- General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup last week that toppled Gabon's 55-year-old ruling dynasty, took the oath of office as interim president on Monday, promising "free, transparent and credible elections" to restore civilian rule but without giving a timeframe.
- President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia was nearing a deal that would secure free grain to six African countries, after the UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal collapsed in July.
- The Council of Governors (COG) has asserted that County Governments are ready and committed to implement accelerated national and global actions against climate change.
- Developed nations mainly consisting of nations from Europe, America and Asia have been urged to push for an increase of funding to combat climate change crises in Africa.
- Roads out of the Burning Man festival may reopen Monday for the tens of thousands of people trapped for a third day in the Nevada desert after heavy rains covered the grounds with ankle-deep mud too thick to drive on and forced organizers to impose shelter-in-place orders.
- The High Court has issued orders stopping the Nairobi County Government from going on with the Ksh.47 billion Waste to Energy processing plant situated in Dandora.
- National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has contributed Ksh.5.3 million for the infrastructural development of K.K Tharaine Junior Secondary School, in Tigania West Constituency.
- President William Ruto’s motorcade to the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi where the Africa Climate Summit is taking place has drawn attention because of his choice of ride; the Autopax Air Yetu electric car.
- The leader of a coup that ousted Gabon's President Ali Bongo was sworn in as interim president by constitutional court judges on Monday in a televised ceremony designed to solidify the junta's grip on power.
- At least 270 people living in Miasenyi-Majengo Mapya Village in Taita Taveta County have filed a case against Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) over an oil spillage that occurred in 2016.
- The DP said the two countries have strong ties and Kenya is looking forward to working with the UAE to expand school-feeding initiatives when he hosted United Arab Emirates Minister for Environment and Climate Change Mariam Almheiri at Harambee House Annex.
- The 427 million shillings were reduced to 19 million shillings, which included the principal tax of 12,038,982 million shillings, a penalty of 2,407,796 shillings, and interest of 5,036.405 million shillings.
- According to reports, the attendant was abducted by unknown individuals who had just refueled at a petrol station he was manning along the Tala-Kangundo road.
- President William Ruto has officially opened the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) that will take place at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), from September 4 to September 6, 2023.
- Other high-level delegations expected to attend are the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Pakistan President Arif Alvi, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, first Education Minister of Mozambique; co-founder of The Elders Graca Machel…
- The general who came to power in Gabon's coup last week is to be sworn in as "transitional president" on Monday, taking control for an unspecified period after overthrowing the country's 55-year Bongo dynasty.
- African policymakers will kick off a landmark climate summit in Kenya on Monday aimed at reframing the continent as a budding renewable energy powerhouse and calling for international financial help to unlock its potential.
- Vincenzo DiRado is 91 years old. He came to the United States in 1966 after his family fled their home in Italy during World War II. For months they hid with another family in the countryside. Shortly after that, he took up cobbling in 1944.
- Shock and grief engulfed the outskirts of Kericho town after the decomposing body of a middle-aged man was discovered hanging from a tree in a thicket.
- Police in Uganda said on Sunday they had detained a 28-year-old man entering a church in the capital Kampala with an explosive device he planned to use for an attack there.
- Pope Francis on Sunday told Catholics in China to be "good Christians and good citizens", using his visit to Mongolia to help ease tensions between the Vatican and Beijing.
- Video footage showed costume-wearing "burners" struggling across the wet gray-brown site, some using trash bags as makeshift boots, while many vehicles were stuck in sludge up to the top of their wheels.
- The ride from State House to the Kenyatta International Convention Centre by President William Ruto is perhaps an indicator of the seriousness with which the country and the continent regard the maiden African climate summit.
- The law, which went into effect Friday, says those convicted of intoxication manslaughter must pay restitution. The offender will be expected to make those payments until the child is 18 or until the child graduates from high school, “whichever is later,” the legislation says.
- Azimio leader Raila Odinga has joined a section of Maasai leaders in defending alleged illegal investment on their 580 acres of ancestral land at Ilmashariani area in Narok North.
- Hundreds of congregants were evacuated from the Rubaga Miracle Centre Cathedral in the capital city after a man tried to enter the grounds carrying an explosive, said police spokesman Patrick Onyango.
- Kenya Power has scaled up electricity lines surveillance in Nairobi as the Africa Climate Week and Summit 2023 kicks off at the Kenyatta International Conventional Centre (KICC).
- The Pre-ACS event held at the Climate Action Zone plays a crucial role in mobilizing sustainable finance and partnerships for the built environment, which is a key focus for the Kenya Green Building Society, as green buildings lead part of the wider Sustainable Urbanization and Infrastructure track…
- According to EACC sources who spoke to Citizen.Digital, the property taken from Kisite Mpunguti Marine Reserve in Kwale County is worth an estimated Ksh. 305 million and consists of four parcels of land.
- Azimio Leader Raila Odinga has opened a warpath with Narok Governor Patrick Ole Ntutu, accusing the Governor of frustrating opposition parties in the county
- Five civilians were killed by bombs that "fell on their homes" in Khartoum, a Sudanese medical source told AFP, a day after an air strike in the city's south killed at least 20 civilians.