Saudi Arabia’s King Salman replaced the country’s energy minister with one of his own sons Sunday, naming Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman to one of the most important positions in the country as oil prices remain stubbornly below what is needed to keep up with government spending. The new energy minister is an older half-brother to

Sept 7, 2019; Flushing, NY, USA; Bianca Andreescu of Canada with the US Open championship trophy after beating Serena Williams of the USA in the women’s singles final on day thirteen of the 2019 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports So new is

President Mnangagwa and President Cyril Ramaphosa I AM an African. I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa. The pain of the violent conflict that the peoples of Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, Burundi and Algeria is a pain I also bear. The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human degradation of my

Mombasa Principal Magistrate Edgar Kagoni during a court session. He has been arrested over missing Sh30m seized heroin. When Mombasa Principal Magistrate Edgar Kagoni condemned Tanzanian drug trafficker Hussein Masoud to a 30-year jail term and fined him Sh90 million, he warned that the sentence would act as a deterrent to anyone who might be

Photo/Reuters The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers, which went dark off Syria earlier in the week, has been photographed by satellite off the Syrian port of Tartus, Maxar Technologies Inc., a U.S. space technology company said on Saturday. Maxar’s supplied image shows the

Kenya Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma There is also concern that Kenya could suffer humiliating defeat at the United Nations during elections for the Security Council’s seat • It is understood the CS is not getting along with her PS, Amb Macharia Kamau, and that most of the time they work at cross-purposes. • The

By Moses Uneh Yahmia The exploited layers including workers, peasants and urban poor of every African country led by vanguard revolutionary movements must fight for the unification and socialist transformation of Africa. My answer is a resounding no. Rather than agreeing, it is logical to say China is practically demonstrating to Africa how to exorcise

High Court rules Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted lawfully in prorogation move Britain’s High Court rejected a legal challenge against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend the parliament from next week on Friday. In its ruling, the court said Johnson was found to have acted within law when he advised the Queen to prorogue

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has postponed the Kenya-Somalia maritime dispute case following an application by the Kenya government, which sought time to recruit a new defence team. Kenya’s request is contained in a letter from the Attorney General’s office, dated September 3. “I have the honour to inform you that the court has

Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died. He was 95. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a tweet Friday, mourning him as an “icon of liberation.” He