1. On August 28, 2016, Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Kenya for the Promotion and Protection of Investment is scheduled to be signed by Mr. Fumio...
Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya's sports minister, under fire after a series of scandals and embarrassments at the Rio games, on Thursday announced the disbanding of the country's Olympic committee. "I do...
Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya's runners impressed at the Rio Olympics, but to the country's shame its officials were equally distinguished when it came to corruption. Six gold medals -- including in both...
Preparation for the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VI) began today with a Senior Official’s Meeting (SOM) at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre,...
Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan police on Friday arrested the secretary-general of the country's Olympic committee (NOCK) in the wake of a series of scandals and embarrassments at the Rio Games. "It's true...
Nairobi (AFP) - Three top Kenyan Olympics officials have been arrested as investigators probe allegations of mismanagement and corruption at the Rio Games, police sources said. Francis Paul,...
Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan police raided the country's Olympic headquarters Saturday probing a corruption scam that saw some of the nation's athletes deprived of team uniforms at the Rio Games. Three top...
The British Government funded Building Resilience In Civil Society (BRICS) programme is requesting Concepts from organisations or partnerships that have the current relationships, capacity, and...
A Kenyan research scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute based in Nairobi has won the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application for his work in providing...
Sokoto (Nigeria) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday praised Nigeria for its recent gains against Boko Haram Islamists but did not endorse military claims that the group's leader...
Mogadishu (AFP) - At least five people were killed when jihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotel close to the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday. "We...
1. On Sunday, August 28, commencing at 11:56 a.m. (local time; 17:56 p.m., Sunday, August 28, Japan time) for approximately 30 minutes, Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, who is visiting Nairobi, the...
Internet access and availability are not enough to get people online, says a new Internet Society (www. InternetSociety.org) study released today at the African Peering and Interconnection Forum...
The EPA issue has once again re-emerged when Tanzania informed EAC Members and the EU that it would not be able to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between EU and the six EAC Member...
Many communities in Ghana have seen significant transformation through Eco-tourism. Like what has been done with cocoa, gold and recently oil, eco-tourism can be used to mobilize revenue for...
The Chinese on Sunday appeared to spoil Japan’s big publicity from the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) in Nairobi, when Beijing’s head of delegation questioned...
Tanzanian authorities said on Saturday that the country will sign a 400 megawatts power purchase agreement with Ethiopia in the coming weeks. Felchesmi Mramba, Managing Director of state-owned...
The redesigned website of the Electoral Commission (EC) has started attracting global attention, hence making the Commission more visible to the rest of the world. Mrs Charlotte Osei, the EC...
Since Islam came into being, more than 1,400 years ago on the vastly desert land of Saudi Arabia, the religion has been growing in large numbers rubbing shoulders with Christianity in most parts of...
From 2Face to 2Baba, Innocent Idibia’s story has been one of grass to grace. When he started out as one of the trio of Plantashun Boyz, they had garnered much acceptance in the Nigerian music...
