Kenya

The UAE along with four other countries – Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana – have assumed responsibilities as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Although the two-year term...

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, met Wednesday in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi for talks focusing on worsening crises in Ethiopia and Sudan,...

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...

The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has ruled mostly in Somalia's favour in its maritime boundary dispute with Kenya. In a ruling at The Hague...

The death of 89 Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia over the past two years has been described as "suspicious" by the African state's foreign ministry. Saudi authorities have told...

When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five athletes – adorned in traditional Palestinian attire and carrying the Palestinian flag – crossed into Tokyo's Olympic Stadium during the inauguration ceremony...

Turkish intelligence agents have captured the nephew of Fethullah Gulen and brought him to Turkey to face prosecution, almost five years after the failed coup attempt which Ankara accuses the cleric...

Qatar's public prosecution has charged a Kenyan man who has written about migrant rights in the Gulf Arab state with receiving payment to spread disinformation, the government's communication office...

Kenya and Egypt have signed a technical agreement on defence cooperation as tensions run high in the Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations which have been ongoing for years with no...

Civil rights groups in the Kenyan city of Mombasa have called for the boycott of all Israeli products while protesting in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israeli terror on a...

Human rights activist Boniface Mwangi: "Our silence gives Israel a justification for what it is doing."

As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important for organising political uprisings and opposition movements. In response, several of the continent's regimes...

Somalia has declared a state of emergency on Thursday over a new generation of desert locust swarms that have caused major damage to farmlands. On its official Twitter account,...

Somalia yesterday cut diplomatic relations with neighbouring Kenya, accusing the latter of meddling in its political affairs. "Somalia calls back all its diplomats from Kenya and orders Kenyan diplomats...

The UAE has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries

World-renowned footballer and Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah, on Tuesday called on the world leaders to ensure that every child receives a quality education, including refugees. Salah, who became the...

Kenya has called on Israel to respect the unity of the land of the state of Palestine and its inalienable rights, Wafa news agency reported yesterday. In a statement, the Palestinian...

The US Supreme Court dealt a legal setback to Sudan on Monday, ruling that the African nation cannot avoid punitive damages in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the...

Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) has conducted an operation to release an Italian woman who was detained in Somalia after being kidnapped in Kenya. The operation was coordinated with...

Saudi Arabia suspended on Thursday the travel of citizens and residents outside the country temporarily to several states that have been witnessing the spread of the coronavirus. The Saudi...

For the first time, an Israeli plane has flown through the Sudanese airspace, Ynet News reported yesterday. The plane had first taken off last Monday from Israel's Tel Aviv...

Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants on Sunday attacked a US-Kenya military base located in the coastal town of Lamu, the Kenyan military confirmed. Kenyan defense forces announced it had successfully repulsed...

Ethiopia has refused to discuss the Egyptian proposal on the Renaissance Dam, which the Ethiopian authorities are building over the Nile, according to a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of...

Europe's "Scramble for Africa" began in earnest in 1881, but never ended. The attempt at dominating the continent using old and new strategies continues to define the western relationship...

In 1948 my grandfather, along with thousands of Badrasawis, was expelled by Israeli military forces from our ancestral village of Beit Daras in Palestine. Like hundreds of thousands of...

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa yesterday in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, as part of the worldwide Quds Day protests....

Israel on Tuesday asked 26 countries for support against a UN vote that singles out its violation of international human rights and humanitarian law in the occupied Gaza Strip,...

Iran recalled its ambassador to Kenya because of a court decision upholding sentences for two Iranians in jail, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Sunday, according to the Iranian...

Israel has been able to conjure up strong allies since it was founded in 1948. Britain and France supported it militarily, politically and economically until it launched the Six...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has refused a request by Kenya's national air carrier to fly over Sudan's airspace on a direct route from Nairobi to the Israeli capital city...

Israelis have an extremely positive view of US President Donald Trump and his administration, "and are largely isolated in this outlook in the international community", reported the Times of...

Former war crimes prosecutor David Crane, an American who was named only last month to lead a UN investigation into Israeli killings in Gaza this year, has resigned, the United...