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Kadenge’s family said he died at a hospital in Nairobi on Sunday, after a long illness, having suffered a stroke in February. His son Oscar told Capital FM News that they were making arrangements to move the body .... read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2G3eYRQ Get More Nigeria...

KHARTOUM, Jun 29 – Sudan’s ruling generals said Friday that a new, joint proposal drafted by Ethiopia and the African Union could be a base to resume negotiations with protesters on forming a transitional administration. The African Union and Ethiopia have come up with a blueprint for a …...

Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on television Sunday as the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup in a regional state of this Horn of Africa nation. Abiy took to national television in … Read more via Capital News –...

Three 20-year old girls who pledged to hold together despite a shocking revelation that two of them had been mysteriously switched at birth have been separated after one of the mothers reclaimed her biological daughter on Friday. Melvis Imbaya who was raised up in Kakamega with one of the...

BEIJING, Jun 20 – Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei pleaded guilty at a trial in China on Thursday to accepting $2.1 million in bribes — a remarkable fall from grace for the former vice minister of public security. The Tianjin No.1 Intermediate Court said Meng “showed repentance” during …...

Twelve police officers were killed in Wajir late Friday, when Al Shabaab terrorists planted an Improvised Explosive Devise. A senior police officer in the region said the attack occurred.... Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2FovbAP Get more World News

Shops began to reopen in Sudan’s capital on Wednesday after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil disobedience campaign and agreed to new talks, though many residents remained indoors following last … Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2IBixPF Get more World News

President Donald Trump’s administration approved the transfer of nuclear technical expertise to Saudi Arabia twice after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Democratic senator said Tuesday. Those two times were part of seven occasions starting in December 2017 in which the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for Russia Wednesday to mark a new era of friendship and reinforce economic ties that had benefitted from Moscow’s isolation from the West. Due to arrive in the early afternoon, Xi will be received with full honours..... Read more via Capital News –...

Sudan’s army ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Tuesday the country’s military rulers had decided to cancel what they had previously agreed with protesters about the country’s transition and called for elections within nine months. It came the after Sudan’s military forcefully broke up...

Ugandan veterinarian and primate expert, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has been shortlisted for the prestigious Tusk Conservation in Africa 2019 awards. The Tusk Awards for Conservation in Africa organised by conservation charity Tusk Trust in association with Investec Asset Management is...

Kenya and the United States have signed a revitalized Security Governance Joint Country Action Plan in a bid to boost cooperation on governance, anti-corruption, and civilian security. The revamped pact was inked on Wednesday at the end of a two-day inaugural Bilateral Strategic Dialogue ...

The US Treasury will not hand President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to Democratic lawmakers, defying a demand from Congress, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday.... Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2PN7d5Y Get more World News

Suspected Somali Al-Shabaab jihadis kidnapped two Cuban doctors Friday and killed their police protection officer in northeastern Kenya, police said. Police Spokesman Charles Owino said the two doctors and their guard were on the way to work in the town of Mandera when they were attacked...

A female student pursuing medicine at Moi University was hacked to death early Tuesday by a man said to be her lover. Ivy Wangeci, a sixth year-medicine student was hacked to death by her.... Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2UcJ9KE Get more World News

Catholic priests in Poland burned books they say are sacrilegious this weekend, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of fantasy novels.... Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2WI2h4N Get more World News

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan said Monday he had authorized $1 billion to build part of the wall sought by President Donald Trump along the US-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 57 miles... Read more via Capital News –...

couple has been arrested for allegedly hiding their daughter’s defilement and pregnancy at Nyanyaa … Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2Tu76fM Get more World News

Nairobi Regional Commander Philip Ndolo said lawyer Assa Nyakundi is being treated as a person of interest in the bizarre incident where he shot his 29-year-old son in the.... Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2FgqmIC Get More Nigeria Metro News

Nahashon Mutua who was formerly Ruaraka Officer Commanding Station (OCS) was on December 13 found guilty of the murder of Martin Koome, a suspect who had been arrested over a domestic brawl..... Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2N5K4KI Get more World News