R. Kelly sits as the jury foreman reads the guilty verdict in Kelly’s sex abuse trial at Brooklyn’s Federal District Court in a courtroom sketch in New York, U.S., September 27, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg Reuters By Tyler Clifford and Luc Cohen R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury on Monday in his sex trafficking

Parliament buildings in Nairobi. By Business Daily Africa Persons charged with corruption and other economic crimes will be locked out of next year’s polls if MPs approve proposed changes to the laws on elections, leadership and integrity. Aspirants with active court cases will be barred from running for the position of President, Member of Parliament,

Photo/Somali Times/Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni’s evil son Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Ugnada’s ‘dictator’ Yoweri Museveni, his son the Commander of the Ugandan Infantry, Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and other Ugandan military officials led by him arrived in Mogadishu today and held separate meetings with Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. General Muhoozi

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, after returning from a weekend at Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday to

The supply ship Qinghaihu of China’s 13th naval escort fleet departs from a port in Zhanjiang, South China’s Guangdong province, to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters for escort missions, Nov 9, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua] The 39th fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy set out from the city of Qingdao, in east

Refugees By African Exponent What this means for future refugees? Across recent headlines, Priti Patel came under fire for her inability to solve the so-called “Channel Crisis” as a record (for this year) 828 people arrived in the month of August 2021. This was highlighted by rising tensions between the Home Secretary and her French

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A dead body hangs from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2021. A witness told The Associated Press that the bodies of four men were brought to the main square and three of them were moved to other parts of

FILE – In this May 21, 2017 file photo, supporters of Hungary’s political opposition display a banner during an anti-government protest, at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. When Hungary and Poland joined the European Union in 2004, after decades of Communist domination, they thirsted for Western democratic standards and prosperity. Yet

Women relax on the banks of Lake Zurich on a sunny spring day, as the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann. Reuters By Oliver Hirt A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax

Center for Strategic and International Studies By Jake Harrington, Jared Thompson The resumption of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia in July 2021 after a six-month pause under the Biden administration is renewing focus on Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen, al Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa more commonly known as al Shabaab. For nearly two decades, al