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Twitter Press Release By Kayvon Beykpour and Uche Adegbite Twitter’s mission is to serve the public conversation, and it’s essential, for the world and for Twitter, to increase the number of people who feel comfortable participating in it. To do this, we need to make it easier...

Kenyans using the current generation of passport will not be able to use them once the new e-passport is fully rolled out. Issuance of the current generation ends on September 1, and the electronic passport will be given to applicants onwards. However, holders of the current...

By:Daniel Mumbere A major news source on the continent year in and out are elections – especially the presidential polls. 2017 was no different with as many as four elections taking place. With the exception of the Liberian situation which awaits a run-off, the three others...

The Ethiopian government says it is ready to host the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU). Leaders from across the presidents are expected to fly into the country for the two-day summit as...

By:Zakariye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent More than 3,000 militants from Al-Shabaab were killed and other 3,700 were wounded in the last six months of military operations against Al-Shabaab militant group, Somalia's government says in a statement on Saturday.

Djibouti ended the contract in February with DP World to run its Doraleh Container Terminal. By Hadeel Al Sayegh, Reuters News DUBAI- DP World threatened legal action against Djibouti after the government of the Horn of Africa nation ended a contract this year with the Dubai-owned firm...

Gambia's new leader to be sworn in at Dakar embassy as incumbent refuses to go despite threat of military intervention. Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow says he will be sworn in at the country's embassy in neighbouring Senegal, as regional forces massed at the border to...

By: Staff writer US secretary of state Antony Blinken congratulated Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on tuesday. "The United Stacongratulates newly elected Somali President Mohamudtes congratulates the people of Somalia on the conclusion of...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged on Thursday not to let differences over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river ruin relations with Addis Ababa. Ethiopia hopes the hydroelectric Grand Renaissance Dam will make it Africa’s largest power exporter. Egypt says...

By Reuters  United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said on Friday. He was also ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate. "The Ministry of Presidential Affairs mourns to the UAE people, Arab and Islamic nations and the...