Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga when he received 228 affordable housing units on January 16 in Ngara, Nairobi. The government’s bid for affordable housing has received a major boost after British investors inked a deal to develop 80,000 new units across the country. Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said the affordable housing programme (AHP) deal

A medical official takes the body temperature of a man at the departure hall of the airport in Changsha, Hunan Province, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, China, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 81 on Monday, as the

Photo/ Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and his delegation has arrived in Asmara. The leaders of Somalia, Eritrea Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali will hold bilateral talks in Asmara. ‘During these meetings, the leaders are evaluating the effectiveness of the measures to ensure

No casualties or material damage reported so far from attacks on heavily fortified Green Zone At least five katyusha rockets landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq’s capital, some of which directly struck the U.S. embassy, caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said early Monday. “This hostile attack on a foreign mission was repeated

Photo/ Somali Times Landlocked Country Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is interested to create four ship ports in Somalia. The four ship ports, Berbera, Bosaso, Kismayo and Hobyo brought 9 Navy Ships purchased Ethiopian. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says, ‘I will be meeting with my brothers, the leaders of Eritrea and Somalia.’ Dictator Isaias

Muslims pray at the Grand Mosque during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in their holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia August 8, 2019. REUTERS/Waleed Ali/File Photo Israel on Sunday announced that it would permit Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time, under certain conditions. Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after consulting with

Former Saudi minister of justice, Mohammed Bin Abdul-Karim Issa, has announced that his country will stop funding mosques in foreign countries, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. According to the Swiss newspaper, Le Matin Dimanche, Saudi Arabia is to establish local administrative councils for each mosque, in cooperation with the local authorities, in order to hand over

Canada on Saturday declared the first “presumptive” confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus in a resident who had returned from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the viral disease. Ontario health officials told a news conference the patient is a male in his 50s, who arrived in Toronto on

FILE – In this Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019 file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq. The Pentagon said Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, that 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries suffered in this month’s Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base, and

Photo Credit Reuters Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks to buy English soccer club Newcastle United for about £340 million, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal earlier on Saturday. British billionaire Mike Ashley, who made his fortune from sportswear retailer Sports Direct (renamed