Kenya and China have advanced discussions on the development of five hospitals in counties. The hospitals will be constructed in Kericho, Bungoma, Murang’a, Baringo and Kilifi counties, as part of ongoing bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The talks were held on Friday between Principal Secretary for Medical Services Dr. Ouma Oluga, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Dr. Korir Sing’Oei, and the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Kenya, Guo Haiyan. The discussions were aimed at further strengthening the Kenya–China partnership, as envisioned during recent engagements between President William Samoei Ruto and Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to…
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Rapper Fetty Wap has been released early from a federal jail, almost three years after he was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The “Trap Queen” singer, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was sentenced by a New York court to six years in prison and five years of post-release supervision in May 2023. However, Fetty Wap was moved out of a federal prison in Sandstone, Minnesota, on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed to CNN Friday. He was “transferred on January 7, 2026, from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Sandstone…
China’s top diplomat postponed what would have been a historic visit to Somalia, part of a tour of Africa aimed at bolstering strategic trade, the East African nation’s foreign affairs ministry said on Friday. Wang Yi’s planned visit would have been the first by a Chinese foreign minister since the 1980s. It had been expected to provide Mogadishu with a diplomatic boost after Israel became the first country to formally recognise the breakaway Republic of Somaliland, a northern region that declared its independence in 1991. Somalia’s relations with the U.S. are also at a low point after Washington said this…
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Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was Friday teargassed on his way to Kagio in Kirinyaga County. The drama caused panic among supporters and other road users. Police argued they intervened to stop fighting factions in the area. According to Nyandarua Senator John Methu, who was among other leaders accompanying Gachagua, police attacked the convoy at Sagana, some 34 kilometres from their destination. Images circulating on social media show teargas canisters and damaged vehicles, suggesting a violent confrontation. No injuries were reported so far, and Gachagua has made it to Kagio. However, a number of cars in the convoy were stoned…
A US State Department team traveled to Venezuela on Friday for the first time since the ouster of Nicolas Maduro, according to a US official. The visit comes as the US looks to reopen its embassy in Caracas and underscores the administration’s desire to re-establish a diplomatic presence in the country that President Donald Trump has said the US is going to “run.” The official said that US diplomatic and security personnel from the Venezuela Affairs Unit, which is based in Colombia, and the acting US ambassador to Colombia John McNamara, traveled to the Venezuelan capital “to conduct an initial…
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration’s pick to be the US Attorney for the Northern District of New York must stop his work on two ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s political foe Letitia James, the New York state attorney general. The ruling, which says prosecutor John Sarcone is not the valid acting US Attorney out of Albany, quashes grand jury subpoenas Sarcone signed in August that were sent to the New York state government and sought information on investigations James spearheaded and that Trump opposed. It is the latest blowback from the courts to…
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has alleged the United Arab Emirates helped smuggle a separatist leader out of the country after he was expelled from Yemen’s presidential council and accused of treason. A coalition spokesman said Aidarous al-Zubaidi, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), fled Aden on Tuesday night in a boat to Somaliland. He was then flown by a cargo aircraft to Abu Dhabi via Mogadishu under the supervision of UAE officers, he added. There was no immediate comment from the UAE or STC. The STC insisted Zubaidi was still working from Aden on Wednesday, after the…
Nasa is considering an early return of some crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) because of a medical issue involving one member of a four-strong team. The unnamed crew member is described as stable, but the incident has already led to the last-minute cancellation of a spacewalk. Mission managers are now weighing whether the safest option is to bring the entire Crew 11 team back to Earth months ahead of schedule. Three members of another crew would remain on board. “Safely conducting our missions is our highest priority, and we are actively evaluating all options, including the possibility of…
Russia is freeing French researcher Laurent Vinatier in a prisoner swap deal after he spent more than a year in prison for failing to register as a “foreign agent”. Vinatier’s release is in exchange for Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, who has been imprisoned in France since last June at the request of the US over a hacking charge. The release of Vinatier, 49, and Kasatkin, 26, follows recent prisoner swaps between Russia and the West. August 2024 saw the largest exchange since the Cold War era, with 24 people freed. Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA reports that Vinatier had…
US President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change. Nearly half of the 66 affected bodies are UN-related, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming. Groups working on development, gender equality and conflict – areas the Trump administration had repeatedly dismissed as advancing “globalist” or “woke” agendas – are also included. The White House said the decision was taken because those entities “no longer serve American interests” and promote “ineffective or hostile agendas”. The memorandum was…
An influential Protestant church in China says prominent leaders were arrested in what appears to be a growing crackdown on the underground church movement. Nine people were detained on Tuesday after police raided their homes and the church office in Chengdu, the Early Rain Covenant Church said. Five of them had been released by Wednesday. More than 1,000 miles away in Wenzhou, authorities began demolishing the Yayang Church building, as seen in video obtained by the non-profit ChinaAid, which monitors religious persecution. This latest wave of arrests, after others last year, shows the Communist Party’s resolve to snuff out churches…