Photo (AP) Draft proposal suggests few changes from previous Ethiopian plan endorsed by protesters but rejected by military. Sudan’s ruling military council has said a proposal submitted by the African Union (AU) and Ethiopia received on June 27 is suitable for the resumption of talks with the opposition on a transition to democracy.The generals of

Twenty petitioners have moved to the High Court seeking to compel the State to withdraw from a maritime delimitation case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Kenya was sued at the court by Somalia in August 2014 over a contested 62,000 square miles oil-rich triangle in the Indian Ocean. The petitioners, under Kinoti and

Photo/Reuters Attention to strong language in paragraphs five and six. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened opponents with prison if they try to impeach him, the latest in what a top U.N. official and an Asian lawmakers’ group this week called a pattern of persecution and assaults on free speech. Duterte vented his anger late

Muslim ban has nothing to do with national security, says Maryland senator The Muslim ban in the U.S. continues to have a “devastating” impact on nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, and on their families many of whom are U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, a new report revealed. Georgetown University’s “Muslim Ban”

People are prevented to enter a security area after an explosion in Tunis, Thursday June 27, 2019. The Tunisian Interior ministry said one police officer has died in the suicide bombing targeting a police patrol in a busy commercial street in central Tunis. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi) Twin suicide attacks targeting security forces struck Tunisia’s capital

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the United States imposing fresh sanctions on Iran before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was “not talking boots on the ground” should military action be necessary

Corruption and corporate malfeasance, often in the form of white-collar crime, is alive and kicking in the private sector. It may not be as pervasive as in the public sector but it is prevalent, especially where the pickings are rich. Where there are accountability requirements, they can often be kept under wraps with the usual

The hearing of the maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia will start on September 9 and run through to September 13 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, Netherlands. The court Tuesday released a schedule of the trial on a day the Foreign Affairs Cabinet secretary Monica Juma appeared before the National

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, yesterday called on Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) to allow an investigation into the bloody crackdown on protesters which took place in Sudanese capital Khartoum on 3 June. Bachelet stated that Sudan’s military-backed government had not responded to its request to cooperate in an investigation into

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