Rwanda has told a panel of international arbitrators that the United Kingdom still owes it £100 million ($115 million) under a 2022 refugee resettlement agreement scrapped by Prime Minister Keir Starmer shortly after taking office in 2024. The controversial deal, struck by Starmer’s predecessor Rishi Sunak, proposed sending migrants arriving…
The Prince and Princess of Wales met with Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and First Lady Oluremi Tinubu at Windsor Castle on Wednesday morning, marking the first Nigerian state visit to the United Kingdom in 37 years. The visit comes amid significant bilateral and Commonwealth ties, with the UK home…
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has departed for the United Kingdom on a landmark state visit the first by a Nigerian leader in nearly four decades. Tinubu left Abuja on Tuesday accompanied by First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, marking the beginning of a high-level diplomatic trip aimed at deepening cooperation between the…
Nairobi, Kenya – The latest United Kingdom (UK) Government trade and investment data confirms that total UK–Kenya trade reached a record £2.1 billion (KES 360 billion) in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2025, marking the highest level ever recorded between the two nations. Strong Export Growth The…
Reading, United Kingdom / Murang’a, Kenya – The founder of Jesus Compassion Ministries (JCM), Bishop Benson Kiengei, has shared an emotional message following the passing of Reverend Paul Irad Kariuki, a cleric who served under the PCEA Great Britain Mission in Reading, UK. In a heartfelt tribute posted on his…
Europe’s transport networks remained heavily disrupted on Tuesday as below-freezing temperatures and snowfall caused a second day of travel chaos across the continent, with at least five fatalities reported in France alone. French authorities confirmed that three people died in black ice–related accidents in southwestern France on Monday morning. In…
Libyan authorities have confirmed that the United Kingdom will conduct the analysis of the flight data recorder recovered from the aircraft crash in Turkey last month that claimed the lives of senior members of the Libyan military leadership, including Army Chief General Mohammed al-Haddad. Speaking at a press conference in…
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he feels an “obligation” to sue the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of “defrauding the public” by misrepresenting a section of his January 6, 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Speaking in an interview with Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Trump claimed the documentary “butchered”…
Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has welcomed the arrest and detention of Robert James Purkiss, a former British soldier accused of murdering Agnes Wanjiru in Nanyuki over a decade ago a case that has strained diplomatic relations between Kenya and the United Kingdom. The 38-year-old was…
Police in the United Kingdom are treating a deadly attack on a synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, as a terrorist incident after two worshippers were killed during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. According to Greater Manchester Police (GMP), officers were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew…