Safarilink, Silverstone plane incidents raise questions over safety

By Girlie Kendi,

A Safarilink plane that was from Lamu skidded off the runway at Wilson Airport on Tuesday evening after a tyre burst. A press statement from the ai...

Safarilink plane , Silverstone

Extreme weather threatens Tour de France stage 20

By Reuters,

Heavy rain and thunderstorms threatened to force organisers to cancel the 20th stage of the Tour de France in ` on Saturday. Hailstorms and a lands...

extreme weather , Tour de France , Val Thorens

Guatemala rounds up dozens of immigrants to send back to their home countries

By CNN,

Guatemala authorities rounded up 96 people as part of an operation to identify unqualified migrants trying to go to the United States and return them ...

Guatemala , migrants , President Donald Trump

4 killed in grisly road accident on Nairobi-Mombasa highway

By Douglas Mutiso,

Four people were killed and more than 13 others injured in multiple accidents on the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. In the first incident, three people d...

accident , four dead , machakos , Makueni , Nairobi - mombasa Highway

Pope Francis donates Ksh.50M to help Central American migrants in Mexico

By CNN,

Pope Francis donated $500,000 (Ksh. 50,714,250) to aid migrants in Mexico, the Vatican announced Saturday. The money will be used for housing, foo...

Central America , Mexico , migrants , Pope Francis

Mexico sends home more migrants as Trump ramps up pressure

By Reuters,

Mexico has returned 15,000 migrants in the past 30 days, a senior government official said on Tuesday, pointing to an uptick in deportations in the fa...

Poll workers trek to India’s most remote voters

By VOA,

The figures involved in India’s general election are staggering: 900 million voters, 83 million first-time voters, 11 million poll workers, nearly 4...

India , Trek

Trump aides repeat threat to shut down U.S.-Mexico border on migrant crisis

By Reuters,

The Trump administration on Sunday doubled down on its threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico, a day after it cut aid to Central American...

Mick Mulvaney , President Donald Trump , U.S.-Mexico border

Dozens of migrants from central America die in road accident

By VOA,

At least 25 migrants from Central America died late Thursday in a road accident in Mexico’s Chiapas state. Twenty-nine more were injured in the a...

Central America , migrants

Report: Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘Instigators’

By VOA,

The U.S. government ran an operation to screen journalists, activists and others while investigating last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, a San Di...

Journalists

Venezuela closes border with Brazil, Colombian crossings may be next

By CNN,

Nicolas Maduro will close Venezuela's border with Brazil, as tensions over foreign aid deliveries rise. The embattled President also is considering c...

Venezuela closes border

Trump to declare national emergency as he signs border security Bill

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency so he can bypass Congress and get the money to build a wall along the border with Mexico....

President Donald Trump , United States National emergency

Frustration grows as migrant caravan stuck in Mexico shelter

By VOA,

Patience was wearing thin Thursday for some of the 1,600 Central American migrants spending their fourth day at an improvised shelter in the Mexican b...

Mexico , Migrant caravan

‘Disgusting’ razor wire must go, say U.S. border city residents

By Reuters,

When Sherrie Nixon saw the six strands of razor wire strung along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in her Arizona city, she said she wanted to cry “T...

U.S , wire

Trump calls border wall negotiations ‘a waste of time’

By VOA,

President Donald Trump is calling bipartisan congressional talks over border wall funding a “waste of time.” In a White House interview with T...

border wall , Trump

Pentagon prepares to send more troops to US-Mexico border

By VOA,

The Pentagon is preparing to send additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as some members of Congress question the appropriateness of deploy...

Pentagon , US-Mexico border

U.S. diplomats leave Caracas embassy as Washington backs Maduro rival

By Reuters,

Some U.S. diplomats left the embassy in Caracas for the airport on Friday in a convoy escorted by police, according to a Reuters witness, after Venezu...

CARACAS , MADURO , U.S. Embassy , Venezuela

Official: Asylum seekers to wait in Mexico starting Friday

By VOA,

The Trump administration on Friday will start forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases proceed through U.S. courts, an official...

Assylum seekers , Mexico

Nearly 1,000 Central American migrants in new caravans enter Mexico

By Reuters,

Almost 1,000 Central American migrants entered southern Mexico on Thursday in a test of the new government’s pledge to manage an ongoing exodus fuel...

Central American migrants , Mexico

Hundreds of Hondurans set off toward United States in new caravan

By Reuters,

Hundreds of Honduran migrants began the long trek north on Monday, part of new U.S.-bound caravan that hopes to succeed even as a previous wave of Cen...

Honduran migrants , President Donald Trump , U.S.-Mexico border