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Malcolm Bidali was released in Qatar earlier this week, we were told on Wednesday evening, June 2. The charges against him remain, however. The Kenyan citizen is accused by the authorities of having received payments "from a foreign agent for the creation and dissemination of misinformation". The security guard signed a pseudonym on the situation of migrant workers in the country.…

Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan citizen, has been detained in Qatar for three weeks and the charges against him are still unknown. This security guard wrote under a pseudonym about the fate of migrant workers in the country. as reported from Dubai, Nicolas keraudren"Twenty nights of detention free of charge". On his twitter account,…

Somalia bans Kenyan planes transporting election materials to Somaliland MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia Civil Aviation Authority has banned a aircraft carrying election supplies to Somaliland, in one other step that casts doubt on the current restoration of diplomatic ties between the 2 international locations. In line with stories, the Astral Aviation plane, which had been deployed to move…

Uhurus change of presidency construction plugs in Kenyan courtroom NAIROBI, Kenya | A Kenyan courtroom has halted the constitutional course of initiated by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his political nemesis Raila Odinga, known as the Constructing Bridges Initiative , which might have seen drastic adjustments to the Supreme Regulation. The trial, which started in 2018, had spawned…

Kenyan police said on Tuesday they had arrested three suspects and recovered a cache of weapons during a security operation in Garissa County, which borders Somalia. Rono Bunei, northeastern regional police chief, said the three suspects were snatched while transporting eight rifles, 2,104 bullets and 20 liters of petrol along a busy road in the Lagdera area when they were caught after a four-hour chase. Bunei said police patrolling the area spotted the saloon car around 5pm on Monday before the driver moved off,…

NAIROBI - Kenya has offered free COVID-19 vaccines to all diplomats residing there, including thousands of UN staff, although it has not completed the inoculation of its own health workers, other front-line staff or seniors who draw criticism from local doctors. The offer was made in a March 18 letter sent by the State Department to diplomatic missions and seen by Reuters. Macharia Kamau, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said the shots offered were delivered through the World Health Organization (WHO) co-led COVAX…

Kenyan Paul Gicheru has surrendered to the Dutch authorities, while since March 2015 he has been wanted by the ICC, based in the Netherlands. This lawyer was especially accused by the Court of having witnessed at the time when the current Kenyan Vice President, William Ruto, was prosecuted for crimes against humanity following the 2007-2008 election violence. The prosecution had denied his charges, but the arrest warrant against Paul Gicheru was still pending. Despite his arrest warrant, Paul Gicheru did not hide.…

A Kenyan court on Wednesday found two men guilty of their role in helping al-Shabaab gunmen who attacked the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in 2013 and killed 67 people. A third man accused of the attack was acquitted. Following a trial that began in January 2014, Judge Francis Andayi found that Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hassan Hussein Mustafa conspired with and assisted the four assailants who died in a siege claimed by the Somali-based al-Qaida-based group. The third accused, Liban Abdullahi Omar, was acquitted of…

The Kenyan head of state is accompanied by five of his ministers for this visit dedicated to economic cooperation. He attended the conference of the Public Investment Bank, the institution responsible for promoting French companies abroad, along with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning. The two heads of state took the opportunity to discuss the economic opportunities that bind them, despite the global health crisis. And it was a rather determined Uhuru Kenyatta who appeared on the conference stage.…

The Kenyan president arrives in Paris for a five-day visit to France. A business-oriented move. The head of state, accompanied by five ministers, attends a conference for the public investment bank, meets with French employers and signs contracts. Uhuru Kenyatta is accompanied by a strong delegation of ministers and is expected to attend several economic events. A conference at the headquarters of BPI France, the institution responsible for promoting French companies abroad, but also a meeting in Medef, the French…