Moroccan authorities on Wednesday announced measures to counter a new influx of migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta, after monitoring a new wave of online disinformation.

A military victory over jihadist insurgents in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province does not appear imminent, according to a report by a United Nations special rapporteur released Friday.

INFOGRAPHIC/EYEWITNESS MEDIA GROUP By PATRICK MAYOYO President William Ruto’s decision to initiate a national conversation aimed at shaping Kenya’s long-term development blueprint beyond Vision 2030 deserves recognition as a historic opportunity for the country to confront the deeper questions that have shaped its political journey since independence. Beyond the promises of economic transformation, this moment offers Kenyans a rare platform to examine the foundations of governance itself; how power is acquired, how it is exercised, who benefits from it and whether the political system truly reflects the diversity of the nation. At the heart of this conversation are two fundamental questions that Kenya has struggled to resolve: the winner-takes-it-all nature of presidential politics and the persistent reality that the highest office in the land has largely remained within the political orbit of two communities, the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin. These are not merely questions about indi...

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 ...

Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby on Friday pardoned the jailed ex-prime minister and leader of Chad’s main opposition party Succès Masra, along with eight other party leaders. Masra had been serving a 20-year sentence, convicted of hate speech, xenophobia and inciting a massacre, in what Human Rights Watch called a politically motivated trial.

Zambia's electoral commission on Friday suspended vote counting from Thursday's presidential and parliamentary elections for at least 24 hours due to “violence targeted at poll staff” and reported instances of theft of marked ballot papers. Former minister Brian Mundubile, the main challenger to President Hakainde Hichilema, claimed a first-round victory and said his camp viewed "the continued delay ... with grave concern".

As South Africa’s cities become denser and more interconnected, safety must be treated as core infrastructure. Phillip de Vos of Waterfall City explains why proactive security, technology and public-private cooperation should be built into urban development from the outset.

South Africa’s proposed crypto rules could allow authorised providers to use crypto behind the scenes to settle selected regional remittances.

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck off Indonesia’s Flores Island, killing people, collapsing buildings and briefly triggering a tsunami warning before officials lifted it after waves of less than one metre were recorded along the coast.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called for direct talks with North Korea to replace the Korean War armistice with a formal peace regime, presenting the proposal as the beginning of coexistence rather than a concession to Pyongyang.