Kenya’s top public prosecutor says he is focusing on five banks and bank officials linked to shady transactions involving Sh8 billion looted from the National Youth Service. Mr Noordin Haji on Thursday said he had appointed a team of prosecutors to review the findings of crime busters at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). SH3.7

Germany’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday announced a crackdown on Facebook’s data collection practices after ruling the world’s largest social network abused its market dominance to gather information about users without their knowledge or consent. Facebook said it would appeal the landmark ruling by the Federal Cartel Office, the culmination of a three-year probe, saying the

German factory production declined unexpectedly in December, increasing concerns about the weakening of Europe’s largest economy. The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday industrial production dropped 0.4 percent in December over the month before, when adjusted for seasonal and calendar factors. On Wednesday, the office reported factory orders also slipped. In both cases, economists had been

Former Somali regional state president Abdi Muhamud Omer, a.k.a, Abdi Iley, has today told judges at the federal high court fourth criminal bench in the capital Addis Abeba that the multiple criminal charges brought against him were “deliberately coordinated lies.” Abdi said this at a reading of charges brought by the federal Attorney General against

Rwanda said on Tuesday it had signed a $400 million deal to produce bottled gas from Lake Kivu, which emits such dense clouds of methane it is known as one of Africa’s “Killer Lakes”. The project by Gasmeth Energy, owned by US and Nigerian businessmen and Rwandans, would suck gas from the lake’s deep floor

A senior commander in the Somali National Army (SNA), Col Abdisalam Adan Kurjow, has been killed by a landmine, official confirmed. The deputy commissioner of Lower Shabelle region, Mr Abdifatah Adan Abdulle, said on Tuesday that Col Kurjow was killed when a landmine exploded at Dhanane, south of the capital Mogadishu. Col Kurjow was the

Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday approved the extension of Turkish forces serving in the strategic areas of the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, and the Arabian Sea. Parliament ratified a motion extending authorization of the deployment through Feb. 10, 2020. Since it was first approved by parliament in 2008, the motion for the deployment has been extended

The Al Shabaab killing of a Maltese port manager in Somalia was not typical of the terrorist group and pointed to economic, rather than political, motives, regional experts told the Times of Malta. Paul Anthony Formosa, 52, from Marsascala, was killed by gunmen on Monday in the port of Bosaso, in the semi-autonomous Puntland state,

Photo Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Brussels on Thursday to tell European Union leaders they must accept legally binding changes to the Irish border arrangements of Britain’s divorce deal or face the prospect of a disorderly no-deal Brexit. The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU in just

Mogadishu, Somali National Intelligence Service Agency (NISA) said Tuesday that it had killed 40 Al-Shabaab insurgents in the country’s southern region. The Security forces launched a wide-scale operation in Farsoley village in Lower Shabelle region on Saturday, NISA said in a statement. Somali security forces are conducting operations against the al-Qaida-affiliated group, Al-Shabaab in central