Finland, a country that shares an 830-mile-long border with Russia, announced this week that it is to halve its cap on the number of visa applications from Russian citizens.
The electoral commission has made adjustments to the presidential results verification process at the national tallying centre in Bomas of Kenya as it races against time to meet the Tuesday deadline.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya on Friday said the Returning Officer for Embakasi East went missing after stepping out of the Constituency Tallying Centre to make a phone call from an unknown individual at about 9.00 pm on Thursday.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday, protesting inflation and the rising cost of living, according to people that CNN spoke to.
The FBI searched former President Donald Trump's home in Florida on Monday. The US Department of Justice is asking a Florida court to unseal the warrant that let FBI agents search Trump's home. And this could reveal why.
Kenya's Deputy President (DP) William Ruto trounced his archrival Raila Odinga of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya at the polling station where he voted on Tuesday.
Promises of freedom and riches are made to convicts in cramped jail cells. Frantic phone calls ensue between relatives and inmates weighing the offer. Then prisoners vanish, leaving their loved ones to sift through reports of the wounded arriving in hospitals.
Despite China's large-scale military exercises around Taiwan, life across the island largely remains the same. The relative calmness is in stark contrast to how the international community views the situation.
KENYA heads to the polls on August 9 for a general election where more than 22 million voters will elect the next President, members of the National Assembly and Senate, county governors of Kenya and members of the 47 county assemblies of Kenya.
Residents of a South African township near Johannesburg have set ablaze the homes of migrants they believe are illegally working in disused local mines.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the global Anglican church, Justin Welby, has affirmed the validity of a 1998 declaration that gay sex is a sin.
