Africa

By DAVID MUCHUI Farmers and traders are calling for the release of a report by the miraa task force after its term expired in December last year. The team, appointed on June 17 last year by President Uhuru Kenyatta, was expected to issue a report by...

CAIRO — Some Middle Eastern countries are showing a great deal of interest in Africa these days, and although Africa seems to welcome the attention, it can do without the drama. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in particular, have extended their drive for influence in the Mideast by competing in...

BY BILL ROGGIO US Africa Command announced that it launched an airstrike against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia, while US advisors accompanied Somali and African Union forces in a counterterrorism exercise on Jan. 7. AFRICOM described the offensive under the guise of a “self-defense strike,”...

Scientists said Thursday they may have uncovered a biological explanation for the long suspected link between stress and heart disease. People with a highly active amygdala — a region of the brain involved in stress processing — also have a higher risk of heart disease...

CAIRO-An Egyptian court froze the assets of two NGOs and their founders on Wednesday, in a controversial probe into civil society groups that has been criticised by the United Nations. The court ordered a freeze on the assets of Nazra for Feminist Studies and its...

BANJUL Gambia's president has warned the international community against interfering in the country's political crisis, on the eve of talks with west African leaders who will urge him to step aside. On state-run television late Tuesday, Yahya Jammeh lashed out at "an unprecedented level of foreign...

Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has appointed his son to the position of Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations. The appointment is part of sweeping changes that the President in his capacity as Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces announced on Tuesday. The move has however...

By NATION REPORTER More by this Author Leading Money transfer company Dahabshiil has threatened to launch a criminal complaint against a blogger it accuses of publishing 'fake' stories about it. The blogger, Mr Dahir Alasow, owner of "Waagacusub Media”, according to the firm, has been using different...

By:Kalkidan Yibeltal An analysis on what the rising ethnic nationalism among the historically powerful Amhara means for the country's future. Amba Giorgis, Ethiopia - Etenesh* sits alone on a worn cow skin in her mud-walled home in Amba Giorgis, a small Ethiopian market town in the...

By:Ismail Akwei 24-year-old Second Lieutenant Thokozile Muwamba has made history in Zambia as the country’s first female fighter pilot to be accepted into the male dominated area of the military. After joining the military in 2012, Muwamba was fortunate to be part of the Zambian Air...