The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Geneva-based group “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such
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Kenya will deploy security forces to monitor protests planned by the main opposition alliance, the government’s spokesman said, as he criticized the demonstrations for slowing down business. Bloomberg reports that the opposition National Super Alliance plans to hold demonstrations in the capital, Nairobi, and other cities on Friday. The coalition
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More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, most of them women and girls, according to the first joint effort by key anti-slavery groups to count the victims of the often hidden crime worldwide. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the human
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Congolese security troops killed at least 18 Burundian refugees during confrontations Friday over plans to return some of the refugees to their home country, officials and local activists said. Soldiers and police opened fire as the refugees tried to free some of their compatriots in Kamanyola, a town in the
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A French digital-security company whose equipment was used in Kenya’s presidential election reiterated that its systems weren’t tampered with to rig the outcome, calling the accusations an attempt to shift blame for a vote the nation’s Supreme Court nullified. Bloomberg reports that OT-Morpho said an internal audit of its equipment
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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago. The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km before landing in the sea off Hokkaido, South Korea's military says. It flew
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A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States to “ashes and darkness” for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test, Reuters reports. Pyongyang’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external
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Kenya borrowed KSh430.6 billion (over UShs15 trillion) in the five months to June, highlighting the Jubilee administration’s appetite for foreign money to finance mega infrastructure projects. The Daily Nation reports that the Treasury signed a total of 29 new loans involving bilateral, multilateral and commercial creditors. “The proceeds from all
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Tanzania and Uganda are among several African countries being investigated by the United Nations for violating sanctions imposed on North Korea. A report on the investigations was released by United Nations panel of experts dated September 9, reports the Daily Nation. The report was issued two days prior to the
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wednesday launched an inaugural annual report showcasing the remarkable progress that has been made in reducing extreme poverty and disease in recent decades, but issuing a stern warning to the world that future progress is in jeopardy. Goalkeepers: The Stories Behind the Data, co-authored
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