President Uhuru Kenyatta President Uhuru Kenyatta has confirmed Ukur Yatani as the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury even as he pledged to focus on the economy this year. In a televised address in Mombasa on Tuesday, the President announced a raft of changes targeting the agricultural sector and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a

Photo Credit Reuters At least 57 people were killed and others were missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In neighboring India, at least 10 people were killed after several avalanches hit the northern-part of Indian-administered Kashmir. Two Pakistani officials said many villagers were still

Protesters took to the streets of Iran for a third day on Monday, expressing outrage over the authorities’ admission that they had shot down a passenger plane by accident during a confrontation with the United States. Video from inside Iran showed riot police and protesters back out on the streets on Monday after two days

Russian, Turkish top diplomats, defense chiefs, heads of Libya’s warring sides, gather in Moscow to address Libyan crisis Moscow is hosting a series of negotiations on Monday to find a solution the Libya crisis. The top diplomats and defense chiefs of Russia and Turkey gathered in the Russian capital to assist the talks between Fayez

Three civilians were killed in a suspected Al Shabaab attack in Kamuthe area, Garissa County in a pre-dawn strike on Monday. North Eastern Regional Police Commander Paul Soi confirmed the attack to the Nation. Reports suggest all the victims are teachers. According to Mr Soi, the militants were targeting a communication mast and a police

This undated file photo provided by the FBI shows Mohammed Alshamrani. The United States is preparing to remove more than a dozen Saudi military students from a training program and return them to their home country after an investigation into a deadly shooting by Saudi aviation student Alshamrani at a Florida navy base in December

Photo/Somali Times By Peter Kagwanja Two years ago, the Horn of Africa was on the cusp of a democratic revolution. “There is a wind of hope blowing in the Horn of Africa,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. REGIME CHANGE However, although Ethiopia and Somalia are among 14 African countries holding elections in 2020, democratic

DP Ruto William at a past function. [Source/Dr William Samoei Ruto PhD/Twitter] Former Presidential candidate Abduba Dida has weighed in on the perceived fallout between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto. In a tweet on Sunday, Dida said that the president has the freedom to ask the second in command to resign if

Oman’s newly sworn-in Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said receives condolences from Britain’s Prince Charles in Muscat, Oman January 12, 2020. Oman News Agency/Handout via REUTERS World and regional leaders, many at odds with one another, met Oman’s new ruler on Sunday to offer condolences for the death of Sultan Qaboos whose quiet diplomacy during five

Men comfort each other as they mourn the death of a relative who was killed in a bomb blast in a mosque, at a hospital morgue in Quetta, Pakistan January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed A blast at a mosque in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 13 people, including a senior police