Latest NewsWorld Bank launches probe into Ruto’s multi-billion loan programme
By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
Read MoreUAE says it intercepted an Iranian drone after weekend US strikes on rocket launchers in Iran
By The Associated Press The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United
Read MoreSomalia’s economic fraud exposed-rising poverty and falling growth a fantasy budget
File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire warned that Somalia was entering a dangerous economic downturn. The Ministers of Finance, Planning
Read MoreOne dead, several injured, in Swiss shooting incident, police say
A police officer speaks to a driver near the site of a deadly shooting at an event, according to the police, at Schachen in Aarau, Switzerland, August 30, 2026. Photographer Romina Amato By
Read MoreForty years of President Museveni isn’t enough-now his son wants to become the next president of Uganda
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Museveni’s son just announced his ambition to succeed his father as president, raising a heavy question: How long will citizens watch political
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World Bank launches probe into Ruto’s multi-billion loan programme
By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
Read MoreUAE says it intercepted an Iranian drone after weekend US strikes on rocket launchers in Iran
By The Associated Press The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United
Read MoreSomalia’s economic fraud exposed-rising poverty and falling growth a fantasy budget
File Photo/Somali Times By MP Dr Abdillahi Hashi Abib Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire warned that Somalia was entering a dangerous economic downturn. The Ministers of Finance, Planning
Read MoreOne dead, several injured, in Swiss shooting incident, police say
A police officer speaks to a driver near the site of a deadly shooting at an event, according to the police, at Schachen in Aarau, Switzerland, August 30, 2026. Photographer Romina Amato By
Read MoreForty years of President Museveni isn’t enough-now his son wants to become the next president of Uganda
Photo Credit: File By The African Exponent Museveni’s son just announced his ambition to succeed his father as president, raising a heavy question: How long will citizens watch political
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Featured ArticlesWorld Bank launches probe into Ruto’s multi-billion loan programme
By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
World Bank launches probe into Ruto’s multi-billion loan programme
By Kenyans The World Bank, through the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is undertaking an impact assessment of the Hustler Fund to establish how the credit programme has helped Kenyans.
EDITOR’S PIC OF THE WEEKChina confirms 425 deaths from new coronavirus
More than 20,400 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported so far, says China’s National Health Commission The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 425, the
Read MoreDrones ‘symbol of Turkey’s power, independence’
French daily says TB2 armed drones play key role in Turkey’s foreign policy, weakening of PKK terrorist organization Drones have become a symbol of Turkey’s rising power and its growing
Read MoreGermany scales back cannabis liberalization after EU talks
The leaves of a growing cannabis or hemp plant stand in a box at the Cannabis Museum in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The German government on Wednesday presented scaled-back plans
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China confirms 425 deaths from new coronavirus
More than 20,400 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported so far, says China’s National Health Commission The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 425, the
Read MoreDrones ‘symbol of Turkey’s power, independence’
French daily says TB2 armed drones play key role in Turkey’s foreign policy, weakening of PKK terrorist organization Drones have become a symbol of Turkey’s rising power and its growing
Read MoreGermany scales back cannabis liberalization after EU talks
The leaves of a growing cannabis or hemp plant stand in a box at the Cannabis Museum in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The German government on Wednesday presented scaled-back plans
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Blog PostsEl Chapo’s wife goes from obscurity to celebrity to arrest
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, leaves a Brooklyn federal court in New York after attending the trial of her husband Joaquin “El Chapo”
CIA nominee pledges to provide ‘unvarnished’ intelligence
William Burns testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Somalia’s Prime Minister Roble meets members of the international community
Photo/Somali Times The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Hussein Roble, today met in Mogadishu with friends in the international community interested in Somalia. Prime
Biden to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman about Khashoggi report
The call scheduled on Wednesday would be the first conversation between Biden, as US president, and King Salman [File: Fahad Shadeed/Reuters] Report warns the imminent release of ‘explosive’ US
Hyundai Motor to replace battery systems in $900 million electric car recall
By Heekyong Yang, Joyce Lee Hyundai Motor Co will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks – a costly $900 million recall that lays bare the
Tiger Woods seriously injured in crash on steep LA-area road
A law enforcement officer looks over a damaged vehicle following a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in the Rancho Palos Verdes suburb of Los Angeles. Woods
Somalia’s second journalist is arrested in Puntland
Ahmed Botan Arab According to International Federation of Journalists report Freelance journalist Ahmed Botan Arab was arrested on February 21 in Bosaso, in the northeast region of Puntland,
Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak is positive of Covid-19
File Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud has announced that he has been quarantined in Burundi for eight days after being diagnosed with
British products get 25-year tax free entry in Kenya pact
Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development Cabinet Secretary Betty C. Maina speaking at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, JKIA on Monday, January 18, 2021. Kenya’s trade pact with UK
Somalia suicide bombing took place in Mogadishu
Photo/Somali Times The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a police station in the capital, Mogadishu. Benadir regional deputy security commissioner Ali Abdi Wardhere issued a statement
El Chapo’s wife goes from obscurity to celebrity to arrest
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, leaves a Brooklyn federal court in New York after attending the trial of her husband Joaquin “El Chapo”
CIA nominee pledges to provide ‘unvarnished’ intelligence
William Burns testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Somalia’s Prime Minister Roble meets members of the international community
Photo/Somali Times The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Hussein Roble, today met in Mogadishu with friends in the international community interested in Somalia. Prime
Biden to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman about Khashoggi report
The call scheduled on Wednesday would be the first conversation between Biden, as US president, and King Salman [File: Fahad Shadeed/Reuters] Report warns the imminent release of ‘explosive’ US
Hyundai Motor to replace battery systems in $900 million electric car recall
By Heekyong Yang, Joyce Lee Hyundai Motor Co will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks – a costly $900 million recall that lays bare the
Tiger Woods seriously injured in crash on steep LA-area road
A law enforcement officer looks over a damaged vehicle following a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in the Rancho Palos Verdes suburb of Los Angeles. Woods
Somalia’s second journalist is arrested in Puntland
Ahmed Botan Arab According to International Federation of Journalists report Freelance journalist Ahmed Botan Arab was arrested on February 21 in Bosaso, in the northeast region of Puntland,
Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak is positive of Covid-19
File Photo/Somali Times Somalia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud has announced that he has been quarantined in Burundi for eight days after being diagnosed with
British products get 25-year tax free entry in Kenya pact
Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development Cabinet Secretary Betty C. Maina speaking at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, JKIA on Monday, January 18, 2021. Kenya’s trade pact with UK
Somalia suicide bombing took place in Mogadishu
Photo/Somali Times The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a police station in the capital, Mogadishu. Benadir regional deputy security commissioner Ali Abdi Wardhere issued a statement