Nine Somalis who had attempted to hijack a German merchant vessel MV Courier in the Gulf of Aden in March 2009 were, on Tuesday, sentenced to five years in prison each by a Kenyan court in the coastal city of… Read more ›
Ninety Four (94) cases of polio have been reported in south-central Somalia pointing to a fast spreading outbreak, says Somalia’s Ministry of Health. New cases of the disease near the porous border with Ethiopia have also put that country at… Read more ›
Kenya’s Equity Bank has received 2 billion shillings worth of new deposits in less than six months since it established a specialized branch in Nairobi to support local Chinese business, the company said on Monday. The boost from the branch,… Read more ›
An international training institute for peace-keepers will be setup in Ethiopia by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in collaboration with the Ethiopian government. The institute will serve as a training facility for peace-keeping organizations within and around East Africa.… Read more ›
Ethiopia’s exports declined in value by 2 percent in 2012-13 from a year earlier due to declining prices for coffee beans even as volumes increased, the Trade Ministry said. The value of exports from Ethiopia, Africa’s biggest grower of coffee,… Read more ›
The civil society in Kenya is opposing the government’s plans to spend nearly Sh2.5 billion to celebrate Kenya’s 50 years of independence. Civil Society Congress chairman, Morris Odhiambo, told Capital FM News that such lavish spending does not add any… Read more ›
Thousands of Ethiopian Muslims on Friday staged protest rallies in Addis Ababa’s two Mosques in the newest show of discontent over what they allege is the government’s meddling towards religious affairs. After attending Friday prayers, large numbers of Muslim protesters… Read more ›
Kenya’s High Court on Friday, stopped a government plan to relocate 55,000 mostly Somali refugees from the capital, Nairobi, and other cities to camps, Human Rights Watch said. Such relocation would be a violation of refugees’ dignity and free movement… Read more ›
Ethiopia on Thursday signed an agreement worth $700 million with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for the expansion of mobile phone infrastructure and introduction of high-speed 4G broadband network in the capital Addis Ababa and 3G service throughout the country.… Read more ›
The Dutch embassy in Kenya has warned that foreigners are at risk of attack, following Wednesday’s discovery of a large quantity of explosives on a bus by police in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Kenya has seen a series of grenade and… Read more ›