Biden begins sweeping away travel ban on African, Muslim-majority countries

By Reuters,

U.S. President Joe Biden signed half a dozen executive orders on Wednesday including immediately lifting a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and...

Biden , DACA

Biden sworn in as U.S. president, takes helm of deeply divided nation

By Reuters,

Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning for his presidential inauguration, ready to take over a country battered by the coronavirus...

Biden plans ‘roughly a dozen’ Day One executive actions

By Reuters,

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will cap a busy day of inauguration pageantry by using the powers of his new office to push policy changes on housing, ...

COVID-19 , Joe Biden , President Donald Trump

Trump rebuked by professional golfers after Capitol riot

By Reuters,

Donald Trump was handed a stinging rebuke by the world of professional golf, with the Professional Golfers Association(PGA) of America and the R&A...

Donald Trump , PFA , Professional Golfers Association , riot , U.S. Capitol

Everyone you know uses Zoom but that wasn’t the plan

By CNN,

The tweet was when Eric Yuan knew something had to change. Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, shared a photo from his first ever virtual cabinet...

Zoom

The girls Kamala Harris addressed in her speech were watching closely

By CNN,

Even the girls too young to understand her were rapt when Sen. Kamala Harris gave her first speech as vice president-elect. When Harris spoke to th...

#womenmustlead , kamala harris

From refugee in Kenya to U.S. representative: Oballa Oballa’s long trek to election day

By VOA,

Oballa Oballa’s trek to election day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killin...

oballa oballa

What does a Biden win mean for Africa?

By Reuters,

Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election is set to affect Africa’s 1.3 billion people on issues ranging from climate change ...

Joe Biden

Joe Biden wins U.S. presidential election

By CNN,

Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects, after a victory in the state where he was born put him over the 270 elect...

Biden , Trump

Trump’s spiritual advisor summons ‘angels from Africa’ to help him win election

By Ian Omondi,

Kenyans on Twitter (KOT), and Africans in general, are laughing off a video in which U.S President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor seemingly prays ...

Joe Biden , Paula White , President Donald Trump , U.S elections

‘Very serious situation’ in Europe, WHO warns

By CNN,

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that coronavirus cases are surging alarmingly in Europe, as a "very serious situation" unfolds across t...

coronavirus

Democrat Kamala Harris rebukes Trump in historic campaign-trail debut with Biden

By Reuters,

Kamala Harris made her campaign-trail debut as Joe Biden’s Democratic running mate on Wednesday, delivering a strong rebuke of President Donald Trum...

Donald Trump , kamala harris , us election

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate, first Black woman on a major party ticket

By CNN,

Joe Biden announced Tuesday that Kamala Harris will be his running mate for the 2020 election ballot, making the California senator the first Black wo...

Biden , kamala harris

Can prostitution, the world’s oldest profession, survive the age of social distancing?

By CNN,

Don't kiss. Tell clients to wash their hands before they touch you. Wear a mask. Avoid face-to-face positions. And even: Put on a nurse costume and pu...

COVID-19 , lockdown , prostitution , sex workers , UNAIDS

Boris Johnson refuses to sack his chief adviser over lockdown breach

By CNN,

Boris Johnson has refused to sack Dominic Cummings, standing by his embattled chief aide despite a growing scandal in the UK over his reported decisio...

Boris Johnson , COVID-19 , Dominic Cummings , lockdown

MCKINSEY: Priorities for school systems in the age of coronavirus

By Guest Writer,

As of mid-April, 191 countries had shut down all their primary and secondary schools, affecting almost 1.6 billion children. The shift to remote le...

coronavirus , online learning

Trump signs order temporarily limiting U.S. visas, Green Cards

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered a temporary block on some foreigners from permanent residence in the United States, saying he wanted to pr...

Green Card , Trump , U.S. visa

Coronavirus brings ‘sinophobia’ to Africa

By VOA,

A video being shared widely on social media shows an angry crowd threatening two people of Asian descent about the coronavirus. Reportedly recorded...

coronavirus , sinophobia

OPINION: Let’s support war on graft as we build ‘Made in Kenya’ brand

By Citizen,

By Michael Cherambos In these times of mass production, real quality is hard to come by. I personally find that the best quality products can still...

Made in Kenya

German President Steinmeier pledges Ksh.328M to help fight locust invasion

By PSCU,

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has announced plans to support Africa in combating the desert locust invasion is threatening food security. ...

locust , Steinmeier