Kenya Railways chairman Waweru faces fraud investigation

Chairman of the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) board Mr Michael Waweru. Detectives are investigating the chairman of the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) board Mr Michael Waweru for possible fraud, the Sunday Nation has established. This comes as boardroom wrangles rock the institution after a section of the board resolved to sack acting Managing Director Philip

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Let’s make a Brexit deal, UK PM May tells Labour opposition

Prime Minister Theresa May addresses delegates during the Scottish Conservatives’ annual party conference at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Friday May 3, 2019. Britain’s main Conservative and Labour parties took a hammering in local elections as Brexit-weary voters expressed frustration over the country’s stalled departure from the European Union. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP) Britain’s

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Kenya and Uganda hit by high cost of living in April

Kenya and Uganda recorded high inflation in the month of April as the effects of severe weather and high fuel prices took a toll on household and business spending. Uganda’s overall month-on-month inflation rose to 3.5 per cent in April from 3 per cent in March while Kenya saw the highest cost of living in

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Netanyahu pledges ‘massive strikes’ in Gaza in third day of border flare-up

Photo Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he ordered the military to continue “massive strikes” against militants in Gaza as a surge in cross-border hostilities ran into a third day. A rocket fired from Gaza killed an Israeli civilian on Sunday and two Palestinian gunmen were killed in an Israeli strike, with

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Somalia President arrives Garowe town consultative meeting with governors

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed, today arrived in Garowe town welcomed by Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, today. Governor Said Abdullahi Deni and other officials. warm welcome. Galmudug governor Ahmed Duale has also arrived in Garowe today and is currently

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Switzerland deports ‘Ethiopian’ hate preacher to Somalia

The hate preacher refused to cooperate with the Swiss migration authorities. (© Keystone / Walter Bieri) A Muslim preacher, convicted in 2017 of inciting violence in Switzerland, has finally been deported after being identified as a Somali national. The man has now been sent back to Somalia, the Swiss authorities have confirmed. The deportation process

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Tanzania set to test its first electric train in July

Tanzania is set to test its first, maiden, cheaper and very superior own funded electric train. The train will be Africa’s fastest at a speed of 160/h on the longest railway Speaking at a historic event to launch the flash butt welding of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) exercise that took place at Soga in

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North Korea fires several short-range projectiles into sea

A TV screen shows a file footage of North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 4, 2019. North Korea on Saturday fired several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a likely

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China putting minority Muslims in ‘concentration camps,’ U.S. says

Photo Reuters The United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps,” in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing’s mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups. The comments by Randall Schriver, who leads Asia policy

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The X Factor in China-UAE Relations: The Horn of Africa

By Samuel Ramani From port competition to the Somaliland issue, China and the UAE’s conflicting interests in the region are not easy to reconcile. On April 26, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, signed $3.4 billion in investment deals between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China. These contracts were hailed in

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