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Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson The Sweden Democrats are now the largest party, according to a recent survey by YouGov made ​​for the Metro newspaper . It is the first time a public opinion institute such an effect . – I’m not surprised at all . It was a Norwegian study just a few […]

Three Americans and a Briton who foiled a suspected terror attack on a train have received France’s top honour from President Francois Hollande. Mr Hollande presented Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Briton Chris Norman with the Legion d’honneur at the Elysee Palace. Two other unnamed passengers will receive the honour at a later […]

A Kenyan father has been ordered to leave Australia after his application for a sponsored visa was rejected because he’s blind. Advocates say it’s time the law was changed. Doctor Siyat Abdi has joined a long line of migrants who’ve been rejected for a visa because they failed to meet the health criteria. In Kenyan-born […]

Mogadishu, 19 August 2015: As concerned partners of the Somali people, the envoys of the United Nations, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the European Union (EU), the United States of America and the United Kingdom express their deep concern that the parliamentary motion to impeach President Hassan […]

About 100 suspected Al-Shabaab militants on Saturday morning ambushed Basuba Village in Lamu East Sub-County and preached to the residents for one hour. According to an eye witness who requested not to be named, the militants invaded the village at 5am, before flushing out villagers from their houses and preached to them until around 6am. […]

  Many Kenyans assume that Barack Obama Sr. was in the Mboya Airlift but he wasn’t; and indeed he did not qualify. The Mboya Airlift took people who had obtained at least Division II in the Cambridge School Certificate examination. Obama got Division III   As I watched the larger than life images of President […]

A man found in the trunk of a plane at the airport. The plane landed at the airport just before 7 o’clock this morning. – I have never experienced this at Arlanda , says Stefan Färdigs , station officer at the airport police . Police were alerted to the scene after the security company Securitas […]

Members of the Somali Federal Parliament have today submitted an Impeachment Motion against the President of the Somali Federal Republic, H.E Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, to the Somali Federal Parliament. The number of Parliamentarians who signed the Impeachment Motion surpasses the threshold number of one third of members, required under the Provisional Constitution of Somalia. We […]

Kenya’s push to start oil production by 2017 will be delayed by at least five years going by the detailed design and construction timeline for the proposed crude oil pipeline connecting Uganda and local oil fields to Lamu. The Toyota Tsusho design released yesterday shows that the flow of the first oil is expected in […]

Two Somalian refugee claimants crossed the border into Canada the hard way this week — in the Red River. On Wednesday, Yahya Samatar, who was shivering and soaking wet, climbed out of the Red River in Emerson, and into the pickup truck of a Good Samaritan who cranked up the heat, gave him a sweater […]