by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Somali MPs were choosing a president under tight security on Wednesday, with roads closed and residents urged to remain indoors over fears of an attack on the capital by al-Shabaab. A protracted vote began on Wednesday after 14,000 elders and prominent regional...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Nominated Senator Paul Njoroge has been charged with causing disturbance after using his gun to scare off people who had gone to take over his petrol station. Njoroge shot in the air on Tuesday to stop workers from closing down a Shell petrol station he operates on...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news, Readers Digest
Scientists have discovered evidence of a massive ancient undersea landslide next to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, or 30 times the size of Uluru. The landslide could also have...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Barack Obama has been enjoying life after the US presidency by trying out watersports on a luxury Caribbean island owned by Richard Branson, the Virgin chief said on Tuesday. The former US leader and his wife Michelle Obama visited Moskito Island, in the British...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has rejected a case filed by an activist that challenged President Robert Mugabe’s ability rule saying proper court procedures weren’t followed. Promise Mkwananzi of a social movement calling itself Tajamuka wanted to...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Kenyans living abroad say they will sue the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission for restricting diaspora voters’ registration to the East African Community and South Africa. On Wednesday, the Kenya Diaspora Alliance, the umbrella body of 34 lobby groups of...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Former IEBC boss James Oswago has denied charges in the chicken gate scandal and has been released on Sh600,000 cash bail. Oswago was charged on Wednesday alongside Trevy Oyombra, a local agent for British firm Smith & Ouzman and a woman named Hamida Ali. Oyombra...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Donald Trump wants his laws on immigration and terrorism tough – but when it comes to the towels in the Air Force One bathroom, it seems, he leans a little softer. According to a White House insider, the tough-talking Commander in Chief was so incensed by the...
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
A businessman was arrested on Wednesday morning with uninspected and contaminated meat in Nairobi. According to the Star ,Joseph Muthama was ferrying the bad meat to Nairobi’s City Market before he was arrested by City County Veterinary department officers....
by Hope Media | Feb 8, 2017 | news
Talks to end the doctors’ strike mediated by the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) are set to formally kick off Wednesday. Doctors and Ministry of Health officials have been meeting with COTU and...
