4 Police officers, bar owner who tortured man to death in 2019 arrested

NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 22 – Four Police Officers in Kakamega and a bar owner have been arrested following the findings of an inquest that reveal...

Don’t let politicians intimidate you, President Kenyatta urges police

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 20 – President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the police not to be intimidated by anyone, especially politicians but to undert...

It is ‘Afya House’ now, not ‘Mafia House,’ CS Kagwe says of Health Ministry reforms

MALINDI, Kenya, Jan 20 – Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe now says drastic reforms at the Ministry of Health have borne fruit, transfor...

UK lawmakers hold general debate on Somaliland independence

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 19 – The House of Commons on Tuesday held an hour-long adjournment debate during which lawmakers deliberated on Somalila...

Sudanese barricade streets, close shops after 7 killed

Khartoum, Sudan, Jan 18 – Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded Khartoum streets on Tuesday in a civil disobedience campaign to protest o...

Abiy has ‘special responsibility’ to end Tigray conflict: Nobel panel

Oslo, Norway, Jan 13 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize, said Thursday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...

Mohammed Bajabu, Kenyan detained in Guantanamo Bay cleared for release

Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 12- Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, a Kenyan who was being held at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has b...

UN announces talks to help resolve Sudan’s political crisis

Khartoum, Sudan, Jan 10 – The United Nations will launch talks to help Sudan resolve its escalating political crisis triggered by last year...

Ethiopia frees prominent opposition figure

Nairobi (AFP), Jan 7 – Ethiopia on Friday freed high-profile opposition leader Eskinder Nega, one of several leading government opponents r...

China, Kenya sign 6 MOUs and agreements on trade, investment and covid support

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 6 – China and Kenya Thursday signed six memorandums of understanding and agreements on trade, infrastructure, and other...

Chinese FM Wang Yi to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta in Mombasa

NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 6 – Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi is scheduled to meet with Kenyan President Uhuru Keny...

Devastating fire revives at South African parliament

Cape Town (AFP), Jan 3 – Smoke and flames re-emerged from the upper floors of South Africa’s parliament on Monday hours after the blaze was...

Wang Yi: No one is in a position to lecture others on democracy

BEIJING, China Jan 2 – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday said China’s diplomacy has forged ahead amid comp...

BREAKING: Fire at South African parliament in Cape Town

CAPE TOWN, South Africa Jan 2 – A fire broke out Sunday in the South African parliament building in Cape Town, said AFP reporters at the sce...

S.African report on Zuma-era graft to be released Tuesday

Johannesburg (AFP), Dec 31 – South African investigators next week will hand over their first report in a long-awaited probe into state cor...

Tutu’s body lies in state for second day in S.Africa

Cape Town (AFP), Dec 31 – The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu lay in state on Friday for a second day, giving South Africans a final chance...

‘Rainbow Nation’ S.Africa bids goodbye to much-loved Tutu

Cape Town (AFP), Dec 30 – Liz Cowan, a 65-year-old white social worker, grew up in apartheid South Africa being told that the charismatic b...

Tutu’s body lies in state at S.Africa cathedral

Cape Town (AFP), Dec 30 – The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was carried Thursday into a historic cathedral where he once railed against w...

Be warned! Marauding hyenas in Witeithie, Kiambu

NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 27 – A man was mauled by a pack of Hyenas in Witeithie Kiambu on Monday morning, sending panic in the area. According to...

Somalia’s president says PM suspended as elections spat deepens

Mogadishu (AFP), Dec 27 – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced Monday that he was suspending Prime Minister Mohamed Huss...