Health officials say misinformation and delayed treatment continue to fuel the outbreak.

HYROX is gaining momentum across Asia, drawing everyone from elite athletes to first-time competitors into a fast-growing fitness phenomenon. In Bangkok, packed training sessions are preparing participants for a race combining running and functional workouts.

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.

Bowmans has joined the South African AI Association’s Advisory Board, strengthening the focus on responsible AI, governance and regulation as South Africa develops its national AI policy.

Kaspersky research highlights a growing threat to travellers as cybercriminals exploit trusted airline, transport and booking brands. For Africa’s increasingly digital tourism sector, stronger cybersecurity and greater customer awareness are becoming essential to protecting payments, personal data and trust.

North Korean-made ballistic missiles killed six people and wounded at least 19 others in a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day before Pyongyang test-fired its own missile off Korea’s east coast for the second time in a week. The near-simultaneous events reflect how North […]

A federal judge in Washington ruled last month that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting breached a decades-old delivery agreement between the U.S. Postal Service and the NAACP, issuing a nationwide block that predates a second nationwide order a Massachusetts judge added Tuesday. Together, the rulings show the administration’s push to tighten mail-ballot […]