Africa

By:Ismail Akwei 24-year-old Second Lieutenant Thokozile Muwamba has made history in Zambia as the country’s first female fighter pilot to be accepted into the male dominated area of the military. After joining the military in 2012, Muwamba was fortunate to be part of the Zambian Air...

Soccer's governing body, FIFA, voted on Tuesday to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from its current 32, brushing aside concerns that the expansion would lower the overall standard of the tournament and make it too big and unwieldy. FIFA president Gianni Infantino, fulfilling...

  West African leaders announced Monday they would return to The Gambia to try and persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down, but said the use of force remains an option. The mandate for Jammeh's five-year term expires on January 18, after which president-elect Adama Barrow...

National Assembly majority leader Aden Duale yesterday said he is not afraid of the ICC because he has been there on several occasions. He was responding to Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka’s threat to take him to the Hague. Cord co-principal Kalonzo last week said he would...

The Waddani party, Somaliland’s main opposition party, has hotly denied that it is seeking to reunite with Somalia ahead of this year’s elections. Somaliland has been independent since 1991 and the collapse of the Siad Barre regime. On December 23, the Star published a story headlined...

After decades of war, Somalia has risen and it keeps going. Business is thriving and the economy is growing, a fact even the World Bank acknowledged in its report this year, Transition Amidst Risk. In the report released in April, the World Bank says the...

Fixing fragile nations: lessons from Afghanistan and South Sudan IN THE middle of 2016 a suicide-bomber blew up a minibus full of judicial staff in Kabul. The injured were rushed to the Emergency Hospital in the Afghan capital. One was married to a nurse there,...

The New Year started on a mixed note with a number of lives lost in Iraq, Turkey and Somalia. But to conservationists, 2017 began in an excellent way: China pledged to stop the ivory trade, a move that is widely seen as a possible game-changer...

HAMBURG (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government has issued an international tender to purchase 70,000 tonnes of milling wheat, European traders said on Monday. The tender deadline was January 5, they said. Finance for the purchase has been provided by the World Bank, traders said. Ethiopia has issued...

By Mary Harper BBC News, Hargeisa, Somaliland During every visit to the self-declared republic of Somaliland, I notice something new. This time, there are even more multi-storey shopping malls, hotels and luxury villas in the capital, Hargeisa. Just two decades ago it was known as The Dresden...