Signage of the World Bank. File Photo/Pool By Business Daily Africa Kenya has become the fourth-largest borrower from the International Development Association (IDA), the soft loan affiliate of the World Bank, which helps the world’s poorest countries, with a total borrowing of $2.01 billion (Sh316.78 billion at current exchange rates). Latest data from the World

A 54-year-old Nigerian man is said to have married a four-year-old girl o December 26, 2023. By The East African The marriage between a four-year-old ‘bride’ and a 54-year-old man in Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa community is a traditional rite to save the child’s life, the girl’s parents have said. After hearing from the child’s parents,

File Photo Somali Times/President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh, both houses speakers Members of the People’s Assembly of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Somalia have submitted a serious motion related to security agreements that the government has already entered into with Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of

Anton Koen, a former police officer who now runs a private security firm that specializes in tracking and recovering hijacked and stolen vehicles, prepares to go out on patrol east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime and that has

Photo Somali Times/President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh, both houses speakers The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, has signed the law of the two houses of Parliament that annulled the agreement between the governments of Ethiopia and Hargeisa administration, which was approved by the members of the two houses of the Federal Parliament of Somalia.

By Anadolu Agency Facing a Mideast region in crisis and a number of pressing bilateral issues, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with issues before them including the ongoing carnage in Gaza, final steps to complete Türkiye’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO

An aerial view shows properties surrounded by floodwater, in the aftermath of Storm Henk, on an island in the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames, Britain, January 5, 2024. Photographer Toby Melville By Reuters Major rivers across Britain were flooded on Friday after heavy rain, with the government issuing more than 300 flood warnings, travel operators announcing

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud spoke in part of his speech at the mosque about what happened in Djibouti between him and Muse Bihi, before the maritime agreement in Addis Ababa took place. Hassan Sheikh first said that he and Muse Bihi talked in a brotherly manner, with each side bringing out their will on the

Oscar Pistorius enters the dock before court proceedings at the Pretoria Magistrates court June 4, 2013. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo By Reuters South African former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was released on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend in a crime that shocked a nation long inured to violence against women. Pistorius

President William Ruto (right) with the leader of Rapid Support Forces Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo at State House, Nairobi on January 3, 2023. By AFP Sudan recalled its ambassador from Nairobi Thursday in protest at Kenyan President William Ruto’s hosting of talks with paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, its acting foreign minister said. Daglo, whose