- Questions have arisen after a video emerged of Dubai-based real estate agents taking stock of their latest sales at what appears to be the office headquarters.
- Public Service Cabinet Secretary (CS) Geoffrey Ruku has announced that the government is planning to recruit over 100,000 youths to the National Youth Service (NYS).
- A man was on Monday arraigned for accusations of publishing “grossly offensive” content on Facebook that allegedly damaged the reputation of former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero.
- A middle-aged woman has been shot dead while three other people sustained serious injuries after bandits attacked a convoy which was heading to Marigat from Tangulbei early Monday morning in Baringo County.
- Cleophas Malala has suffered a setback after the High Court upheld a Gazette notice dated August 19, 2024, that removed him from the position of United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party Secretary-General.
- US authorities said Sunday they arrested more than 100 undocumented migrants at a raid on a nightclub in Colorado, the latest detentions in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
- Two men have been sentenced to five years in prison each after they were found guilty of illegally possessing four elephant tusks valued at Ksh.2.49 million.
- A Kenya Airways (KQ) plane headed to Dar es Salaam from Nairobi on Sunday returned to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) shortly after departure due to a “medical emergency,” the airline said.
- Namibia's president has dismissed agriculture minister Mac Hengari, her office announced Sunday, as reports emerged that he is under investigation for alleged rape.
- US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted Russia's Vladimir Putin to "stop shooting" in Ukraine and sign a peace deal, one day after the US leader met Ukraine's president at the Vatican.
- Months of clashes between Kiir's forces and those loyal to the first vice-president Machar, who was arrested in March, have stoked fears of a return to civil war in the world's youngest country, which only ended with a 2018 deal between the two sides.
- At major bus stations and bookshops in Nairobi, only a handful of parents and students were spotted making preparations — a sharp contrast to the typical crowds.
- Speaking during an interdenominational fundraiser in Malava Constituency, Kakamega County, the leaders blamed Kenyatta for the challenges facing President Ruto’s administration and warned him to stay out of local politics.
- The attacker, who is on the run, stabbed Aboubakar Cisse, a young Malian in his early 20s dozens of times and then filmed him with a mobile phone while shouting insults at Islam in Friday's attack in the village of La Grand-Combe in the Gard region.
- Speaking on Sunday during a service at Marani Catholic Parish in Kitutu Chache North Constituency, Kisii County, Prof. Kindiki emphasized that the government is not in competition with the Church or any religious organizations over how they engage with senior government officials and politicians.
- Trump -- who met Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral -- has shown increasing impatience with both sides, and suggested Russia's Vladimir Putin maybe "doesn't want to stop the war."
- Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to delivering quality services to Kenyans through enhanced public sector efficiency and citizen engagement.
- KMPDU has thrown its full weight behind Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale’s directive to freeze the licensing of foreign doctors, citing a festering crisis of unethical practices and organ trafficking in the country.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has termed the government's efforts to protect Kenyan youth from drug and alcohol abuse futile, claiming some top state officials are in the drug trafficking enterprise.
- A driver killed at least nine people when he plowed a vehicle through a crowd at a Filipino cultural celebration in Vancouver, police in the Canadian city said Sunday.
- A family in Rachuonyo East, Homa Bay County, is pleading for justice over the mysterious death of their 40-year-old kin, who died in a police cell after being arrested.
- Twenty-two passengers aboard a Kisii-bound bus were injured in an accident along the Bomet-Kisii highway at the Mumberes area of Sotik, Bomet County.
- Heath Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has urged more Kenyans to enroll in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) under the new Social Health Alliance (SHA).
- Fires were still blazing on Sunday after a massive explosion tore through Iran's largest commercial port the day before, killing at least 25 people and leaving hundreds more injured
- A joint operation led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) led to the recovery of two AK-47 rifles connected to the death of three National Police Reservists (NPR) in Isiolo North Sub-County, Isiolo County.
- During the upcoming conclave, cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis in a highly secretive process that could take several days, potentially longer.
- French police were on Saturday hunting a man suspected of killing a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque in the south of the country while filming the murder on a mobile phone and shouting insults at Islam.
- A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse -- but the athletes they are rooting for are actually tiny sperm cells.
- Belgium's foreign minister told AFP that Rwanda's "legitimate" security concerns in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could not justify its former colony's backing for the M23 armed group.
- At least four people were killed and more than 500 injured in a powerful explosion on Saturday that ripped through a vital port in southern Iran, state media said.
- U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, met one-on-one in a marble-lined Vatican basilica on Saturday to try to revive faltering efforts to end Russia's war with Ukraine.
- Hundreds of thousands of mourners joined world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, to bid farewell Saturday to Pope Francis, a champion of the poor who strived to forge a more compassionate Catholic church.
- Tanzania has lifted a ban on imports of agricultural produce from Malawi and South Africa, it said late on Friday, days after imposing it in retaliation for similar measures imposed by the two southern African nations.
- A County Assembly lawyer has raised concerns over possible medical negligence at a hospital in Kiambu following the death of Kariobangi North MCA Joel Munuve.
- In front of hundreds of world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re called for care for migrants, an end to wars, and action on global climate change - Francis' favourite political themes.
- Pope Francis' wooden coffin was carried into St. Peter's Square on Saturday at the start of a funeral Mass attended by a multitude of mourners, including powerful world leaders, clerics and pilgrims.
- Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 17 people across the territory, while more were trapped under the rubble after a family home was hit.
- Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met briefly at Pope Francis's funeral on Saturday, Kyiv said, marking their first encounter since a disastrous White House clash as the US president pushes the Ukrainian to make a peace deal with Russia.
- President William Ruto arrived early on Saturday in Rome, Italy, for the burial ceremony of Pope Francis, which is expected to take place at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica.
- The funeral of Pope Francis will take place in St Peter's Square in the Vatican on Saturday before he is buried at Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome.
- The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the centre of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes.
- Ukrainian and European officials pushed back this week against some U.S. proposals on how to end Russia's war in Ukraine, making counterproposals on issues from territory to sanctions, according to the full texts of the proposals seen by Reuters.
- Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find they say points to the importance of women in the city some five millennia earlier.
- Nearly 500 civilians have been confirmed killed in Sudan's North Darfur in the past two weeks, the United Nations said Friday, condemning "horrifying" numbers of deaths and widespread sexual violence.
- A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake left at least 20 people injured, dozens of buildings damaged and knocked out power in the Ecuadorian port city of Esmeraldas on Friday.
- Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an attack in a gold mining village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state, residents and Amnesty International said.
- The public viewing of Pope Francis's open coffin ended on Friday, television footage showed, after more than 150,000 worshippers had paid respects to the Argentinian pontiff during a three-day lying in state.
