A senior US official yesterday met President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House in Nairobi for talks on deepening bilateral ties. Assistant Secretary for Bureau of African Affairs Tibor Nagy is in Nairobi to, among other issues, discuss strategic partnership, regional security, trade and investment.Operations against Al Shabaab will feature in the meetings between Nagy and

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he will nominate State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert as the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN). Heather Nauert, 48, was an American journalist at Fox News and has been the government official spokesperson for the United States Department of State since April 24, 2017. Before then she

Human rights and migrant welfare groups are urging Greece to scrap its part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey, designed to reduce unchecked migration to Europe from the east. In a statement on Dec. 6, a total of 20 groups sharply criticized the winter living conditions in Greece’s eastern Aegean island migrant

WASHINGTON –A group of Republican and Democratic senators defied the White House on Wednesday and introduced a resolution that would hold Saudi Arabia’s crown prince accountable for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The resolution was introduced by Republicans Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and Todd Young and Democrats Dianne Feinstein, Ed Markey and Christopher Coons. The

Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, has received a written invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to attend an annual Gulf Arab summit being held in Riyadh on Dec. 9, the Qatar News Agency said on Tuesday. Qatar is locked in a bitter dispute with Saudi Arabia that has fractured the six-nation Gulf

A Houthi delegation arrived in Sweden on Tuesday for U.N.-sponsored Yemen peace talks, the first since 2016, as Western nations press for an end to the war and the United Nations warned of a looming economic disaster. The nearly four-year-old conflict, which has killed tens of thousands and left millions facing starvation, pits the Iranian-aligned

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is “complicit” in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a senator said Tuesday. Senator Lindsey Graham said the de facto ruler of the kingdom was surely responsible for the Saudi journalist’s death. “The crown prince, is a wrecking ball. I think he’s complicit in the murder of

Director of Kenya’s state oil company, Joe Sang, has announced that he will not seek a second term in office after the company’s board of directors sanctioned an investigation into the disappearance of 21 million litres of fuel. Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) had initially said the lost fuel was either spilt or stolen by vandals.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months. Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed illness. One

World Jewish Relief Walter Kammerling was sent to England on board the Kindertransport in December 1938 Exactly 80 years ago, the first train rescuing 200 Jewish children from Nazi Berlin arrived in Britain. Their orphanage had been destroyed during Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi sympathisers terrorised Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Their