- Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday's dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say, amid growing fears of a possible coup by former allies.
- US magazine the Atlantic on Wednesday published the full exchange of leaked messages between officials laying out plans for an attack on Yemen, as the White House fought fiercely to defend itself over the slip-up.
- US President Donald Trump ramped up his claims to Greenland on Wednesday, saying ahead of a visit by Vice President JD Vance that the United States needed to take control of the Danish island for "international security."
- The military wing of South Sudan's opposition said Wednesday that two training bases on the outskirts of the capital Juba were attacked by forces allied to the president, stoking fears of renewed conflict.
- When Aden Duale walks into Afya House as the new Cabinet Secretary for Health, he will find an in-tray piled high, but one file, heavy and urgent, will stand out: Taifa Care.
- Chaos erupted on Tuesday as desperate job seekers stormed Trustpin Travel Agency along Moi Avenue, Nairobi, accusing it of swindling them out of millions under the false promise of securing jobs in Mauritius.
- Redeployment of senior officials who have been fired has been a trend associated with Kenya Kwanza government changes made by President Ruto, evoking accusations that the president would rather recycle than sack those he may even describe as 'incompetent'.
- Over 400,000 university students left in uncertainty following the suspension of the new funding model, have been handed a fresh lifeline after the Court of Appeal lifted the freeze on its implementation.
- Police officers in Nyamira are rushing against time to arrest Stephen Mogaka, a 50-year-old man who went viral flogging Mellen Mogaka, a lady who was molested for failing to perform a burial rite in Nyamira County.
- ODM party leader Raila Odinga and his PLP counterpart Martha Karua have differed over the nature of the current broad-based government arrangement with President William Ruto.
- LemFi is a London-based financial technology platform that is transforming how immigrants in the United Kingdom, North America, and Europe access financial services. LemFi is proud to announce the launch of its grants program, the LemFi Student Grant.
- Outgoing Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has thanked his boss, President William Ruto for reassigning him to the Health ministry in the latest Cabinet reshuffles.
- In the ever-shifting chessboard of President William Ruto’s administration, one name keeps getting picked up, dusted off, and placed on a different square - Aden Duale.
- Ruku, a staunch ally of President William Ruto, has been appointed Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programmes following the dismissal of Justin Muturi.
- A court in Kwale has ordered 33 gang members suspected of causing havoc for Diani residents to be detained for 14 days pending the determination of the case.
- A petition has been filed in court seeking to stop the planned interviews for the position of Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC).
- An 80-year-old woman was burnt beyond recognition after her house caught fire at Uyoma ‘B’ village in Komolo sub-location within Siaya County on Wednesday morning.
- President William Ruto has made changes to his Cabinet for effective service delivery to implement the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
- President William Ruto has nominated Mbeere Member of Parliament Geoffrey Kiringa Ruku as Cabinet Secretary for Public Service to replace Justin Muturi.
- Civil Servants will have to tighten their belts longer as the government has no intention of reviewing their salaries anytime soon despite the harsh economic times.
- The relationship between President William Ruto and Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi is turning acidic over their contrasting political stances, pushing their squabble to a tipping point.
- Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu’s bid for bail pending appeal has hit another hurdle after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) objected to his fresh application.
- A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
- Stephen Munyakho, the Kenyan man who faced execution in Saudi Arabia is set to return home after Nairobi and Riyadh reached an agreement and a $1 million (Ksh. 129 million) settlement paid, UDA party Secretary-General Hassan Omar has said.
- Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi has fired back at President William Ruto for labelling him 'fairly incompetent' during his tenure as the Attorney General.
- Police in Nyamira are investigating a case where a 22-year-old Chuka University student died after non-stop caning by his uncles in Nyankono village, North Mugirango Constituency.
- A witness in the manslaughter case against Paul Mackenzie says the preacher paid bond for his father, a parishioner at the pastor’s Good News International Church, after being arrested and charged for taking his children off school.
- A 23-year-old Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officer was at pains in an Eldoret court as he testified against his own father accused of murdering his mother.
- Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye said he had seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda has a plan to attack his country, whose forces have battled Rwandan-backed rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
- A Kenyan police officer who is part of the international security force in Haiti has gone missing. The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission to Haiti said in a statement that the officer went missing following an ambush by gang members in Pont-Sonde.
- Spain's leftist government unveiled a draft bill Tuesday that would criminalise the use of artificial intelligence to generate sexually explicit video images of a person's face or body without their consent.
- Boko Haram fighters disguised as herders killed at least 20 Cameroonian troops in a Tuesday morning raid on the Nigerian border town of Wulgo, local security sources and residents told AFP.
- Armed men shot dead six members of a neighbourhood watch programme in a crime-ravaged informal settlement north of South Africa's capital Pretoria, police said Tuesday.
- Residents of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground Tuesday as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires.
- A Turkish court on Tuesday remanded in custody seven journalists for covering the mass protests that erupted following the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, in a crackdown that has now seen more than 1,400 people arrested.
- A postmortem examination has confirmed that Amos Langat, the man allegedly shot dead by police officer Mohamed Yusuf Keinan, attached to the office of State House spokesperson Hussein Mohamed, was shot seven times at close range.
- Machakos MCAs have raised concerns following the alleged disappearance of their colleague, Muthwani Ward Member of County Assembly, Dominic Maitha, under mysterious circumstances.
- President William Ruto has publicly criticized former Attorney General Justin Muturi, who is currently the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service calling him “fairly incompetent”.
- Jackson Kuria Kimani, alias Cop Shakur, a prison officer who hit headlines during the anti-finance protests for his criticism against the government, has been arrested.
- Kenya needs to strengthen its legal framework for public participation, moving beyond mere consultation to ensure meaningful and cost-effective citizen engagement, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said.
- Police in Lubinu, Mumias East, Kakamega County arrested three individuals on Tuesday after seizing 12,835 Kgs of fake fertilizer and 396 Kgs of counterfeit maize seedlings from a home in the area.
