Raymond Omollo, a big boss at the Interior Ministry, wants Kenyans to ignore the people spreading wrong information about a new health program called Taifa Care. He says it's meant to ensure everyone can get the care they need, no matter how much cash they have.
Omollo told people they could still sign up for Taifa Care. He hopes all Kenyans will join so the whole country can have better healthcare. President Ruto really wants this to happen.
A new group, the Social Health Authority, will work hard to ensure that every Kenyan gets good-quality care. They also want to improve hospitals and ensure that patients always have the right medications.
Omollo says this is a good thing for Kenya. He wants people to ignore the haters who are...
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti is part of the Houthi political group in Yemen. He told the BBC that the Houthis are going to keep attacking Israel. They want to support the Palestinians in Gaza. The Houthis believe Israel is committing genocide there.
Israel has been bombing Yemen because of this. On Thursday, they hit the main airport in Yemen's capital city, Sanaa. They also attacked ports and power stations near the Red Sea. At least four people died.
Israel's leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, says this is just the beginning. He warned that Israel will do more in response to the Houthis' attacks.
The Houthis have been launching missiles and drones at Israel for over a year now. They started doing this when the latest war between Israel and Hamas...
Jack Wamboka, an MP from Bumula, wants the government to reconsider the new way it is funding education. He said this not long after a court said the university model wasn't fair and treated some students differently.
Wamboka thinks the new model costs too much. He says it's better for students from rich families than for those from poor ones. Poor parents just can't afford to help their kids through school with this new system because it's way too expensive, he explained.
Wamboka seems to agree with Justice Chacha Mwita's comments last Friday. The judge decided that the new university funding model didn't match what students were expecting. He also said the public wasn't involved enough when the government made this big change to...
Nigeria says it didn't help France cause trouble in Niger. Niger's military leader, Brig Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, accused France of working with militant groups to mess with Niger's security. He said Nigeria knew about it, too. But Nigeria's National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, told BBC Hausa that's not true at all. He said Nigeria would never try to harm Niger.
Nigeria's Information Minister, Mohammed Idris, also said the claims were false. He thinks Gen Tchiani is just trying to distract people from his own mistakes as a leader. Idris said Nigeria has never teamed up with France or anyone else to destabilize Niger. He denied that Nigeria sabotaged Niger's pipeline and agriculture too.
These accusations have made things tense...
The nurses in Uasin Gishu county stopped working on December 16 because Governor Jonathan Bii would not talk to their union about a new pay deal. Their union leader, Seth Panyako, told the county and health ministry about the strike.
The nurses have many problems they want fixed. They want better pay and faster promotions. Klein Kimutai, who leads the local nurse group, says the county won't give special nurse jobs to nurses who trained for them. The county also hasn't given them new pay rates for 2024. They haven't made some nurses permanent workers either.
The nurses say the county broke promises about their jobs and didn't follow rules about how nurses should move up in their work. The county also takes too long to pay some bills...
Leaders in Kenya are upset about how some people use social media. They want the police to use laws that stop computer crimes.
Kimani Ichung'wah leads the majority in their National Assembly. He worries that young people misuse digital platforms too much. He wants the police to catch anyone who breaks these rules. He thinks putting them in court will teach others not to do the same things.
Some people on social media use AI to make fake pictures of leaders in coffins. Ichung'wah talked about this problem when he visited the family of Moses Wetang'ula after Wetang'ula's mother died. He asked young people to show more respect to leaders and their families and reminded everyone that leaders have parents, kids, and other family members...
A senior member of Zanu PF named Jenfan Muswere talked about how the party makes decisions. He said when everyone at their big meeting in October agreed to something, it became a real rule.
The party met in Bulawayo for their yearly conference. They wanted President Mnangagwa to stay in charge for two more years, until 2030. They need to change some laws to make this happen.
Muswere made it clear that only Zanu PF meetings count when making party choices. He didn't care about what other people said outside the party.
Someone named Gilbert Zowa asked about a party slogan called "ED2030." He wondered about it because President Mnangagwa had said he didn't want to stay past 2028. But Muswere explained that the party really wanted him to...
A terrible thing happened on Monday. A Green Horse bus tried to cross a river that had too much water in it. This was in Gwanda, and the rushing water carried the bus away.
One person died in the accident. The police are still looking for a tiny baby who was only three months old. The bus had been going from Bulawayo to Gwanda with 75 people on board when it got into trouble at 3 PM.
Police officer Loveness Mangena told everyone what happened. She said the bus driver tried to cross the Mletshane River when it was full of flood water. The front wheel missed the bridge. Then the water pushed the whole bus away. The crash killed Sthembinto Dube, who was 33 years old and lived in Mawaza Village. The missing baby girl might have drowned...
Here's what's happening with the CCC party in Zimbabwe:
The High Court plans to look at a big argument next Monday. It's about Welshman Ncube, who leads the CCC party right now, fighting against Sengezo Tshabangu. Tshabangu kicked some party members out of their Parliament jobs.
Ncube went to court in Bulawayo last week. He wants to stop Tshabangu from firing Lynette Karenyi-Kore and Edwin Mushoriwa from their important jobs in Parliament. He thinks Tshabangu shouldn't make these changes.
The court papers name three people who need to answer: Tshabangu, Parliament Speaker Jacob Mudenda, and Nonhlanhla Mlotshwa. Ncube says Tshabangu can't make these big changes without the party agreeing first. He points out that Mushoriwa got his job...
