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Somalia is threatening to re-impose a ban on miraa from Kenya in what it accuses Nairobi of disregarding an agreement to resume direct flights with Mogadishu. Mogadishu claims it agreed to lift the ban back in September because Kenya had agreed to allow direct flights...

Ownership by Africa has always been the most important element of the Ticad process. In Summary Ticad is the biggest, oldest and most powerful international conference which discusses African development. The private sector-led development was identified as key to African development in the last Ticad in 2013. Ambassador...

Allegations linking police to systematic extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of suspects a biased, palpable misrepresentation of facts and lack objectivity, the government has said. In the first response to increasing cases of executions of suspects in the hands of police, Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery...

By: BBC Kenya and South Africa have agreed to a reciprocal visa-free entry deal which will be rolled out from January next year. Applicants will get a maximum of 90 days annually. Currently,...

By:State Department The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first official trip to Africa next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. During the visit, the Secretary will advance U.S.-Africa collaboration on shared global priorities, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic and building back to...

  Somalia on Tuesday agreed to lift a week-old ban on imports of Kenyan khat after a storm of controversy from angry growers of the leafy narcotic in neighbouring Kenya. The decision was made on the margins of a historic one-day summit in the Somali capital,...

Ethiopia Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedu Andargachew met and held discussions with Minster of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya, Dr. Monica Juma today (June 20). The two sides discussed at length on ways and means of further strengthening the longstanding bilateral ties between...

On the trail of police who storm a village, burn down homes, steal livestock - and murder an 80-year-old man. By :Jacob Kushner Jacob Kushner writes about refugees and migration, foreign aid and investment in Africa, the Caribbean, and Germany. By:Anthony Langat Anthony Langat is a Kenyan investigative...

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto are formally on the ballot for the August General Election after Monday’s clearance by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). They were cleared by IEBC’s Chairman Wafula Chebukati who also presented them with nomination certificates...

BY DOROTHY OTIENO An overwhelming majority of the people killed in the 20 months were young men and boys More than 122 people were shot and killed by police in Kenya over the first eight months of 2016, representing a seven per cent increase over the...