Over 1,400 Kenyan Muslim youths are headed for the Gulf State of Saudi Arabia to take up jobs at the magnificent Makkah Clock Royal Tower, worlds largest hotel.
Kenya is on a diplomatic offensive against Western States ahead of UN Security Council meeting next week, following the storm raised by her hosting wanted Sudanese leader Omar al Bashir.
The Parliamentary Caucus for Reforms wants seven Cabinet ministers who are officials of political parties to surrender party positions or face sanctions in Parliament.
The national spy agency now has more eyes and ears on the ground after boosting its intelligence gathering capacity in time for the introduction of county governments.
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and Equality (KNCHRE) Chairperson Florence Jaoko has dismissed as personal vendetta attempts by fellow commissioners to remove her from heading the institution.
Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.
AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called Sudanese leaders in a bid to defuse what she called the "ticking time bomb" of an inevitable secession of the country?s restive and oil-rich south.
Reuters - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked U.N report.
Reuters - President Barack Obama will attend a U.N. summit on Sudan this month, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as they stepped up a bid to head off conflict there before a referendum that could split the African nation.
Reuters - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has told state governors in the ruling party he intends to stand in elections next January, one of the governors who attended the meeting said Wednesday.
AFP - Suspected members of an Islamist sect have freed hundreds of inmates in an attack on a prison in northern Nigeria that led to a fierce gun battle with authorities, officials said Wednesday.
AFP - At least 11 people including civilians died on Wednesday in fighting between African Union troops backing the Somali government and Islamist rebels, officials and witnesses said.
Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will attend a U.N.-organized summit on Sudan on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly on September 24, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Wednesday.
AFP - US President Barack Obama will attend a meeting on Sudan at the UN headquarters on September 24 to show the importance the United States places in a looming referendum on independence for southern Sudan, US ambassador Susan Rice said Wednesday.
AFP - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed new military, intelligence and police chiefs, his office said on Wednesday, ahead of January elections in the oil-rich country.
AP - A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just months before elections.
AFP - The UN Children's Fund on Wednesday launched a scheme to provide 13 million textbooks to Zimbabwe's students, in a 50-million-dollar effort to revive the struggling school system.
AFP - Nine Portuguese tourists were killed and 14 injured when their tour bus plunged into a ravine in northern Morocco on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Rwanda's president Wednesday after he threatened to withdraw thousands of Rwandan peacekeepers if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
Reuters - Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant Islamic sect, police said Wednesday.
AFP - A guard at a prison in northern Nigeria attacked by suspected members of an Islamist sect said Wednesday that nearly all inmates had been freed and an unknown number of people were shot.
AP - Nigeria will hold its presidential election in January, giving the oil-rich nation only four months to register voters and untangle its notoriously corrupt electoral system.
AP - The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.
Reuters - The death toll from weekend clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region has risen to nine, the United Nations said on Tuesday.