Jérémy Doku has signed a new five-year contract with Manchester City, keeping the Belgium winger at the Etihad until 2031. The 24-year-old has become a key part of the squad since joining from Rennes in 2023.

The Netherlands is investigating an explosion at the port of Rotterdam that killed one person and injured several others on Thursday, 13 August. The blast happened at about 11:30 a.m. at an oil facility in the Europoort industrial section of Europe’s largest port.

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...

Mali President Assimi Goïta on Thursday pardoned a French ​national who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Last year, Mali's military-led government accused Yann ​Vézilier, an official from the French embassy, of being involved in a plot ​to destabilise the West ‌African country. 

Zambians vote Thursday in a general election widely expected to give President Hakainde Hichilema a second term, as his economic record faces a test from voters frustrated by the cost of living and opposition parties seek to capitalise on discontent despite deep divisions.

African tech startups are increasingly looking to Singapore as a strategic base for international investment, corporate structuring and expansion beyond African markets.

Angola's rural schools need more than electricity connections. Reliable power, solar-plus-battery systems, local technical skills and better financing could transform rural electrification.

When Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni conceded defeat in a March referendum on her signature judicial overhaul, admitting only “regret for a missed opportunity to modernize Italy,” she had lost in large part to a bloc of voters her government has struggled for three years to win over. Italians under 35 turned out at nearly 67%, […]

Iran on Wednesday rejected a report from Turkey’s Anadolu news agency, sourced to the Pakistani government, claiming Tehran had agreed to extend a 60-day window for reaching a permanent settlement with the United States. A senior Iranian source told Reuters the entire premise was mistaken: Iran considers the countdown never restarted in the first place, […]