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UK High Commissioner Jane Marriott has dismissed claims that she and her country interfered in Kenya’s recently-concluded general election, the BBC reported. She was reacting to allegations on social media that she pressured the electoral commission to declare William Ruto as president-elect following the disputed poll. Some users shared unverified …

The attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, by Al-Shabab Islamist militants caused the death of at least 21 civilians, according to a new official report on Sunday. The attack lasted 30 hours until Saturday evening, according to reports. The attack was the bloodiest in Somali Capital since …

Kenyan politician Raila Odinga ferried cartons of paperwork in a truck as he filed a legal case challenging the results of the presidential election. A local newspaper has tweeted a picture of the truck arriving at the court building: A truck carrying evidence for Azimio presidential petition arrives at the …

Authorities in Ukraine acknowledged on Monday that nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of the Russian invasion six months ago. Speaking at a forum in Kyiv, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, General Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukrainian children needed special attention because their fathers had gone …

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that his government would repeal the law that criminalizes same-sex relations. Only few days and sex between men won’t be reprehensible anymore in Singapore. Autorities decided to repeal the law that criminalizes homosexuality. It is the Singaporean Prime Minister who gave …

Malian military authorities removed Choguel Kokalla Maïga as Prime Minister and replaced him with the Prime Minister of Territorial Administration, Colonel Aboudoulaye Maïga. According to Le Monde, the new PM Colonel Maïga “is considered close to the leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta. He has become the spokesman of the policy of …

Thirteen Algerian diaspora organizations in a letter urged French President Emmanuel Macron not to ignore issues of “degrading” human rights and not support the Algerian regime, as the president is expected in this North African countries. In this missive, the Algerian diaspora expresses concern about the drift autoritarian and despotic …

Armed men in Nigeria abducted four nuns of the Catholic Church in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, on a notorious highway, the local convent said. A Catholic priest was also kidnapped last week on the same highway . “The four nuns were on their way to a morning mass on …

Kenyan eternal opponent, Raila Odinga will challenge on Monday, the results of the presidential elections which declared him loser with 48,45 % of the vote, his lawyer said. Raila Odinga continues to reject the August 9 election results. His lawyer, Paul Mwangi, quoted by Reuters, reportedly said they would “challenge …

A collision between a bus and a fuel tanker in south-east Algeria has left nine people dead, local media reported citing the civil defence. Six other people were injured in the weekend crash in the Illizi area. The civil defence in its statement on Sunday did not identify the cause …