Chinese state media escalate row with NBA

By Reuters,

Chinese state media on Wednesday accused the National Basketball Association (NBA) of endorsing violence and peddling a “secessionist pipe dream” ...

Chinese State Media , NBA

Frustrated Gor’s Rachier cancels Moi Kisumu as a home venue

By Milton Ochieng,

Gor Mahia will no longer play their home Kenyan Premier League (KPL) matches in Kisumu, club president Ambrose Rachier has said. Rachier this morni...

Ambrose Rachier , GOR MAHIA , Moi stadium kisumu

OPINION: Xenophobic attacks in South Africa crippling continental unity

By Citizen Reporter,

By Brian Oguna The rising spate of xenophobic attacks in South Africa has triggered a myriad of angry reactions and emotions from netizens world ov...

Nigeria , south africa , xenophobia

SWILA: Why the 2019/20 portends tougher times for KPL

By Isaac Swila,

Isaac Swila After a two-months break, action has resumed in the Kenyan Premier League for the 2019/20 season with a bang. Gor Mahia has seemingl...

GOR MAHIA , governemnt , Kenyan Premier League , Sponsorship , Supersports , Swila

Folau seeking funds to fight sacking

By Reuters,

Sacked Australia fullback Israel Folau has launched a crowd-funding campaign seeking A$3 million (£1.6 million) to help fund his legal action against...

Israel Folau , Rugby Australia

Sanchez strikes as Copa holders Chile thrash Japan

By Reuters,

Chile began their Copa America defence in emphatic fashion with a thumping 4-0 win over tournament guests Japan on Monday with Manchester United misfi...

Alexis Sanchez , Chile , Copa America

Thousands dressed in black rally to demand Hong Kong leader steps down

By Reuters,

Thousands of people took to the streets in Hong Kong on Sunday dressed in black to demand the city’s embattled leader steps down, a day after she su...

Carrie Lam , hong kong , Jeremy Hunt

Rachier: This is why I’m leaving Gor Mahia

By Isaac Swila,

Long serving Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier,69,  has shocked the football world announcing his intent to step down from his role at the end of th...

Ambrose Rachier , chairman , elections , GOR MAHIA , leaving , stepping down

Terry or Lampard? All set for Championship play-off final

By Agencies,

Aston Villa's players can make themselves "icons" with victory over Derby in the Championship play-off final, according to boss Dean Smith. Frank L...

Aston Villa , Championship , Derby County , Frank Lampard , John Terry

In bail reprise, Ghosn leaves Tokyo jail, agrees to limit contact with wife

By Reuters,

Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn walked out of a Japanese jail for a second time late on Thursday, freed on $4.5 million bail after agreeing to cur...

Carlos Ghosn , Carole Ghosn , Nissan

Harry and Meghan will keep royal baby birth private

By CNN,

Britain's Duke and Duchess of Sussex will keep details surrounding the arrival of their first child private, in a break with royal tradition of the ...

Buckingham Palace , Meghan Markle. , Prince Harry

Hearings for Hong Kong’s ‘umbrella nine’ to resume in mid-April

By VOA,

A hearing for nine Hong Kong pro-democracy activists convicted for their involvement in the city's 2014 Umbrella Movement protests will take place on ...

hong kong

Exclusive: Russia, China tells U.N. they sent home over half North Korean workers in 2018

By Reuters,

Russia sent home nearly two-thirds of some 30,000 North Koreans working there during 2018 and China repatriated more than half, but did not specify a ...

china , North Korea , russia , United Nations

OPINION – The debt trap: How to escape the vicious cycle of mobile loan apps

By Citizen Reporter,

By Reginald Kadzutu There has been a proliferation of easy loan products and use of digital credit in the Kenyan market riding on the pervasivenes...

M-pesa , mobile loans

Suspected white supremacist charged with murder after New Zealand mosque shootings

By Reuters,

Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wou...

New Zealand , white supremacist

Hammer and pickle: Vietnam-style reform would mean big changes for North Korea

By Olivia Gatwiri,

Nestled in a leafy park between a rusting Soviet fighter jet and the old East German embassy, a lonely statue of Lenin stands in the center of Hanoi a...

Forced marriage victims will no longer be charged for their rescue, UK government says

By CNN,

The UK government has done a U-turn on a policy that required victims of forced marriages overseas to pay back the cost of their rescue. Foreign Se...

British women forced into marriages overseas asked to pay rescue costs

By Wendy Abdallah,

British women sent overseas by their families for forced marriages are being asked by the UK Foreign Office to pay back their rescue costs, according ...

Tom Tugendhat the head of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee , UK Foreign Office , UK Times newspaper , Yvette Cooper

Rohingya end hard year still in limbo

By VOA,

More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement pla...

Bangladesh , Brad Adams , Chairman Ed Royce , International Criminal Court (ICC). , Kyaw Hla Aung , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , Rosario Manalo , unicef

15 biggest cruise ships in the world

By CNN,

When Symphony of the Seas, an 18-deck cruise ship measuring longer than a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, sailed out of port for the very first time...

Allure of the Seas , Anthem of the Seas , Freedom of the Seas , Harmony of the Seas , Independence of the Seas , Liberty of the Seas , MSC Meraviglia , Norwegian Bliss , Norwegian Epic , Norwegian Escape , Norwegian Joy , Oasis of the Seas , Ovation of the Seas , Quantum of the Seas , Symphony of the Seas