Finance Minister of Zimbabwe Mthuli Ncube, gestures during an interview with AFP at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 22, 2019, in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) The Zimbabwean government is set to privatize a number of state firms as part of efforts to cut spending and shore

Photo Reuters More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 passenger jets around the world have been taken out of service following two fatal crashes over the past five months in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed almost 350 people in all. The causes of both crashes are under investigation. One of the biggest

Photo (AP) The British government was preparing Tuesday to ask the European Union for a delay of at least several months to Brexit after the speaker of the House of Commons ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May cannot keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same divorce deal that they have already rejected twice. Speaker

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Doha this morning on an official visit to Qatar. Upon arrival, he was received by Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, Minister of Communications. During his visit, the Prime Minister meets with the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar to discuss bilateral relations and the prospects for

Mogadishu, Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, attended the Community Integration and Security Initiative program, saying that the Registered Armed Forces have been continuously obtaining their full rights while remaining part of the country registration of the Armed Forces. The Prime Minister said the government is committed to ensuring that every soldier received their rights,

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s promised fight against corruption has come under the spotlight as accusations of political witch-hunts emerge and divisions emerge in the ruling party. The Kenya public prosecutor on March 8 ordered that the graft probe into six projects to construct dams be accelerated. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations questioned Henry Rotich this month

Handout still image taken from CCTV footage shows a man who has been named as a suspect in Monday’s shooting in Utrecht, Netherlands, in a still image from CCTV footage released by the Utrecht Police on March 18, 2019 REUTERS/Utrecht Police/Handout via Reuters A gunman shot dead three people and wounded nine on a tram

Dutch police said several people had been shot in a tram in the central city of Utrecht on Monday and that there may have been a “terrorist motive”. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was “deeply concerned” and that crisis talks were to be held in response to the incident. Dutch radio said security had

With so many little wars to keep track of, you probably haven’t noticed that the US has quietly been increasing its airstrikes against targets in Somalia. In recent months, dozens of Al-Shabaab terrorist suspects have been killed by American drones and planes in Somalia, reportedly thanks to a surplus becoming available from Syria. However, in

On the outskirts of Nairobi, vast tracts of agricultural land are seeing a new type of growth, as steel rods and concrete pillars set into the red earth reach into the Kenyan sky. More than 17,000 acres (6,900 hectares) of farmland that was home to coffee bushes and cattle is being turned into satellite cities