US Marines to return to Afghanistan’s Helmand province

300 US Marines will head to Helmand province in Afghanistan this spring to help a NATO-led mission to train Afghan forces, the Marines said. The move puts Marines back in Helmand, who left in 2014 as NATO withdrew its forces and let Afghan troops lead the fight...

We want a recall-KNUT

“We cannot celebrate an individual yet a generation is buried. We will seek alternative ways if we cannot be listened to,” he said./MOSES MUOKIThe Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) wants the results of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education...

Kenya Doctors say NO!

Kenyan doctors have rejected a recent pay rise offer by President Uhuru Kenyatta in his attempt to end the month-long strike that has paralysed operations in public hospitals countrywide. The doctors insist that the government implements a collective bargaining...

World Food Programme To Slash Food Aid

Some 300,000 people in the Central Africa Republic, CAR, will as from the end of January 2017 stop receiving food aid from the World Food Programme, WFP, officials announced on January 4, 2017. Agency reports say only 400,000 out of the usual 700,000 vulnerable people...

A Law Unto Herself

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe’s failure to comply with a court ruling demanding that she returns properties seized from a Lebanese dealer Jamal Ahmed reflects gross disrespect of the Constitution by the First Family, human rights defenders and political commentators...

Tim Barrow named UK envoy to EU ahead of Brexit talks

British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed a senior career diplomat as envoy to the European Union to replace an ambassador whose  unexpected resignation rocked Brexit plans just before negotiations are due to start. Downing Street announced on Wednesday that...

CBK steps in as pressure on shilling piles

The shilling weakened against the dollar to touch a 15-month low of 103.60/80 against the dollar yesterday mainly due to a surge in demand by importers. The Central Bank stepped in to sell dollars after the fall, helping the currency to pare some of the gains,...