It has been an eventful week to Kenya as Kofi Annan jetted back to the country to monitor its progress on reforms. Most of his meetings with the Principals (Raila and...

Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...

I have only been writing about events and the history of Zimbabwe for just short of four years. And in that time I have sustained many attacks by radical readers who...

As Zimbabwe lurches deeper into crisis this week, with an apparent stalemate in the tentative negotiations between the government and the opposition, the man who...

Kenya’s Police boss has defended the police force against accusations that it used excessive force during the recent post-election violence that hit the country early...

Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a “green revolution” to solve the food crisis threatening Africa. “A genuinely African green revolution...

THE situation in Kenya is fast degenerating into chaos, following the collapse of talks between president Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga over a...

Britain yesterday said that the Kenyan army is now “by far the best option” to stop a sectarian bloodbath as peace talks in Nairobi between the government...

Hardliners in Kenya are girding for fresh hostilities, a policy panel warned on Thursday, urging the world to impose targeted sanctions to save the east African nation...

President Kibaki on Tuesday for the first time signalled the kind of agreement he is proposing to help resolve the political crisis which has engulfed the country since...

When Joyce Mandela’s mobile phone beeped to signal she had a text message, the 27-year old Kenyan expected a note from a friend. Instead, she found a message of...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya’s feuding parties on Monday to hurry up with a pact to end a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people...

Kenya’s political rivals have agreed on the need for an independent review of the disputed election, but the difficult question of sharing power has yet to be...

Former UN chief Kofi Annan (R) speaks informally with members of the Kenyan Parliament in Nairobi February 12. Kenya’s rival parties have agreed to change the...

The United Nations has often failed to live up to its responsibility to promote human rights be it the ongoing killing of civilians in Darfur or the threat of a...

The Gleneagles Hotel was the plush backdrop for the 31st summit of the world’s industrialized democracies in 2005. Mr. Tony Blair had set the priority of...

NDTV reports that India has nominated UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor for the post of the UN secretary general. The final decision on Kofi Annan’s...