A major wildfire near Omiš, around 25 kilometres south-east of Split, forced about 1,200 residents and tourists to evacuate overnight on Thursday and into Friday as strong winds drove the flames towards the coastal town.

Just hours after Zambia’s electoral commission suspended vote counting nationwide, opposition presidential candidate Brian Mundubile raised “grave concern,” calling for full transparency amid reports of violence.

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...

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.

Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market initial public offering at 150.8 yuan a share on Aug. 6, valuing the Chinese humanoid-robot maker at roughly $9 billion as it prepares for what market activity suggests could be one of the most frenzied listings in recent Chinese market history. Retail subscriptions that opened on Aug. 10 […]

Nigel Farage regained the Clacton parliamentary seat on Friday, taking 22,239 votes to 9,455 for satirical rival Count Binface — a margin of more than 12,000 that nonetheless failed to resolve the financial inquiry that prompted the snap contest. The result returns the Reform UK leader to the House of Commons but leaves the parliamentary […]