RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan

RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan

The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling for power in Sudan’s ruinous civil war, took a step toward forming its own breakaway government on Tuesday when it hosted a lavish political event in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The group’s deputy leader, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, who is under American sanctions, was greeted by hundreds of … Read more

Adani firm downplays Kenya scrapping $736 million power deal: No material impact

Adani firm downplays Kenya scrapping 6 million power deal: No material impact

Adani Energy Solutions said on Saturday that Kenya’s cancellation of a $736 million transmission line project did not require it to make any regulatory disclosure under Indian stock exchange rules as it was within its ordinary course of business. It said it was responding to a request for clarification from the Bombay Stock Exchange and … Read more

Ex-US President Barack Obama’s sister teargassed live on air in Kenya

Ex-US President Barack Obama’s sister teargassed live on air in Kenya

Nairobi [Kenya]: Protesting against the controversial finance bill of Kenya, Auma Obama, the half-sister of former US President Barack Obama, was teargassed live on air on Tuesday, according to CNN. The incident occurred when Auma Obama, who is a Kenyan-British activist, was in a chat with CNN’s Larry Madowo with a group of teenage protestors. … Read more

Good News International Church | Horrors of a Kenyan cult

Good News International Church | Horrors of a Kenyan cult

Kenya police officers and civilians rescue an emaciated member of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, whose members believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, in Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya on April 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters In the run-up to last year’s Kenyan … Read more

Prominent Kenyan LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba reportedly found dead | CNN

Prominent Kenyan LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba reportedly found dead | CNN

Reuters  —  Kenyan police have discovered the body of a prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country, local media reported on Friday. Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside from a vehicle with a concealed number plate, The Standard and … Read more

Nelly Cheboi, who creates computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is CNN’s Hero of the Year | CNN

Nelly Cheboi, who creates computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is CNN’s Hero of the Year | CNN

CNN  —  Nelly Cheboi, who in 2019 quit a lucrative software engineering job in Chicago to create computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is the 2022 CNN Hero of the Year. Online voters selected her from among this year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes finalists. Cheboi’s nonprofit, TechLit Africa, has provided thousands of students across rural Kenya … Read more

Arshad Sharif, prominent journalist who fled Pakistan, killed in shooting in Kenya | CNN Business

Arshad Sharif, prominent journalist who fled Pakistan, killed in shooting in Kenya | CNN Business

Nairobi CNN Business  —  Arshad Sharif, a prominent Pakistani journalist who fled the country after he was charged with sedition, has died in Kenya after he was shot by police responding to reports of a stolen vehicle, authorities said. “The officers trailing the motor vehicle … alerted police in Magadi who erected a road barrier,” … Read more

17 soldiers dead when helicopter crashes in Kenya: Police

17 soldiers dead when helicopter crashes in Kenya: Police

A police official in Kenya says 17 soldiers have died when the helicopter they were travelling in for a training exercise crashed in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi. Six people with severe injuries were rescued from the scene in Ole-Tepesi in Kajiado county, the officer said Thursday. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity … Read more

Covid-19 flight ban: DGCA extends suspension of scheduled international passenger flights till February 28

Covid-19 flight ban: DGCA extends suspension of scheduled international passenger flights till February 28

Covid-19 flight ban: At present, India has “air bubble pacts” with 24 countries like the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom, the UAE, France, Kenya, and Bhutan, among others. (File image) Covid-19 flight ban: The aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced on Thursday that the suspension of scheduled international passenger … Read more