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Dr Assel Herera Correa (general physician) and Dr Landy Rodriguez (surgeon) pause for a photo with Royal Media Services Staff Njeri Ngugi Image: Courtesy Mandera elders are in Somalia to negotiate with their counterparts the release of two Cuban doctors seized by suspected al Shabaab militants on Friday. Elders in the Somali community are highly regarded and […]

Protest organisers have vowed demonstrators would stay on the streets until Sudan gets a civilian government [Reuters] At least 16 people were killed and 20 others injured by stray bullets at protests and sit-ins on Thursday and Friday, a Sudanese police spokesman said in a statement on Saturday as the nation waited to hear from […]

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his wife Kim Jung-sook in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, early April 12. AP-Yonhap President Moon Jae-in’s “urgent plea” to U.S. President Donald Trump to support limited and minor sanctions relief that affects the lives […]

Dr Assel Herera Correa (general physician) and Dr Landy Rodriguez (surgeon) Image: COURTESY Mandera residents on Friday woke up to the sad news of the abduction of two Cuban doctors. Police sources indicated that the outlawed militia group Al Shabaab from neighbouring Somalia ambushed the two medics Dr Assel Herera Correa (general physician) and Dr Landy […]

Abideen said that the military acted to meet the demands of the people [Courtesy: screen grab from Reuters] The head of Sudan’s provisional military political council has said that the army has “no ambition to hold the reins of power”, and stressed that “we are ready to step down as early as a month if a government is […]

In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. (AFP Photo) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police on Thursday after they were invited into the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012. “Julian Assange, […]

April 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan official and radio-television have interrupted their programmes and broadcast military announcing that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) will issue a communiqué soon. Reports from Khartoum say the coup d’état has been carried out by the whole military institution including the defence minister and first vice-president Awad Ibn Ouf. Also, […]

President Moon, left, is hoping to salvage what is left of the aborted Hanoi summit where the US and North Korea failed to reach an agreement [Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP] President Moon, left, is hoping to salvage what is left of the aborted Hanoi summit where the US and North Korea failed to […]

   Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Russia is buying gold. A lot of gold. Within the span of a decade, the country quadrupled its reserves. Gold buying last year exceeded mine supply for the first time, so Russia is about to become a net importer of the metal. Commentators have suggested possible reasons for the buying […]

FILE — Mohamed Noor, left, former Minneapolis police officer, leaves the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis with attorney Peter Wold after a hearing to address several pretrial motions, March 1, 2019. A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman as she approached his squad car after calling 911 was reacting to […]