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A Russian ship’s cargo of dangerous ammonium nitrate was stranded in Beirut port for years
By CNN,
1257, August 6, 2020 (EAT)
As Lebanon's investigation into the devastating blast in Beirut continues, officials have pointed to a possible cause: A massive shipment of agricultu...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta sends his condolences following Beirut blast
By Citizen Reporter,
1330, August 5, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of solidarity and encouragement to President Michel Aoun and the People of the Lebanese Republic following...
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At least 78 killed, 4000 injured in Beirut blast, many more feared dead
By Reuters,
943, August 5, 2020 (EAT)
Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 peopl...
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Suicide car bomber hits checkpoint at Somalia’s Mogadishu port
By Reuters,
1045, July 4, 2020 (EAT)
An explosion shook parts of the Somali capital of Mogadishu early on Saturday as a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint just outside the port, w...
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George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds
By VOA,
841, June 2, 2020 (EAT)
Minnesota officials have ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide, saying he suffered from a loss of blood flow due to compression on his neck while be...
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Probe underway after freed aid worker Silvia Romano bombarded by hate mail over Islam
By Reuters,
1623, May 12, 2020 (EAT)
An Italian aid worker, freed at the weekend after being held hostage for 18 months by Islamist militants in Somalia, has been deluged with hate mail b...
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Kind cops Amina Mutio Ramadhan and Ibrahim Abajila awarded TVs, gift vouchers
By Citizen Reporter,
907, April 5, 2020 (EAT)
Two police officers who were spotted helping Kenyans as they enforced the nationwide curfew on Friday received gifts for their act of kindness. The...
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Kenyans on Twitter rally behind Nairobi girl whose mum suffered devastating stroke in Nanyuki
By Tonny Ndungu,
1200, March 4, 2020 (EAT)
Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) in their numbers have rallied behind a Kenyan girl who made a passionate appeal on Twitter, asking her followers to come to t...
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US Senate acquits Trump, ending noisy impeachment
By CNN,
741, February 6, 2020 (EAT)
The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment Wednesday, marking the inevitable and historic end to a bitterly foug...
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Woman arrested over bomb scare incident at Doctors Park in Nairobi
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1337, February 3, 2020 (EAT)
Police in Nairobi have arrested a woman believed to have been behind the bomb scare incident at Doctors Park in Parklands on January 30. The Direct...
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Nairobi building cordoned off as police conduct sweep after bomb scare
By Ian Omondi,
1852, January 30, 2020 (EAT)
The Doctors Plaza in Parklands, Nairobi, has been cordoned off from members of the public following reports of a bomb scare. A sweep is presently b...
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Chinese Gov’t poses global threat to human rights: study
By Citizen Reporter,
1004, January 15, 2020 (EAT)
The Chinese government is carrying out an intense attack on the global system for defending human rights. According to Human Rights Watch, the Chin...
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Who was Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian commander Trump ordered killed?
By CNN,
1924, January 3, 2020 (EAT)
Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump at Baghdad International Airport on Friday, was hailed as a hero i...
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At least 76 dead, 70 injured in Mogadishu checkpoint blast
By Agencies,
1539, December 28, 2019 (EAT)
At least 76 people were killed and 70 more injured after a massive car bomb exploded at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu....
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Inside the private jet that flew President Kenyatta to Japan, Russia
By Joseph Bonyo,
2107, October 24, 2019 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his entourage to Tokyo, Japan and Sochi, Russia flew in style using a luxury private jet for the back-to-back official tr...
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Hong Kong mops up after weekend of violence, braces for more protests
By Reuters,
855, August 12, 2019 (EAT)
Metro stations in Hong Kong resumed regular service on Monday and streets were being cleaned of debris as the city recovered from another night of vio...
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Car bomb explodes in Libya’s Benghazi, killing 3 UN staff
By Reuters,
1748, August 11, 2019 (EAT)
A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three U.N. staff members and two other mission members on Saturday, the United Nati...
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Some skeptical as Trump prepares to visit sites of shootings
By VOA,
1207, August 7, 2019 (EAT)
President Trump is bringing a message aimed at national unity and healing to the sites of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. But the words he o...
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Hong Kong civil servants to rally, as wave of protests planned
By VOA,
1251, August 2, 2019 (EAT)
Thousands of Hong Kong civil servants are planning to rally Friday night in support of protesters and to urge authorities to rebuild confidence in the...
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Protesters clash in Hong Kong as cycle of violence intensifies
By Reuters,
1942, July 28, 2019 (EAT)
Hong Kong police clashed with thousands of protesters on Sunday, as they sought to defend China’s main representative office from crowds seething ov...
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