Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya - A excessive US army officer visited Kenya on Tuesday, his second journey to Nairobi in as many months, amid plans by Washington to withdraw close to 700 servicemen who're serving to throughout the battle in opposition to Al-Shabaab in Somalia, a country that is combating instability ensuing from frequent inter-clan conflicts, sturdy inside politics and rising insurgency.

The kitchen is burning between Kenya and Somalia. Mogadishu severed diplomatic ties with its southern neighbor on Tuesday, December 14. Kenyan diplomats have seven days to go away Somali territory. Within the course of, Nairobi introduced that the consulate will open subsequent March in Somaliland, this self-proclaimed impartial area that Somalia considers a part of its territory. Within the context…

The Somali authorities says it has severed ties with its strategic neighbor Kenya "to guard the nation's unity, sovereignty and stability." The announcement on Tuesday got here when the chief of Somaliland's eruption territory ended a three-day go to to Kenya the place he acquired therapy just like that given to a head of state in conferences with the Kenyan management. "On the idea of its sovereignty, worldwide regulation and order and the achievement of its constitutional obligation to guard the…

Somali diplomats stationed in Kenya have seven days to return residence. The identical is true of the Kenyan diplomats current in Somalia. For a number of months, tensions have been excessive between the 2 neighboring international locations. Mogadishu accuses Nairobi of disruption. as reported from Nairobi, Charlotte…

Once is not common, in Kenya, parliamentarians have to return money to the state. Yesterday, the High Court of Justice asked the 416 elected representatives to reimburse ten million dollars. This amount corresponds to a housing allowance that they have received for more than two years. A financial support that they had voted in their own favor and caused a stir in the country. Each parliamentarian will have one year to repay more than $ 24,000. A significant sum given the Kenyan standard of living, but much more…

That is Abye Ahmed's first journey for the reason that disaster in Tigray. He arrived on Wednesday within the border city of Moyale, the place his Kenyan counterpart inaugurated a freeway connecting southern Ethiopia to the port of Mombasa in Kenya. A go to of financial curiosity, but additionally political, whereas the battle in Tigray worries the worldwide neighborhood.…

On Monday, November 30, the unions called for a work stoppage and believed that the government did not adequately protect professionals in the sector against Covid-19. They are asking for more resources, extra premiums and better social coverage. Finally, this Sunday evening, December 6, a few hours before the start of the strike, the unions closed the slogan.…

Images shrinking in Kenya. Those of the Vice President, William Ruto, in the Emirate of Dubai. On Saturday night, the politician wanted to share his evening spent in the restaurant of the famous Turkish butcher "Salt Bae". This restaurateur whose entrecote plated with gold leaf made its reputation and now attracts stars from all over the world.…

An entire continent had celebrated one of his son's victories during the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2009. The first volume of his memoir as head of state, "A Promised Land (Fayard), however, confirms the anecdotal nature of Africa, in its universe as in its experience. From the beginning of his long history, more than 800 pages,…

Anger is escalating in Kenya after the deaths of two famous doctors this weekend. They gave in to Covid-19 when the country faces a second deadly wave. More than 2,000 health workers have contracted the virus since the pandemic began. Dozens died of it. Their union is threatening to strike if nothing is done to protect them.…