Along a polluted riverside, smoking charred oil drums in Mathare are cooking up chang’aa, a potent liquor that’s both a scourge and a lifeline.In this slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, back-alley distilleries are famous for cheap moonshine that’s powerful enough to fell grown men. Twenty Kenyan shillings (15 US cents) will buy you a glass …

Deadly booze brings profit and pain to Kenya’s streetsWed, 07 Jun 2023 09:54:48 GMT Read More »

A South African court on Wednesday threw out ex-president Jacob Zuma’s bid to try the lead prosecutor in his much-delayed corruption case, removing another hurdle preventing the trial from moving ahead.Zuma, who served as president from 2009 to 2018 before being forced out over graft allegations, faces charges of corruption in an arms scandal dating …

S.Africa’s Zuma loses bid to prosecute chief graft attorneyWed, 07 Jun 2023 08:53:34 GMT Read More »