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...

A former senior US legal official, David Crane, will lead a UN investigation into violence in Gaza, the United Nations said on Wednesday. At least 140 Palestinians have been killed by the...

Eight Kenyan soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack on Sunday in northern Wajir County, VOA News reported yesterday. The Kenyan security forces were patrolling the Kenya-Somali border when...

Nine soldiers from the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) were killed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab yesterday, the Washington Post reported. An improvised explosive device ripped through the military vehicles...

In April 2016, a UN official wrote to the British government expressing the international organisation’s thanks for hosting Maina Kiai. The former Kenyan human rights activist was the special...

Al-Shabaab crossed the Somali-Kenya border in the early hours of this morning, attacking a school and leaving three teachers dead, the Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking on condition of anonymity,...