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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...

Ex-Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dies in hospital after suffering a heart attack, state media reports. Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack, according to state media. Rafsanjani was a key figure in the...

ACCRA-Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections last month. The 72-year-old former human rights lawyer will take the oath of office at a ceremony in Independence Square in central Accra...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday released its declassified report on Russia's efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election by hacking Democratic outfits during the campaign. The report comes a day after top intelligence officials, including Director of National...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

Even without reading the entire article, the headline is piercing enough. This is one of the stingers from veteran Ugandan scribe, Charles Onyango –Obbo, who needs no further introduction. We quote him here verbatim: ‘What do Somalia Sheep, goats and Ugandan doctors have in...

They could be found on the outskirts of Sirte, Libya, supporting local militia fighters, and in Mukalla, Yemen, backing troops from the United Arab mirates.  At Saakow, a remote outpost in southern Somalia, they assisted local commandos in killing several members of the terror...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco has ordered the closure of schools it says are linked to a US-based Islamic preacher that Turkey blames for a failed coup last year, the interior ministry said. "Investigations on the establishments of the Mohamed Al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national...

US Vice-President Joe Biden has a blunt suggestion for President-elect Donald Trump: It is time to "grow up." Asked about a few of Trump's controversial remarks and tweets since winning the November election, Biden had some intemperate comments of his own. "Grow up Donald, grow up,...

By AGATHA NGOTHO The Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed for US$1 billion (Sh102 billion) to feed more than 40 million starving people in drought-stricken countries worldwide. “Forecasts for 2017 are alarming as millions of people, many of them children, face the threat of starvation in...