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The US has announced a combined cash reward of $21 million for information leading to the arrest of four al-Shabaab leaders. They include Abu Ubadiah (leader), Mahad Karate (Amniyat Commander), Fuad Mohamed Khalaf (Financial Facilitator), and Jafar (Facilitator and Operational Planner).  The…

Police in the UK have arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with the murder of conservative MP Sir David Amess. BBC reported that Sir David died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex on Friday. Police said they recovered a knife at the scene and were not looking for any other…

US-based Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o has once again missed out on the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee in the 1960s. Abdulrazak won the prestigious award…

A magistrate court on Friday ruled that the remains of the late former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe should be exhumed and reburied at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Magistrate Ruth Moyo upheld a ruling by traditional chief Stanly Wurayayi Mhondoro, who in May found Mugabe’s widow Grace…

Ten Kenyans are among thousands of foreigners stranded in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover. Reports indicate the ten were working for international agencies and technology companies in the capital Kabul. Kenyans on social media are calling on the government through the Foreign…

Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared president-elect, beating incumbent Edgar Lungu. The electoral commission said the United Party for National Development (UPND) leader garnered 2,810,777 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201, with 155 out of the 156 constituencies…

Jailed former South African President Jacob Zuma has undergone surgery. South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services on Sunday said Zuma remains in hospital with more operations scheduled in the coming days. The announcement came a week after Zuma, who was sentenced to 15 months in jail for…

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has rejected the results of Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary election. In a statement on Saturday, Lungu said the elections were "not free and fair" citing incidents of violence in Southern, North Western, and Western provinces.  He argued that the…

Police in Italy have opened an investigation to establish the origin of a suspicious envelope sent to Pope Francis. The envelope addressed to the pontiff and containing three bullets was seized in a mail sorting facility close to the northern Italian city of Milan on Sunday night. Postal workers…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma was on Friday taken to hospital from prison. The Department of Correctional Services said Zuma, who was jailed for contempt of court last month, was taken to a hospital outside prison for “medical observation.” “Everyone who is detained, including every…