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Israel recognized Somaliland – African nations like Ethiopia, Kenya should be next - opinion

Israel recognized Somaliland after decades of patience and Africa can no longer afford to look away.

Ismail Shirwac is seen holding a Somaliland flag and a Israeli flag.
Cholo Abdi Abdullah training as a pilot as part of an al-Shabaab plot to attack on US soil.

Justice Dept. sentences al-Shabaab terrorist for planning 9/11-inspired plane hijacking, crash plot

People enter the Federal High Court, as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra continues, in Abuja, Nigeria December 2, 2021.

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism

gold deposit. Illustration.

Shanta Gold confirms largest gold deposit found in Kenya in a decades


Kenya set to appoint first female chief justice at sensitive moment

A child of subsistence farmers, she was chosen by a judicial panel over the lawyer who argued President Uhuru Kenyatta's case in a 2017 battle with the Supreme Court that she will now head.

Judge Martha Koome arrives for the interview for the post of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court buil

New agricultural fellowship grant creates global impact

The Dean Family Fellowship Grant program is a 5-year partnership between JNF-USA, the Dean family from Philadelphia, PA., and AICAT.

AICAT students enjoy their time learning in Israel.

Former US president Obama's grandmother, Sarah, dies at 99

"My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny" - Barack Obama.

Sarah Hussein Obama, step-grandmother to US President Barack Obama, smiles at their homestead in the village of Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 14, 2015. US President Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia later this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, h

Amid Kenya's coronavirus shutdown, chickens roost in empty classrooms

No students have thundered down these eerily quiet corridors since March, when Kenya abruptly closed its schools three days after the first case of COVID-19 was detected.

Chickens are seen in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, August 28, 2020.

African churches swap holy water for hand sanitiser

Part of Africa's battle to stop the virus from taking hold could be fought in its churches.

Holy Family basilica (Nairobi, Kenya)

Two exceptionally rare protected white giraffes killed by poachers in Kenya

The female and her calf were two of three white giraffes known to be living in the sanctuary.

The female giraffe and her calf

Three Americans killed in al-Shabaab militant attack on base in Kenya

The attack presents another crisis for Washington just as the Pentagon grapples with a rapidly escalating standoff with Iran following a drone strike in Baghdad that killed top Qassem Soleimani.

An image distributed by al Shabaab after the attack on a military base in Kenya shows Somalia's al Shabaab militant group's flag, said to be at the Manda Bay Airfield in Manda, Lamu, Kenya January 5, 2020.

Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two hour marathon like landing on the moon

"Today we went to the moon and came back to earth! I am at a loss for words for all the support I have received from all over the world," Eliud Kipchoge said.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the marathon world record holder, crosses the finish line during his attempt to run a marathon in under two hours in Vienna, Austria, October 12, 2019

Kenya becomes third African nation to introduce malaria vaccine

The vaccine - the world's first against malaria - will be administered to children under two and could be crucial to efforts to combat the disease, health officials said.

Malaria mosquito. [File]

Jacob Engel plans to issue gambling activities worth half a billion USD

Born in Croatia, and having lived all over Eastern Europe, Jacob Engel appears to be a man that has picked a wide range of talents.

Gambling 370