Africa

Kenya has called at the United Nations General Assembly for more funding for its plan to repatriate more than 300,000 Somali refugees living in a vast camp on its border, citing world leaders' commitment to burden-sharing. In May, Kenya announced its plans to close the...

BY PAUL ILADO Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday asked the US to stop issuing travel advisories against parts of Kenya and other East African countries. The DP said the travel advisories have hurt tourism yet terror attacks in Kenya are similar to those Europe and...

  Britain, the European Union and the World Bank have announced a plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia to help tackle the migrant crisis. Two industrial parks will be built in the country at a cost of $500m (£385m). Ethiopia, which proposed the plan, will be...

This week, the International Court of Justice will hear a border dispute case pitting the neighboring – and generally neighborly – states of Somalia and Kenya against each other over waters hiding massive oil and gas reserves in the Indian Ocean. Fossil fuel deposits off...

Mogadishu - Hundreds of Somalis took to the streets of Mogadishu on Wednesday in protest at Kenya's territorial claim to a disputed portion of potentially lucrative Indian Ocean waters. A long-running dispute between the two Horn of Africa neighbours went before the UN's top court...

BY CALEB WEISS | September 21st, 2016 | weiss.caleb2@gmail.com | @Weissenberg7 Shabaab’s flag seen flying in Mogokori’s town center Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has claimed control of a town in the central Somalian region of Hiraan in recent days. According to local news...

By OLIVER MATHENGE “The President reiterated the importance of peaceful, free, and fair elections in Kenya in 017 and his desire to continue his strong partnership with Kenya on a range of issues, including the effort to deliver a lasting defeat to al Shabaab...

By Paul Wafula NAIROBI: Kenyan embassy staff in the US lost 2,000 visa stickers in one year that could have been sold in the black market in the latest scandal to rock Kenyan missions abroad. In his latest audit report on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...

By WILLIAM MWANGI @memwarwilliams and NANCY AGUTU @nancyagutu The US government reiterated its support for the fight against terrorism in Kenya and the region on the third anniversary of the September 11, 2013 Westgate Mall attack. Ambassador Robert Godec shared his government's commitment to freedom, democracy,...

By GEORGE OMONDI omondi@ke.nationmedia.com Kenya is eying a free visa pact with Somalia as part of a diplomatic offshoot of the recent miraa export row with the Horn of Africa nation. At the moment, Kenyans and Somalis have to pay Sh5,000 ($50) to obtain visas that...