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Kenyan leader feted with new security status, raft of development and economic agreements during first African leader state visit in decades

The United States will designate Kenya as its first major non-NATO ally in sub-Saharan Africa, the White House said as President Joe Biden welcomed President Ruto.

Veteran journalist and publisher, Mrs Tola Adenle has recalled the Evergreen and Loving memory of her late husband, Dr Oladepo Adeoye Alao-Adenle who died on May 22, 2021.

For centuries the Makuleke community lived in the northeastern corner of South Africa, close to the modern-day border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But by the beginning of the 20th century, the squeeze on a disenfranchised community had begun, as they were forced to make way for the private game reserves that were springing up in the Lowveld.

Learn more about Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a contender to be Iran's next supreme leader, in this profile

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain on Sunday, became a contender to be Iran's next supreme leader with a clampdown on morality questions and a bloody crackdown on the nationwide protests it triggered

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain in northern Iran on Sunday, became a contender to be Iran's next supreme leader with a clampdown on morality questions and a bloody crackdown on the nationwide protests it triggered. Raisi's victory in an election in 2021, after heavyweight conservative and moderate rivals were disqualified by a hard-line oversight body, brough...

According to data company CEIC, Morocco produced 535,825 motor vehicles in 2023, up from 464,864 in 2022.

Raisi's victory in an election in 2021, after heavyweight conservative and moderate rivals were disqualified by a hardline oversight body, brought all branches of power under the control of hardliners loyal to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Raisi's 85-year-old mentor, who has the final say on all major policies. Raisi, 63, took a tough stance in now-moribund negotiations with six major powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, seeing a chance to win broad relief from U.S. sanctions in retur...

Hardliners in Iran have been emboldened by the chaotic US military withdrawal from neighbouring Afghanistan and policy swings in Washington