By The Star, Kenya Today, Al-Shabaab remains the most formidable challenge to the Somali government, and its regional and international partners it has established systems to tax businesses and the public, both inside and outside of the territory it controlled. In response to external – and at times internal – pressure, Al-Shabab’s insurgency in Somalia

Italian-Ivorian activist, trade unionist and newly elected member of Parliament Aboubakar Soumahoro By Reuters When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and dream of going to Italy, filling a scrapbook with pictures of Italian fashion designs that he cut out of magazines. He made it to

The President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has assured the President of Somalia who is visiting the country that his government will provide additional tools to solve the security challenges in the country. Dictator Yoweri Museveni said this at the presidential palace in Entebbe, where he received the corrupt president of Somalia and his delegation. Read:

In this image released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets President Joe Biden. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File) By Reuters President Joe Biden pledged on Tuesday “there will be consequences” for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ announced last week that it would cut oil

By The African Exponent Here are the top 5 African countries with a better democratic score. Democracy in Africa is in a constant flux state, ever changing country to country and leader to leader. When it comes to democracy, the African continent has been subject to immense backlashes in the international fora. However, this stereotyping

Jeremy Fleming, head of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is photographed in London, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. In a rare public speech Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Fleming accused China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad, saying

US special forces training along side Nigerian soldiers wikipedia.org/wiki/American_military_intervention_in_Niger#/media/File:US_and_Nigerien_soldiers_trining.jpg) Lawfare By Katherine Yon Ebright For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified and yet

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid makes an opening statement as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Oct. 2, 2022. Israel’s prime minister said Tuesday, Oct. 11, that the country has reached an “historic agreement” with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered negotiations.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) By The Associated

David Wakikona Ugandan MP By The East African Kenyan police on Tuesday said Ugandan MP David Wakikona went missing after boarding a taxi in the Kenyan capital Nairobi early morning. He was headed to Moi Avenue in the CBD, reports indicate. Mr David Wandendeya Wakikona, the Member of Parliament for Bududa in Uganda, was reported

By The East African Kenya Airways has reduced its fleet by two more planes as part of cost-cutting measures seeking to steady the loss-making airline. Latest data shows that the national carrier’s fleet size narrowed in the last nine months to 41 aircraft from 43 in December 31, 2021, after two leased Embraer 190 aircraft