African governments have been urged to introduce legislation that makes tax evasion a money laundering offense as a way of deterring those who engage in the vice and therefore denying them income. Dozens of stakeholders drawn from 14 African countries while speaking at a Pan-African conference on taxation and development in Nairobi Kenya said the continent was losing billions of money annually to local and foreign traders through tax evasion. - The players from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Mauritania, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast and Malawi said unacceptable domestic and international obstacles to effective taxation for…

Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from 19 African countries have called on governments, the international community and NGOs around the world to offer more support to the people in the horn of Africa region who are currently faced with severe famine. - Speaking during a two-day meeting with their China counterparts in Nairobi, Kenya, the representatives of the NGOs who were drawn from Eastern, Central, South and West Africa expressed concern with the severe drought and famine in the region appealed for assistance to saying the lives of the people in the area were in danger due to lack of food. The delegates said NGOs should strengthen cooperation at the international arena in order to…

- By David Kiarie When Jane Wairimu, a middle aged Kenyan woman, felt labour pains some years back, she was excited that finally she would become a mother after nine months of waiting. She with the help of friends and relatives chose to rush to Nyahururu general hospital in order to deliver her first born child at a government facility where she and the expected new born would get the best services from qualified and experienced medics. But unknown to her, Wairimu who is physically challenged would face a series of injustices in the hands of medics serving at the maternity ward. Speaking during a public inquiry on reproductive health by the Kenya National Commission on Human Righ…