AFP / Dale DE LA REY Huge crowds marched in blazing summer heat through the streets of Hong Kong in a noisy, colourful demonstration calling on the government to scrap its planned extradition law Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader on Monday refused to scrap a controversial plan to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland, a day

In this June 5, 2019, photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. President Donald Trump says it’s “case closed,” but Democrats are just getting started with special counsel Robert Mueller. Holding the first in a series of hearings on Mueller’s report, Democrats this coming week are intensifying their focus

Photo/Reuters People in Sudan are dying, at the hands of a brutal military which is refusing to hand over power to civilians. And in all this bloodshed, the world must not turn its back on Sudan. When Omar al-Bashir was unceremoniously ousted from power, there was a hope that power would immediately be conferred to

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese protesters use burning tyres to erect a barricade on a street, demanding that the country’s Transitional Military Council hand over power to civilians, in Khartoum, Sudan June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer A civil disobedience campaign to demand civilian rule left the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum largely deserted on Sunday, while police fired

FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets the head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdelrahman, to mediate in the political crisis that has followed the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, Khartoum, Sudan June 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo Two Sudanese rebel leaders were arrested early on Saturday, opposition

Photo/Reuters Russia and the United States blamed each other for a near collision between their warships in East Asian waters on Friday with both countries accusing one another of dangerous and unprofessional behavior. Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Washington would lodge a formal diplomatic protest to Russia, while a senior Russian parliamentarian said

Lending institutions fear that Kenya’s foot may be stuck on the debt pedal with the latest loan in the amount of $750 million from the World Bank to be paid over 30 years. A number of experts and players in the financial sector do not think all is well. The Central Bank, which is the

A man alleged to be a Somali Presidential candidate and three Kenyan nationals were detained on Thursday under suspicion of terror related offences in Nairobi. Ibrahim Kassim Farah, Mohamud Mohamed Bashir, Ali Abdi Mohamed and Hussein Hassan Muhammud were arrested on Wednesday in Muguga area in Kiambu. Ibrahim Kassim was arrested at his house in

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a news conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri Ethiopia’s prime minister arrived in Khartoum on Friday to meet the chief of Sudan’s ruling military council in a bid to mediate in the political crisis that has followed the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in

FILE – In this April 14, 2018, file photo, then-Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington. McKenzie, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Mideast says Iran appears to have decided to “step back and recalculate” in response to a U.S. military buildup in the