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Sunday, May 16; Kenya’s COVID-19 positivity rate dropped to 3.1pc after the ministry of health announced 86 people had tested positive for the disease, from a sample size of 2,789. The new cases pushed the total confirmed positive cases in the country to 165,465, while cumulative tests so far conducted…

President Uhuru Kenyatta was on Saturday among several African leaders at the inauguration of Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh in the country’s capital city Djibouti. President Kenyatta, who is the current Chairperson of the East African Community, was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy…

Kenya’s Attorney General Paul Kihara has filed an appeal against the High Court’s ruling on petitions filed against the Building Bridges Initiative issued on May 13. Kihara says he is dissatisfied with the decision of the 5-judge bench delivered at the High Court. “I the 1st respondent, being dissatisfied with…

It is bad news for motorists using super petrol as they will have to pay Shs.3.56 more for the commodity as EPRA announced May-June pump prices. In Nairobi, the pump prices for super petrol settled at Shs.126.37, Shs.123.95 for Mombasa motorists, and Shs.126.90 in Kisumu with the highest being in…

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s capital Kinshasa on Saturday sentenced 29 people to death for malicious destruction of property and criminal association. Following the sentence, Patrick Muyaya, DRC government spokesperson, tweeted in French that out of the 41 defendants, five were acquitted, 31 convicted, including 29…

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed at least 10 people early Saturday, as the Jewish-majority state intensified its offensive in the region. All those killed were members of a single family — eight children and two women. The attack, which prompted fresh rocket fire from Hamas militants, came hours…

Mali’s Prime Minister Moctar Ouane resigned and was subsequently reappointed transitional president, the Malian presidency announced Friday. Ouane will have to form a new government with room for the political class, under instructions of President Bah N’Daw. N’Daw made his decision after several meetings he initiated to renew dialogue between…

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday officially announced that three more prefectures – Hokkaido, Okayama, and Hiroshima – will be placed under a COVID-19 state of emergency due to a recent spike in infections. “Today, we decided to add Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiroshima to the area under the state…

Somalia has rejected the appointment of former Ghanaian President John Mahama as African Union’s (AU) special envoy to help mediate its political impasse with Kenya. Somalia argues that the former Head of State has “extensive links” with Kenya, and has written to AU Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat notifying him that…

Zambia’s parliament has been dissolved exactly 90 days before the upcoming general election in accordance with the Zambian constitution which requires that parliament is dissolved 90 days before the next election. The house held its last sitting on Wednesday and the clerk announced that it would formally dissolve on Friday.…