USA agrees on peace deal 🤝 with a Iran, the deal allows for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz along with sanctions relief that could see oil prices drop. .
🇮🇷 reported to have attacked 🇮🇱to defend 🇱🇧/Hezbollah. Hezbollah, part of Iran's regional deterrence umbrella, has been probing 🇮🇱defences via its drones & missiles after a short lived ceasefire. 🇮🇱 could ignore calls for de-escalation or worse, target 🇮🇷 oil export terminals..
Tatu City's Kijani Ridge recorded zero residential land sales in the year to December 2025, down from 14 deals worth Sh338m closed in 2024.
—Revenue from Kijani Ridge: -88% to Sh163m
—Revenue from bulk residential: Sh513m [2024: 0]
The entire Tatu City project land is valued at Sh153 billion.
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Glad to welcome the new @UN_Vienna Director-General and @UNODC Executive Director @Monica_Juma_ to the Vienna-based organizations family.
At a time when effective multilateralism matters more than ever and international organizations face growing challenges, her dynamism and experience will be important in strengthening cooperation. I look forward to working together on our shared priorities, and she can count on the @IAEAorg as a close partner in the important work ahead.
24 tons of apples from South Africa 🇿🇦and 6.9 tons of Kenyan 🇰🇪 fresh avocados were among the first arrivals of African agricultural products under the #ZeroTariffPolicy. Welcome!
World Bank told Nigeria to reopen fuel imports because Dangote’s fuel was 12% more expensive than imports. Dangote called it flawed. World Bank quietly deleted the whole report from their website.
Meanwhile Europe is buying refined fuel from the same Dangote refinery because Middle East supply got disrupted. The same Europe that used to sell Nigeria its own crude back as petrol. You can’t make this up.
An African refinery finally works at scale and the first recommendation is not invest more, not expand capacity. It’s bring back imports.
When Africa consumes nobody says a word. When Africa refines and competes suddenly it’s a problem.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to receive a call from Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. He told me that there are two issues that they now deem important. They do not want a ceasefire, they want peace - Prime CS Mudavadi
Iran ignores nuclear talks & crude oil breaks past 120. Trump's rejection of the Idea that talks with the Islamist Republic can bring meaningful peace appears to be irrelevant since it has created discomfort for many countries through expensive gas and inflation. .
FM @araghchi and Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Sec @MusaliaMudavadi held a productive phone call today to discuss regional developments. The Iranian FM briefed his counterpart on the status of ongoing negotiations; PCS Mudavadi welcomed the progress and expressed his hopes for lasting peace. Both leaders reaffirmed that regional stability is key to strengthening 🇮🇷🇰🇪 bilateral ties. #Iran #Kenya #Diplomacy 🌍🤝
Breaking news: Brent crude oil surged to almost $120 a barrel on Wednesday, as the stand-off between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz pushed prices close to their high point of the war in the Middle East. https://t.co/stUTFJZp8T
German sportswear maker Adidas' shares rose after Kenya's Sabastian Sawe became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in an official race, accomplishing his feat wearing the brand's Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 trainers https://t.co/8Ox6sMBrH1
BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30!
Kenyans invented running™
Pakistan as a Shield for Trump’s Retreats: Trump discarded Oman as the mediator in U.S.-Iran talks after the Omani foreign minister appeared on American television to say Washington launched the war on Feb. 28 despite a deal with Tehran being imminent. Oman has since been replaced by Pakistan, a country readily willing to do Washington’s bidding.
In the war, each time Trump has climbed down, he has used Pakistan as cover.
As on April 8, when Trump said he was declaring a ceasefire at Pakistan’s “request,” he has now similarly claimed that the truce has been extended at the "request" of Pakistan's army chief (the country's de facto ruler) and prime minister, the nominal civilian head of government.
Indeed, the White House reportedly ghostwrote Pakistan’s April 7 appeal for a ceasefire so that Trump’s climbdown would appear less like a retreat and more like magnanimity and statesmanship.
Now, in renewing the truce indefinitely after threatening further strikes on Iran, Trump, as @nytimes reports, appears to have blinked first.