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Former President of the United States, Barack Obama has mourned the passing of his grandmother, Sarah in Kenya via his official Twitter account. Sarah, aged 99, was the second wife of President Obama’s grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, a herbalist and a village elder who fought for the British in Burma, now called Myanmar. She helped […]

The Tanzanian police have said that at least 45 people died in a stampede that took place on March 21 when citizens paid their last respects to the country’s late President John Pombe Magufuli. According to the statement made by Dar es Salaam regional police commander, Lazaro Mambosasa on Tuesday, there had been a lot […]

The rise in Kenya’s COVID-19 cases and deaths has led President Uhuru Kenyatta to announce tightened restrictions in five of the most affected counties. These new restrictions have been imposed in the country’s capital, Nairobi and the three urban counties surrounding it, including Nakuru, a major transit city. “Our rate of infection has gone up […]

A nine-storey apartment building has collapsed in Egypt’s capital, Cairo on Saturday morning, killing at least 18 people and injuring about two dozen others, an official said. Rescue workers were searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble of the building in the el-Salam neighbourhood, said Khalid Abdel-Al, the administrative head of the Cairo governorate. […]