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Kenya bags coveted UN Security Council seat, floors Djibouti
By Kepha Muiruri,
2139, June 18, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya has bagged the last remaining spot on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after flooring Djibouti in Thursday’s repeat vote. The cou...
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Go or no go? U.S. updates travel advisories amid coronavirus outbreak
By VOA,
1121, February 29, 2020 (EAT)
The U.S. State Department says when it comes to issuing a travel alert for Americans traveling abroad, it takes into account health risks. This inc...
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Malkia Strikers to face Japan in Olympics opener
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
1502, February 13, 2020 (EAT)
National women volleyball team Malkia Strikers will take on hosts Japan in their opening match of this year’s Olympic Games to be staged in Tokyo fr...
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Kenya drawn with Japan, Brazil at Tokyo Olympics
By Stanley Mativo,
1834, January 31, 2020 (EAT)
The national women’s volleyball team has been pooled to play against hosts Japan, Brazil, Serbia, Korea and Dominican Republic in Pool A of the 2020...
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Cardi B wants to be a Nigerian citizen but tweeps won’t have it
By VOA,
1511, January 11, 2020 (EAT)
Cardi B's announcement that she wants to seek Nigerian citizenship has set off a Twitter feud between her West African fans in friendly rivals Nigeria...
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Bitok pledges to improve World Cup record and expose team
By Stanley Mativo,
1525, September 10, 2019 (EAT)
National women’s volleyball team head coach Paul Bitok has said he is under no pressure ahead of the FIVB World Cup slated for September 14-29 in Ja...
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Malkia Strikers back in camp ahead of World Cup
By Stanley Mativo,
1433, September 5, 2019 (EAT)
The national women’s volleyball team, Malkia Strikers, has resumed camp ahead of the upcoming FIVB World Cup slated for September 14-29 in Japan. ...
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Fraser-Pryce smashes 40-year-old Pan Am Games record
By Reuters,
1434, August 10, 2019 (EAT)
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce broke the 40-year-old Pan Am Games 200 metres record when the twice Olympic 100 metres champion clocked 22.43 seconds...
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Messi earned Sh12.7billion last year to become world’s highest-paid athlete
By Reuters,
1002, June 12, 2019 (EAT)
Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi dethroned five-division boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather as the highest paid athlete over the past ...
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Doping – WADA close to deciding on new president
By Reuters,
1210, May 14, 2019 (EAT)
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) could have chosen a new president by Tuesday with Poland’s Witold Banka, a former middle distance runner, and Ma...
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Police confirm that a woman who died after 8 days in a Dominican Republic ICU was a missing New York tourist
By CNN,
1117, April 12, 2019 (EAT)
Authorities have confirmed that the body of a woman found in the Dominican Republic is indeed one of the two American tourists who had been missing fo...
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Global survey finds widespread lack of confidence in US leadership
By VOA,
1636, March 1, 2019 (EAT)
A new survey shows a widespread lack of confidence in US leadership from residents around the world, with only 31 percent approving of the job perform...
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Malkia Strikers face tough draw in Olympic qualifiers
By Philip Muchiri,
1037, February 12, 2019 (EAT)
The national women’s volleyball team Malkia strikers, faces an uphill task to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on their first hurd...
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Venezuela children left behind as parents flee to find work abroad
By Reuters,
2022, January 16, 2019 (EAT)
Yusneiker and Anthonella have been living with their grandmother since their father left Venezuela and its collapsing economy last year for Peru, to t...
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Airport plane bridge collapse in Baltimore leaves 6 injured
By CNN,
1107, December 30, 2018 (EAT)
A "partial equipment failure" involving a jet bridge at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Maryland on Saturday lef...
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More than 150 nations adopt UN migration pact
By VOA,
2045, December 11, 2018 (EAT)
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday migration "should be well managed and safe, not irregular and dangerous" as he praised a group ...
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C-section births rise rapidly to more than 20 percent worldwide
By Reuters,
930, November 30, 2018 (EAT)
Rates of caesarean section births almost doubled between 2000 and 2015 – from 12 to 21 percent worldwide - new research has found. The life-savin...
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6 killed following argument at Haitian-Dominican border
By VOA,
1806, November 25, 2018 (EAT)
Six people were killed Saturday at the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic after an argument, authorities said. Haitian police inspecto...
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The consequences of a total abortion ban
By CNN,
2043, November 20, 2018 (EAT)
A woman spoke of her 16-year-old daughter who died after being denied chemotherapy for leukemia because she was in the early weeks of pregnancy. A ...
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Malkia undeterred by Japan poor show ahead of Olympics qualifiers
By Stanley Mativo,
1658, October 8, 2018 (EAT)
After seeing their dream of earning a second round slot in the ongoing FIVB World Championship in Japan nipped on the bud, national women’s volleyba...
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