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),... 

The Kenyan military has reportedly taken control of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. Over 200 civilians have been freed and over 60 killed during the three-day bloody hostage crisis in the Kenyan capital. “We’re in control of Westgate,” Kenya’s interior ministry said in a post on Twitter. “We think that everyone, the hostages, have been evacuated but we don’t want to... 

At least 68 people have been killed and 200 others wounded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in a Nairobi shopping mall, as the hostage crisis there has entered its second day. Foreigners are among the casualties. The Red Cross in Kenya said on Sunday that the death toll in the Westgate mall siege has risen to 68. 10 to 15 gunmen are still inside the shopping center, a Kenyan minister has reported. 30...