Kenya is now looking to the east for a potential Covid-19 vaccine, according to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The president gave the ministry of health the go-ahead to shop for vaccines from China. The country’s decision comes in the wake of rich countries in the west buying nearly 3.8 billion doses of vaccines currently in development, […]

Amnesty International has urged the UN Security Council to maintain its arms embargo on South Sudan amid “extreme violence by government forces and an increase in attacks on civilians, including war crimes”. Amnesty said it had documented “a series of extrajudicial executions, forced displacement, torture, and destruction of civilian property by the government and former […]

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will formally introduce his top economic policy advisers on Tuesday as his administration prepares to take power amid a slowing economic recovery hampered by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. Biden will appear at an event in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, alongside his selections for senior roles, including his nominee for U.S. […]

The right-leaning US Supreme Court appeared doubtful Monday about President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude potentially millions of illegal immigrants from the national census count, which could shift the balance of US politics over the next decade. But it was not clear if the nine justices would block Trump or let him follow through in […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned “in the strongest terms” Saturday’s killing of 43 farmers by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Borno. Guterres reacted to the massacre in a statement by his spokesperson Mr Stéphane Dujarric, in New York on Monday. Reports say many others, including women were kidnapped in the attack on rice farmers […]