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#BREAKING As vote counting in shambolic US presidential elections enters its tenth day, with states resorting to hand counts and urging staff to do sums on their fingers, there are

#BREAKING While many African observers are aghast at the conduct of the US presidential election, others note that by American standards, it was a relatively good election, in a country

#BREAKING Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north

Currently reading Caroline Elkins' "The British Gulag" and wondering how many of the British settlers who committed despicable crimes against Mau Mau suspects as part of the Kenya Police Reserve

Hmmm.... I think we'll first need to have a conversation about his time in the Kibaki administration.https://twitter.com/TheStarBreaking/status/1276464807957262339 We might start, for example, with his stand on Kibaki's tolerance of

#BREAKING Emergency meeting of AU Foreign Ministers in Addis Ababa condemns extrajudicial executions by US police and urges President Donald Trump to exercise restraint and avoid escalating the situation. Envoys

#BREAKING Speculation is growing that US strongman Donald Trump may have fled the country in the wake of #AmericanSpring pro-democracy protests. The aging former reality show star and his family

Why @williamsruto should read history: GEMA tried to do it to Moi, Moi did it to Njonjo, Kibaki did it to Raila, Raila did it to Kalonzo.https://twitter.com/ntvkenya/status/922403958085300224 And of course

@KinyiO @VerahOkeyo @DrMercyKorir @YatichN Would love to hear your views on this. Especially when the logic is applied to the Kenyan context.https://www.pensford.com/why-flattening-the-curve-is-overrated/ Here's @YatichN's response:https://ww