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Chinese automotive firm Beiqi Foton Motor on Friday launched an operation center in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to facilitate its expansion across the East African region where demand for trucks, pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles is growing. Guo Ce, economic and commercial counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, said at the launch ceremony that “as the East…
A Canadian national and four Kenyans arrested as part of the investigation into Tuesday’s hotel attack in Nairobi made their first appearance in court on Friday. The suspects, identified as Guleid Abdihakim, Joel Ng’ang’a Wainaina, Oliver Kanyango Muthee, Gladys Kaari Justus and Osman Ibrahim, were brought to the Milimani Law Court under a miscellaneous…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday rejected an African Union demand to delay announcing final results from its presidential election, compounding the turmoil surrounding a chaotic vote that many fear could fan widespread unrest. President of Chad Idriss Deby talks to Republic of the Congo…
The President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema met with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special representative Yang Jiechi on Thursday, both sides pledging to strengthen bilateral cooperation. FILE PHOTO: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema [Photo -AFP]Yang, also a member of the Political Bureau…
FILE PHOTO: Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo. Peter Dejong/Pool via REUTERS Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that former Cote D’Ivorie President Laurent Gbagbo and a former government minister must remain in custody until judges issue a decision on a prosecution appeal…
