Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has signed a controversial measure extending his term in office by two years. Opposition lawmakers have spo...
As diplomats gathered at the African Union headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders’ summit, employees of the international ...
As countries lie frozen in lockdown and billions of people lose their livelihoods, public figures are teasing a breakthrough that would mark the end o...
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President Uhuru Kenyatta’s order on the termination of mandatory contributions to the National Housing Development Fund (NHDF) has put into jeopardy...
India’s parliament approved a bill on Tuesday outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations o...
Congo's government has declared an epidemic of measles, which the latest health ministry figures show has now killed at least 1,500 people, over a hun...
Once-hidden Russian-Iranian disagreements over Syria are starting to surface. Moscow and Tehran are jostling to wield the main influence over the gove...
The U.S. Federal Reserve, leaning back against pressure from President Donald Trump to slash interest rates, is expected to leave borrowing costs unch...
Just 10% of politicians in Japan's House of Representatives are female, a gender imbalance that ranked the worst among G20 nations in new data release...
The arrest of a top Huawei executive raises the stakes in the intensifying battle between the United States and China for tech supremacy. Huawei is...
Cabinet Secretary James Macharia has pointed out that President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to suspend government projects will not affect the ongoing v...
For months now, the controversial Ruaraka Land deal has refused to leave the doorsteps of the Jubilee administration, with suspicion revolving around ...
There are growing indications that US airstrikes killed and injured dozens of Russian military contractors in northern Syria earlier this month. But i...
The death toll from Saturday's massive truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to more than 230, the deputy speaker of Somalia's upper...
US President Donald Trump reluctantly signed off on new sanctions against Russia Wednesday, bowing to domestic pressure and putting efforts to improve...
Kenya needs to build two million affordable city homes to meet its housing deficit and stem the growth of its sprawling slums, already home to six out...
South Africa's biggest trade union called on President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday to quit after his cabinet reshuffle cost the country one of its investmen...
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is unlikely to make significant changes to the country’s monetary policy despite the recent spike in the cost of liv...
The ongoing drought continues to pile pressure on the cost of living, with food costs soaring during the month of February. Data from the Kenya Bur...