NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 5 – National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has called for the expansion of the Nairobi -Nakuru highway into a dual carriageway road to improve the flow of traffic to western Kenya. Mbadi noted that the expansion…
EMBU, Kenya, Jan 5 – Embu leaders and residents have condemned the growing culture of political intolerance that has been witnessed on several occasions where leaders have been heckled in public. The remarks come in the wake of heckling of…
Jan 5 – India has witnessed a sharp decline in poverty rates over the past decade, with rural poverty falling dramatically to 4.86% in 2023-24 from 25.7% in 2011-12, according to an SBI Research report released on Friday. Urban poverty…
Jan 5 – Pakistan’s unemployment rate has risen from 1.5% to 7% over the past decade, according to a report by the Ministry of Planning, as cited by ARY News. The report highlights that the country’s GDP growth rate is…
NYERI, Kenya, Jan 5 – Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has instructed his allies led by Mukurweini Member of Parliament John Kaguchia to hire astute lawyers to write to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged government abductions. Speaking at…
A revolution in vehicle fuel is gaining momentum in Tanzania, but a lack of filling stations means it is stuck in second gear. Like Nigeria and some other countries on the continent, Tanzania is beginning to embrace compressed natural gas…
Tens of millions of Americans are bracing for a huge winter storm that could bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade. The storm, which started in the middle of the US, will move east in the…
A contingent of 150 Guatemalan soldiers has arrived in Haiti, tasked with helping to restore order amid the chaos wrought by armed gangs. A first group of 75 soldiers arrived on Friday and another 75 on Saturday, all drafted from…
Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he will resign in the coming days, both as chancellor and party leader, after talks about forming a coalition government collapsed. The chancellor said his party – the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) – and the…
A Japanese woman, recognised as the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records, has died aged 116. Tomiko Itooka died in a nursing home in the city of Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, according to officials. She became the oldest person in…