By Duncan Miriri3 Min ReadNAIROBI( Reuters)-Kenya will receive the first batch of 13 million COVID

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by judges for lack of evidence. Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; editing by Duncan Miriri and Timothy

ADDIS ABABA( Reuters)-Ethiopia has freed two leading opposition figures from prison, state broadcaster EBC said on Friday, after the Balderas for Genuine Democracy opposition party announced the release of its leader Eskinder Nega. Jawar Mohammed, who also owns a media company, and Bekele Garba, were granted" amnesty" by the authorities, alongside several other political activists who were arrested and charged with various crimes in 2020, the Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation said in a tweet.( R

MOGADISHU( Reuters)-Somalia's president has appointed a new head of intelligence, his office said late on Tuesday, intensifying a row with the prime minister, who had named another person to the job. The rift between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble threatens to derail an indirect election of lawmakers and president.... On Monday, Roble suspended Fahad Yasin, the director of the National Intelligence Service Agency( NISA), saying his report on the mu

MOGADISHU( Reuters)-Gunfire and explosions went off in Somalia's capital Mogadishu in the early hours of Wednesday as al Shabaab militants attacked police stations and security check points, the internal security minister said.Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which aims to topple the central government and impose its severe interpretation of Islamic law, carries out frequent attacks against the government, including attacking a minibus carrying election delegates last week." The terrorists attacked t

NAIROBI, Sept 14( Reuters)-Kenya's central bank has capped the amount of dollars that money transfer companies can sell to an individual customer at$ 100, 000 per day, a central bank letter to the firms shows. The firms, which provide cash remittance services to those living abroad, will be required to sell any hard currency amounts exceeding$ 100, 000 only to commercial banks, the regulator said in the letter dated Wednesday and seen by Reuters on Thursday. The move was caused by an observation

MOGADISHU( Reuters)-Voting for members of Somalia's lower house of parliament has been rescheduled for late November, a move that will delay the indirect election of a president.... Voting for lawmakers by elders had been due to be completed this week, with the election of a speaker and swearing in of members of parliament happening next week--in time for them to pick a president on Oct.... 10. But an election implementation commission has drawn up a new timetable for the drawn-out process sho

NAIROBI( Reuters)-A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced a former sports minister to six years in prison after finding him guilty over the siphoning of funds meant for athletes in the Brazil Olympics five years ago. The East African nation enjoyed its most successful Olympics in Rio, winning six gold medals, six silvers and one bronze in track and field, but the performance was blighted by claims of corruption among senior government officials and team bosses.A magistrate's court in Nairobi found

ADDIS ABABA( Reuters)-Ethiopian authorities have released opposition party leader Eskinder Nega, his party said on Friday, after 1-1/ 2 years in prison.... At least 178 people were killed in Oromiya and in the federal capital. Eskinder, who is an ethnic Amhara, was convicted alongside more than a dozen other activists, including influential Oromo media proprietor and politician Jawar Mohammed.... Officials at the ministry of justice did not respond to requests for confirmation and reasons for