August 2016

With the spectacle in Rio days away, millions of sport enthusiasts will tune in and watch with pride what promises to be 17 days of the biggest stage a Country…

The National Leadership Forum (NLF) consultative conference opened in the Somali capital on Wednesday as the country’s top political stakeholders try to salvage the electoral process whose execution is way behind…

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the…

Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has said Al-Shabab fighters who have long battled for control of Somali forces and AMISOM forces are now forcibly recruiting youths at the Coast. Chief of Defence Forces…

The government of Uganda has deployed a new contingent of officers to serve under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The newly deployed personnel, from the Formed Police Unit  (FPU)…

Somalia’s ministry for works plans to link different parts of the country by constructing a link roads that it hopes will increase trade. Minister of Works Salah Sh. Osman said…

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir fired six ministers allied to his long-time rival Riek Machar late on Tuesday, widening a political rift in the world’s newest nation and drawing threats…

By Reuters A car bomb targeting security forces in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed 22 people and wounded 20 on Tuesday, a spokesman for the forces and medical…

By Reuters Hundreds of drivers signed up with ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] in Kenya went on strike on Tuesday to protest against fare cuts. The U.S.-based company, which started operations…