- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Other than chasing medals or prize monies, international competitions are also an opportunity for athletes to make friends with people from other countries. For Kenyan sprinter Zablon Ekwam, this is part of his to-do list when he docks in city of love — Paris — for the…
- Macron said France wanted to show "the rest of the world that the Winter Games are not just history -and we are proud to be part of it - but part of our future."
- The Palestine Olympic Committee asked for a ban on Israel in a letter to the IOC, citing the bombings of the besieged Gaza Strip as a breach of the Olympic truce.
- Associations of long distance drivers, offline and digital taxi operators, and matatu operators termed the government decision to increase the levy from Sh18 to Sh25 illegal and discriminatory.
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Nominated Member of Parliament (MP) John Mbadi has been picked to be the new National Treasury Cabinet Secretary by President William Ruto. Mbadi, who is in his fourth term as a legislator, will be taking over from Njuguna Ndung’u, who was shown the door by the President…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – President William Ruto has nominated immediate former Roads and Public Works Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen as the cabinet secretary for creative economy, youth affairs and sports. Murkomen was among CSs who were left jobless a fortnight ago when the President…
- TOKYO, July 24 (Xinhua) — The population of Japanese nationals fell by 861,000, or 0.70 pct, in 2023 from a year earlier to 121,561,801, dropping for the 15th year in a row and marking the steepest decline since the survey began in 1968, government data showed Wednesday. As of Jan. 1, 2024, Japan’s…