The Kenyan port city of Mombasa has been in the spotlight over the years following allegations of the illegal importation of smuggled goods. The port is also used by drug traffickers to import and export narcotics.

In recent months some of the highest levels of trade restrictions seen in decades have threatened to boil over into a prolonged trade war. The United States is at the centre of the storm, having imposed tariffs on imports from numerous countries.

South Korea, one of the worst-affected countries in the coronavirus epidemic outside China, on Tuesday reported fewer than 150 new cases for the first time in two weeks.

Eighty thousand women marched through Mexico City on Sunday, to protest against femicides, and a rising tide of violent crime, which they insist is receiving little or no attention from the police and the courts.

Paris’ Odeon European Theatre is one of the rare theatres in France with a repertoire featuring foreign productions with subtitles, films adapted for the stage and international directors.

Violent scenes have erupted on the small Greek island of Lesbos, where thousands of refugees have amassed, arriving from the border with Turkey. More than 1,720 migrants have landed there and on the four other Aegean islands over the past week, adding to the 38,000 already crammed into overstretched refugee centres.

For decades, many young people in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa have been in trouble with the authorities for offences ranging from common crime to terrorism.That story is now changing, thanks to the arrival of new technology.

Nakuru is the largest town in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, located 170 kilometres northwest of the capital Nairobi.Tucked away on the outskirts of Nakuru, less than one kilometre from Lake Nakuru National Park, is the working space of SWAN-SUKEIA, a group of women who are part of the Lulu Works Trust.

An increasing number of Tunisian children and adolescents are taking their own lives. Suicides in the north African country tell a desperate story of the hardships Tunisian society is going through, whether financial, social, or psychological.

As governments worldwide shift to clean energy production in order to reduce emissions, ecological experts in Kenya are opposing the construction of a coal-burning electricity generation facility in the coastal region of Lamu County, which is a UNESCO World heritage site.