After about a century of mining rights, Tata Chemicals is being told to leave Kenya. The Indian company took soda ash out of the country without doing enough to turn the resource into finished products locally, President William Ruto said Thursday. Tata Chemicals have rejected the allegations. Kenyan President William Ruto has asked Tata Chemicals…
A former Hong Kong justice minister who now heads an intergovernmental mediation body based in the city has said the organisation is ready to handle state-to-state disputes, with six countries having nominated more than 100 mediators from the legal, diplomatic and academic fields. Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah, secretary general of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed),…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s largest economies are accelerating plans to build more domestic solar manufacturing capacity, a shift industry analysts say reflects both industrial ambition and growing unease over dependence on imports from China that dominate the global market. Ethiopia, South Africa, Morocco and Nigeria have been stepping up efforts to localize manufacturing of…
Hong Kong’s trade promotion body will set up a new office in Egypt within the next nine months to expand its footprint in Africa, while recalibrating resources for Nordic countries through its European bases as traditional markets face slower growth. Hong Kong Trade Development Council chairman Frederick Ma Si-hang said on Friday that the organisation…
Chloe Maluleke|Published 1 hour ago Late last month in Dalian, at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Premier Li Qiang used a phrase that has been circulating in policy circles ever since: China opportunity 2.0. He was pushing back against a more pessimistic label some Western commentators have started using, (China…
TAIPEI, July 8 (Reuters) – China’s gradually increasing pressure tactics risk creating an entirely new status quo in the Taiwan Strait, which the international community may not realise until it is too late, a senior Taiwan official said on Wednesday. Speaking at a forum in Taipei, Kuan Bi-ling, head of Taiwan’s Ocean Affairs Council, which…
NAIROBI, June 30 (Reuters) – A leading East African media group whose outlets in Uganda were shut down at the weekend by soldiers is in talks with the military to reopen, with staff still unable to access offices, the organisation’s managing director in the country told Reuters. The closure of six newspapers and radio and…
FILE – Fish swim near coral on the ocean bed near Shimoni, Kenya, June 13, 2022. (Brian Inganga | AP) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Attempts by China to exert pressure or influence on other countries to limit Taiwan’s access to international events has become “the new normal,” the island’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Lin Chia-Lung was…
The first African nation to host the global oceans conference defends the deportations, saying it ‘recognises only one China’. Published On 17 Jun 202617 Jun 2026 Taiwan has accused Kenya of deporting people from the island who planned to attend a global oceans conference in Mombasa and blamed Beijing for exerting pressure on the East…
new video loaded: Kenyans Protest Plan for U.S. Ebola Quarantine Unit transcript Back transcript Kenyans Protest Plan for U.S. Ebola Quarantine Unit After days of protests, Kenya’s high court effectively delayed the Trump administration’s plan to send American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to a quarantine unit at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya….