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The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has fallen short of the minimum freight traffic it was supposed to supply the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in the last two years as part of the loan terms of the $3.6 billion (Sh435 billion) project. According to a take-or-pay agreement that KPA had with the Kenya Railways Corporation...

Between 2005 and 2020, the United Nations verified over 266,000 grave violations against children committed by parties to conflict in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, UNICEF said today in a new report. This figure is a fraction of the violations believed to have occurred, as...

The Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged the East African Community to fast-track his country’s admission into the regional bloc. President Sheikh Mohamud said Somalia joining the Community has been a delayed dream for the people and the Government of Somalia urging the community’s Secretary General Dr. Peter Mathuki, to expedite the process of...

Kenya's military delegation has visited the Indian Military Academy, as part of measures to strengthen Indo-Kenya ties and defence cooperation. The delegation was led by Maj Gen FG Ahmed, Commandant who was accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising five members from Kenya Military Academy.Maj Gen FG Ahmed is the first woman to hold the rank...

Resilient tourism For many developing countries, including the least developed countries, small island developing states, countries in Africa and middle-income countries, tourism is a major source of income, foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and employment. Because tourism connects people with nature, sustainable tourism has the unique ability to spur environmental responsibility and conservation.

On the occasion of the Africa day commemorated which is on May 25th of every year, the International Relations of the National Assembly of People’s Power of the Cuba released a statement to put particular stress on the importance of exchange and at the parliamentary level in the development of ties between peoples and governments.

The United Nations has condemned the deadly bomb blasts on Tuesday at two educational institutions in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, which killed at least 6 people and wounded nearly 20 others. The explosions took place at the all-boys Abdul Rahim Shahid high school and the Mumtaz Education Centre several kilometres away, both located in the...

Several students in Pakistan participated in a march this week to mark the 38th anniversary of the ban on student unions imposed by former president General Ziaul Haq, reported local media. The protesters asked all political parties to unanimously pass legislation in parliament to decriminalise student politics, reported Dawn. Criminalising politics...

Imran Khan, the cricketer turned philanthropist and then politician, has been dislodged from power in Pakistan after several days of tumultuous political drama. Khan had managed to assume power in the 2018 general elections with backing from the country’s powerful military and due to the public appeal of his promised “tsunami of change,” which was meant to...

After three years of repeated attempts to get her digital national identity card, Rubina, a woman from Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi, decided to take her battle to court, winning a landmark victory. Until then, Pakistanis had not been able to get the Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) unless they presented their father’s ID...