NAIROBI – A year on from landmark protests over taxes and corruption, Kenya’s youth remains undeterred by a violent police response but faces conflicting ideas on where to go next. “It was spontaneous, leaderless and unlike anything our country had ever seen,” said Hanifa Adan (28), who became one of the most high-profile figures of what became known as the...

NAIROBI – Doctors Without Borders (MSF) yesterday said it was forced to shut a hospital in South Sudan after violent looting, leaving a remote and conflict-plagued county without a major health facility.  MSF said its hospital in Ulang, Upper Nile State, was “completely destroyed” after armed individuals stormed the facility in April, threatened staff and looted medicine worth US$150 000...

LOME – More than 50 people detained during anti-government protests in Togo last week have been released, while others remain in custody, the public prosecutor said. Dozens of protesters were dispersed with tear gas overnight from 5-6 June in several parts of the capital Lome, including near the presidential palace. They had gathered in response to a call by a...

LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump ordered active-duty US Marines and 2 000 more National Guard troops into Los Angeles yesterday vowing those protesting immigration arrests would be “hit harder” than ever. Trump’s extraordinary mobilisation of 700 full-time professional military personnel — and thousands of National Guard troops — came on the fourth day of street protests triggered by dozens...

TEHRAN – Iran has executed nine men convicted of plotting to carry out attacks inside the country in 2018 on behalf of the Islamic State group, the judiciary said. “The death sentences of nine members of the terrorist group Daesh were carried out after confirmation by Iran’s Supreme Court,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online news outlet reported, using the Arabic acronym...