Credit:Daily Nation Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed. She lost her bid to be the continent’s top diplomat to her Chad counterpart, Moussa Faki Mahamat. Kenya spent Sh437.7million in its failed bid to capture the African Union Commission chairmanship in a campaign fronted by Deputy President William Ruto. Data submitted to Parliament shows that Sh437,776, 982 was

Nairobi’s Governor Mike Sonko speaks to a lawyer during a hearing after he was arrested on corruption-related charges, at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya. December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi Police in the Kenyan capital sealed off a court building where the governor of Nairobi County was due to be charged with corruption and

Women sit among men in a newly opened cafe in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, August 2, 2019. REUTERS/ Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, the authorities said on Sunday, further eroding some of the world’s strictest social rules as sweeping reforms take hold. Previously,

Credit: Daily Nation Lamu West MP Stanley Muthama at the Eldoret chief magistrate’s court on July 1, 2019 where he was charged with failing to remit Sh487 million in taxes. He was freed on a Sh3 million bond pending the hearing of the case. An MP could have been paid more than Sh300 million to

Photo/Somali Times By Michael Rubin It is time for Foggy Bottom and Congress to wake-up, because poor choices in the U.S. Embassy in Somalia increasingly waste taxpayer funds, endanger regional stability, and ultimately undermine U.S. national security. NAIROBI, KENYA—Al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with ties to Al Qaeda, is on the warpath. In November 2019

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Just months after senior U.S. officials delivered substantial military aid to Saudi Arabia to counter threats from Iran, America’s relationship with the kingdom is being tested by a

A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol plane. | KYODO In an envisioned Middle East mission, the government is considering having a Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol plane mainly cover the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, officials have said. The P-3C patrol plane, which gathers information of sea areas from the air, will operate mainly over the

In this photo released on twitter account of Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif , Zarif, left, shakes hand with Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani prior to leaving Zurich, Switzerland for Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. Iran and the U.S. conducted a prisoner exchange Saturday that saw a detained Princeton scholar released for an Iranian

• The militants separated the passengers into two groups [locals and non-locals]. • It is at this point that they shot dead the eight nonlocals before ordering the other passengers to get on the bus and proceed with the journey. Eight nonlocals were killed on Friday after suspected al Shabaab militants attacked a bus between

Photo/Reuters While Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko was being arrested in Voi and airlifted to the capital city, his lawyers were busy trying to block his arrest and prosecution. His lawyer Cecil Miller sued the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of Criminal Investigations, the Attorney General, the Inspector General of Police, the Independent Policing