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China's recent ballistic missile test into the Pacific Ocean has created a rift among island nations, challenging their shared goal of maintaining the region as an "Ocean of Peace".

Former Kenyan Principal Secretary Esther Jepkemboi Koimett has become Middle East Bank Kenya’s largest individual shareholder with a 17.48% stake, following a multimillion-dollar inheritance from the estate of her late father, businessman and former Cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott.

Morocco is taking on a new role in the global defence industry after the US Army opened a military testing range in the country to private companies developing missiles, drones and other weapons.

Fifteen years after NATO helped topple Gaddafi, North Africa’s military powers appear to have drawn a lasting lesson from Libya’s collapse, spending more than $320 billion on stronger militaries, advanced weapons and deeper alliances to ensure they are not caught as exposed in a future crisis.

Africa's largest island nation, Madagascar is entering a new era in its energy sector this week as it welcomes a significant shipment of diesel at the port of Toamasina. The arrival of the tanker Sunda 1, which traveled from China, marks the official end of a 25-year period where a small group of private companies held exclusive control over the nation’s oil...