OPINION: Foreigners increasingly impressed with Kenya’s progress

By Citizen Reporter,

By MICHAEL CHERAMBOS A well-known idiom has it that sometimes we can’t see the woods for the trees. Meaning that by focusing on the details, we f...

BBI , handshake

Gor to negotiate new sponsorship deal with SportPesa

By Milton Ochieng,

Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia FC will engage SportPesa in talks over a possible reinstatement of their sponsorship deal which was termi...

Gor Mahia FC , Kenyan Premier League , KPL

Talks on Sudan’s government continue despite latest protester deaths

By VOA,

Tens of thousands of people marched in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities on Thursday to demand justice for those killed in recent protests. Sudan'...

Rapid Support Forces , Sudan Protests , Transitional Military Council

Hong Kong civil servants to rally, as wave of protests planned

By VOA,

Thousands of Hong Kong civil servants are planning to rally Friday night in support of protesters and to urge authorities to rebuild confidence in the...

Extradition bill , Hong Kong Protests , Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.

Congo Ebola victim may have entered Rwanda and Uganda: WHO

By Reuters,

A fishmonger who died of Ebola this week probably carried the virus from Congo into both Rwanda and Uganda, the World Health Organization said, as hea...

Ebola in DRC , World Health Organisation (WHO)

Athletics-Kenyan officials blame frequency of doping on numbers

By Reuters,

Kenya’s anti-doping and athletics chiefs on Friday disputed a report by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) that ranked the east African nation as th...

Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) , Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) , Athletics Kenya (AK) , doping , Joyce Chepkirui

Former IAAF president Diack to face corruption charges

By Agencies,

Lamine Diack, the ex-boss of athletics' world governing body the IAAF, is to stand trial in France on corruption and money-laundering charges. The ...

IAAF , lamine diack , Papa Massata Diack

Trump to visit South Korea as Pompeo raises hope for new North Korea talks after letter

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump will visit South Korea this weekend after an exchange of letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boosted hopes for ta...

Kim Jong-un , Mike Pompeo , North Korea , Nuclear , President Donald Trump

Liberia at a critical juncture following mass protest

By VOA,

George Weah once heard the roar of adoring crowds as one of Africa's greatest soccer players. He became Liberia's president in January 2018, and a yea...

George Weah , Liberia President

The doping menace: Kenyan-born Bahraini Kirwa handed four-year ban

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Kenyan-born Bahraini long-distance runner Eunice Kirwa has been slapped with a four- year ban after testing positive for Erythropoietin (EPO) during a...

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) , Bahraini , doping , Erythropoietin (EPO) , Eunice Kirwa , Kenyan-Born

Using blood, saliva, urine to detect cancer: Scientists’ ‘holy grail’

By CNN,

Testing for cancer in blood, urine or even saliva: That approach has been called the "holy grail" for diagnosing the second leading cause of death in...

PSG’s Qatari president under investigation for graft

By Reuters,

The Qatari president of French soccer champions Paris St Germain, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is under formal investigation in France for alleged corruption, ...

corruption , Nasser al-Khelaifi , PSG

Ugandan Gov’t upset by media coverage of Bobi Wine

By Reuters,

More than a dozen Ugandan media outlets said they will reassign senior journalists in response to government complaints over coverage of opposition la...

Bobi Wine , Museveni

Four Hong Kong ‘Occupy’ leaders jailed for 2014 democracy protests

By Reuters,

A Hong Kong court jailed four leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy “Occupy” movement on Wednesday amid heightened concerns over the decline of freedo...

Marsabit: 4 dead, 21 hospitalised following Kala-azar disease outbreak

By Allan Irungu,

Four people are feared dead and 21 others admitted in hospital following an outbreak of Kala-azar disease in Marsabit County. Confirming the outbre...

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Trump, in talks with South Korea’s Moon, says sanctions on North Korea to stay in place

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed a willingness to hold a third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but said in talks with Sou...

Sudan Military’s post-Bashir plan gets rocky reception

By VOA,

A plan by Sudan's military to take over the country's government is getting a cold reception from protesters and the international community, who want...

Sudan

IAAF ethics board closes investigation into Coe

By Reuters,

The world athletics governing body (IAAF) has closed an ethics investigation into its president Sebastian Coe after finding there was no basis on whic...

Close , IAAF , investigation , Sebastian Coe

Aubameyang ready to start for Arsenal against Napoli

By Reuters,

Arsenal manager Unai Emery says striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will be ready to start Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final first leg at home to...

Arsenal FC , Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Why photo of woman chanting has come to symbolize Sudan protests

By CNN,

The woman is wearing a long white dress and golden moon earrings. Alaa Salah is chanting from the top of a car while surrounded by a sea of protest...

Khartoum , Lana Haroun , protests , Sudan