Kenya Government to tap phone calls, texts from next week

From Tuesday, the government wants to be allowed to listen to your calls, read your text messages and review your mobile money transactions. The government, through the Communications Authority of Kenya, has ordered mobile phone companies to allow it to tap their...

Fighting intensifies in Syria’s Deraa

Russia’s military has carried out waves of air strikes in recent days on rebel-held areas of the southern Syrian city of Deraa, say anti-government fighters and witnesses. Russian jets targeted rebel-held areas of Deraa for two days after Syrian opposition...

Kenya Power rules out electricity rationing

Households should not expect power rationing or higher electricity bills in the near future despite biting drought that has reduced hydro power generation, Kenya Power said yesterday. The utility firm said there is an electricity reserve of 27.11 per cent from its...