KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 13 – President William Ruto has been lauded for signing into law a landmark bill granting county assemblies full financial autonomy. On Wednesday at the State Lodge in Homa Bay, the President assented to the County Allocation…
NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 13 – Seven. That’s the number of high-profile Kenyans who have turned down President William Ruto’s offers for top state jobs in just the last two years. The latest is Duncan Oburu Ojwang’, who on Tuesday declined…
BEIJING, China, Aug 13 — China has established a four-tier risk assessment system to enhance the nation’s early warning capabilities for infectious diseases, according to a guideline released by the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration recently. The trial regulation,…
BEIJING, Kenya, Aug 13 — Chinese tech companies are scrambling to hire fresh graduates from both home and abroad, particularly those with a good grasp of artificial intelligence, with many enterprises having increased their recruitment quota for AI-related talent. In…
BEIJING, China, Aug 13 — China registered 13.28 million new market entities in the first half, with private and foreign-invested firms maintaining steady momentum and cultural industries posting the fastest growth, the State Administration for Market Regulation said on Tuesday.…
BEIJING, China, Aug 13 — President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have expressed their opposition to unilateralism and protectionism, and pledged to promote the greater development of bilateral ties. In a phone conversation between the…
NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 13 – The vetting of Duncan Oburu Ojwang for the position of Chairperson of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) will not proceed after he formally declined the nomination. In a communication to the House…
At least 40 people have been killed in an attack on a camp for displaced people in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to an aid group that works there. The Abu Shouk Emergency Response Room said Monday’s assault was carried…
An investigation by the British Army has found some soldiers stationed at a controversial base in Kenya continue to use sex workers despite being banned from doing so. Soldiers at the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) used sex workers…
The wife of South Korea’s jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery. Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul…