Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi arrives at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, Britain, January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Friday declared a state of siege over the worsening violence in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu that has killed hundreds this year and displaced more

Rising anti-refugee sentiments in Europe led EU to try to use 3rd countries, like Turkey, as buffer zones, says academic The EU is working to externalize the problem of refugees by keeping them in third countries like Turkey and promising funding, said a speaker at the Turkish-based TRT World Forum Digital Debates on Friday. “Refugee

File Photo/Somali Times The President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo will address a meeting on Saturday, May 1st, to the members of the House of the People of the Federal Parliament of Somalia. The purpose of the meeting will focus on a speech by the President to the House of Representatives, which will report on

Last week, 130 migrants bound for Europe went missing and are feared to be dead after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean (AFP) The majority of the children were sent to detention centres in Libya and the UN is calling for their release A total of 125 children were intercepted at sea this week by

By Faustine Ngila You are now paying twice as much for mobile internet compared to last year, according to the latest report by British technology research firm Cable. The report, Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing 2021, discloses that Kenyans are paying Sh244 per every one gigabyte of mobile data, compared to Sh112 in 2020, on average.

Export-import coverage ratio at 81.9% in January-March period, according to TurkStat data Turkey’s exports increased 17.2% on an annual basis to reach $50 billion in the first quarter of 2021, the country’s statistical authority said on Friday. Imports during the January to March period were up 9.6% to reach $61.2 billion, leaving the foreign trade

Medics and rescue workers attend to the Lag B’Omer event in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, at Mount Meron, Israel April 30, 2021 REUTERS/ Stringer By Reuters, Dan Williams

Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame (Image: Metropolitan Police) By Carl Jackson Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame used social media sites called ‘LetsWork’ and ‘TheOnlyLw’ to wholesale cocaine from Boliva, Peru and Columbia ‘Greedy’ drug dealers who sold huge amounts of South American cocaine over the dark web were paid more than £3.5million in Bitcoin and

File – In this April 23, 2019, file photo, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy aircraft carrier Liaoning participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China’s PLA Navy in the sea near Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. China says it is holding naval drills involving the

Newcastle United football club badge, 23 March 2019 [Kelly McClay/Flickr] As allegations of cronyism continue to bog down the ruling Conservative party, it’s now emerged that a co-investors in the Saudi-led consortium behind last year’s failed takeover bid of Newcastle United Football Club is a major Tory donor and a friend of Prime Minister Boris