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Kenya’s vice-president William Ruto has said that the autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty in the Sahara provinces “is the best solution to the Sahara issue.” “I declare as Vice-President of Kenya that the Autonomy Plan under Moroccan sovereignty is the best solution to the Sahara issue,” said William Ruto during a meeting with the ambassador […]
The Summit of the African Union Peace and Security Council emerged as a platform to disavow Algeria and Kenya, who vainly maneuvered to include the Sahara issue in the agenda of the meeting initially devoted to climate change. At Algeria’s instigation, Kenya, which holds the rotating presidency of the AU Peace and Security Council, […]
Raila Odinga, High Representative of the African Union for Infrastructure Development and Chairman of the Kenyan Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), said he has been “impressed” by the development reached in several industrial sectors in Morocco, which constitutes, he said, “a reference of development for Kenya and all of Africa.” “I have a perfect knowledge of […]
Morocco’s leading phosphate company OCP and the Kenya National Trading Corporation (KNTC) have struck a partnership to improve farmers’ access to fertilizers at affordable prices. The partnership between the KNTC and OCP’s office in Kenya will ensure that farmers can get fertilizers at the right time, reported the Kenyan Daily Nation paper. KNTC managing director […]
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo Mohamed on Sunday met Kenya’s interior minister Fred Matiang’i and other security officials, dispatched by President Uhuru Kenyatta. The visit comes after Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo spoke on the phone on Thursday with President Uhuru Kenyatta. The two leaders agreed to work together to ensure security at the border. […]
Kenya “violates the sovereignty and unity of Somalia”, Somali ambassador to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman, told the UN Security Council on Thursday, warning that his country is ready to take “all necessary measures” to defend itself. “Kenya continues to be a destabilizing force in Somalia,” he said at the end of a briefing by […]
The US military has claimed to have eliminated a leader of the Somali jihadist group of Al-Shabab who is reportedly linked to the attack perpetrated last January against the American military base at Manda Bay in Kenya and which killed three American soldiers. The United States Command for Africa (Africom) said in a statement […]
Kenyan airport authorities have cleared 239 passengers who arrived at the capital’s main international airport on Wednesday. According to local media, all the passengers were screened on board and allowed to enter the country moments after the aircraft landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. China Southern Airlines had initially suspended travel reservations on […]
Terrorist elements of the Somali jihadist group Al Shabab set fire to dozens of houses during an attack perpetrated in the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Garissa county, bordering on Somalia. The burned houses belonged to reservists of the national police in Garissa county. According to the police, the attackers first kidnapped two people, […]
The United States and Kenya on Thursday agreed to launch negotiations that could lead to the first US bilateral trade deal with a sub-Saharan African country. The announcement, made at a White House meeting between Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, directs US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to issue a formal notification to Congress under […]