By Business Daily Africa Kenya has opened talks with Uganda, DR Congo and the Republic of the Congo to build a modern railway connecting the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic in what appears to be a race with Tanzania to control cargo business into Africa’s hinterland. President William Ruto has disclosed the discussions are geared

Somalia has taken over the rotating chairmanship of the Office of the Superintendent of the African Union Mission to the United Nations. The Ambassador to Somalia at the United Nations, Amb. Abukar Dahir Osman, who will hold this position, will deliver the observer speech at the UN headquarters. Read: Exclusive: Somalia President Hassan Sheikh intends

A shopper looks at food items in a shop. Reuters/Kevin Coombs/File Photo By Reuters Britain has a bigger inflation problem than the United States or the euro zone, with both large headline price rises and growing signs of persistence in underlying pressures, Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said on Wednesday. Mann, who has been

Qatar’s then deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Washington, U.S. February 10, 2023. Kevin Wolf/Pool via Reuters By Reuters The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension

By Anadolu Agency Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed the NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) on Tuesday as “an escalation factor” in recent clashes in Kosovo. In a statement on the ministry’s website, Zakharova said the crisis in the municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposaviс could be settled through finding a compromise, but “it

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa/AFP By The East African South Africa will grant diplomatic immunity to all international officials attending the BRICS summit in August, a move that will allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to avoid arrest. South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor issued a gazette notice on Monday extending its Diplomatic

A Photograph appear on the Internet Somalia’s Minister of Defence, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, today held a special meeting with the new British Ambassador to Somalia, Mr. Michael Nithavrianakis. The Minister and the Ambassador exchanged issues on defense and security cooperation between Somalia and the United Kingdom. Read: Exclusive: Somalia President Hassan Sheikh intends to sell

President William Ruto has asked African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the globally-bullish US dollar. File Photo/Shutterstock By Business Daily Africa President William Ruto has asked African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the globally-bullish US dollar by signing up to a pan-African payments system to facilitate trade within the continent. Dr

File Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s president of Puntland state, Mr. Said Abdullahi Deni spoke for the first time in detail about the agreement of the National Consultative Council that was reached on the 27th of this month in Villa Somalia. Deni revealed that Puntland was not part of the decisions that came out and was absent

KFOR soldiers, front, and Kosovo police officers guard a municipal building after yesterday’s clashes between ethnic Serbs and troops from the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The violence was the latest incident as tensions soared over the past week, with Serbia putting the country’s military