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Tanzania: Pentagon Think Tank Accuses Tanzania's Magufuli of Political Repression
Tanzania's "democratic experiment" is imperiled by repressive laws and political violence being carried out by the country's ruling party, a think tank affiliated with the US Defence Department warned on Tuesday. → Read More
East Africa: US Firms Are Part of Somalia 'Kill Chain' Operating From Manda Bay
Private US contractors are conducting surveillance flights over Somalia from a US military base at Manda Bay, Lamu County according to reports by a worldwide network of investigative journalists. → Read More
Africa: U.S. Africa Command Plans to Move Headquarters, but Not to Africa
US President Donald Trump has ordered the US military's Africa Command (Africom) to move its headquarters out of Germany, the force's commander said on Thursday. → Read More
Kenya: Lazarus Amayo Formally Takes Over as Envoy to U.S.
Lazarus Amayo on Friday formally took up his duties as the 18th Kenyan ambassador to the United States. → Read More
Kenya On the Way to Ending HIV/Aids Epidemic
Kenya is inching closer to the global target of testing, treating and virally suppressing HIV/Aids in 90 percent of its population, a new report by the United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) titled Seizing the Moment says. → Read More
Kenya: KQ to Resume Domestic Flights in 'Next Couple of Days', Kenyatta Says
Kenya Airways (KQ), grounded for the past three months by the coronavirus pandemic, will resume domestic flights in "the next couple of days," President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday. → Read More
Somalia: Army Remains 'Incapable' of Dislodging Al-Shabaab, U.S. Says
Somalia's army remains "incapable" of ousting Al-Shabaab from its strongholds, enabling the insurgents to exercise continued control over large parts of the country, the US State Department said on Wednesday. → Read More
Kenyatta Pledges to Respect Term Limit in 2022
President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged Thursday that he will respect the Constitution's limit of two terms in the nation's top office. → Read More
Kenya: U.S. Missionary Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Girls in Kenya
A US man is facing a 16-year prison term after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of sexually abusing four girls at an orphanage he and his wife ran in Boito, Bomet County, in Kenya's Rift Valley. → Read More
Sudan: U.S. Court Orders Govt to Pay for 1998 Embassy Attacks
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. → Read More
Somalia: Govt Warns Kenya of UN Action for Its 'Destabilising' Role
Somalia's United Nations envoy denounced Kenya on Thursday as a "destabilising force" in his country and threatened to initiate UN action against the country. → Read More
Kenya: U.S. Court Hears Embassy Bomb Victims' Plea for Payments
The US Supreme Court on Monday listened to claims by hundreds of Kenyans and Tanzanians that they should receive $4.3 billion from Sudan in punitive damages as partial compensation for the 1998 embassy bombings. → Read More
East Africa: Region 'Overwhelmed' as Locust Plague Spreads, UN Warns
The locust plague spreading throughout East Africa will cause further deprivation for 14 million people in the region already considered "severely food insecure," United Nations specialists warned on Monday. → Read More
Kenya, FBI Partner on First Anti-Terror Task Force Outside U.S.
Kenya has been chosen as the site for the first US-funded Joint Terrorism Task Force to be located outside the United States, the State Department announced on Monday. → Read More
Kenya Needs New Form of Democracy, Kenyatta Tells U.S. Audience
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that Kenya must devise a new form of democracy that promotes inclusivity rather than designating some groups as winners and others as losers. President Kenyatta spoke in Washington DC on Wednesday. → Read More
Kenya: U.S. Picks Kenya for Bilateral Trade Deal
The Trump administration has tapped Kenya as the first sub-Saharan nation to start talks with the US on a bilateral trade deal, the Bloomberg News agency reported on Tuesday. → Read More
South Sudan: Donors 'Tired' of South Sudan's Failure to Serve Its People
The Trump administration's top Africa diplomat lashed out at South Sudan's rulers on Monday, and urged the country's warring parties to defer agreement on "sticky issues" until after a transitional government is formed. → Read More
Eritrea: Trump Reportedly Adding Tanzania, Eritrea and Sudan to U.S. Travel Ban
President Donald Trump may reportedly expand his ban on travel to the US to include seven more countries, including Tanzania, Eritrea, Nigeria and Sudan. → Read More
Kenya: Govt Eyes Up to U.S.$350 Million Aid From U.S. to Finance Projects
The head of a special US development programme is due in Kenya in the coming week to hold initial talks on the country's potential eligibility for project funding of up to Sh35 billion. → Read More
Kenya: Us Court Drives the Last Nail in Akasha Drug Empire Coffin
NEW YORK Baktash and Ibrahim Akasha had for long presided over an international drug-trafficking ring that netted them a fortune. It was used to finance lives of luxury in Mombasa and to systematically bribe a host of Kenyan government officials -- until they were caught. A shocking spectacle unfolded when burly US marshals led the brothers into a federal courtroom in New York in February 2017.… → Read More