Ruto Arrives in Moscow for the Russia-Africa Forum
Kenyan media reported on 28 October 2026 that President William Ruto had
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Africa
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Eritrean forces push into Tigray; Ethiopia strikes convoys near Adigrat and accuses Asmara of…
09 Oct
Kenya's first Ebola death forces a public-health system onto a footing it hasn't used in years
08 Oct
Temi Nkem wins Big Brother Naija Season 11 with a quarter of the final vote
05 Oct
Nairobi reception pairs anniversary toasts with the opening move on CADEPA
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Africa08 Oct
Kenya records first Ebola case, 10 quarantined as cross-border screening comes under scrutiny
A Kenyan citizen who arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo on 3 October died in Nairobi two days later, after a journey that took him through…
Africa01 Oct
Ruto breaks ground at Lamu, vowing to keep 'brokers' out of Dangote's Sh2.2 trillion refinery
President William Ruto led the groundbreaking in Lamu on 30 September 2026 for a Dangote-anchored refinery reported at Sh2.2 trillion, using the…
Africa30 Sept
South Africa's weekend of violence lays bare a security model running out of room
Two mass shootings and a rising toll of women killed have exposed how gang turf and stretched police capacity intersect in a security crisis the…
Africa29 Sept
Sudan's foreign minister takes the UN podium Burhan was denied, and turns the absence into a statement
Khartoum sent Foreign Minister Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim to read Sudan's UNGA address on 29 September 2026 after Washington refused General Abdel…
Africa29 Sept
DR Congo's Ebola count crosses 8,000 as a radio host's killing exposes the limits of the response
Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have passed 8,000 with 3,901 deaths recorded, even as a local politician who urged…
Africa28 Sept
South Africa's weekend of horror: 27 killed in two mass shootings as a tenth woman's body deepens the…
Police say gunmen killed at least 27 people in two attacks hours apart in Johannesburg and Cape Town on 27 September 2026, as the discovery of an…
Africa27 Sept
Guo Haiyan puts four GDI figures on the table in Nairobi
China's ambassador in Nairobi cited 130-plus participants, US$23 billion, 2,000 projects and 200,000 trained professionals under the Global…
Africa26 Sept
China's ambassador to Kenya puts a number on the GDI: $23 billion, 2,000 projects, 130-plus partners
In four statements published via The Star Kenya on 24 September 2026, Ambassador Guo Haiyan scaled up Beijing's pitch to Nairobi: 130-plus…
Africa25 Sept
Three South African stories and the press that should be covering them
A mass shooting that left eleven dead, a senior police officer in court on rape charges, elephants dosing themselves with plants, and an African…
Africa24 Sept
'Ruto at the UN: Africa as investor, not aid recipient'
On the UNGA margins, Ruto recast Africa as a capital destination rather than
Africa24 Sept
Ruto at UNGA81: Africa should stop shipping raw inputs and start owning the AI stack
Across three interventions between 21 and 23 September 2026, President William Ruto told New York audiences that Africa must move from supplying raw…
Africa23 Sept
Ruto's New York week: AI foundations, minerals diplomacy, and the Kenya–Ghana axis
President William Ruto arrived in New York for the 81st UN General Assembly with an unusually dense agenda: AI foundations, a critical-minerals…
Africa21 Sept
Ruto in New York folds climate-delivery line into the AI week, as the African-capital pitch stretches across…
On 23 September 2026, Ruto added a climate-finance-delivery argument to the African-capital frame he has run all week in New York, naming investments…
Africa21 Sept
A single Telegram graphic puts Africa’s 2023 cancer count back on the desk
A Star Kenya Telegram post cites 1.54 million African cancer cases in 2023. The figure is the news; what surrounds it in the source is not.
Africa06 Sept
UN General Assembly backs Equal Earth map in African-led push, US votes no
The General Assembly backed a resolution urging wider use of the Equal Earth projection, with 164 in favour, six abstentions and the United States…
Africa03 Sept
Ruto’s September Shuffle Turns Traders, Addis Ababa and Lusaka Into One Pitch
In three days, William Ruto promised traders predictability at home, praised four years of gains with Ethiopia, and flew to Zambia for Hakainde…
Africa03 Sept
Yoco's rate cut, Sharpeville survivors' filing, August's PMI, and a probed flyover: four South African wires,…
Cape Town fintech Yoco cuts merchant card rates, Sharpeville survivors begin a fresh legal fight for restitution 66 years on, August's private-sector…
Africa03 Sept
Sánchez Walks Back Morocco Line, but Ceuta's Streets Are Not Convinced
Spain's prime minister says intelligence found no 'solid proof' Moroccan authorities orchestrated July's deadly Ceuta border rush. Tens of thousands…
Africa03 Sept
Kenya court ruling on equal child-rearing costs: what the wire actually says
A Daily Nation dispatch on 3 September 2026 reports a court ruling that separating parents must share child-rearing costs equally. Earlier reporting…
Africa03 Sept
Congo drops remote-learning plan as schools reopen inside the Ebola red zone
With the outbreak past 6,000 confirmed cases and a death toll nearing 3,000, eastern Congo has reopened classrooms and shelved the remote-learning…
Africa02 Sept
Xi lands in Cairo: a decade-delayed China visit tests Egypt's room for manoeuvre
Chinese President Xi Jinping met President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on 2 September 2026, his first Egyptian visit in a decade, with Beijing's…
Africa02 Sept
A Daily Nation headline asks Nairobi's pedestrian question; the long read behind it is not on the public…
The Daily Nation's 2 September headline on boda boda pedestrian safety is on the public record via Telegram at 08:08 UTC; the long read it points to…
Africa02 Sept
Uber exits Lagos after twelve years, and the drivers it built the market with pay the bill
Uber is shutting down Nigerian operations effective 2 September 2026, ending a 12-year run. The drivers who built the business say the company that…
Africa01 Sept
A single headline, a coast at stake: reading the Daily Nation's HIV-funding wire
A 1 September 2026 Daily Nation headline reads 'The HIV clinics that disappeared when American aid stopped.' The thread evidence contains only the…
In Brief
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- Eskom's profit surprise and the rating turn South Africa now has to defend01 Sept
- Washington widens the Iran squeeze, and Cairo's banks get caught in the gears31 Aug
- Google's Karachi entry lands on a Kenya debate already over who writes the rules31 Aug
- Two Kenyan police incidents in 48 hours: a raid in Kisumu, a manhunt in Uasin Gishu31 Aug
- KCB widow Rosemary Koech's husband withdraws burial petition, says 'I've left it to God'31 Aug
- Niger's junta says it has restored order after the Niamey airbase mutiny, but the officer…31 Aug
- Two Kenya stories, one morning: what Nation.africa's pairing actually says30 Aug
- Kenya's UDA and ODM Open Expert Talks as a Ruto Camp Succession Row Runs in Parallel30 Aug
- Springboks level the Rugby Championship series as Kolisi and Kolbe cut loose in Cape Town30 Aug
- Tanzania installs Ndejembi as Vice President after unanimous parliamentary vote29 Aug
- A Sh130,000 salary and no investments: one letter, a Saturday-magazine mood, and the…29 Aug
- Ruto's debt defence, a rejected apology, and a police-uniform tender with a Ruto-family…29 Aug
- Niamey's morning wire: a mutiny named, contained, and still officially uncategorised29 Aug
- Kenya's NACADA turns up the tempo in Nairobi's illicit alcohol and narcotics crackdown29 Aug
- Gunfire in Niamey: Soldiers Repelled at Niger's Presidential Palace29 Aug
- Coup attempt reported in Niamey as anti-junta forces seize barracks, Africa Corps stays…29 Aug
- Gunfire in Niamey as soldiers from Tillaberi, Tera and Dosso attempt to overthrow Tiani's…29 Aug
- Niger's military council says it contained a mutiny at Air Base 101 as Jeune Afrique…29 Aug
- Nchimbi out, successor in: how CCM read the 48 hours that redrew Dodoma's top table29 Aug
- Ruto marks the second Katiba Day by tying three delivery moments to the Constitution28 Aug
- Tanzania's vice president is gone. The four-day replacement tells us what Samia wants.28 Aug
- Africa’s borderless market still depends on rules that stop at the border27 Aug
- Tanzania expels VP Nchimbi from CCM, names his successor25 Aug
- Beijing tells its citizens to leave Eswatini, leaving Taipei with one African holdout…26 Aug
- Dolly Parton dies at 80, family confirms; African wires carry the news within26 Aug
- When the lawyer settles without the client: two advice columns, one question of authority26 Aug
- Kenya's TVET pivot: a real answer to a labour market the state is no longer staffing26 Aug
- A 39-arrest raid in Pretoria, a $6.24m MTN buyback in Lagos: two West African stories…25 Aug
- India and Japan signal joint Africa push for critical minerals as monsoon failure exposes…25 Aug
- Four suspects in custody over shooting of former world champion Zolani Tete25 Aug
- Kenya's county salary crunch meets a global cost-of-living squeeze25 Aug
- Kenya's Two Crises Converge: Political Violence Fears Meet an Airline on Its Knees25 Aug
- Doha deal revives Congo peace track as Ebola toll and unpaid medics expose state's…24 Aug
- Tea, batteries and bots: three supply chains that make Africa's China question concrete23 Aug
- Ruto's reconciliation story and the Mt Kenya arithmetic for 202723 Aug
- Congo's Ebola fight meets a mobile gold-rush workforce23 Aug