The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, affiliated with billionaire Bill Gates and his former wife Melinda, has entered into an agreement with the Kenyan government to provide advisory services for the forthcoming launch of the Digital Identification Document (ID) named Maisha Namba. Maisha Namba is Kenya’s latest initiative in the field of digital identity, following the previously unsuccessful... 

No more Mr. Nice Chinese Guy. After years of “benevolent” handouts to various African countries by Beijing, all of which however came in the form of loans, of which few have led to viable, long-term projects and cash-flow generating assets, and led to accusations that China is pursuing a “new colonialism” of the African continent (and more recently, nations along the One Belt, One Road corridor),... 

Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group has threatened to increase its deadly attacks against Kenya, days after they killed tens of people at a mall in the Kenyan capital. The al-Shabab fighters vowed to transform Kenyan cities and towns into what they call grave yards, on Wednesday. “We will strike Kenyans where it hurts the most, turn their cities into graveyards and rivers of blood will flow...