Tanzania launches construction of a 22-storey NSSF building in Upperhill, Nairobi

29 May 2025 - Harvard University has agreed to settle a deeply emotional dispute over who has the rights to images of enslaved Africans taken in 1850 by a professor who sought to support a racist theory.

29 May 2025 - Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

29 May 2025 - President William Ruto will on Thursday begin his tour in Homa Bay County to launch and inspect various development projects ahead of Madaraka Day.

29 May 2025 - During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that helped put literature in African languages firmly on the map.

29 May 2025 - Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities voiced fresh calls for reparations from Berlin.

29 May 2025 - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) faces growing threats of terrorism, climate change, military coups, and poverty, its most senior official said on Wednesday as leaders marked 50 years since the bloc's formation in Nigeria.

29 May 2025 - The police had given Malala 72 hours to surrender himself.

29 May 2025 - President Ruto has eulogised the celebrated author and scholar Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o describing him as a "towering giant of Kenyan letters"

29 May 2025 - The European Union lifted economic sanctions on Syria on Wednesday in an effort to support the country's transition and recovery after the toppling of former president Bashar al-Assad.

29 May 2025 - The identities of those on board remain unclear but several passports found at the scene suggest they were from Mali.