Rapid Support Forces Commander Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo on Thursday had a phone call with UN Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres.  Through a statement shared on his X...

DJIBOUTI - IGAD Chairman and Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh has convened an Extraordinary IGAD Summit on Sudan and the Ethiopia-Somalia diplomatic row.  In a letter by Djibouti Foreign Ministry...

Ukrainian military has captured a Somali fighting in the frontline near Avdiivka, a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.  Citing Armiya TV, Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton...

BY SILAS NYANCHWANI Undoubtedly, Kenya's mainstream media organizations are in trouble. Big trouble. They have been since 2015. Losses, profit warnings, periodic laying off the staff, and a general attitude...

NAIROBI - A 10-year debt involving Spanish companies that morphed into a diplomatic issue of interest between Kenya and Spain threatens to soil the bilateral relations.  The issue involves Sh1.2...

BY NOURIEL ROUBINI Heading into 2024, most economists and market analysts have adopted a baseline scenario in which most major economies avoid both a recession and renewed inflation – the...

BY OLAYINKA AJALA The Sahel, a region 3,860km wide located south of the Sahara Desert and stretching east-west across the African continent, has been a focus of attention around the world recently....

BY GWYNNE DYER On Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020...

PETER VIGGO JAKOBSEN and TROELS BURCHALL HENNINGSEN   An Iranian fishing vessel, Almeraj 1, was reportedly hijacked by Somali pirates in November 2023.   According to media reports, the pirates demanded US$400,000...

BY LAUREN JOHNSTON   In a year when headlines have been dominated by conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and geo-economic tensions between China and the West, China-Africa relations...