At least 15 people have died in various parts of the country following heavy rains which entered their third day yesterday. At least 250 houses in Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Arusha were destroyed in the downpours, and the number looked set to go up as authorities continued to carry out a countrywide assessment. The

The 29th Arab League Summit was attended by the leaders of the Arab world today officially opened in the city of Dhahran  in Saudi Arabia. Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is not involved in the Qatari issue, because of the disagreement between the Gulf Arab countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain in the

Syria- The US, UK and France have bombed multiple government targets in Syria in an early morning operation targeting alleged chemical weapons sites. The strikes were in response to a suspected chemical attack on the Syrian town of Douma last week. Explosions hit the capital, Damascus, as well as two locations near the city of

Tanzania’s government has approved a law that will regulate content posted online, introducing fees for bloggers and online media in addition to policing morals and authenticity of social media users. The regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2018, was initially published by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and came

The government has proposed a daily taxation of Shs100 on all social media users.While addressing journalists at Uganda Media Centre today, the State Minister for Planning, Mr David Bahati said the Shs100 will be charged daily on each SIM card that uses internet for social media. President Museveni recently revealed he was planning to introduce

ANKARA-Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has urged the U.S. and Russia to stop “fighting like street bullies”. Speaking at the Gebze Technical University in northwestern Kocaeli province Wednesday, Yildirim said: “‘I have better missiles’ one says. The other says ‘my missiles are better’. They are fighting like street bullies.” The Turkish premier’s remarks came after U.S.

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, has weighed in on the diplomatic tension between United Arab Emirates  and Somalia, describing the latter as ungrateful and unfair to its Gulf ally.Khalifa used his official Twitter account to blast Somalia for ‘denying and insulting’ its ally ‘in the name of the nation’s enemies’, despite UAE’s

Russia hopes to open a 1500-man naval base in the breakaway Hargeisa, Somalia in the horn of Africa, a region where numerous countries have done so in recent years because of its strategic location. But in exchange, Africa sources say, the  leadership expects Russia to recognize its independence  Hargeisa,  from Somalia. If that happens, Moscow,

Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe still has the keys to an official residence more than four months after he was forced to retire, a spokesperson has claimed. George Charamba, who was Mugabe’s spokesperson and is now the spokesperson for new president Emmerson Mnangagwa, told the privately-owned Standard newspaper on Sunday: “Someone is not telling the

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said on Friday that a fresh round of talks to respond to Egypt’s concerns over a mega dam being built by Ethiopia on the Nile has failed A 17-hour discussion between foreign ministers and intelligence officers failed to resolve differences over Ethiopia’s $4bn (£2bn) Grand Renaissance Dam being built along