- South Korea is investigating the crash of a Jeju Air (089590.KS), opens new tab Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab 737-800 jet on December 29 at Muan International Airport that killed 179 people, in the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil.
- Israel declared a "tactical pause" in fighting in parts of Gaza on Sunday and said it would allow the UN and aid agencies to open secure land routes to tackle a deepening hunger crisis.
- David Nabarro, the World Health Organisation's special envoy for COVID-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has died at the age of 75, the WHO said on Saturday.
- Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack that killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipro and the nearby region on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said.
- Hundreds of Tunisian activists protested in the capital on Friday against President Kais Saied, denouncing his rule as an "authoritarian regime" that has turned the country into an “open-air prison”.
- Syrian and Israeli officials agreed to meet again after no final accord was reached in U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on de-escalating the conflict in southern Syria, state-run Ekhbariya TV reported on Saturday, citing a diplomatic source.
- Tanzania will hold general elections on October 29, the country's electoral body said Saturday, even though the main opposition has been disqualified and its leader jailed
- A family in Kisii is in deep agony after their 24-year-old daughter, who had travelled to Lebanon in search of greener pastures, died under unclear circumstances a month ago.
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has criticised the Independent Policing Oversight Authority over what he terms a premature conclusion on the conduct of the National Police Service during recent demonstrations.
- The government has made key changes to the leadership of over 17 university councils in a bid to streamline institutional governance across the country.
- The Democratic Congress Party (DCP) has issued a stern warning to the government, threatening to lead nationwide student demonstrations if school capitation funds are not released within a week.
- Speaking on Saturday at an empowerment in Ong'er grounds in Nyatike Constituency in Migori County, Kindiki once again lauded the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for agreeing to work in a broad-based government with leaders of Kenya Kwanza coalition led by President William Ruto.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has dismissed the growing political noise and opposition criticism as empty rhetoric, adding that the government remains solid on delivering long-term national transformation.
- Prof. Kindiki said the Kenya Kwanza Administration will not roll back gains made in the sector, noting the increased funding allocated to the sector and recruitment of a record number of teachers since President Ruto came to power in 2022.
- Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has assured Kenyans that the government has no plans to cut funding for free primary and secondary education, promising enhanced financing for the critical sector.
- Residents of Basuba village, located within the Boni Forest in Lamu County, were on Friday night forced to stay awake and alert after more than 60 Al-Shabaab militants stormed the area, opening fire indiscriminately.
- In a bold step to tackle urban climate challenges and youth unemployment, the Kenyan government has inducted 25,000 young people into its Climate Worx programme.
- Six Members of the Bungoma County Assembly are on the spot after the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) launched an investigation into allegations of graft through multi-million tenders.
- Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has stood his ground over recent controversial remarks suggesting that the government can no longer fully fund free primary and secondary education, insisting that Kenya’s budgetary limitations make it impossible to achieve full capitation for every learner.
- Kenya and China have reaffirmed their growing military cooperation as senior officials from both nations marked the 98th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China in Nairobi.
- The opening of a luxury camp in the Masai Mara, on the Kenya-Tanzania border, has been contested by the Maasai Education, Research, and Conservation Institute; a non-profit registered in Kenya and the U.S.
- A 20-year-old American murder suspect who had been on the run for over a year has been arrested in Kenya and deported to the United States, where he is set to face multiple felony charges, including robbery and murder.
- China's homegrown robotics company Unitree Robotics on Friday launched a new bipedal humanoid robot at a starting price of Ksh.719,000 ($5,566), a deep discount to the 2024 price of a previous model as manufacturing costs declined.
- KMPDC has ordered the immediate closure of Chiromo Hospital Group’s Braeside branch in Nairobi after a shocking death incident at the facility. autopsy report revealed that a patient, Susan Njoki, was strangled to death at the facility.
- KMPDC has ordered the immediate closure of Chiromo Hospital Group’s Braeside branch in Nairobi after a shocking death incident at the facility. autopsy report revealed that a patient, Susan Njoki, was strangled to death at the facility.
- Morocco said on Thursday it will spend Ksh.542.6 billion ($4.2 billion) over the next five years to overhaul its main airports, ahead of the World Cup it will cohost with Portugal and Spain.
- Democratic Republic of Congo's ex-leader Joseph Kabila went on trial in absentia Friday on charges including treason over alleged support for Rwanda-backed militants, an AFP reporter at the court said.
- Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children, United Nations and humanitarian agencies say.
- President Donald Trump said Friday that Hamas did not want a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after Israel and the United States quit indirect negotiations with the Palestinian militant group.
- The insecurity plaguing West Africa is no longer France's concern, its state minister for ties with Francophone countries and international partnerships said on Friday, a week after Paris handed over control of its last major military base in the region.
- Germany is not planning to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term and said its priority now is to make "long-overdue progress" towards a two-state solution, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.
- More than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading for greater international aid to help returnees rebuild shattered lives.
- American forces killed an Islamic State group leader in a raid in Syria's Aleppo province on Friday, the US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
- France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas.
- Russia's central bank on Friday lowered interest rates to 18 percent from 20 percent earlier, its steepest cut in more than three years as policymakers race to avert a recession.
- India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Ksh.73 billion to the Maldives on Friday to bolster its defence forces and infrastructure in the small, yet strategically located, neighbour.
- Armed attackers ambushed a vehicle returning from a weekly market in the Bokkos area of central Nigeria, killing 14 passengers, including women and infants, a local community leader said on Friday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to follow through on his threat to place 100% tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil because it would worsen politically-damaging inflation pressures and his similar threat against buyers of Venezuelan oil has had limited success, especially in China.
- Security forces fired indiscriminately during clashes involving supporters of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina this month, killing at least five people, human rights activists said Friday.
- Two months after the East African Community was gripped by news of the arrest, detention and alleged sexual assault of Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and his Ugandan counterpart Agather Atuhaire while in Tanzania, another Kenyan activist, Mwabili Mwagodi, is yet to be traced three days after he…
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has extended an olive branch to bandits terrorising the Northern region, urging them to surrender their firearms in exchange for scholarships and affordable housing jobs.
- Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok has clarified that free primary and secondary education will not be scrapped, addressing widespread concerns sparked by recent remarks from Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi.
- Social media activist and businessman Morara Kebaso has declared his readiness to refund all the monies donated to him by Kenyans at the height of his popularity.
- ODM chief Raila Odinga has moved in to put his house back in order and quell seemingly rising tensions within the party after Secretary General Edwin Sifuna’s controversial admissions during a recent Citizen TV interview.
- Prof. Kindiki said the cooperation between President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is aimed at building the nation without any forms of discrimination.
