NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 21 – Long-serving Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang will now head the Department of Immigration and Citizen services following a reshuffle on Thursday. Kipsang switched places with Julius Bitok who has headed the Immigration docket since December…
NAIROBI, Kenya Mar 20 – The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has revealed that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua failed to honour its summons, further escalating tensions between him and the agency. Documents presented before the National Assembly Committee…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 — The government’s plan to fully operationalize all 24 newly gazetted sub-counties within the 2023/2024 financial year has stalled due to budget constraints, with only a few months left before the fiscal year ends in June.…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – President William Ruto has nominated former Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha as Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi. The appointment was part of a reorganization of Kenya’s foreign…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – Edward Kisiangani has been dropped as the Information Communication and Technology Principal Secretary in new government changes. In changes announced by State House Spokesperson Mohamed Hussein, President William Ruto named him as a senior advisor…
Landlocked Ethiopia has no intention of starting a war with neighbouring Eritrea in order to gain access to the sea, the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said. A previous statement, in 2023, that having a seaport was an “existential…
Indonesia’s parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger role in government. Critics warn that the move could return Indonesia to the dark days of Suharto’s military dictatorship, which lasted 32 years until he…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – President William Ruto has offered to host World Bank and International Finance Corporation Regional vice-presidents for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi. This followed talks with World Bank Vice-President for Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria…
Dozens of bus passengers in Ethiopia have been abducted by armed men in the country’s largest region, Oromia, as they were were travelling from the capital, Addis Ababa. Details are only just emerging of the kidnappings which took place earlier…
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – A delegation from the Defence Attaché Association of Kenya (DAAK), on Wednesday, visited the Kenya Navy Headquarters in Mombasa. The delegation, led by the Canada Defence Attaché to Kenya, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wood, first paid…