World ally Championship 2025: Finsco Africa powers women’s participation in Kenya’s edition of WRC
At just 20 years old, Tinashe Gatimu participated in her third consecutive WRC Safari Rally, driving a Subaru Imprezza GC8 with her mother as her navigator. Their presence in this high-adrenaline sport represents resilience, courage and the breaking of gender barriers.
UNAIDS director proposes that President Trump make an ‘amazing deal’ to end HIV spread
Winnie Byanyima said it was unlikely any other donors would be able to fill that vacuum, adding that European donors have told the agency they would be cutting back on their support in order to redirect their funds to defence and other priorities.
Congo rebel leader says sanctions, any minerals deal with the US won’t stop fighting in the east
Nangaa dismissed Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi’s comments last week that his country — whose mineral resources are estimated to be worth $24 trillion and critical to much of the world’s technology — is looking for a minerals partnership with the US
UN official warns South Sudan s hurtling towards another civil war he fears will be bloodiest
Senior officials affiliated with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) – the main rival militia – have been removed, replaced, detained or forced into hiding.
Entirely man-made: Former British PM Minister Boris Johnson now admits Covid leaked from lab
Quoting the report, Campbell said, “Since the select committee commenced its work in February 2023, more and more senior intelligence officials, politicians, science editors and scientists increasingly have endorsed the hypothesis that Covid-19 emerged as the result of a laboratory or research-related accident.”
Dire straits: Kenya returns to IMF for new loan, denies rift with lender over expenditure review
Kenya had failed to meet some targets during the combined seventh and eighth reviews of the programme. However, both were approved by the IMF board last October which triggered payout of the funding tranches linked to those reviews.
Man in central Kenya who sold mother’s chickens, goats and threatened to kill her to serve three years in jail
Peris Ngumo, a probation officer, recommended a custodial sentence for Njuguna.
SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated
Tanzania’s shifting stance added to the confusion. Tanzania chose not to participate in the East African Community Regional Force deployed to eastern DRC before SAMIDRC. Although initially supportive of SAMIDRC, it gradually moved towards a neutral position.
US and Russia delegations meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine war, eye Black Sea ceasefire
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the US, Russian and Ukrainian delegations were assembled in the same facility in Riyadh.
Al Shabaab terrorist group incursions on Kenyan soil on the rise as six police officers are killed
Al Shabaab has been fighting for years to overthrow Somalia’s central government and establish its own rule in the Horn of Africa country based on its own strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
