On the 21st of October, President Trump declared that the US had reached "a critical breakthrough in our worldwide campaign to defeat ISIS and its wicked ideology", and yet, despite major defeats for ISIS forces and the loss of Raqqah in Syria to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US is still very far from a political solution in Syria
Kenya is East Africa’s largest economy and is now plunging into another political conflict after the opposition’s pulling out of the 26th October, 2017 fresh elections. Raila Omolo Odinga (72yrs) said that his withdrawal would give the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver more credible elections.