Senior Libyan National Army officials gathered in Benghazi on Tuesday for the funeral of military intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri, killed in a car bombing a day earlier as he left a mosque. His assassination has raised fresh security concerns in Libya’s divided east.

Search and rescue operations were underway on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday after a ferry capsized in bad weather. At least 15 people were confirmed dead, authorities say, and 77 people were rescued.

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 Libyan National Army, which controls the east and parts of southern Libya, said Tuesday that a car bomb killed its military intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri in Benghazi. The assassination raises fresh questions over security in the stronghold of military commander Khalifa Haftar as efforts continue to reunify the divided country.

In tonight's programme: Nigerian returnees are trying to forget the trauma they experienced during months of xenophobic protests in South Africa that have frayed diplomatic ties between the two African powerhouses. Also, Chad says teaming up with General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army has made the country's shared border safer. Finally, Liberia has got a new drug enforcement tsar as the country levels up its crackdown on drugs, weeks after two record-breaking cocaine busts.

The invisible mental, emotional and logistical workload carried by many women can constrain career advancement and entrepreneurship. Lungi Sangqu argues that technology can reduce administrative friction and return valuable time and attention—but only if digital tools complement, rather than replace, a fairer distribution of care at home, in workplaces and across funding systems.

Saruni Basecamp has earned B Corp Certification in Kenya, highlighting its commitment to sustainable tourism, wildlife conservation and community empowerment across East Africa.

Houthi rebels killed six people aboard a cargo ship in the Bab al-Mandab Strait on Tuesday, the first reported fatalities from an attack on Red Sea shipping in more than a year, as vessel traffic through the nearby Strait of Hormuz fell to its lowest point in a week and Iran again conditioned reopening the […]

By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze The Sect That Became a State From Hunted Minority to Imperial Instrument in a Single Lifetime In 313 two Roman emperors met at Milan and agreed to stop killing Christians. The document that recorded the agreement, preserved in the writings of Lactantius and Eusebius, granted toleration to Christianity and every other […]