Standard Gauge Railway trains at the Port of Mombasa. By Business Daily Africa China-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya worth nearly Sh394.27 billion have been dogged by claims of graft and financial impropriety, the third highest value of tainted ventures being implemented globally under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). A study by a top US

File – In this Friday, June 7, 2019 file photo, Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor walks to the podium to be sentenced at Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis. Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home will

By Anadolu Agency The Turkish president on Wednesday said Turkey is determined to further its cooperation with Nigeria in every field. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We are strengthening our cooperation in military defense and security issues with Nigeria, which

By Anadolu Agency North Korea on Wednesday confirmed that it fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) a day earlier, the country’s first underwater test-launch since 2019. The successful test bolsters North Korea’s defense technology and enhances the underwater operational capability of its navy, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported, along with a series

A currency exchange office worker counts Turkish lira banknotes at an exchange office in Istanbul as Turkey’s lira set a new record low against the dollar (AFP) By Middle East Eye Financial Action Task Force to place Turkey in a grey list of countries which failed to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, according to

Activists take part in a rally after 91 people were shot dead this week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless war on drugs in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao/File Photo By Reuters The Philippines justice ministry will review thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs,

Somalia’s Attorney General, Dr. Suleiman Mohamed Mohamoud has said that the government will seize the ships that are exploiting the resources in Somalia’s seas. The prosecutor said the government is stepping up efforts to combat illegal fishing, which he described as a national disaster that needs to be addressed. “Illegal fishing in Somalia is one

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, delivers his speech Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 at the European Parliament while European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen , in red, listens, in Strasbourg, eastern France. The European Union’s top official locked horns Tuesday with Poland’s prime minister, arguing that a recent ruling from the country’s constitutional court

Lawyers and supporters of the Gezi solidarity group gather in front of the Justice Palace, the Caglayan Courthouse, as a Turkish court began the re-trial of philanthropist Osman Kavala and 15 others over their role in nationwide protests in 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya/File Photo By Reuters Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned

AP Photo/Alberto PezzaliPolice officers stand outside a house in north London, thought to be in relation to the death of Conservative MP Sir David Amess, October 17, 2021. By i24 News Conservative MP was chairman of parliamentary group on Qatar and visited Gulf state last week Police are looking at the close relationship between Sir