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The death toll from China’s coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,600 on Sunday after 139 more people died in hard-hit Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak. In its daily update, the province’s health commission also reported 1,843 fresh cases — … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

Before the death of Jomo Kenyatta in 1978, then-Vice-President Daniel arap Moi was nowhere in the league of propertied oligarchs – the powerful ultra-wealthy with expansive ranches, real estate and multimillion-shilling investments in bonds and shares.... Read more via Daily Nation –...

A student from China who arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) with coronavirus-like symptom has been admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) isolation ward..... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/2RYDhFo Get more World News

Kobe Bryant’s laserlike focus and sublime skills were remembered by NBA colleagues, fans and athletes he inspired as they absorbed the shock of his death at the age of 41. Bryant, a five-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and … read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

In early 1978, Kenyan-Iranian relations came under great strain over the Ogaden war between Ethiopia and Somalia. Kenya suspected that Iran was actively supporting Somalia and also arming it with weapons supplied by Britain and America.... Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

President Donald Trump took a victory lap Sunday over the killing of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — and he’s likely just getting warmed up. “This is the biggest there is,” Trump said at a White House appearance, reaching … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

She sits under a tree to shelter herself from the sweltering afternoon heat, breastfeeding her two-month-old baby while looking after her goats. She has another child aged just over a year on her lap, crying for attention.... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/32sQ4nD Get more...

Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that ex-president Robert Mugabe would be buried at his home village in Zvimba as requested by his family, and no longer at a special mausoleum that was already under construction. The government said the family of the … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

A classroom has collapsed on pupils at Precious Talent School on Ngong Road in Nairobi County. Several learners are feared dead in the the Monday morning tragedy, with Kenya Red Cross reporting that dozens trapped.... Read more via Daily Nation | Home – https://ift.tt/2NtJqcW Get more...

The maritime border dispute between Kenya and Somalia now under arbitration at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is likely to get murkier as details emerge that... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/2P4ggmg Get more World News

A 40-year-old woman diagnosed with cancer committed suicide last Thursday in what relatives attributed to the trauma associated with the killer disease. A youth leader from Kasarani in Naivasha, Joseph Mwaura Kajesh, said the woman had attended a clinic in … Read more via Daily Nation |...

Harrison Jeffa was busy selling fish on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kilifi County, on March 26, 2018 when a middle-aged man approached him with a lucrative fishing job in Kiunga, … Read more via Daily Nation | Home – https://ift.tt/2YICuOg Get more World News

Sudanese authorities Tuesday ordered all schools nationwide to suspend classes indefinitely after crowds of students launched demonstrations against the killing of six protesters including five pupils at a rally in a central town. “Killing a student is killing a nation,” chanted … Read more...

Ethiopia has sent emissaries to Kenya and Somalia seeking to have their maritime border dispute resolved without worsening fragile diplomatic ties in the Horn of Africa. Officials in Nairobi and Mogadishu said Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed, the chairman of the … Read more via Daily Nation | Home...

Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been trying for three months to seize the capital. At least 70 were also wounded in the raid on Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

President Uhuru Kenyatta joined Kenyans to mourn Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore, noting that his death was a great loss country owing to his great contributions to the national development agenda..... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/2XkEEE7 Get more World News

More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 10 months, officials have said. Two thirds of the cases have been fatal, the health ministry added.... Read more via Daily Nation | Home – http://bit.ly/2Wcuf7T Get more World News

It is the rampant privilege of the heterosexual class to assume that everyone wants to get married, when in actuality, marriage, even for heterosexuals, is not always a goal. In fact, when one is fighting for the right to be … Read more via Daily Nation | Home – http://bit.ly/2VPqxBa Get...

The athletics fraternity in the country is backing marathon World record holder Eliud Kipchoge in his second attempt to run under two hours in the planned “breaking two” organised marathon race later this year. On Monday, Kipchoge announced he will … read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

Tanzanian billionaire, business magnet, author and philanthropist Reginald Mengi has died aged 75. Two of his media outlets, ITV and Radio ONE, on Thursday morning confirmed that... Read more via Daily Nation – http://bit.ly/2VwV1Mf Get more World News