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A viral video of a phone grab led to a quick arrest in another city. Police in Johannesburg tracked down and apprehended a suspect in the Hillbrow area, wanted for snatching a woman's cellphone at the Kream Restaurant in Brooklyn, Pretoria. The arrest was made by a tactical police unit following...

South Africa's power grid just got a massive injection of new electricity and a key nuclear renewal. Authorities registered one hundred eighty-one new power generation facilities in a single quarter, adding a combined one thousand four hundred one megawatts of capacity to the struggling national...

A woman vanished from her house on Christmas morning, and her whole township is searching. Police in the Thabong area of Welkom are scrambling for leads after Ntebaleng Eunice Monyobi, a thirty-eight-year-old local, disappeared from her home. She was last seen there around seven thirty in the...

The opposition just roasted the president's hollow Christmas message. Hagi Suwaneh, the National Youth President for the main opposition United Democratic Party, slammed President Adama Barrow's recent address for ignoring a massive youth crisis. Suwaneh argued the speech showed a total lack of...

A Muslim sect just wrapped up a huge three-day gathering in Senegal. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community held its yearly national meeting, called Jalsa Salana, in the town of Diamniadio, not far from Dakar. More than three thousand people showed up, coming from over three hundred villages across all...

The health ministry just rolled out a new program aimed at finding missing TB cases. The Gambia's Ministry of Health launched the Programme Quality Efficiency initiative for Active Tuberculosis Case Finding at the National Leprosy office in Kanifing, with Director of Health Services Dr. Momodou...

A major cultural festival just launched with a big push from government officials. Vice President Mohammed BS Jallow opened the Banjul Cultural Festival at Arch 22, a weeklong event celebrating Gambian heritage from December 25 to January 1. The ceremony attracted a large crowd, including...

A plane just slid off the taxiway at the country's main airport. An aircraft arriving from Elwak airstrip in Mandera veered off Taxiway Echo at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, prompting an emergency response. The Kenya Airports Authority confirmed all fifty passengers and crew were safely...

People are protesting because the government still hasn't paid their promised relocation money. Residents of Nairobi's New Mukuru Housing Estate demonstrated outside the Affordable Housing Project offices, demanding the immediate release of a thirty-thousand-shilling per household facilitation...

Police just recovered over two hundred stolen cows from bandits near the Meru-Isiolo border. The National Police Service confirmed a multi-agency operation, involving the Anti-Stock Theft Unit, successfully tracked and intercepted two hundred four head of cattle stolen in a recent raid. Security...

A former president just fired back at critics, telling them to stay retired. Former President Uhuru Kenyatta, speaking at the funeral of businessman and former MP Cyrus Jirongo, warned political actors against blame-shifting and divisive rhetoric. He addressed recent accusations from ODM party...

The defense ministry is hiring dozens of civilian gardeners and cleaners. Kenya's Ministry of Defence announced forty-five permanent and pensionable civilian staff vacancies within the Kenya Defence Forces, with a January 20, 2026, application deadline. The largest bloc is thirty Garden...

Rain is finally letting up after a soggy start to the week. The Kenya Meteorological Department forecasts continuing rainfall early this week over several regions, including the Highlands east and west of the Rift Valley, the Rift Valley itself, the Lake Victoria Basin, and parts of northwestern...

A farmer had to fight a python that killed his dog, highlighting a bigger wildlife problem. Charles Otieno, a farmer in Luoka Village within Siaya County's Sigomere ward, encountered a large python on his property that attacked and killed one of his dogs. Otieno described hearing his poultry in...

Saudi Arabia just bombed its own ally's port over a mysterious weapons shipment. The Saudi-led coalition conducted an airstrike on the Yemeni port of Mukalla, targeting what it claimed were weapons and military vehicles destined for UAE-backed separatist forces, known as the Southern...

A top official just apologized to a former president on behalf of his party's "foolish" members. Orange Democratic Movement Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna publicly apologized to former President Uhuru Kenyatta for insults from certain ODM leaders, acknowledging Kenyatta's loyal support for the...

Social media just went dark after Guinea's junta chief took a huge election lead. The government restricted access to major platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook through providers Orange and MTN while awaiting final results from the presidential vote. Junta leader General Mamady...

This resort is redefining fancy by letting you feed hippos by name. Lake Naivasha Resort, part of the Superior Hotels Kenya group overseen by General Manager Galgalo Galgalo, is pushing a vision of luxury that blends high-end amenities with deeply personal, nature-rooted experiences just outside...

A politician just told his own party's critics to quit and start their own thing. Gem MP Elisha Odhiambo defended the Orange Democratic Movement's decision to stay inside President William Ruto's government, directly challenging internal opponents like Governor James Orengo, Senator Godfrey...

Kenyan artists are taking over global playlists right now. The scene has exploded this year with musicians like Idd Aziz, who hit number one on a major global Spotify chart with his track Time, a collaboration with German artist Dhali. His unique mix of Afro house and Swahili rhythms is now...