Garissa County Governor Ali Bunow Korane before the anti-corruption court in Nairobi on Thursday, August 26, 2021. Forty-five witnesses are lined up to testify in the Sh233 million graft case against Garissa Governor Ali Korane. According to Daily Nation reported. A state prosecutor told trial Magistrate Elizabeth Juma that one witness had begun to testify

File Photo/Somali Times Traditional elders in Puntland’s region have accused Puntland Governor Said Deni of indiscriminately looting the role of clans in the upper and lower house elections. At a meeting of elders in Bosaso, Galkayo they said they would not accept the government’s choice of the next lower house election, and sent a message

Tourists watch as wildebeests cross Mara river in the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 2016. By Business Daily Africa Travellers from Kenya remain banned from the United Kingdom in the latest update that took effect Thursday evening in a fresh blow for tourism which is currently in its main season. The UK updated countries

Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo named African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa. The African Union (AU) has appointed Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo as its high representative for the Horn of Africa’s region. According to The East African reported. “This decision is part of the African Union’s drive to promote peace, security,

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen have targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon) By

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets with National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nayhan, in Doha, Qatar, August 26, 2021. Qatar News Agency/Handout via REUTERS By Reuters A senior United Arab Emirates official held talks with Qatar’s emir in Doha on Thursday in the first such visit in four years following this

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Paris, France May 18, 2021. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS By Reuters Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such

By The Citizen Dar es Salaam. As Dar es Salaam residents are still trying to come to terms with Wednesday’s shooting along the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road the identity of the lone gunman involve has finally been revealed. Immediately after the incident images of a certain young man who was only identified as Hamza a

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a C-17 Globemaster lll lands on the runway as evacuees from Afghanistan debark a C-17 Globemaster lll on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow/U.S. Air Force via AP) The Associated Press By SYLVIE CORBET, JILL LAWLESS and

Somalia Defence Defence minister Hassan Said Samantar and acting AU director of Conflict Management Directorate Fiona Lortan sign an agreement during the closing of a two-day meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, on August 19. By The Star, Kenya The African Union and the government of Somalia on August 19, 2021, signed a deal on the proposed