•People salvage damaged vehicles from receding flood waters in downtown Nairobi, yesterday At least 23 people have been killed in flash flooding in Nairobi, police said yesterday, as search and rescue operations continued amid widespread devastation. Torrential rains lashed the Kenyan capital late Friday, turning major streets into rivers an...
•Boat mishap Twelve Nigerians have been rescued after a Nigerian tugboat, LEO, carrying 18 persons sank in South African waters late Saturday night, with one person confirmed dead and search and rescue operations still ongoing for five others who remain missing following the maritime incident. In a press statement signed by Special Assistant o...
Kenya began administering the first dose of a groundbreaking HIV prevention drug in a Nairobi slum today. Lenacapavir, taken twice a year, has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 99.9 percent, though it is technically a chemical drug rather than a vaccine because it does not train the immune […]
•Kenyan police Kenyan police have arrested a key figure in a network that sent more than 1,000 Kenyans to Russia, where many were forcibly conscripted into the army and sent to Ukraine. Festus Omwamba, 33, was caught Moyale, a border town with Ethiopia, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on X late yesterday. He […]
•ECOWAS Parliament seminar in Abuja The ECOWAS Commission has disclosed the doggedness of West African women dominating the informal trade sector, accounting for 74 percent in operations, even as youths form a critical part in the subregion. The Director at the ECOWAS Commission Trade Directorate, Christopher Mensah-Yawson, revealed at the ECO...
•Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno Chad’s government said today it was closing the border with Sudan until further notice, following several clashes between Chadian soldiers and armed groups involved in the civil war across the frontier. “This decision follows repeated incursions and violations committed by the forces involved in the conflict...
•Russian soldiers The Gambia expressed “grave concern” on Friday about citizens fighting in conflicts abroad, as several African countries say their nationals were lured into fighting for the Russian army. Multiple media investigations, including one published earlier this month by AFP, have exposed how Russia has enticed men from African coun...
•A car with the Bolt logo E-hailing platform Bolt has disclosed that Isaac Satlat, the Nigerian student murdered by suspected carjackers in Pretoria, South Africa, was not registered as a driver on its platform and was operating illegally at the time of the incident. Satlat, 22, was reportedly killed on February 11, 2026, after picking [&helli...
Four South African men lured into fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine returned home today, local media said. Their arrival comes days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the return of South Africans caught up in the Ukraine war, reports AFP. It was not immediately clear [...
•ECOWAS Court of Justice The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Ricardo Gonçalves, has called on civil society organisations to take a leading role in ensuring the enforcement of the court’s judgments, warning that justice without enforcement remains incomplete. Justice Gonçalves made the call today, in Abuja, while addressing c...
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