Section: Kenya
On Russia, Trump administration hews closely to Obama playbook
Ongoing Russian operations in Ukraine have also forced Trump to moderate his stance. …read more Source: Daily...
WHO warns of measles outbreak across Europe
National vaccination levels in several European countries against the measles are below the 95 percent threshold considered necessary for protecting the entire population © DPA/AFP/File / Lukas SchulzeStockholm, Sweden, Mar 28 – The World Health Organization warned Tuesday of large measles outbreaks in countries where immunisation has dropped,...
Trump to reaffirm NATO ‘commitment’ at May summit
Washington has been scrambling to reaffirm its commitment to military alliances including NATO, after President Donald Trump called into question their usefulness © AFP / JIM WATSONWASHINGTON, Mar 22 – The White House confirmed that President Donald Trump will join fellow NATO leaders for a key May summit in Brussels, as the US administration...
Germany owes NATO ‘vast sums’: Trump
US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks at the White House in Washington DC, on March 17, 2017 © AFP / SAUL LOEBWashington, United States, Mar 18 – US President Donald Trump unleashed a diatribe against Germany on Saturday, saying Berlin owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and must pay Washington more for security....
Newspaper summaries-March 16 2017
Daily Nation I’ve kept my poll pledges, says Uhuru: We have kept our promise, was the refrain on Wednesday, with President Uhuru Kenyatta saying most of the pledges made to Kenyans four years ago have been fulfilled. He used the last State of the Nation of his first term to make a strong case for re-election. He laid out the achievements of...
Prudent Merkel meets unpredictable Trump amid tense ties
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet US President Donald Trump for the first time on Tuesday © AFP/File / TOBIAS SCHWARZ, NICHOLAS KAMMBerlin, Germany, Mar 12 – Europe’s most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time next week America’s flamboyant President Donald Trump whose arrival in the White House has sent...
China’s first stealth fighter enters service: media
The J-20 is manufactured by China’s state aerospace company AVIC, which is also working on a second fifth-generation stealth fighter called the FC-31 © KANWA NEWS/AFP/File / STRBeijing, China, Mar 10 – China has put its first stealth fighter into military service, state-run media reported on Friday, in the latest milestone highlighting the...
Viongozi wa kidini wamuunga mkono Maina Njenga
Viongozi wa kidini wamepinga hatua ya kumzuia aliyekuwa mwenyekiti wa kundi la mungiki Maina Njenga kuwania useneta kaunti Laikipia kwa tiketi ya Jubilee.Viongozi hao wanasema wanaotilia shaka maadili yake wanastahili kuwasilisha ushahidi.Wakiongozwa na katibu wa shirikisho la makanisa ya Kievanjilisti James Kamata wanasema wenyeji wa Laikipia...
Russia, NATO in first high-level military talks since freeze
Pro-Russian activists stand on top of a tank outside a museum in Donetsk, Ukraine, in March 2014/AFP-FileMOSCOW, Russian Federation, Mar 3 – Senior Russian and NATO military chiefs on Friday held their first phone talks since ties between the two sides collapsed over the crisis in Ukraine, the defence ministry in Moscow said. The chairman of the...
Is cyberspace the latest conflict frontier on the African continent?
Cyber attackers lurk in the shadows wielding the ability to hit governments where it hurts the most.ShutterstockKen Obura, University of Nairobi In August 2012, terrorist group, Boko Haram, reportedly hacked into Nigeria’s secret service and acquired private data on current and former personnel. In April 2016, a group calling itself...
