Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp has been opposed by privacy groups. Mark Zuckerberg’s firm is planning to buy the company for around £11bn. Opponents want US regulators to stop the deal until Facebook provides more information on what it plans to do with the personal data of WhatsApp’s users. But Facebook said it […]
Veteran journalist Jerry Okungu has died. He has died of cancer at the age of 61. According to the Star Newspaper, Okungu died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at MP Shah Hospital in Nairobi. Okungu was a columnist with a number of newspapers including the Star newspaper, New vision among others. He was diagnosed with […]
Nelson Madiba Mandela, the first black president of South Africa has passed on. Â Â Mandela has died at the age of 95. Mandela spent 27 years in prison for leading a fight against apartheid in South Africa. The country had been ruled by the whites for over three centuries. When he was released from prison, […]
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin is ranked number 1 on the list of the world’s most popular people. Barack Obama is number 2 according to Forbes. Name/Title Organization Age 1 Vladimir Putin President Russia 61 2 Barack Obama President United States 52 3 Xi Jinping General Secretary, Communist Party China 60 4 Pope […]
The blaze at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi sent a plume of black smoke that was visible from the Kenyan capital a few miles away after a huge fire broke out and raged for four hours, witnesses said. Reporters from The Associated Press at the scene said stranded passengers stood on sidewalks outside the […]
Intercepted conversations between two senior al-Qaeda figures prompted the sudden closure of many American diplomatic missions, US media report. The chatter, involving top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, represented one of the most serious plots since the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times says. The US earlier said the closures in North Africa and the Middle East […]