Oromo youth chant slogans during a protest in-front of Jawar MohammedÕs house, an Oromo activist and leader of the Oromo protest in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia is facing political anxiety amid pending elections, delayed political reforms, and forces opposed to reforms, fuelling inter-ethnic violence in the country. Trouble started when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced

Policemen stand guard next to a security barricade on a street, before the Supreme Court’s verdict on a disputed religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslim, in Ayodhya, India, November 9, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer NO ARCHIVES. NO RESALES. India’s Supreme Court on Saturday awarded a bitterly disputed religious site to Hindus, dealing a defeat

Photo (AP) A U.S. judge on Friday said a former Twitter (TWTR.N) employee could be released on bond, with travel restrictions, while he awaits trial on charges of spying for Saudi Arabia. Magistrate Judge Paula McCandlis, of the U.S. District Court in Seattle, said her decision to grant Ahmad Abouammo, 41, bond would go into

President Uhuru Kenyatta signs Data Protection Bill, 2019 into law at State House in Nairobi on November 8, 2019. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday signed into law a bill to regulate collection, retrieval, processing, storage, use and disclosure of personal data. The move was commended by the cloud computing arm of Amazon, which announced that

Photo/Al Jazeera Iran’s air defense force has shot down an “unknown” drone in the country’s southwest, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. The agency said that Iranian air defense forces hit the drone in the early morning at the port city of Mahshahr, which is in the oil-rich Khuzestan province and lies on

Lawyer Kibe Mungai representing petitioner Constitutional and Human Rights court says judgement will be delivered on notice. Budget cuts make it hard for judges stationed in different places to convene and write judgement Treasury slashed Judiciary’s budget by Sh3 billion last month, citing revenue shortfalls. A three-judge bench presiding over the Kenya-Somalia maritime border dispute

Philippines Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo speaks beside Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino during her first meeting with a drug war task force after President Rodrigo Duterte appointed her as its co-head, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez The opposition leader put in charge of Philippine President

Leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM-IO) Riek Machar shakes hands with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir after a tripartite summit on the revitalised agreement on resolutions of the conflict in South Sudan, at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda, November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer South Sudan’s president and a former rebel leader

The Kenyan woman swallowed cocaine weighing 1.2 kilograms, officials said Thai authorities are holding a Kenyan woman for allegedly attempting to smuggle more than a kilo of cocaine in her stomach into the country. The woman, whose identity is yet to be revealed, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport after arriving into the country from Angola,

Congolese militia commander Bosco Ntaganda is seen in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands November 7, 2019. Peter Dejong/Pool via REUTERS The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers. Ntaganda,