by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | sports
Title-holders Ivory Coast were dumped out of the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday after a superb Rachid Alioui goal gave Herve Renard–coached Morocco a 1-0 win in Gabon. Clinching a quarter-finals place was particularly sweet for Frenchman Renard, the coach of the...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | news, Readers Digest
There are African countries where a 37 year old man or woman has only known one president in their lifetime. Africa is infamous for leaders who never want to hand over power. They will do anything to stay in office. They ban elections. They rule by dictatorship. They...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS
Trade in the five-nation East African Community bloc has received a major boost after the Finnish government gave a 9.8 million euros (about Sh1.09 billion) grant to TradeMark East Africa to support its work. The funds will be channelled to initiatives that will...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | news
President Donald Trump is clearly confident he’ll achieve his campaign promise to “Make America Great Again.” Never straying far from his business roots, Trump has already submitted an application to trademark the slogan he plans to use for his 2020...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS
A US federal appeals court on Tuesday reaffirmed Microsoft’s legal right to refuse a government order to hand over data stored overseas in a case with important privacy implications. A divided panel of judges in New York denied a petition by the US for a rehearing of...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | news
Egypt’s president said Tuesday he was alarmed by his country’s high divorce rate, suggesting a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize divorces verbally declared by Muslim men to their spouses, the latest foray by the general-turned-president into thorny social and...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius yesterday afternoon at Sir Harilal Vaghjee Memorial Hall, Government House in Port Louis. The Swearing-In Ceremony of the Prime Minister and Ministers was held in the presence of the...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | news
Gambian ex-president Yahya Jammeh will be allowed to keep his collection of 13 luxury cars and fly them out to his exiled home in Equatorial Guinea, a spokesman for new president Adama Barrow said Tuesday. Barrow’s spokesman confirmed to AFP an agreement had...
by Hope Media | Jan 25, 2017 | news
Uhuru’s voter registration campaign pays off with large numbers turning up as Cord strongholds grapple with apathy. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s political bedrocks leads in voter registration, the IEBC reported yesterday, as Raila Odinga protested against what he...
by Hope Media | Jan 24, 2017 | news
The US State Department has approved a deal to sell military aircraft worth approximately $418 million (Sh43.5 billion) to Kenya. The required certification notifying the US Congress of the approved sale was delivered to Capitol Hill on January 19. According to a...
