Kenya’s president ordered all state procurement personnel on Friday to undergo lie-detector tests as part of measures to tackle graft after dozens of officials and business people were detained for alleged theft of public funds. On Monday, 54 people, including the public service ministry’s principal secretary, were named to face charges related to the stealing

According an official, the consignment is believed to have come from Benin Republic but that authorities were yet to ascertain their destination. The incident occured in a town located in the southwestern Ogun State. Occupants of the vehicles fled after they were stopped, security forces are currently on their trail, Brigadier general Olaniiyi Olatunde told

Mogadishu – A delegation led by the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed arrived in Nairobi on wedesday for a one-day official visit. President Mohamed will meet with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday and discuss issues related to the two countries.to discuss the sea border dispute The Director of Information

Madrid-The Spanish Navy has rescued 408 migrants who have been traveling to the Mediterranean to end this weekend from North Africa.operations have claimed 115 people have been detained in Gibraltar, as they traveled five small yachts on Sunday, just days after they rescued 293 other nine Nets. Spain’s spokesperson said the three-pronged African migrants are

Turkey’s and Qatar Support Fund donated about $ 1 million to Yemeni people affected by the civil war in the country. The donation, followed by a ceremony at the Turkish Red Crescent in Istanbul, where a bilateral cooperation agreement was signed between Yemen’s chief of Qatar’s High Commissioner for Refugees and Turku Faisal Rashid Al

ADDIS ABABA, — The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed concern on Sunday over increasing instances of external interference by non-African actors in Somalia’s internal affairs. This threatens to disrupt the peace-building and state-building efforts currently underway in Somalia, Faki said during his meeting at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian

without visas, we will follow you very soon,” these are the words of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a state banquet for Paul Kagame last Friday. The idea as and when it is implemented will further open up Ethiopia to African visitors and help boost the country’s tourism potential and in the long run

The UN called for greater international support and investment in Zimbabwe with a new administration in place and plans to hold free and fair general elections later in 2018. Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident Co-ordinator and Resident Representative for the UN Development Programme in Zimbabwe, said in New York that now is the time to support

Addis Ababa – A large delegation led by the prime minister of the federal government of Somalia Mr. Hassan Ali Khaire arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Khaire and accompanying officials are meeting with Prime Minister Abi Ahmed and the African Union Mission in Somalia Amisom to discuss the importance of the region and the African

Expatriates working in Kenya have been given 60 days to regularise their status with the authorities as the government intensifies a crackdown on illegal foreign workers in the country. The interior minister, Fred Matiang’i said the government is determined to weed out undocumented foreigners because they are a security threat and deny the government tax