One year after the introduction of Kenya’s groundbreaking visa-free policy, the government has convened an inter-ministerial review meeting to assess and refine the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system. This meeting, held to evaluate the policy’s impact and generate consensus on…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 7 – A multi-agency operation spearheaded by the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA), in collaboration with the Anti-Narcotic Unit (ANU), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), and other law enforcement agencies, successfully…
Under growing pressure from his own party, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will step down and end his nine-year stretch as leader. Trudeau said he would stay on in office until his Liberal Party can choose a…
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which “will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region”. The launch on Monday – Pyongyang’s first in two months – came as US…
US President Joe Biden has called the exiled candidate for Venezuela’s opposition, Edmundo González, “the true winner” of the country’s presidential election last July after meeting him at the White House. In a post on social media, Biden said Venezuela deserved…
Carolyn Hoyle, University of Oxford and Parvais Jabbar, University of Oxford Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 2024 on 31 December, Zimbabwe has become the 127th…
At least 53 people have been confirmed dead and 62 are injured after a major earthquake struck China’s mountainous Tibet region on Tuesday morning, Chinese state media reported. The earthquake that hit Tibet’s holy Shigatse city around 09:00 local time…
As Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister and a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee embarks on his first overseas trip of 2025 to Africa, it reaffirms a long-standing tradition that underscores China’s prioritization…
Two people have died and one person was injured after a tragic road accident near Siyapei Bridge in Narok County on Monday evening. The incident occurred at around 7:00 p.m., approximately 9 kilometres east of Siyapei Police Station. It involved…
Jan 7 – Four years to the day after a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters violently besieged the US Capitol, Congress formally certified the incoming president’s re-election in a special session. Vice-President Kamala Harris, who Trump defeated in the 2024…