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Spain sends warship to pick up migrants off Italy’s coast
By Reuters,
2100, August 20, 2019 (EAT)
Spain ordered a naval vessel on Tuesday to the Italian island of Lampedusa to bring migrants stranded there on a rescue boat to Mallorca after some of...
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Ex-hostage: Aid worker kidnappings ‘big business’ as criminals wade in
By VOA,
1053, August 14, 2019 (EAT)
Kidnapping of aid workers has become "big business" as militants often work with crime networks to carry out abductions, a senior United Nations offic...
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Drive-in sex booths proposed for Berlin’s historic Tempelhof airport
By CNN,
1827, August 12, 2019 (EAT)
Berlin's former Tempelhof airport has witnessed some major events in its time -- a Nazi airfield during World War II, it was the site of the Berlin ai...
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Citizen TV, Inooro TV journalists feted
By Citizen Reporter,
1306, August 10, 2019 (EAT)
A section of journalists from Royal Media Services were on Friday feted at the 8th Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA). Citizen TV reporter ...
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West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began
By Reuters,
1130, August 8, 2019 (EAT)
Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the prom...
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Jubaland presidential hopeful Aw-Dahir vows to strengthen security
By Agencies,
1609, August 5, 2019 (EAT)
Mohamed Yusuf Aw-Dahir, one of the top candidates in the upcoming election in the Somalia state of Jubaland has vowed to strengthen security in the re...
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Act now to avert disaster in drought-hit East Africa, aid agencies say
By Reuters,
1117, July 26, 2019 (EAT)
East Africa could suffer a repeat of a 2011 famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people unless foreign donors stump up funds to help drought-hi...
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150 migrants die in shipwreck off the coast of Libya
By CNN,
1116, July 26, 2019 (EAT)
At least 150 people have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) confirmed. Around 300 peop...
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‘Apologize to America,’ Trump tells Democratic congresswomen
By Reuters,
1813, July 22, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen who have criticized his policies, calling on them to apo...
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More than 100 dead and 6 million affected by flooding across South Asia
By CNN,
2022, July 16, 2019 (EAT)
The death toll in South Asia continues to rise after flooding and landslides ravaged the border region of India and Nepal, leaving tens of thousands d...
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AK outlines tough measures ahead of World Championship trials
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
1408, July 16, 2019 (EAT)
Athletics Kenya (AK) has announced a raft of tough measures as it gears for the national athletics championships which will also double up as the tr...
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Trump tells Democratic congresswomen to ‘go back’ to ‘fix’ countries they came from
By Reuters,
1321, July 15, 2019 (EAT)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen to “go back and help fix the totally broken and ...
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Police arrest 20 suspected illegal immigrants from Ethiopia, Congo
By Wambui Kihara,
1926, July 14, 2019 (EAT)
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested 20 suspected illegal immigrants in Moyale, Isiolo and Marsabit. Nine...
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New migrants brought to Libya centre hit by deadly air strike
By Reuters,
1736, July 14, 2019 (EAT)
More migrants have been moved to a detention centre in Libya capital where an air strike killed more than 50 people last week, despite a risk it could...
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South Sudan marks anniversary with hunger still a pressing issue
By VOA,
2120, July 9, 2019 (EAT)
Eight years after South Sudan's independence, hunger continues to plague the world’s youngest nation. A recent United Nations report shows nearly ha...
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More than 80 migrants feared drowned off Tunisia coast
By Reuters,
1354, July 6, 2019 (EAT)
Dozens of African migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting off for Europe from Libya, a go...
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Airstrike on Libyan detention center kills 40
By VOA,
2051, July 3, 2019 (EAT)
The United Nations envoy to Libya says the airstrikes on a detention center for migrants outside of Libya's capital that killed at least 40 people cou...
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Cartoonist loses job after illustration of Trump went viral
By CNN,
1012, July 2, 2019 (EAT)
A Canadian cartoonist's illustration of President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral Wednesday. Two days lat...
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WHO appeals to Ugandans with Ebola contact to trust vaccine
By VOA,
1721, June 29, 2019 (EAT)
The World Health Organization is asking Ugandans to have faith in the trial vaccine being used to contain the Ebola outbreak near the border with Cong...
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Central American migrants plead to seek asylum in U.S., not Mexico
By Reuters,
1110, June 28, 2019 (EAT)
Several Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States were allowed to return there on Thursday after being forced to wait in one of Me...
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