Kenya
Kenya candidates make final bid for votes as campaigning closes
Deputy President William Ruto and Raila Odinga, a veteran opposition leader now backed by the ruling party, are fighting for the chance to lead the East African...
Memories of violence during previous elections loom large, and the country is grappling with a cost-of-living crisis, widening inequality and a crippling drought.
Diplomats and foreign observers say a peaceful transfer of power remains uncertain, and that Kenya's coveted reputation as a reliable and stable partner faces a keen test as voters head to polling booths.
The case highlights the endemic corruption in Kenya, where the anti-graft body last month raised "integrity" concerns about more than 200 candidates standing for various offices in the August 9 polls.
One of Kenya's two leading presidential candidates, Raila Odinga, will not take part in an upcoming electoral debate, his campaign team said Sunday, accusing his principal rival of trying to avoid certain topics such as corruption.
Weeks of violence have grown into a diplomatic standoff between the DRC and its neighbour Rwanda, who it blames for the recent resurgence of the M23 rebel militia.
Only four candidates "met the requisite constitutional and statutory requirements" from a shortlist of 17, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said in a statement late Monday.
Four people were killed and five others injured when Kenyan police opened fire on a crowd protesting against an increase in attacks by wildlife, a senior official said Friday.
Wearing T-shirts and flip flops and earning as little as 500 Kenyan shillings ($4) a day, the unlikely warriors are at the frontlines of a battle against a rapidly-growing environmental menace.
Kibaki, who died aged 90, served as the country's third president from December 2002 to April 2013, taking over from the authoritarian rule of Daniel arap Moi.
President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered a period of national mourning until sunset on the day Kibaki is to be buried, with all flags to be flown at half-mast.
A seven-judge bench at the Supreme Court will weigh the legality of the wide-ranging proposals following their rejection last year by the High Court and Court of Appeal, which said President Kenyatta could even be sued in a civil court for launching the process.
The riders were rounded up early this month after a viral video showed men grabbing at the young woman's clothing and groping her as she screamed for help from inside the car, whose door had been forced open.
Representatives from more than 100 nations are expected to agree on a broad template for a world-first treaty on plastic waste over three days of in-person and virtual deliberations.
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia were selected as the first recipients of technology from the WHO's global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure Africa can make its own jabs to fight the Covid and other diseases.
Three consecutive rainy seasons have failed as the region has recorded its driest conditions since 1981, the UN's World Food Programme said.
More than 100,000 children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have received the new vaccine against the disease, which kills 260,000 children under five every year in sub-Saharan Africa.
The attackers opened fire on the 14-seater vehicle after it ran over the explosive about eight kilometres (five miles) from Mandera town on the Kenya-Somali frontier.
Heavily armed police officers were patrolling the streets of Nairobi and security was boosted outside key government offices, five-star hotels, private buildings and shopping malls.