Nearly three decades after Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas, the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis has begun. Prosecutors accuse the former gang leader of orchestrating the killing, one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.

Libyan authorities say unknown perpetrators were behind an attack on a major gasoline reservoir west of Tripoli. The reservoir at the country’s second-largest oil refinery in Zawiya caught fire and collapsed.

Senator Edwin Sifuna with Trans Nzioa Governor George Natembeya and Kakamega Senator Dr Bonny Khalwale during a rally in Kakamega. PHOTO/UGC. By PATRICK MAYOYO pmayoyo@eyewitness.africa I watched Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna’s interview with Citizen TV’s Yvonne Okwara, and the developments that followed, and they point to a potentially significant shift in Kenya’s political arena. The conclusion is striking: the conversation around the 2027 elections may already be changing, even before the campaigns are formally under way. Not because Sifuna has unveiled a revolutionary economic formula. Not because he has promised every Kenyan a road, a stadium, a job or a house. And not even because the former ODM Secretary-General has formally declared himself a presidential candidate. It is because he appears to be attempting something more fundamental: changing the question Kenyans will ask before they vote for a presidential candidate during the 2027 General Election. For decades, Kenyan ...

Senator Edwin Sifuna campaigning in Kakamega. PHOTO/UGC. By PATRICK MAYOYO pmayoyo@gmail.com Political history occasionally produces moments that fundamentally reshape expectations. Such moments are characterised not merely by the emergence of a new leader, but by a convergence of public mood, demographic change, political fatigue and an appetite for renewal. Few elections in modern democratic history have captured the public imagination quite like the United States presidential election of 2008. The victory of Barack Obama, then a first-term United States Senator from Illinois, transformed assumptions about political leadership, party establishments and electoral possibility. It demonstrated that even in one of the world’s oldest constitutional democracies, political history can change with remarkable speed when an unusual combination of leadership, organisation and public sentiment converges. More than a decade later, the phrase “Obama Moment” has entered the vocabulary of poli...

The World Health Organization says that sequencing shows the fast-moving Ebola outbreak in DR Congo started about three months before the emergency was officially declared in May. Also, it's crunch week for Zambia as voters gear up for presidential elections. Plus a Rwandan mine has become one of the US's main suppliers of tungsten, a metal critical to the defence industry.

Born barely five years ago in Yopougon – the poorest, but also the liveliest area of Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan – Biama has got the whole of Ivorian youth dancing. Faster than coupé-décalé, this newer musical and choreographic genre borrows many of its codes. But unlike its older sibling, which is associated with trendy nightclubs, biama is danced in the streets and on social media, making it easily accessible to its young, working-class audience.

A practical guide for African importers and distributors on using supplier questions to assess market fit, channel readiness, service capability and the potential for repeat orders.

Learn how to perform Social Media Network Analysis using practical tools such as NodeXL, Gephi, X Analytics, Meta Business Suite and Telegram API. This guide explains how businesses, researchers and marketers can analyse their own channels and competitor networks, identify influencers, measure engagement patterns and understand online communities.

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze The Volatile Fraction: Heat, Occlusion and What a Threshold Model Cannot See A margin of safety is only as honest as the assumptions beneath it. Volatile compounds carry that name because they leave the material holding them and enter the air, and they leave faster as temperature rises; vapor pressure roughly doubles […]

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze When a Judgment Becomes a Disciplinary Record Error is corrected on appeal. Misconduct answers somewhere else, to a different body, on a different standard. Judicial error and judicial misconduct belong to separate bodies of law, and confusing them costs a case its forum before anyone reaches its merits. A trial judge […]