Majority leader Aden Duale with his cousin sister Habiba Sheikh Abdullahi and her daughter Dr. Deyman National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has lost two of his family members in a road accident. The accident along Nairobi-Mombasa highway also claimed the life of their driver. National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has lost two of

What happened to the journalists and politicians who were detained by the Eritrean government? “When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don’t want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone’s breath away? That just blows my mind.”

Photo Reuters Burundi has banned the BBC and indefinitely suspended Voice of America, moves that campaigners and the international broadcasters described as a blow to press freedom. The central African nation’s media regulator revoked the BBC’s license and accused it of airing a documentary that it said was false and damaged the country’s reputation. It

The jury was still out yesterday as to whether Kenya may have got a raw deal from the flurry of economic pacts signed with Uganda during President Yoweri Museveni’s three-day visit. While some praised President Uhuru Kenyatta’s success at gaining his counterpart’s backing for the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Uganda in

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in the Parliament in London, Britain, March 29, 2019 in this screen grab taken from video. Reuters TV via REUTERS Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil

The death toll from a fire in a high-rise building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has risen to 25, officials said Friday. A temporary information center set up by the fire service at Thursday’s blaze site confirmed the death toll to Anadolu Agency, adding that 70 wounded are being treated at various hospitals of the city.

Photo (AP) Arab leaders meeting in Tunisia on Sunday hope to project unified opposition to the Trump administration’s acceptance of Israeli control over the Golan Heights and Jerusalem, but as with past Arab League summits, the gathering is likely to expose their own bitter rivalries. Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,

Armed police have swooped on a mosque near Regent’s Park in the hunt for suspects after a man was stabbed to death in central London. A man was found with stab wounds at a housing block in Cunningham Place, Westminster, at about 6.15pm on Thursday. The suspects had fled the scene, police said. The victim

Photo Reuters U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry told lawmakers on Thursday he did not know whether any of the approvals he authorized for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia were made after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year. Perry told a Senate hearing he has approved six

The Latest on explosion in Somalia’s capital (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Police say at least 10 people have been killed and seven others wounded in a car bomb blast outside a restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Capt. Mohamed Hussein tells The Associated Press that most of the casualties were among people who were dining