- Thousands of students seeking to join universities are expressing fears of being locked out of higher education fund due to their lack of identification cards.
- Ugandan police on Monday announced the arrest of four people for allegedly engaging in same-sex activity, three months after the introduction of draconian anti-gay legislation sparked international outrage.
- An Israeli woman was shot dead and another man wounded in a suspected shooting attack Monday near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, medics and the army said.
- Embattled Pastor Ezekiel Odero now says that the decision to deregister his ministry, Newlife Prayer Centre, is a scheme to frustrate and obstruct the operations of his church.
- President William Ruto Monday announced that Kenya has lifted visa restrictions for Indonesian passport holders after bilateral talks with the Southeast Asian country’s leader Joko Widodo.
- Kenya on Monday signed four Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Indonesia following bilateral talks between President Joko Widodo and his host William Ruto at State House, Nairobi.
- Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton, 66, was found suffering from a gunshot wound Friday evening at her store Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, just east of Lake Arrowhead, a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The report, published Monday in the medical journal Hypertension, found that more than 1 in 5 patients who were hospitalized with Covid-19 – and over 1 in 10 who were not – had been diagnosed with high blood pressure six months later. Compared with people who had influenza, another upper…
- Speaking Monday in Nairobi during the launch of Nyandarua County’s Boda Yangu Ofisi Yangu training programme, the Deputy President said the government is keen on supporting the boda boda subsector, which is a key driver of the country’s economy.
- Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has backed the move to have Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba summoned before the National Assembly to respond to accusations of mishandling Kenyan athletes.
- The Judiciary has spoken out about the controversial arrest of an elderly man by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) over a disputed piece of land in Nairobi’s Lavington district.
- According to a petition signed by professors Frederick Ogola and Bernard Okello, the closure of all government digital payment platforms to allow the integration of all government services into a single digital payment platform is unconstitutional.
- Likuyani MP Innocent Mugabe has opined that the United States of America exerted its influence on the August 2022 General Elections hence why Ambassador Meg Whitman lauded the polls terming them as free and fair.
- Somalia's government announced Sunday a ban on social media platforms TikTok and Telegram and an online betting app, saying they were being used by "terrorists" to spread propaganda.
- The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has issued a statement following videos of detectives arresting an elderly man over what is purported to be a disputed piece of land in Nairobi’s Lavington district.
- In a message on his platform Truth Social, Trump touted what he called a hugely successful record as president and what he described as his popularity among the American people.
- The allegations, which Riyadh did not immediately comment on, point to a significant escalation of abuses along the perilous "Eastern Route" from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians live and work.
- Darfur as well as Sudan's capital Khartoum have borne the brunt of nearly four months of fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by rival generals vying for power.
- Former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Wafula Chebukati has resurfaced after keeping a low profile since last year’s General Election.
- The camp in Mushonezo is home to around 420 families from Bushushu, a village on Lake Kivu near the eastern border with Rwanda. The village was hammered by fierce rain and landslides that killed at least 400 people in May.
- Governor Nyongo described the government's lack of action as unfortunate, despite reports that tensions between the two communities at the common border began to rise three days ago.
- Polls opened at 7:00 am local (1200 GMT) and voting was to go on until 5:00 pm as Ecuadorans picked a successor to Guillermo Lasso, who called a snap election to avoid an impeachment trial just two years after his election.
- The majority leader of National Assembly Kimani Ichungwa has defended US Ambassador Meg Whitman stating that there is nothing neo-colonist speaking about the outcome of the 2022 presidential election.
- Ndindi, who has called for the talks, which are scheduled to resume next week, claims that Kenyans went to the polls last year and chose who they want to lead them.
- Ndindi, who has called for the talks, which are scheduled to resume next week, claims that Kenyans went to the polls last year and chose who they want to lead them.
- The salon vehicle was travelling towards Sagana from Karatina when it struck a man who was crossing the highwat there, according to the dual carriage's contractors on the Sagana-Maragua highway.
- President William Ruto on Sunday expressed optimism in the production of maize across the nation, projecting that it might be the best Kenya has ever witnessed.
- More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalised in an hours-long riot in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Wednesday, after allegations that a Koran had been desecrated spread through the city.
- Kisii governor Simba Arati has said he is determined to work with President William Ruto’s administration to bring development to the county, despite being allied to the opposition Azimio coalition.
- On Saturday evening, "a person managed to hack into an advertising screen in Uqba bin Nafia Square", a major intersection at the centre of the Iraqi capital, a security source who requested anonymity told AFP.
- The Luna-25 probe, Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the Moon after an incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday.
- One of only 13 made, this 1954 Ferrari Mondial Spider Series I wasn’t one of Ferrari’s fabled V12 models but an entirely different design. The four-cylinder car was designed for driving on twisting tracks with lots of curves and few straightaways, where a smaller, lighter engine was desirable.
- Twelve years of conflict that led to a spike in illegal logging, along with the effects of climate change and other factors, have eroded Syria's greenery.
- Kenya has more than 2,300 Technical and Vocational Education Training Institutions (TVETs) dotting the country’s landscape, with a majority of the institutions that consumed millions of taxpayers’ money during their development, highly underutilized.
- Lucy Letby, 33, harmed babies in her care by injecting air into their blood and stomachs, overfeeding them with milk, physically assaulting them and poisoning them with insulin, Manchester Crown Court in northern England heard.
- She recalled the many home videos her parents filmed of herself and her sister over the years: taking their first steps, going to school and other “embarrassing stuff.”
- The new variant, called BA.2.86 and nicknamed Pirola by variant hunters on social media, has more than 30 amino acid changes to its spike protein compared with its next closest ancestor, the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, according to Dr. Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson…
- The lander, Russia's first such mission in almost 50 years, was successfully placed in the Moon's orbit on Wednesday after being launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the country's Far East.
- Francisco Tamariz, the mayor of the coastal town of La Libertad, said he escaped unharmed from the Friday evening attack, in which gunmen fired 30 shots at his vehicle.