Rwanda President Paul Kagame and Fifa President Gianni Infantino at a past event in Kigali in 2018. Photo Presidency By The East African The world governing football association, FIFA , will expand its schools’ programme in Rwanda, which is hosting the annual congress, with a $100 million investment. The Football for Schools kitty will target

By Anadolu Agency Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets Saturday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing policies and a plan that would restrict the powers of the judiciary. Israelis have held demonstrations every Saturday against the judicial regulation of the extreme right-wing coalition government led by Netanyahu. They were on the

By Anadolu Agency Regional arch-foes and estranged neighbors, Iran and Saudi Arabia, finally broke the diplomatic ice after almost two years of marathon efforts to resume ties and reopen embassies. The surprise announcement came on Friday after several days of intense deliberations between the top security officials of the two countries in Beijing, facilitated by

Seven foreigners at a Mombasa Court in Mombasa County on Friday, March 10, 2023 The Standard By Joackim Bwana Seven foreigners condemned to life imprisonment on Friday for drug trafficking have described the sentence as a death penalty as the prosecution hailed it as a bold move by the courts. In a landmark case, a

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She will visit Kigali to meet with Rwanda’s Foreign minister Vincent Biruta to discuss the pending implementation of a controversial deal that seeks to control illegal immigration in the UK. Credit to Photo/AFP By The East African UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, currently under fire for the Illegal Immigration Bill

By Anadolu Agency Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to resume bilateral diplomatic ties after several days of deliberations between top security officials of the two countries in Beijing. According to Iran’s state media, Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani held several rounds of talks with his Saudi counterpart in the Chinese capital, after which

By Anadolu Agency Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that the events surrounding the “foreign agents” bill in Georgia amounted to an “attempt to change the government by force.” “There is no doubt that the law on the registration of non-governmental organizations … was just an excuse to start an attempt to change

Photo Credit: Badru Katumba/AFP By Face2Face Africa Musa Hasahya Kasera of Uganda is filled with anxiety and sleepless nights over the uncertainty starring him concerning the future of his large immediate family. At 68, Hasahya already has 12 wives, 102 children, and about 578 grandchildren, and his home has turned into a somewhat tourist destination,

Armed police officers near the scene of a shooting in Hamburg, Germany on Thursday March 9, 2023 after one or more people opened fire in a church. The Hamburg city government says the shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district on Thursday evening. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP) By The Associated Press A shooting at

Emergency workers and police gather at the scene following a deadly shooting in Hamburg, Germany, March 9, 2023 in this still image taken from video Nonstop News via Reuters By Reuters A gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg,