Kenya has opened compensation talks with a Chinese firm whose contract to build the second terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was cancelled amid fears a standoff could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of shillings.

Move will promote regional integration and revamp relations

Kenya’s battle against al-Shabaab will receive a boost from U.S. forces after President Joseph R. Biden’s approved the deployment of special operation troops to the country.

Kenya is at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the third time mainly to do two things; to safeguard African and Caribbean interests and to help shape ongoing global power realignment.

Kenya has withdrawn its request for China to extend debt repayment holiday to December in the wake of opposition from Chinese lenders that recently froze disbursements to local projects.

The decision of the African Union (AU) to accept Israel as an observer has been greeted with opposition from some member-states.

The Kaduna State Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Dari Bayero yesterday confirmed to THISDAY that the government had filed fresh charges bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.

Barely 2 days after a Kaduna High Court discharged and acquitted the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibraheem Yakubu El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeehah, the Kaduna State Government has filed new charges against the couple.

This comprised Sh3.697.7 trillion domestic debt (47.9 percent) and Sh4.015.3 trillion external debt (52.1 percent)

Kenya and South Sudan Monday announced an end to visa requirements for their nationals visiting the two countries in the latest move to boost integration.

High cost of living, unemployment, corruption, pandemic,cited as causes for alarm.

With China’s influence growing in Africa, the Biden administration is unveiling a new push to expand business ties between US firms and the continent.

TradeMark East Africa (TMEA), and the Institute of Export and International Trade (IOE&IT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which provides a framework for collaborating to implement a digital trade corridor between the UK and Kenya.

South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company, Transnet, has declared force majeure after disruptions caused by a cyberattack last week.

The Pegasus spyware saga has embroiled several African governments and could prompt further diplomatic fallouts, experts have suggested.

Global economic prospects have diverged further in 2021 with vaccine access emerging as the principal fault line, says the International Monetary Fund.

qamar-javed-bajwaChief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Tuesday said Pakistan attached great value to its relations with South Africa.

The Court D'Appal of Cotonou has ordered that Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho should be kept in prison custody pending investigation.

An American State Department report has put the number of Nigerian refugees in other countries at approximately 305,000 with over 2.1 million in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across the country.

Also, Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard welcomed the pilots and aircraft to Massachusetts on the first leg of their trans-Atlantic flight.