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FACT: In his first week as president of Tanzania in 2015, John Magufuli cancelled all foreign trips for public servants and instead ordered them to visit rural parts of the country to address problems of people.
A year later, Tanzania had saved $430m by limiting foreign trips.
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VIDEO: Mama D, a Ugandan chef is attempting to break the longest Guinness record for a solo cooking session.
She has now surpassed 69 hours in her cooking marathon.
#MamaDsWorldRecord
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QUOTE: On one occasion, Six African presidents were going to Libya to mediate and were told by NATO to go back. Yes! Six African presidents on an African mission over African soil, were ordered by NATO to go back. They killed Gaddafi now Libya is in tatters.
-Yoweri Museveni-
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IMAGES: Victoria Falls Bridge across the Zambezi River.
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QUOTE: If the West doesn't want to work with us because of homosexuals, then we have enough space here to live by ourselves and do business with other people.
-Yoweri Museveni-
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FACT: Tanzania's economy has grown from $69.7 billion in 2021 to now $85.42 billion in 2023.
According to the IMF, president Samia Suluhu's few years in office have created pro business policies and friendly environment which have all attracted more investment into the country.
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QUOTE: When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty related preventable causes, equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing everyday.
-Benjamin Mkapa-
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FACT: Muammar Gaddafi was one of the biggest financial backers of the African Union (AU).
He was majorly funding the AU with an aim of forming one country called the United States of Africa.
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FACT: The Clock Tower in Arusha, Tanzania is the central point of Africa.
It stands exactly at the middle of Africa between Cape Town in South Africa, and Cairo in Egypt.
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FACT: Kinjekitile Ngwale is blamed for leading about 300,000 people to their death in the Maji Maji war of 1905-1907 in Tanzania.
He gave fighters what he called 'holy water', claiming that if applied on the body, bullets from German guns would fall off without harming them.
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FACT: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is the largest Kiswahili-speaking City in the world.
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FACT: Serengeti National Park in Tanzania has been ranked Africa's leading National Park for the fourth time in a row at the 2022 World Travel Awards.
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FACT: In 2015, Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni said that he did not know that Uganda Cranes was the national football team of Uganda.
He thought it was just a football club.
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FACT: Kenya's President William Ruto has announced plans to remove visa restrictions for African nationals travelling to Kenya for business.
He sees this as the first major step towards removing barriers to intra-Africa trade.
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FACT: Somalia has officially become the 8th member state of the East African Community joining Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, Rwanda and Burundi in the community.
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FACT: In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi demanded for a share of Coca-Cola's profit on every can or bottle sold across Africa.
He claimed that Coca-cola company is African.
"The essential ingredients for Coca-Cola come from African plants and so compensation must be paid to us." He said
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FACT: Top 10 cleanest cities in Africa; 4 are in East Africa.
1. Kigali🇷🇼
2. Port Louis🇲🇺
3. Cape Town🇿🇦
4. Tunis🇹🇳
5. Windhoek🇳🇦
6. Dar es Salaam🇹🇿
7. Gaborone🇧🇼
8. Algiers🇩🇿
9. Nairobi🇰🇪
10. Libreville🇬🇦
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FACT: Serengeti National Park in Tanzania has a diversity of flora and fauna that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
In fact, little has changed in the Park in over 1 million years.
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FACT: 30-year old Emmanuel Okwi is the longest serving player for the Uganda Cranes.
He made his debut in 2009.
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FACT: The construction of Tanzania's Dodoma City Outer Ring Roads is expected to be complete in 2024.
The 110.2km road is largely funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) at a total cost of $216m.
The road will easily connect Tanzania to Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo & Burundi.
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FACT: Bradt Guides has ranked Uganda the world's fourth leading tourism destination.
Uganda is ranked behind Switzerland, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands.
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FACT: Uganda remains Kenya's biggest trading partner in East Africa.
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FACT: Swahili, the language of East Africans is becoming the language of all Africans.
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FACT: Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni is demanding that Africa gets a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.
He says this could have helped avoid the attack on Libya in 2011 by NATO, and the assassination of DR Congo's independence hero Patrice Lumumba in 1961.
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Africa's Top 10 Universities;
1. Witwatersand 🇿🇦
2. Johannesburg 🇿🇦
3. Muhimbili 🇹🇿
4. Pretoria 🇿🇦
5. Makerere 🇺🇬
6. Western Cape 🇿🇦
7. Covenant 🇳🇬
8. Global Health Equity 🇷🇼
9. Ashesi 🇬🇭
10. Ardhi 🇹🇿
Source: Times Higher Education
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FACT: Former UK finance minister Rishi Sunaki is in the race to become UK's next prime minister.
His mother was born in Tanzania while his father was born and raised in Kenya.
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FACT: Muammar Gaddafi's last words were; "What did I do to you?"
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FACT: Martin Wanyonyi has become the first person living with albinism to be elected as a member of parliament in Kenya.
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FACT: Julius Nyerere wanted to unify Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
He even offered to delay Tanganyika's independence to wait for the 3 East African countries' independence in the hope of unifying them.
He was willing to let Jomo Kenyatta be the leader of the united East Africa.
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FACT: Scientists have confirmed that a new ocean is forming in Africa along a 35-mile crack through East Africa.
The crack started opening up in Ethiopia in 2005.
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FACT: On this day in 2011, Libya's then president Muammar Gaddafi was killed.
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FACT: Tanzanian Premier League giants Yanga Africans have displayed a billboard with the score line of their 5-1 win against bitter rivals Simba in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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FACT: Somalia's coastline is the longest on mainland Africa at approximately 3,300km.
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FACT: The image of Rwandan female referee Salima Mukansanga helping president Paul Kagame with his boots at a FIFA congress delegation match in Rwanda has gone viral.
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FACT: Phaneroo Ministries International in Uganda will tomorrow, 30 July 2023, host a hand-clapping session that will last three hours non-stop.
The ministry is aiming to break the Guinness World Record of the longest applause dubbed "Clap for Jesus."
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FACT: Ugandan long distance runner Joshua Cheptegei has so far won 10 medals at different global events in a space of eight years.
He has won 8 gold medals and two silver medals.
He is considered Uganda's greatest athlete of all time.
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FACT: Kenya's President William Ruto is asking African presidents to stop using the US dollar for trade with each other.
He wants African countries to trade in a local currency.
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FACT: Nairobi is the only city in the world with a national park.
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