- The Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary also defended the involvement of National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director General Noordin Haji in the lobbying process. “He’s a Kenyan. Other countries also have their intelligence chiefs here,” Mudavadi explained, dismissing criticism of Haji’s role in the…
- For now, the women of Magadi continue to live in the shadow of a predator who has turned their peaceful villages into a landscape of fear and despair.
- With his AUC bid now concluded, speculation is mounting about his next move. While critics argue that it might be time for him to retire, his supporters insist that he still wields significant political influence and could play the role of kingmaker in the 2027 elections.
- The pledges came during a joint address to reporters in Jerusalem, where Rubio began his first Middle East trip as secretary of state in President Donald Trump's new administration.
- Speaking at a dinner event on Saturday night, hours after Raila conceded defeat to Djibouti’s Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, President Ruto said he regretted two key aspects of the outcome: that Africa lost the chance to be led by an outstanding leader, and that Raila—the continent’s best candidate—fell…
- Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said President William Ruto was not to blame for his loss of the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship seat to Djibouti candidate Mahamoud Ali Youssouf.
- Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka says President William Ruto is to blame for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s failure to clinch the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship seat on Saturday, which he says has dented Kenya’s image.
- Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting little resistance from government troops, witnesses and the armed group said.
- Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said.
- Pope Francis sat out mass and his traditional Angelus prayer from hospital on Sunday, with a Vatican health official saying the 88-year-old pontiff needed to preserve his strength for the Church's busy Jubilee year.
- Konza Technopolis has broken ground for the construction of the first Center of Excellence Digital Innovation Hub at Riruta, Dagoretti South. The construction of the Jitume Hub heralds the planned construction of 1,450 digital hubs across all the 1,450 wards in the country.
- The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) selection panel has announced that it received 1,848 applications for the Chairperson and members of the commission.
- At least 18 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India's capital late Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world's largest religious gathering, officials and reports said.
- President William Ruto on Sunday called on African Heads of State to continue bolstering efforts to enhance climate action for the continent's posterity.
- Saboti Member of Parliament Caleb Amisi has shifted blame to Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director General Noordin Haji for Raila Odinga's loss in the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson race.
- Police in Mauritius arrested the island's former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash from a business linked to him, they said on Sunday.
- The failure of Raila Odinga to clinch the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship on Saturday has elicited mixed reactions in his Nyanza backyard.
- Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has led political leaders in lauding former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for contesting in the succession race of the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson despite facing defeat.
- Chaotic scenes unfolded in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Saturday after M23 rebels reached its outskirts, while Congo's prime minister declined to comment on a threat by Uganda's army chief that raised fears of a spiral into a wider regional war.
- As Palestinian inmates released by Israel on Saturday stepped off the buses that took them to the Gaza Strip, some flashed a victory sign and swiftly set fire to sweatshirts they were made to wear in prison.
- Uganda will attack the town of Bunia in neighbouring eastern Congo unless "all forces" there surrender their arms within 24 hours, the chief of Ugandan defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said in a post on X on Saturday.
- Legendary broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela was on Saturday laid to rest at the Lang'ata Cemetery as friends and colleagues joined the family in bidding the broadcaster a final farewell.
- Few heads of diplomacy can boast the longevity of Djibouti's Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, foreign minister since 2005, who was elected Saturday to head the African Union's executive commission.
- President William Ruto has expressed Kenya’s support to newly elected African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf and his deputy Selma Haddadi.
- Municipal and regional councillors began voting on Saturday in Togo's first-ever senatorial elections amid fears that President Faure Gnassingbe is looking to use the new constitution to hold on to power indefinitely.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has asked for forgiveness from the people of Mt. Kenya region for what he termed as misleading them before the 2022 General Election.
- Kenya’s candidate in the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson elections, Raila Odinga, has lost the race in the exercise that was conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Kenya’s candidate in the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson elections, Raila Odinga, has won the first two rounds of voting in the exercise that is currently ongoing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- About a thousand people gathered outside the US embassy in Pretoria on Saturday to show their support for President Donald Trump after he hit out at the "injust" treatment of white South Africans.
- Nakuru County was perceived as a hotspot following the 2007-2008 a post-election skirmishes. The political unrest was largely attributed to tribal diversity in the area.
- UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC provincial capital.
- The African Union (AU) as currently structured is the result of a transformation journey that saw the Organization of African Unity (OAU) evolve into the African Union (AU) in 2002.
- Masked Hamas militants handed over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza's southern city of Khan Yunis on Saturday, as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner swap under a truce with Israel, an AFP journalist reported.
- A middle-aged man has been charged with impersonating a Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) forensics expert and offering tape-lifting services to motorists at Kiambu Road's Ridgeways Centre.
- A section of Thika Superhighway will be closed from 11:00 p.m. on Saturday to 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, to allow for the construction of a footbridge.
- Four suspected drug traffickers were arrested in Wajir County on Friday, with police recovering a 10-kilogram consignment of marijuana in the vehicle they were travelling in.
- The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city on his territory.
- Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma have fled for their lives as violence engulfs the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO said Friday.
- M23 fighters and Rwandan troops seized the airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.
- As tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his influence over more than a dozen U.S. federal agencies, frustration is growing among some top aides to President Donald Trump, who want more coordination from Musk's team as he slashes the U.S. government, according to four people aware of the tensions.
- Pope Francis was admitted to the hospital on Friday for tests and treatment for bronchitis, the latest in a series of health problems for the 88-year-old pontiff.
