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Two high profile Kenyan runners, Kimetto and Kiplimo fail drug tests

Two high profile Kenyan runners, Kimetto and Kiplimo fail drug tests

Two Kenyan runners, Viola Chelangat Kimetto and Joyce Jemutai Kiplimo, have failed drug tests and been banned for two years, Athletics Kenya has said.Both women tested positive for norandrosterone, a metabolite of nandrolone.Kimetto failed her test at the Macau marathon in December 2013; Kiplimo failed a test taken after the Yangzhou half-marathon in April. Neither […]

Turkey-Somalia relationship: Turks run Somalia & making $4million monthly revenue

Turkey-Somalia relationship: Turks run Somalia & making $4million monthly revenue

The chaos and conflict that once consumed the port of Mogadishu are now gone and a few foreign investors are starting to move into Somalia. Turkey is leading the way but why is there such a strong bond between these two countries? Where once rival militias battled for control of these docks, giant container ships […]

A British charity boss Simon Harris found guilty of child sex abuse in Kenya

A British charity boss Simon Harris found guilty of child sex abuse in Kenya

A British charity boss who preyed on vulnerable Kenyan street children has been found guilty of sexual abuse.Simon Harris was convicted of eight charges of indecent and sexual assault on youngsters in Gilgil, and four of possessing indecent images of children.Birmingham Crown Court heard he would lure boys to his house in Kenya by offering […]

Ebola fighters are Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Ebola fighters are Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Foday Gallah saw the sick child was distressed and felt he had to do something. So he picked the kid up to comfort him. And with that act of kindness, the 37-year-old ambulance supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, contracted Ebola himself.“Of course, he got vomit all over him and that’s how he got Ebola,” said photographer […]

Mauritius opposition political party wins elections

Mauritius  opposition political party wins elections

Final results from elections on the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius have shown a landslide victory for the center-right opposition coalition. Voters rejected government plans to expand presidential powers. Final results released on Friday showed an opposition coalition led by ex-President Anerood Jugnauth winning Mauritius’ parliamentary elections by a large margin. Jugnauth’s center-right Alliance […]

More than 17 people dead on the latest migrant boat tragedy

More than 17 people dead on the latest migrant boat tragedy

More than a dozen people have died on a migrant boat heading for Italy. The Italian navy reported that the harsh elements killed the refugees, who were seeking asylum in the EU.The Italian navy announced on Friday that it had rescued more than 270 migrants stranded in the Strait of Sicily, but that 16 people […]

Kenya`s Raila Odinga bows out of the race for the vacant Homa Bay Senate seat

Kenya`s Raila Odinga bows out of the race for the vacant Homa Bay Senate seat

Opposition leader Raila Odinga bowed out of the race for the vacant Homa Bay Senate seat despite pressure by some of his confidants and Luo elders to contest the by-election set for February. Mr Odinga called a press conference yesterday to announce he had “reluctantly” decided to turn down an offer from the people of […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says the people do not want him to retire

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says the people do not want him to retire

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said the people do not want him to retire although he does not “need power”.The long-serving leader said this ahead of a highly anticipated ruling party conference next week.Museveni, aged 70, has been Uganda’s leader since 1986.He has already been chosen as the ruling National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) candidate for […]

Zimbabwe headed for another General Election

ZANU PF MPs aligned to Vice President Joice Mujuru are mulling plans to resign from Parliament in a move that could paralyse the legislature and force another general election.Sources close to the VP confirmed that plans were underway to counter the planned Mujuru ouster by resigning from parliament en-mass after the crucial congress which starts […]

Pastor bans women from wearing pants to church

Pastor bans women from wearing pants to church

A pastor in Kenya is making headlines for recently banning his female congregants from wearing underwear to church, telling them to avoid wearing the garments in order to be closer to God. The pastor, described only as the Rev. Njohi, reportedly asked his female congregants at the Lord’s Propeller Redemption church in Dandora to arrive […]

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