1. Jubaland is headed to the polls in August (24th August) 2. The outcome of this forthcoming Jubaland election is crucial for peace and stability in the Horn of Africa region which has over the years experienced turbulent times especially arising from terrorist attacks by the Al Shabab militant group 3. Incumbent Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed […]

The number of people killed since security forces stormed a protest camp outside the Sudan Defence Ministry in central Khartoum two days ago has risen significantly to 60. This was confirmed on Wednesday by a doctors group linked to the opposition. The death toll had earlier been put at 35. Talks between the Transitional Military […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her exit after failing to deliver Brexit deal. Announcing the move outside her Downing Street residence, tearful May said she will step down as leader of the Conservative Party on Friday June 7. “It is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that I […]

Salute! The fearless women of Sudan have led the charge in ending the brutal dictatorship of Omar AlBashir! The young woman in a photo that has come to symbolise the protest movement in Sudan has been identified as Alaa Salah, a 22-year-old architecture student in Khartoum…The Future is Female✊ Geopolitical analyst Dr Onyango Ochieng Jnr […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday won a second term at the helm of Africa’s largest economy and top oil producer, a tally by Reuters based on electoral commission results showed. Buhari faces a daunting to-do list, including reviving an economy still struggling to recover from a 2016 recession and quelling a decade-old Islamist insurgency […]

A number of Vatican priests are gay and living in the closet, according to an explosive new book to be published next week. The 570-page expose, titled In the Closet of the Vatican, claims that four in five clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexuals – but aren’t necessarily sexually active. French sociologist and […]

Women in Democratic Republic of the Congo are being forced to have sex in return for Ebola vaccinations, according to reports swirling around a pioneering WHO vaccination program. The research has revealed that a deep mistrust of health workers is rife in DRC and gender-based violence is believed to have increased since the start of […]

His first cause for concern was when neither parent appeared at the kitchen window to greet him, as was usual upon the sound of his bike screeching to a stop outside. Entering the apartment, the family dog, Lady, ran to him. ‘Something felt wrong,’ he remembers. It was then that he saw the body of […]

Former US President George HW Bush has died at the age of 94, his son George W Bush has announced. George Bush Sr, as he was known, passed away on Friday evening, a spokesperson said on behalf of the family. He was the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, after serving two terms as […]

The head of Catholic Church Pope Francis has appointed the Bishop Philip Anyolo as Archbishop of Kisumu Catholic Diocese. Until his appointment Anyoro was the Bishop of Homabay Diocese The appointment was officially published in L’Osservatore Romano in Rome on Thursday. Bushop Anyolo is the chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (henceforth KCCB) […]

By Mukurima Muriuki via FB A few things on this America siasa. 1. Attention now shifts to Iowa. We are 3 months to the day in 2007 when Obama announced he was running for presidency. 2.Republicans came close to winning Minnesota in 2016. This is often ignored, but Hillary Clinton won the state by only […]

The White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials Wednesday after he had a heated exchange with President Donald Trump at a news conference and an intern tried to grab a microphone from the CNN reporter. “As a result of today’s incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further […]