Parliament Building. Before the budget was read, a stalemate played out between the National Assembly and the Senate over the Division of Revenue Allocation Bill 2019. Henry Rotich may be heading the powerful Treasury docket in the public eye, but his influence as the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the country’s coffers remains weak. Unlike

In this picture released on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting at his residence in Tehran, Iran. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, June 24, 2019, targeting Iran’s supreme leader and his associates

The Ethiopian army brigadier accused of leading a failed coup against a regional government has been killed in a firefight with the security forces, a spokesman for the Ethiopian prime minister’s office said Monday. Brig. Gen. Asamnew Tsige was killed on the outskirts of Bahir Dar, capital of the restive northern Amhara region, Nigussu Tilahun

It was clearly a quite broad plot, but its coordination must have been off. Police are still rounding up suspected plotters, and Abiy Ahmed was still prime minister on Monday. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a very lucky man. He has survived three attempts to kill or overthrow him in the past year. Last

Sudan’s ruling Military Council spokesperson Shamseddine Kabbashi, speaks during a press conference at the Presidential Palace, in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, June 23, 2019. Sudan’s protest movement accepted an Ethiopian roadmap for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said on Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country’s military rulers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Sudan’s protest movement

Yemen’s Houthi movement targeted Abha and Jizan airports in southern Saudi Arabia with drone attacks on Sunday, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said. There was no immediate Saudi confirmation of the attacks. The Iran-aligned Houthis have stepped up missile and drone attacks on Saudi cities in the past month. In response the Saudi-led military coalition fighting

Dr. Ambachew Mekonnen, president of Amhara regional state and Ethiopia’s Army Chief General Seare Mekonnen Ambachew Mekonnen killed in his offices by ‘mercenaries’ in Bahir Dar, while army chief is shot dead in Addis Ababa. The president of Ethiopia’s Amhara region and his top adviser were killed in an attempted coup in which the country’s

AFP/File / Monirul BHUIYAN Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on television Sunday as the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup in a regional state of this Horn of Africa nation. Abiy took to national television in the early hours dressed in military fatigues and announced

US AIR FORCE/AFP/File / Handout Tehran insists that a US Global Hawk surveillance drone was within its airspace when it was shot down, a claim the US denies Tehran warned Washington Saturday that any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames after US President Donald Trump said he called

Mau Mau, a major nationalist revolutionary movement that originally sought to reclaim land that the British settlers had taken away from them in the 1950s. The group would eventually contribute to Kenya’s independence. Pic credit: Daily Nation Mohamed Hassan has been described as one of the freedom fighters of Kenya who funded the nationalist movement