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East Africa's emerging food-security crisis should be treated as a financing and preparedness challenge, not merely a forecasting problem.

President William Ruto on Thursday intensified attacks on his predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta, accusing him of doing little to alleviate the economic suffering of the residents of Taita Taveta County.

The collapse began at an altitude of about 5,200 metres (17,060 feet) with a section more than a kilometre (0.6 miles) wide and extending roughly 700 metres vertically.

Jimi Wanjigi has challenged African leaders to match political independence with economic liberation, saying that independence did not dismantle the economic structures inherited with colonialism.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the US for a state visit and was given a rare airport welcome by President Donald Trump.

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday that its forces intercepted two ballistic missiles and four drones fired by the Iran-backed group at the kingdom.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Tehran was likely involved in an attack by a pilot on a flydubai flight to Israel and that Iran would be "hit very hard" if it was.

A condemned female murderer who survived two lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition.

Two teenage brothers armed with knives and fireworks killed a female assistant principal and injured three other people in an attack Thursday at a school in northern Mexico.

Wicknell Munodaani Chivayo, the Zimbabwean tenderpreneur who died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, built a public persona on luxury cars, presidential handshakes and state contracts.

Education stakeholders have called for increased support for learners from vulnerable households and arid and semi-arid areas as schools prepare to reopen in the coming weeks.