- Myanmar will hold a minute of silence on Tuesday in tribute to victims of a catastrophic earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people, buckling roads and flattening buildings as far away as Bangkok.
- During a roundtable interview with vernacular stations from the region on Monday, the President expressed confidence in his long-standing relationship with Mt. Kenya residents, despite recent political turmoil caused by the removal of his former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua.
- The advisory encourages citizens to stay informed by following local news and official alerts for updates on aftershocks and emergency response efforts.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has asked President William Ruto to launch his new projects in the Mount Kenya region and stop what he calls riding on his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta’s old projects.
- The head of the junta in Burkina Faso has pardoned 21 soldiers convicted of involvement in a failed coup in 2015, according to an official decree seen by AFP on Monday.
- Police were out in force and businesses and offices closed in key Zimbabwe cities after authorities warned against demonstrations called for Monday to demand that President Emmerson Mnangagwa leave power.
- President William Ruto’s women's rights advisor, Harriette Chiggai, has condemned the brutal murder of 17-year-old Gaala Aden Abdi in Wajir County for refusing to be married off to a 55-year-old man.
- President William Ruto’s women's rights advisor, Harriette Chiggai, has condemned the brutal murder of 17-year-old Gaala Aden Abdi in Wajir County for refusing to be married off to a 55-year-old man.
- A family in Koruruma village in Teso North, Busia County, is appealing to the government and well-wishers to help them bring home the remains of their daughter who died three months ago in Saudi Arabia.
- Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe says over 180,000 bags of fertiliser are being absorbed daily at National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) stores and last-mile outlets countrywide.
- U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
- A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his descendants after spending three decades in a London gallery, the British government said on Saturday.
- Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ruled out any reconciliation with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a video statement on Saturday in which he vowed to crush the group.
- At the Gilgil Sub-County Mortuary, grief-stricken relatives of the late David and Paul Mwangi grapple with the shock and pain of their sudden and tragic deaths. The brothers were heading to Naivasha when the fatal accident occurred.
- He was among officers ambushed by a gang while on a rescue mission in Haiti. In response, a prayer service seeking divine intervention was held on Sunday afternoon at their home in Thamanda, Kikuyu.
- The president’s weeklong tour will cover nine counties: Laikipia, Nyeri, Meru, Kirinyaga, Nyandarua, Murang’a, Embu, Tharaka-Nithi, and Kiambu. During his visit, he is expected to inspect, commission, and launch various development projects.
- The 7.7-magnitude quake, one of Myanmar's strongest in a century, jolted the war-torn Southeast Asian nation on Friday, leaving around 1,700 people dead, 3,400 injured and over 300 missing as of Sunday, the military government said.
- NBC's Kristen Welker said Trump had called her to express his anger over Putin questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's future as a leader -- something that Trump himself has done.
- Trump's language represented a sharpening of his comment a few days earlier that if Tehran refused to negotiate a new nuclear agreement, "bad, bad things are going to happen to Iran."
- "The number of recovered bodies has risen to 14 so far, including eight EMTs (emergency medical technicians) from the Palestine Red Crescent teams, five civil defence personnel and an employee from the United Nations agency," the group said in a statement, referring to those killed when Israeli…
- A 25-year-old man linked to the death of a Grade 8 pupil at Magoto primary school in Suna West, Migori County who was raped and murdered on last week has been lynched by mob.
- Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, urged Catholics Sunday to mark Lent as a "time of healing" as he missed his seventh consecutive Angelus prayer.
- The head of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces admitted in a speech to fighters on Sunday that the group had withdrawn from the capital Khartoum which rival army forces have retaken.
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has warned Kenyan youth against misusing social media amid the ongoing debate on last week’s comments by Chief of Defence Forces General Charles Kahariri on the ‘Ruto must go’ campaign.
- A bitter boardroom row at an African charity Prince Harry founded and then quit escalated Sunday after its chairperson accused the prince of "bullying" and being involved in a "cover up".
- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, dealing a blow to the continent's bid to build a new space economy.
- A section of politicians from the Democratic Action Party of Kenya (DAP-K) have asked the military and the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to keep out of politics.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has commended the efforts being undertaken by Kenya in midwifing the regional peace processes in neighbouring countries.
- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has appointed a committee to review pending bills owed to hospitals by the now defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), which the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) replaced last October.
- South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up rebellion, the government said on Friday, the first confirmation of a detention that world powers fear could reignite civil war.
- Myanmar's neighbours sent warships and aircraft laden with relief materials and rescue personnel on Sunday, as international aid gained steam after a massive earthquake ravaged much of the poor Southeast Asian nation.
- Iraq has agreed to supply Lebanon with fuel for six more months, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement on Saturday, renewing a deal meant to alleviate Lebanon's acute power shortage.
- Nigerian police said on Saturday they had come under intense gunfire a day earlier in a neighbourhood of the capital, Abuja, during clashes between security forces and Shi'ite Muslim protesters that led to several reported deaths.
- Under a cloudless blue sky, huge crowds gathered in Maltepe on the Asian side of Turkey's biggest city on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr celebration which starts Sunday, marking the end of Ramadan.
- The Sudanese army said on Saturday it had taken control of a major market in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, which had previously been used by their Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rivals to launch attacks during a devastating two-year-old war.
- When Friday's powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in Mandalay.
- Guinea's junta leader has pardoned former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara for "health reasons" after a court last year found him guilty of crimes against humanity in a 2009 stadium massacre, according to a decree read on state television late on Friday.
- A mass Russian drone attack killed four people, injured 19 and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said.
- Eleven people were killed in drone strikes in northern Pakistan on Saturday, launched by the army against the Taliban, who had killed seven soldiers a day earlier, police told AFP.
- The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,600 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for survivors.
- Learning at Kiamwasi Technical Training Institute in Kitutu Chache South, Kisii County, has been paralyzed for four days after a contractor shut down the school over unpaid bills.
- Kenya’s special envoy to South Sudan, Raila Odinga, returned to the country on Saturday after a high-stakes meeting with South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, following the arrest of Vice President Riek Machar.