President Joe Biden has ordered the reestablishment of a US force presence in Somalia to assist local authorities in combating the Al-Shabaab insurgent group, A senior American official told reporters Monday Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, had ordered the withdrawal of nearly all US personnel from the East African country in late 2020 as he moved … Read more
On a cold morning, Beth Gatonye loaded two vibrating chairs into her van and headed to the USA embassy in Kigali with 3 blind colleagues, prepared to offer rubdown therapy. Since 2017, the forty three-yr-old has trained dozens of visually impaired women — and a few guys — in the artwork of massage, in an … Read more
LAKE KIVU, Rwanda – The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted violently, sending tremors rumbling through the water beneath them. It was not the lava shooting from Mount Nyiragongo last May that spooked them, but the enormous concentrations of potentially explosive … Read more
NAIROBI – Kenya’s highest court began Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country’s political system, just months ahead of crucial elections. The Supreme Court ruling on the proposed constitutional changes, expected after three days of hearings this week, may have major consequences for the August 9 presidential and … Read more
