Photo/Somali Times At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded, when a car bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint, in Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday morning, when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, Somali officials said. Somali officials, told Somali Times that

DPP ordered the arrest of Rotich and Thugge over the alleged Kimwarer and Arror dam scandals. President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to announce an acting Treasury Cabinet Secretary later today.The President is also expected to name an acting Treasury PS in line with his declaration during the State of the Nation address in April. Addressing

Photo/Reuters Kenya’s finance minister will be arrested and charged over corruption related to the construction of two dams, the chief prosecutor said on Monday, an unprecedented event for a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft. The charges against Henry Rotich stem from a police investigation into the misuse of funds in a dam

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The explosion was a vehicle packed with explosives and detonated at the front gate of Afrik at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. the blast heard most districts. It is also close to the Aden Adde International Airport, where the security is tightened, and there are many hotels in the area.

Boris Johnson, a leadership candidate for Britain’s Conservative Party, speaks during a hustings event in London, Britain July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Boris Johnson, favoured to become Britain’s new prime minister, said on Sunday the country could agree a free trade deal to leave the European Union that would remove the need for one of

Manny Pacquiao, right, lands a punch against Keith Thurman in the fifth round during a welterweight title fight Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) From his first-round knockdown punches to his tenacious 12th-round finish, Manny Pacquiao gave yet another one-sided thrashing to Father Time. Keith Thurman was a whole lot tougher

In this grab taken from video on Saturday, July 20, 2019 provided by TVI, members of the emergency services try to extinguish wildfires, in Vila de Rei, Portugal. Portuguese authorities say 1,000 firefighters are working to contain wildfires that have injured eight firefighters and one civilian. Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency says Sunday that firefighters are

Photo/Reuters At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group, according to a local official and hospital authorities. A local district official told Reuters news agency on Saturday that at least 13 people were killed in a town near

In this May 2, 2013 photo the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mesdar is seen at an unknown location. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed Friday July 19, 2019 that Iran had seized one British, the Stena Impero, and one Liberian-flagged vessel, Mesdar, in the Strait of Hormuz. It was the latest escalation of tension in the

In the 11-months to May, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich spent nearly all the tax collected on items that can’t spark economic growth. For every Sh100 that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected during 2018/19 financial year, about Sh61 went pay interest, salaries and pensions leaving very little for development activities such as building