Teodoro (aka Teodorin) Nguema Obiang Mongue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president. Credit: Daily Nation File Photo. By Kemo Cham Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president and son of the head of state, is no stranger to controversy. Some would say he courts and revels in it. He is a man of means, and

A pedestrian walk past the National Treasury building in Nairobi By OTIATO GUGUYU Kenya has withdrawn its request for China to extend debt repayment holiday to December in the wake of opposition from Chinese lenders that recently froze disbursements to local projects. The Treasury says that Kenya has decided not to seek an extension of

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By Scott McCann It’s time to bring this to an end. On Tuesday, the US military conducted an airstrike against the militant group al-Shabab in the divided

Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda, arrives at the party’s headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party that has had an influential national role for a decade, left the hospital hours after he was

File Photo/Somali Times Somali police chief Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar denied that the Somali Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have not given or denied criminal records of politicians running for parliament. The police chief said false information had been spread on social media, and made it clear that no one had so far complained that the

Alexander Zverev, of Germany, serves to Karen Khachanov, of the Russian Olympic Committee, during the men’s single gold medal match of the tennis competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) By ANDREW DAMPF TOKYO (AP) — Alexander Zverev followed up his comeback win over Novak Djokovic

Fire officials say efforts underway to extinguish wildfires The southern regions of Italy, especially on the island of Sicily, were struggling with fires in forests and rural areas on Saturday. Fire officials said on Twitter that 250 operations were conducted in Sicily in the past 24 hours, 130 in Puglia and Calabria, 90 in Lazio

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli watch from his plane the wildfires in Manavgat, Antalya, Turkey, Saturday, July 31, 2021. The death toll from wildfires raging in Turkey’s Mediterranean towns rose to six Saturday after two forest workers were killed, the country’s health minister said. Fires across Turkey since Wednesday

A drone is pictured during a large-scale drone combat exercise of Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Semnan, Iran January 4, 2021. Picture taken January 4, 2021 (photo credit: IRANIAN ARMY/WANA/REUTERS) By SETH J. FRANTZMAN If Iran has reached a new level of precision drone strikes and is using them against shipping in

This Jan. 2, 2016 photo shows the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa. The oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire reportedly came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, authorities said Friday, July 30, 2021, as details about the incident remained few. (Johan Victor via AP)