The 2019 Nobel Economics Prize was won by the trio of US-based economists, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on Monday. Esther Duflo, one of the winners has set a record of being the second woman to win the prize and at the same time the youngest to ever win such. The first woman […]

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday launch phase 2A of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking the capital Nairobi to the resort town of Naivasha, a regional administrator said on Monday. Mbogo Mathioya, Naivasha sub-county commissioner, said that the launch of the 120 kilometers modern railway would coincide with that of an Internal Container Depot […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed trade, investments and oil with Saudi King Salman on Monday during his first visit to the kingdom in more than a decade. Putin’s talks in Saudi Arabia are part of a two-day visit to the Gulf aimed at attracting investment in Russia’s struggling economy. Russia’s economy has been crippled in […]

President Donald Trump’s administration is set to impose economic sanctions on Ankara, potentially as early as this week, for its incursion into northern Syria, one of the few levers the United States still has over NATO-ally Turkey. Using the U.S. military to stop the Turkish offensive on U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters was never an option, defense […]

Striking Zimbabwe government junior doctors remained on strike on Monday despite a Labour Court ruling issued on Friday giving them 48 hours to return to work. The doctors went on strike on Sept. 3 demanding better working conditions and improved salaries. Their direct employer, the Health Service Board, took the matter to the Labour Court […]

South Korean Justice Minister, Cho Kuk, on Monday, resigned over an escalating corruption scandal barely a month after being appointed. The opposition had accused him of misconduct as his family was being investigated on allegations of questionable financial transactions. Kuk, 54, said in a statement that he would resign and not be a burden to […]

Richard Huckle, a wicked British paedophile charged for 191 sexual offences against children as young as six months has been killed in prison. Huckle was sentenced to serve at least 25 years behind bars for 191 sexual offences against children as young as six months after a trial at the Old Bailey in 2016. On […]

Commonwealth finance ministers will meet in Washington D.C. on 17 October 2019 to discuss coordinated interventions to prevent future debt crises. The meeting will be chaired by the Finance Minister of Cyprus, Harris Georgiades, under the theme ‘Preventing Debt Crises: The Roles of Creditors and Debtors’. It will be preceded by sessions for senior finance […]

The United Kingdom Prime Minister is presumed will use the Queen’s Speech to propose a mandatory presentation of photographic identification by British voters before being allowed to vote. The draft legislation of the “Electoral Integrity Bill” would spell the end of people being able to vote simply by stating their address when they visit a […]

Oil prices eased on Monday as scant details on the first phase of a trade deal between the United States and China undercut last week’s optimism over a U.S.-Sino thaw that helped to lift crude markets by 2 per cent at the end of last week. Brent crude futures LCOc1 fell by 69 cents to […]

At least 10 people died after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a house in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials say. The building collapsed due to the blast, which took place in a two-storey building in Mau district on Monday. Rescue efforts are ongoing as officials fear that more people could be […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday he would meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Russia to discuss a dispute over a hydropower dam that the Horn of Africa country is building on the River Nile. A long-running diplomatic standoff over building and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has heightened tensions between […]

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November in the country’s eastern provinces, to counter the current outbreak, they said. The J&J vaccine will complement another vaccine manufactured by Merck, which has been administered to more than 225,000 people. It requires two injections eight weeks […]

Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.” In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side […]

At least three mortar bombs were fired on Sunday at Mogadishu’s international airport, injuring at least six people in the compound where several embassies are located, a diplomatic source said. The missions of the United Nations and African Union, as well as several embassies, are based inside the perimeter fence. The Horn of Africa nation […]