- The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas mourned on Monday the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who it said had supported the Palestinian people during the current war with Israel.
- South Africa's top court ruled on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma was not eligible to run for parliament in this month's election, a closely-watched decision as it could affect the outcome.
- The Kenya Meteorological Department has warned of enhanced rainfall in some of the parts of the country due to a tropical storm over the South-West Indian Ocean.
- Transport operations along Machakos-Kangundo road have been temporarily halted after the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) camped at the area to remove falling rock debris that had blocked a section of the road due to bad weather.
- Mukurweini Member of Parliament John Kaguchia has laughed off rumours of Mt. Kenya region disgruntlement with President William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza administration, saying the region will remain in government until 2032.
- Deputy minority leader and Kathiani Member of Parliament Robert Mbui has opined that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's recent silence stems from a possible sidelining in the next election cycle.
- Here are some key facts about Mohammad Mokhber, 68, Iran's first vice president who, based on the country's constitution, is expected to become interim president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
- The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesman for the Central African country's army told Reuters.
- Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage.
- French forces smashed through dozens of barricades in a bid to retake the main road to New Caledonia's airport and a top official said Sunday that Paris would reclaim all of the Pacific territory from independence militants "whatever the cost".
- Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid U.S. calls for a more focused military campaign.
- Local edible oil manufacturers have warned that the proposed 25 per cent excise duty on vegetable oils under the 2024 Finance Bill will shoot the price of cooking oil up 80 per cent.
- Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in support of President Kais Saied amid widespread criticism at home and abroad after a wave of arrests that included journalists, activists and lawyers.
- Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be finished by Sept. 15, they said in a joint statement.
- The Ministry of Transport now says it is in the advanced stages of implementing its road safety measures to arrest the rampant tragic road accidents across the country.
- Fresh floods killed 66 people in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said Sunday, in the latest deadly flooding to hit the country.
- The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party’s grassroots elections have concluded in Narok with Governor Patrick Ole Ntutu's team emerging victorious.
- The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) armed forces repelled an attempted coup d'etat involving Congolese and foreign fighters on Sunday morning, a DRC army spokesman said in a televised address.
- A helicopter in the convoy of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in "an accident" on Sunday, state media reported, without specifying if the president was on board.
- Foreign Affairs Principal Secretay Korir Sing'oei has intimated that the plan to deploy its Kenyan police officers to war-torn Haiti is in its final stages.
- The incident has sparked outrage among the local community. Angry family members, led by the deceased’s aunt Sicily Wangu, and Kiandai villagers stormed Kianyaga police station, demanding an explanation for the shooting.
- President William Ruto's four-day visit to the United States will see him observe a packed itinerary as he attempts to champion for more investments in Kenya.
- According to data from K-Note, a non-governmental organisation, Mai Mahiu, Longonot, Naivasha, and Kikopey towns are suffering as a result of the large number of truck drivers seeking services there.
- The insurgent, Anywari Al Iraq, a Ugandan, was captured in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces is based, the military, Uganda People's Defence Forces, said in a statement.
- Kiharu Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Budget Committee Ndindi Nyoro has reassured Kenyans that their views will be thoroughly considered before the implementation of the 2024-2025 Finance Bill.
- Three employees of the Sports, Arts and Social Development Funds (SASDF) were on Friday arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts for using fake academic credentials to secure employment within the public service.
- The tests will take place at a clinic at the Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, the Royal Court said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
- Two Nigerian nationals and a Kenyan woman have been apprehended by officers from the anti-narcotic unit on suspicions of engaging in cocaine, heroin and Methamphetamine trafficking.
- At about 10:30 a.m., a Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputy responded to a welfare check in the 1300 block of W. Warner Street after the woman's family reported not hearing from her for several days.
- The bereaved father, who lives near the Rumaila field in the southern province of Basra, is demanding that the firm compensate him for his son Ali's medical expenses, which have left him in crushing debt.
- Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains.
- The fishing vessel got into difficulty on Friday but local officials said they had not given up hope for the men, despite air and sea searches turning up no trace.
- Usukhjargal Tsedendamba, 53, and Purevsuren Lkhagvajav, 31, were last in contact Sunday evening from Camp 4, which is situated less than a kilometre (0.6 miles) below the summit.
- Hundreds of protesters in Peru's capital marched on Friday to demand the scrapping of a new law that describes transgender people, among others, as having a mental illness so they can access health benefits.
- Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said.
- Slovakia's health minister said Saturday the prognosis for Prime Minister Robert Fico was "positive" after an assassination attempt as a court put the suspected gunman in pre-trial detention.