Nairobi, April 28 -- The African Union peacekeepers in Somalia say they will not cede the security of the strategic commercial infrastructure yet, even as they hand over more responsibilities to the S... Read More
Nairobi, April 28 -- Somalia has emerged as a new source of remittances for Kenya and Uganda, accounting for $180 million and $21.9 million respectively per year, diplomatic sources say. According to... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- As I said, I got to see Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah from a distance as I attended the rather gorgeous 2024 Tuzo Ya Taifa Ya Mwalimu Nyerere Ya Uandishi Bunifu. I am always seduced by a... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- It is turning out to be the year from hell, in terms of climate disasters for East Africa. As it closes the first quarter alone, nearly 200 people have so far been killed and thou... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- Pan-African banking group United Bank for Africa (UBA) has acquired more stakes in its Kenyan and Ugandan subsidiaries in the wake of a rush by Nigerian lenders to penetrate the E... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- NCBA Bank Kenya has revised its lending rates upwards in a development that will, effective immediately, see new borrowers start paying more to get credit amid growing struggles o... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- Nearly five months after the general election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there is still no new government in Kinshasa. New Prime Minister Judith Suminwa says she is sti... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- The General Court Martial at Makindye in Uganda on Wednesday set free 32 Kenyans who were jailed in April for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. The group had been ja... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- A decision by Washington to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok, unless it is sold within a year, is about national security, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said in Nairobi on Th... Read More
Nairobi, April 27 -- South Sudan's National Audit Chamber wants the Ministry of Finance and Planning to account for the use of $114.4 million received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for bu... Read More