Kenya

The US is offering up to $10 million for information that helps bring to justice three leaders of the terrorist group, Al-Shabaab, as the Al-Qaeda-aligned group has stepped up...

For close to 300 days a year, Abdelrahman Hassanein's workmates are lions, cheetahs, buffalo and elephants. Not for him a desk, computer and colleagues engaged in mundane work. Instead,...

World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, where they hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst...

Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has told Bloomberg said that his country will not get a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after one or two...

Kenya yesterday announced that it would revoke its recognition of the Polisario Front and take steps to end its representation in Nairobi. A joint Kenyan-Moroccan statement said that the...

British Muslims have had their citizenship reduced to "second-class" status, a new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has claimed. The think tank has found that powers...

At a time when Kenya is reporting one of the highest costs of food prices in history, Turkiye has stepped in to aid farmers and local communities in easily...

Millions are being forced out of their homes in Somalia in search of food and water as a result of the severe drought facing the country, Save the Children has...

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...