- Violent storms battering the central-eastern United States have killed at least 16 people, officials said, with the National Weather Service warning on Saturday of "severe" flash flooding in the coming days.
- The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan's failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens, at a time when many in Africa fear that country could return to civil war.
- Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.
- Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. on Saturday, part of some 1,200 demonstrations that were expected to form the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk.
- A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he saw Israeli troops firing at emergency vehicles that he later saw stained with blood.
- President William Ruto concluded his five-day working tour of the Mt. Kenya region, in what appears to be a change of strategy aimed at silencing his critics
- Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday, as the country grapples with an unprecedented migrant crisis.
- Four people have been imprisoned for 25 years after being found guilty of beating a 19-year-old Kenya Certicicate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate to death for allegedly stealing a mobile phone.
- On the final day of the tour, Saturday, the President led an extensive inspection of key projects in Nyeri Town and Othaya in Nyeri County, as well as Githunguri and Lari constituencies in Kiambu County.
- A Russian attack killed at least 19 people including nine children in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said, but Russia's Defence Ministry said it targeted a military gathering there.
- British police said they charged actor-comedian Russell Brand on Friday with rape and multiple counts of assault in cases relating to four separate women between 1999 and 2005.
- Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since the administration launched its rapid-fire effort to put a conservative stamp on government.
- Kenya has renewed a contract to purchase fuel on credit from three state-owned Gulf companies by two years and renegotiated lower margins, Bloomberg News quoted the country's energy regulator as saying.
- On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the latest round of trade tariffs on all imports into America, which ultimately caught up with Kenya.
- A 50% reciprocal trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on U.S. President Donald Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said on Thursday.
- Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country's massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration's dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response.
- The Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has called for the government to regulate social media use countrywide to tackle the growing misuse of digital platforms.
- U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump's unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week.
- Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested four suspects linked to a notorious motor vehicle theft syndicate operating in Nairobi and its environs.
- Jubilee Party Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni has warned against what he says are plans to institute cases against former Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i, saying attempts to delay his political ambitions are bound to fail.
- During his Saturday tour of Nyeri County in Othaya, President Ruto told Nyeri residents that he is ready to go home in 2027 if he fails to meet their expectations.
- The last group of 78 Kenyans who were rescued from Myanmar scam compounds has arrived today after a successful repatriation through the Kenyan Embassy in Thailand.
- Thirteen people are nursing injuries at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital after a bus they were traveling in was involved in a road accident on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.
- A sombre mood engulfed Ifo1 and Ifo 2 Food Distribution Points in Dadaab, Garissa County, after a stampede broke out among refugees queuing for food, resulting in the loss of one life.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica, as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis.
- Githunguri Member of Parliament Gathoni Wamuchomba has been summoned to Kiambu Police Station over alleged incitement of crowds during President William Ruto’s Mt Kenya tour on Friday.
- The government has announced a 50 per cent duty waiver for the importation of 5.5 million bags of yellow maize over one year to cushion Kenyans from soaring unga prices.
- Chief Justice Martha Koome has called for increased budgetary allocation to the judiciary, citing resource constraints as a major barrier to the effective delivery of justice.
- For the second day, the home of the late Dutch businessman Tob Cohen in Kitisuru was transformed into a high court as two witnesses took the stand to testify.
- A family in Mau Narok, Nakuru County is crying foul over the mysterious death of their kin who was arrested by plain-clothed police officers, detained, and later reported dead.
- A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist enclave, the only town in South Africa where all residents, including menial workers, are white.
- The United States will know in a matter of weeks if Russia is serious about peace with Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, after European allies accused Moscow of stalling over the Trump administration's call for a ceasefire.
- Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have withdrawn from the strategic town of Walikale, describing the move as a goodwill gesture ahead of planned peace talks with the government next week.
- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted on Friday by the Constitutional Court, ushering in an election after it upheld parliament's impeachment over his imposition of martial law that sparked the nation's worst political crisis in decades.
- China's ByteDance faces a Saturday deadline to sell the U.S. assets of TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, which was imposed by President Donald Trump in January, or face a ban that was supposed to take effect in January under a 2024 law.
- Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura has defended Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja after he came under heavy criticism and scrutiny for addressing a rally led by President William Ruto in Nyeri County on Tuesday.
- The curtain fell today on the 2nd Mashariki Cooperation Conference (MCC) in Naivasha, with a strong call from Kenya’s top intelligence and foreign affairs officials for African unity against modern threats born of technological disruption, digital misinformation, and transnational crime
- A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta opens new tab can be sued in the East African country over its alleged role in promoting content that led to ethnic violence in neighbouring Ethiopia, a plaintiff in the case said.
- President William Ruto has praised his deputy, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, for being hardworking and steadfast in the pursuit of national development and unity of the nation.
- Israel announced the launch of a new ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday, with rescuers saying military operations had killed at least 30 people across the Palestinian territory since dawn.
- Detectives in Bomet Central have arrested a 28-year-old man suspected to be behind the vicious murder of a 45-year-old woman last week, over a romantic relationship.
- Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula has filed an application challenging the contempt of court proceedings against him regarding the majority party in Parliament.
- Fresh protests erupted in Roysambu on Friday today, as residents blocked key roads, including Lumumba Drive, and lit bonfires, demanding urgent intervention from the Nairobi County Government over worsening road conditions.
- A clearing agent has been fined Ksh.3 million or faces a two-year imprisonment for attempting to solicit a bribe worth Ksh.2.9 million from church officials.
