- A disturbing assault caught on video showing a businessman going by the name Pavilion physically attacking a female content creator, Bella Comedy, at the Kutiti Festival at Nairobi's Carnivore Gardens has triggered widespread outrage.
- Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Eliud Lagat argues that the decision on whether to charge him over the death of blogger Albert Omondi Ojwang lies exclusively with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and not the courts.
- The ticketing malady witnessed in the ongoing CHAN 2024 competitions in Kenya has attracted censures from political leaders as many question the transparency of allowing football fans to secure tickets.
- Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport suspended operations for several hours Sunday after heavy rains flooded the capital and caused poor visibility, authorities said.
- Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge.
- Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni has warned management of level 2, level 3 and sub county hospitals against charging patients when they seek outpatient medical attention in those facilities.
- President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to evict homeless people from the nation's capital and jail criminals, despite Washington's mayor arguing there is no current spike in crime.
- Israel's military said it killed an Al Jazeera journalist it accused of being a Hamas cell leader in a Gaza airstrike on Sunday, but rights advocates said he had been targeted for his frontline reporting on the Gaza war and Israel's claim lacked evidence.
- President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved "far" from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital where he has falsely suggested crime is rising.
- A man has survived clinging to the outside of an Austrian high-speed train, Austria's state railway said Sunday, reportedly after it left whilst he was having a cigarette break.
- A heavy cloud hangs over Kotombo village in Nyakach, Kisumu County. Grief-struck residents walk from house to house, condoling with those in mourning, their faces showing the agony of the calamity that befell two clans in this village.
- Hundreds of Kenyan football fans were left frustrated on Sunday after being denied entry into the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, despite holding valid-looking tickets.
- Speaking at the Tononoka Grounds in Mombasa on Sunday during an empowerment drive attended by President William Ruto's aide Farouk Kibet, Mining and Blue Economy Cabinet Secretary Hassan Joho, and Taveta MP John Bwire among others, Prof. Kindiki condemned what he called "indecent politics" aimed at…
- Mali has arrested around 20 soldiers suspected of wishing to overthrow the junta, which itself took power in the west African country in a coup, sources told AFP on Sunday.
- A family in Kitui County has been left in shock and grief after their wedding preparations suddenly turned into funeral arrangements, following the tragic death of their daughter, who was the bride-to-be.
- South Sudan and Uganda will jointly investigate recent deadly clashes on their border, the South Sudanese army said Sunday, after six people died in fighting.
- Speaking in Tononoka on Sunday, Prof. Kindiki said the completion of the Liwatoni Fish Port, Kidongo Fish Market, and the acquisition of deep sea fishing vessels will significantly enhance fishing and related businesses along the Coast.
- Police in Mombasa on Sunday said they arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of drug trafficking and intercepted a haul of marijuana in the process.
- Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has defended the government’s plan to compensate protest victims and their families, describing the move as just, timely, and in the best interest of the Kenyan people.
- Criminal gangs have killed 13 security personnel, including two policemen and 11 vigilantes, in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state in the latest violence in the region, a lawmaker and residents told AFP Sunday.
- A court in Chad jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra for 20 years Saturday, convicting him of hate speech, xenophobia and having incited a massacre.
- More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said Sunday.
- Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua was on Saturday asked to record a statement of his claims that President William Ruto has links with terror groups.
- President William Ruto has asked for a meeting with the Kiambu county leadership to review the charter he signed with them in the period leading to the 2022 general elections.
- ODM leader Raila Odinga has reaffirmed that he has no regrets about his decision to collaborate with President William Ruto under the broad-based government initiative.
- Kisumu Governor Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o has called for the redesigning of the Kisumu-Kakamega highway after a Friday evening accident killed 26 people.
- Four people have been confirmed dead and one passenger left in critical condition after being involved in a road accident along the Kibwezi-Kitui road in Makueni county.
- The streets were almost deserted in Yerevan Saturday because of the summer heat, but at shaded parks and fountains, Armenians struggled to make sense of what the accord signed a day earlier in Washington means for them.
- Chad's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of disseminating racist and xenophobic messages.
- Consumer prices in China remained stable in July, official data showed Saturday, providing a respite for the world's second-largest economy, which is facing strong deflationary pressure and fragile domestic demand.
- India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during clashes in May, India's air force chief said on Saturday, the first such statement by the country months after its worst military conflict in decades with its neighbour.
- Haiti's former national palace security chief, Vladimir Paraison, was appointed national police chief by the country's transitional government on Friday, as the Caribbean nation looks to battle armed gangs that have displaced over a million people.
- The commerce department has started issuing licenses to Nvidia to export its H20 chips to China, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday, removing a significant hurdle to the AI bellwether's access to a key market.
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro announced Friday the start of fresh talks with Clan del Golfo, the country's largest drug-trafficking gang and the world's largest producer of cocaine.
- A day after President William Ruto announced a framework for compensation of protests victims dating back to 2017, the opposition has questioned the legal basis for such a framework.
- The government has dismissed reports suggesting that civil servants will be locked out of medical services under the Social Health Authority (SHA) insurance programme, terming them “grossly inaccurate” and alarmist.
- Armenia and Azerbaijan have committed to a lasting peace after decades of conflict, US President Donald Trump said after the South Caucasus rivals signed a deal welcomed on Saturday by Iran and Western nations.
- A 17-year-old opened fire and wounded three people in a shooting at New York City's Times Square early Saturday, the New York Police Department said.
- DP Kithure Kindiki and Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen have demanded that DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua record a statement with the police upon his return to the country over his remarks on terrorism while in the United States.
- Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has declared that members of the newly formed United Opposition are prepared to “make any sacrifice, bear any burden, [and] pay any price” to send President William Ruto home in 2027.
- Thousands of enthusiastic young men and women from Nairobi County braved the early morning chilly weather to attend an empowerment programme hosted by President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi, on Saturday.
- Anti-riot police officers on Saturday morning blocked the road leading to Naivasha MP Jane Kihara's home in Maraigushu to stop some local leaders from visiting her.
- Anti-riot police officers on Saturday morning blocked the road leading to Naivasha MP Jane Kihara's home in Maraigushu to stop some local leaders from visiting her.
