Browsing: East Africa

Ever eager to project his importance on the international stage, Kenya’s president William Ruto took to X on Monday to say that he’d had a call…

Since June 2024, a wave of abductions targeting government critics has swept over Kenya. 86 people, including activists and satirists, have been kidnapped – with foreign…

Kenya’s newly appointed Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development Mutahi Kagwe has sparked controversy by rejecting the entry of genetically modified (GM) foods and livestock…

Britain still lionises its war-time prime minister Winston Churchill who died on this day 24th January 1965 . He’s credited with being a driving force against…

Kenya’s President William Ruto has been pipped to the post by Syria’s deposed Bashar al-Assad as 2024’s Corrupt Person of the Year. The award is made…

Is Israel manufacturing consent for regime change in Eritrea? In a 16 January article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, author Habtom Ghebrezghiabher argues Asmara poses a…

Donald Trump kicks off his second term as US president with an uncertain agenda regarding Africa. Kenya’s status as a key non-NATO ally hangs in the…

South Sudan has imposed a dusk-to-dawn nationwide curfew after revenge attacks killed 16 Sudanese nationals. The violence erupted in the capital Juba and other towns after…

A Statista report has revealed that Kenyan President William Ruto has the highest salary among world leaders compared to his country’s economic capacity. According to the…

On 19 January, 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti, increasing the number of Kenyan personnel deployed to the Caribbean country to over 600. This comes despite…