Regional News
The East African Community (EAC) Heads of State have appointed Kenya’s outgoing Performance Management Principal Secretary, Veronica Nduva, the Secretary General of the bloc’s secretariat. She replaces Ambassador Peter Mathuki, who will now advance Nairobi’s interests in Moscow. Nduva, took the oath of office Friday evening at State House in Juba, South Sudan, during a […]
The lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s Georgia election meddling case has won the state’s Democratic primary election in her bid for a second term. Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis defeated challenger Christian Wise during Tuesday’s primary and will now face Republican Courtney Kramer in November’s general election. Judge Scott McAfee, the judge presiding over […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has hailed the late President Ali Hassan Mwinyi for his pivotal role in steering Tanzania towards multi-party politics and expanding democratic freedoms in the East African nation. President Suluhu who led the nation in paying last respects to the late Mwinyi, who died Thursday aged 98, also praised him for heralding […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has declared seven days of mourning following the passing of former president Ali Hassan Mwinyi. Mwinyi, who served as Tanzania’s second president from 1985 to 1995, died at the age of 98 after battling lung cancer. His death occurred on Thursday evening at Mzena Hospital in Dar es Salaam, where he […]
Fawzia Yusuf Adam, former Foreign Minister of Somalia, has declared her candidacy for the position of Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), following weeks of speculation after Somalia’s Information Ministry hinted at her candidature. The AUC election, scheduled for February 2025, will determine the successor to Mousa Faki as the chairperson of the commission. […]
Until Wednesday, Rita Waeni’s coursemates could not have imagined the unknown victim in the widely-circulated images of a dismembered body of a young woman was in fact a classmate. A joint class of corporate communication and journalism student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUA) had just settled in for a routine […]
The woes surrounding the Nakuru War Memorial Hospital are far from over after it emerged that robbers broke into the facility’s morgue and made away with a body that had been preserved for close to six months. The hospital’s matron Patricia Musale says the female body had been preserved at the facility from September 2023 […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday that 10.8 million children in Ethiopia are in need of emergency humanitarian aid in 2024. In its latest Ethiopia Humanitarian Situation Report, the UN agency said at least 20 million people, including about 10.8 million children, are in need of emergency humanitarian aid in 2024. UNICEF […]
Mzee Odungi Randa has been elected as the new Luo Council of Elders Chairman alias ‘ker’ after serving for more than 10 years as deputy chairperson and a former aide of the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. He now replaces Willis Opiyo Otondi who passed away early this year on February 17, 2023, at the age […]
By: Jane Beatrice Obila As a way of promoting easy identification of marginalized people in the country, 150 street youths of the Northern sub-location in Kisumu Central are set to receive National Identification Cards (ID). This is after a mobilization drive pioneered by Mr. John Migun (dancing chief), Assistant Chief Northern sub-location in partnership with […]
