Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz leaves the King Faisal Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia May 15, 2022. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court By Reuters Saudi King Salman said on Sunday the kingdom was working hard to support stability and balance in oil markets, including by establishing and maintaining the agreement of

By Daily Nation President William Ruto Sunday accused his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta of presiding over an economic and security mess, which he said he needed time to fix, as he rolled out plans to finish dams and other projects whose construction he said were stopped due to political reasons. For the second day running —

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. Truss has only been in office for six weeks. But already her libertarian economic policies have triggered a financial crisis, emergency central bank intervention, multiple U-turns and the firing of her Treasury chief.

File Photo – China’s President Xi Jinping By Anadolu Agency China’s President Xi Jinping on Sunday opened the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) in Beijing by pledging to take control of Taiwan and advocating the “one country, two systems” policy, according to the state-run media. In a speech to nearly 2,300

Al-Shabab is a jihadi insurgent group active in Somalia and in recent years, increasingly in East African countries. The group developed in the early 2000s with the Union of Islamic Courts in the capital, Mogadishu, and installed themselves as Al-Shabab terrorist group in Mogadishu and much of Somalia in 2006. Al-Shabab comprised the young, radical

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari By Reuters Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday he had summoned the U.S. ambassador after President Joe Biden questioned the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear programme. In a speech on Thursday, Biden said Pakistan is “maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as it has “nuclear weapons without

By Anadolu Agency The number of workers who were killed in a blast at a coal mine in northern Turkey increased to 40, according to the Turkish interior minister on Saturday. Suleyman Soylu said 11 wounded workers are under treatment in hospitals. “One of our injured has been discharged,” Soylu told reporters in the Amasra

By The East African Kenya’s President William Ruto has named former TV news anchor Hussein Mohamed as the new State House Spokesman, formalising a role he had played right from the time of campaigns. Mr Mohamed, a former Citizen TV news anchor known for hard-hitting questions during interviews, quit television two years ago before returning

Amnesty International Responding to news of the detention on 11 October of Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Muleya Mwananyanda, said: “Abdalle Ahmed Mumin is being arbitrarily held solely for defending the right to freedom of expression in Somalia and for raising

British Prime Minister Liz Truss, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng attend the annual Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 2, 2022. Photographer Hannah McKay/File Photo By Reuters British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to