Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months. Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed illness. One

The Somali Immigration and Naturalization Authority has said it will resume the issuance of the Somali passport after the delay of the delay in the passport issued by the immigration service. Officials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service told the media that on the 4th of December they will officially begin issuing passport services and

Qatar is to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) next month, the Gulf emirate’s new Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi announced on Monday. “Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019,” Kaabi said at a press conference in Doha. According to the minister, the emirate will no longer remain

World Jewish Relief Walter Kammerling was sent to England on board the Kindertransport in December 1938 Exactly 80 years ago, the first train rescuing 200 Jewish children from Nazi Berlin arrived in Britain. Their orphanage had been destroyed during Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi sympathisers terrorised Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Their

Kenya’s debt is still manageable, the country’s Cabinet Secretary National Treasury and Planning Henry Rotich said on Sunday. Rotich’s remarks came after the International Monetary Fund raised its assessment of the East African country’s risk of debt distress to moderate. According to CS Rotich, Kenya’s nominal debt-to-gross domestic product is still sustainable at 55 percent,

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges related to a corruption case involving Israel’s telecom giant, prompting immediate calls for his resignation. Police say their investigation has established an evidentiary foundation to charge Netanyahu and his wife Sara with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust.

US president on Saturday agreed to not raise the tariff rate on goods imported from China, the White House announced. According to a statement issued by the White House, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a “highly successful meeting” during the sidelines of the G20 summit in the Argentinian capital. “On Trade,

Somalia plans to launch its first international bidding for oil exploration next year and has sought Egypt’s experience in this field, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tariq el-Molla has said. Somalia’s chances for the discovery of offshore oil fields are rising because it has the longest coast in Africa, he said Friday. During

The U.S. military said it killed nine militants in an air strike targeting al Shabaab in Lebede, Somalia, as part of its operations to support the government’s efforts to weaken the militant group. The military’s Africa Command (Africom) said the strike was carried out on Friday. “We currently assess this airstrike killed nine militants with

Somalia’s South West state will delay a key presidential vote for the third time because it is not sufficiently prepared, the semi-autonomous region’s election committee said on Saturday.Tensions between the federal government and state authorities have mounted in recent weeks after Mogadishu tried to block the candidacy of former al Shabaab Islamist militant Mukhtar Robow.