Photo (AP) Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah Kuwait’s 90-year-old ruling emir has cancelled a visit Thursday with President Donald Trump at the White House after being admitted to a U.S. hospital following an earlier health scare last month. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah will undergo unspecified tests during his hospitalization, the state-run KUNA

President Mnangagwa and President Cyril Ramaphosa I AM an African. I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa. The pain of the violent conflict that the peoples of Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, Burundi and Algeria is a pain I also bear. The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human degradation of my

Mombasa Principal Magistrate Edgar Kagoni during a court session. He has been arrested over missing Sh30m seized heroin. When Mombasa Principal Magistrate Edgar Kagoni condemned Tanzanian drug trafficker Hussein Masoud to a 30-year jail term and fined him Sh90 million, he warned that the sentence would act as a deterrent to anyone who might be

Photo/Reuters The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers, which went dark off Syria earlier in the week, has been photographed by satellite off the Syrian port of Tartus, Maxar Technologies Inc., a U.S. space technology company said on Saturday. Maxar’s supplied image shows the

Kenya Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma There is also concern that Kenya could suffer humiliating defeat at the United Nations during elections for the Security Council’s seat • It is understood the CS is not getting along with her PS, Amb Macharia Kamau, and that most of the time they work at cross-purposes. • The

By Moses Uneh Yahmia The exploited layers including workers, peasants and urban poor of every African country led by vanguard revolutionary movements must fight for the unification and socialist transformation of Africa. My answer is a resounding no. Rather than agreeing, it is logical to say China is practically demonstrating to Africa how to exorcise

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has postponed the Kenya-Somalia maritime dispute case following an application by the Kenya government, which sought time to recruit a new defence team. Kenya’s request is contained in a letter from the Attorney General’s office, dated September 3. “I have the honour to inform you that the court has

Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died. He was 95. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a tweet Friday, mourning him as an “icon of liberation.” He

Governor’s prosecution will plunge county into a crisis as there’s no deputy governor Garbage tenders: EACC traces Sh20m to Sonko account • Sonko is alleged to have received Sh20 million through proxies • Governor has denied all allegations and insisted that he in fact blocked the payments. Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko allegedly pocketed up to

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a shrine holy to Jews and Muslims, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Thursday not to open a dialogue with Iran, after U.S.