Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta will meet UK President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for 20 minutes before going into an expanded bilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room with their delegations. The US is the largest source of tourists to Kenya and the country hopes direct flights from Nairobi to
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Uganda’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Irene Muloni, will lead a delegation of private and public-sector players from Uganda’s oil and gas sector to the Africa Oil Week 2018 which will be held between 5 – 9 November, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. “Uganda is open for business
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Liberia's President Georgew Weah has lavishly praised former Arsenal former manager Arsène Wenger, as he gave him with the West African state's highest honour - the Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption. “You proved yourself as a teacher when you revolutionised forever the approach of scouting
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The US State Department voiced concern on Tuesday over “multiple credible reports” on the medical condition of Ugandan MP Robert Kyagulanyi, who performs under the name of Bobi Wine, Daily Nation reports. The comment in response to a Nation query appears to contradict assurances by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a
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Benin's Angelique Kidjo and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin are among the dozens of stars who have signed a petition calling for the release of Ugandan musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine. "We can’t just turn a blind eye - this is serious," Dele Sosimi, who started his career as Fela Kuti's keyboard player,
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Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is to be honoured by ex-football star George Weah, who was elected Liberia’s president last year. Mr Wenger and another French coach Claude Le Roy are to be decorated later in the week. “They will be honoured by the government of Liberia on 24 August,
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Kiambu Woman Representative Gathoni Wamuchomba has claimed that some fellow legislators insulted her in parliament for refusing to take bribes that were allegedly being dished out in the National Assembly in order to make members shoot down the report on the presence of contraband sugar in the country, reports the
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Fifa has issued ultimatums to Nigeria and Ghana that they both face bans from global football for "undue influence" in the affairs of their governing bodies, BBC reports. Nigeria's ban could begin with immediate effect if the Nigeria Football Federation "offices are not handed back to the legitimate NFF executive
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An airline employee who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport has crashed on a nearby island. Authorities said the man had made "an unauthorised take-off" late on Friday local time, forcing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to close. Two F15 fighter jets pursued the plane, which crashed in Puget Sound.
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As cheating in school exams goes, the Burundian record has just been broken by a high school headmaster who disguised himself as a student to sit a national exam so that the student could quality for university. Headmaster Benjamin Manirambona, from the Buterere Technical College in northern Bujumbura, was working
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