- In a bid to re-affirm Nairobi's long-standing diplomatic and economic ties with Beijing, the week-long deliberations with his host President Xi Jinping will focus on Debt payment and financing for major infrastructure projects, which include the extension of the Standard Guage Railway from Naivasha…
- In Kagina village, Kibutha area of Kangema constituency in Murang’a County, a family is counting losses after a late-night landslide destroyed their home, reducing their belongings to rubble. They survived by a whisker.
- Chaplain Volodymyr was in the middle of his Easter prayer near the front in Ukraine's Donetsk region when another explosion blasted out, piercing the air despite a 30-hour truce announced by Russia for the holiday.
- Newly sworn-in Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruku, has called on Kenyans to rally behind President William Ruto and his deputy, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, in a bid to foster development and national progress.
- The government has addressed recent media reports painting a worrying picture of the state of gambling in the country, which placed the amount Kenyans spent on betting in Kenya last year at a staggering Ksh.766 billion.
- A fisherman was killed on Sunday during a fight among Lake Victoria fishermen near Misori beach in Gembe, Homa-Bay County, over the ownership of fishing grounds.
- Pope Francis called for freedom of thought and tolerance in his Easter Sunday address, as the weakened pontiff made a hoped-for holiday appearance, even circling St Peter's Square in his popemobile.
- Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Sunday for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire announced by President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of carrying out hundreds of attacks.
- President William Ruto has called on Senators and Members of Parliament (MPs) to grant him the permission to control the disbursement of the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF).
- Police in Embu West have launched investigations into a carjacking incident involving a man who was attacked after pulling over to relieve himself in Embu Town.
- The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it has suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila, days after his properties were raided by security services.
- NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
- An Eldoret resident has petitioned Kenya Highways Authority (KENHA) to urgently consider restricting long-distance truck trailers from passing through Eldoret town and instead mandate their use of the Eldoret Southern Bypass.
- A 3-year-old boy was found dead in Wich-Lum area, Siaya County on Saturday evening. The toddler is suspected to have been murdered by his father following a domestic squabble.
- At least 11 people, including three children, were killed in New Delhi Saturday after a residential building collapsed on the outskirts of the Indian capital, local reports and authorities said.
- The US Supreme Court, in a dramatic nighttime intervention Saturday, blocked President Donald Trump's unprecedented use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.
- Pope Francis is expected to delight Catholics all over the world during Easter celebrations at the Vatican on Sunday, just weeks after he was fighting for his life in hospital while suffering from pneumonia.
- Global tax plans targeting billionaires and multinational companies are running aground, with the United States torpedoing reforms under President Donald Trump.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced a surprise Easter truce in Ukraine, set to last until midnight on Sunday in what would be the most significant pause in the fighting throughout the three-year conflict.
- A gunman fired at a church in Sri Lanka, police said Saturday, with the country on high alert six years since Easter Sunday bombings killed hundreds.
- Iran and the United States agreed on Saturday to hold another round of talks next week over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Iranian state TV reported, as they ended their second round of negotiations in Rome over their decades-long standoff.
- Criminals dressed in fake military uniforms opened fire on spectators at a cockfight in rural Ecuador, killing 12 unarmed people and wounding several others, police in the violence-plagued South American nation said Friday.
- Topmax College in Embakasi, Nairobi, is under scrutiny after an investigation revealed that it is offering unapproved courses by the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), some in critical fields like mortuary science, theatre technology, and ICT.
- More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP on Saturday.
- At least 17 people were killed when suspected cattle herders attacked communities in central Nigeria's Benue State on Thursday, police said, amid a resurgence of deadly clashes between farmers and herders.
- A Tunisian court on Saturday handed jail terms of 13 to 66 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiring, a case the opposition says is fabricated and a symbol of President Kais Saied's authoritarian rule.
- The Director of Criminal Investigations, Mohammed Amin, has slammed former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for what he calls theatrics in the media with serious security concerns.
- Two people were swept away by raging floods in Isiolo as residents continue to count losses after property worth thousands of shillings was destroyed.
- Donald Trump's simmering discontent with the US Federal Reserve boiled over this week, with the president threatening to take the unprecedented step of ousting the head of the fiercely independent central bank.
- Leaders in the Kenya Kwanza government have rallied the Maasai community in Kajiado to reject former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s opposition politics, accusing him of peddling untruths.
- U.S. strikes on Yemen's Ras Isa fuel terminal on the Red Sea coast have killed at least 74 people in the deadliest attack since the U.S. started its bombing campaign against the Houthis last year, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.
- Machakos Governor Wavinya Ndeti on Friday called on the Christian community to reflect on the meaning of Easter and to pray for the country during this sacred period.
- At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday.
- Police in Kisumu East have launched a manhunt for a man who viciously attacked his 24-year-old ex-girlfriend for allegedly leaving him for another man.
- Residents of Siaya Township in Siaya Sub-county were left in shock after the lifeless body of a 40-year-old man was discovered inside his house in Mahinga Village, Nyandiwa Sub-location, on Friday evening
- Rwanda has agreed to allow troops deployed by the Southern Africa bloc to fight rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to evacuate from the rebel-held city of Goma through its territory to Tanzania, three diplomatic sources said on Friday.
- Gold, which traders have been flying to New York since December as a precaution against the possibility of broad U.S. tariffs hitting bullion imports, is being shipped back to Switzerland, where it came from, official data shows.
- US President Donald Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a truce, but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated negotiations between his administration and Russia on the three-year war.
- Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney faced sustained attacks from his Conservative rival at an election debate Thursday, but the Liberal leader sought to focus attention on what he calls Canada's top threat, President Donald Trump.
- Iran staged military parades on Friday to mark its annual Army Day celebrations, showcasing a wide array of its latest domestically built drones, missiles, tanks, and other hardware.
- A woman is in custody after being found in possession of nearly 300 grams of cocaine, following a sting by a multi-agency security team targeting drug trafficking routes between Kenya’s Northern Frontier and the capital.
- ODM leader Raila Odinga has finally spoken out amid reports of a rift within the political outfit owing to the MoU signed with President Ruto’s UDA that gave birth to the broad-based government.
