Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | The Dubai-based airline Emirates on Thursday said it planned to halt all flights to and from Nigeria, starting September 1, to cut down losses following its inability to repatriate about 85 million US dollars in revenue from the most populous African country. In a statement, the …
Read More »Daughter of Angola former president to appeal against decision to deliver body to ex-wife
Luanda, Angola | Xinhua | Tchize dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, will appeal against the Spanish court’s decision to deliver the corpse of her father to his ex-wife Ana Paula dos Santos, her lawyer Carmen Varela said Wednesday. “The decision of the instruction judge number …
Read More »Chebukati: Four ‘rebel’ IEBC commissioners wanted to force re-run
Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati has for the first time spoken about the decision by the four IEBC commissioners to reject the presidential results. The four IEBC officers who rejected the results are Juliana Cherera, Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyang’aya and Irene Masit. In a statement, …
Read More »Ugandan troops in DR Congo to be immunized against Ebola
Kampala, Uganda | Xinhua | The UPDF on Tuesday said its troops hunting down insurgents in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are to be immunized against the Ebola virus. The military in a statement said its medical department together with the ministry of health and the World Health Organization …
Read More »Peacekeeping troop rotations resume in Mali: UN
United Nations | Xinhua | The rotation of peacekeeping troops in and out of Mali has resumed after a month’s suspension by the Malian government, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. The rotations began Monday with a contingent from Bangladesh, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. About …
Read More »Absa Group 2022 interim earnings increase 27%
Absa Group operations demonstrating continued strong recovery Johannesburg, South Africa | THE INDEPENDENT | Absa Group headline earnings increased 27% to Rands 11 billion in the first half of the year as revenue increased, demonstrating a continued strong recovery from the global economic downturn in 2020. Absa reported solid pre-prevision …
Read More »Odinga asks Azimio supporters to stay calm, going to court
Odinga: In our view there is neither a legally and validly declared winner nor a president-elect Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT & THE STAR KENYA | Azimio la Umoja presidential aspirant Raila Odinga has called on his supporters to stay calm as his alliance seeks the ear of the Supreme Court on …
Read More »Why we rejected presidential results – IEBC commissioners
Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | The four IEBC commissioners who rejected Monday’s presidential results have given reasons behind their decision. In a press statement read by chairperson Juliana Cherera on Tuesday at Serena Hotel, the commissioners said the aggregation of the percentages of the results were a mathematical …
Read More »🔴 LIVE: Raila Odinga speaks out
🔵 Odinga Address – 2pm KICC, Azimio Media Center Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Azimio La Umoja coalition leader Raila Odinga will this afternoon reveal his response to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declaration of UDC’s William Ruto as duly elected President of Kenya. Odinga boycotted the ceremony at …
Read More »Missing IEBC official found dead in Oloitoktok, Kajiado
The family of the deceased and police from Embakasi visited the mortuary and identified the body The killers and motive are yet to be established Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | The missing Embaksai East returning officer has been found dead. Daniel Mbolu Musyoka went missing on August 11. He …
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