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Global wars threaten women and girls like never before, UN report shows
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 21, 2025

Kenya emerges as a beacon of women-led peacebuilding, showing how local and regional efforts can shape lasting solutions amid rising global conflicts.

Kagame warns Africa to brace for AI-driven cyberattacks, urges united defence strategy
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 21, 2025

Kagame told top commanders from 19 African nations that modern warfare is shifting online, with artificial intelligence, disinformation, and cyberatta...

Somalia’s livestock exports set to top Sh129 billion as war and bans hit rivals
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 20, 2025

Experts warn, however, that to sustain this momentum, Somalia must enhance regulation, invest in infrastructure, and build climate resilience to suppo...

DRC conflict: ADF rebels kill 19 civilians in North Kivu village attack
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 14, 2025

Reports indicate that the rebels posed as members of the Congolese army to avoid detection, before using guns, knives and clubs to target residents.

300,000 flee South Sudan as Kiir–Machar conflict escalates, UN warns of civil war return
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 13, 2025

The resurgence of fighting has triggered mass displacement and deepened what the UN calls one of the world’s longest-running humanitarian crises.

Kenya loses Sh194.8 billion annually to illicit financial flows, Transparency International warns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 13, 2025

The report notes that these losses, driven by corruption, trade misinvoicing and tax evasion, are eroding government revenue, limiting social services...

Why are the ICJ and ICC cases on Israel and Gaza taking so long?
The Conversation  |  Oct 10, 2025

So, it’s clear the ICC and the ICJ already have legal proceedings well underway relating to crimes in Gaza. These international courts are ready to he...

Kenya welcomes Israel–Hamas ceasefire, calls for lasting peace based on two-state solution
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 09, 2025

Nairobi praised the truce's key provisions, including the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, and...

WHO says rebuilding Gaza’s shattered health system critical to a lasting peace
UN News  |  Oct 09, 2025

Reconstruction will cost over $7 billion, according to WHO estimates, covering humanitarian response, early recovery and long-term rebuilding.

Over 80 per cent of health facilities in Eastern DRC left without humanitarian support, ICRC warns
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 09, 2025

A September 2025 assessment by the ICRC found that 85 per cent of facilities lack essential medicines and nearly 40 per cent have lost health-care sta...

Over 60,000 children killed or maimed in Israel-Palestine conflict: UNICEF
XINHUA  |  Oct 08, 2025

UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said that, on average, one child has been killed or injured every 17 minutes, describing the figure as "unacceptable...

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, TPLF of forging new alliance to destabilise country
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 07, 2025

Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos alleged that the Eritrean government and hardline elements of the TPLF were "funding, mobilising, and directing arm...

Ganze residents in Kilifi live in fear as elephant attacks escalate
Farhiya Hussein  |  Oct 06, 2025

Many villagers now describe their once-thriving agricultural land as graveyards of maize and cassava.

Cairo peace talks offer new hope for Gaza as Hamas signals readiness for truce
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 05, 2025

The talks, mediated by Egypt and supported by the United States, follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that a hostage release d...

Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human
The Conversation  |  Oct 03, 2025

In her pioneering studies in the lush rainforest of Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Game Reserve, now a national park, Goodall noted that the most successful...

Heavy battlefield losses in Ukraine push Russia to seek foreign recruits
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 03, 2025

Independent media reports also indicate that at least 100 citizens of Central Asian states have been killed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukr...

95 people died from hunger, disease in Western Sudan's refugee camp during past 40 days: Volunteers
XINHUA  |  Sep 29, 2025

Last Thursday, the Sudan Doctors Network, a non-governmental organisation, reported 23 deaths from malnutrition among children and women in El Fasher...

South Sudan is unstable: How a weak state benefits the ruling elite
The Conversation  |  Sep 29, 2025

Instability has allowed the elite to undermine the justice system and actively suppress efforts at reconciliation.

UAE Foreign Minister calls for immediate end to Gaza war during meeting with Netanyahu
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 27, 2025

The meeting marked Netanyahu’s first discussion with a senior Arab official since Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar.

Harrowing tales of SGBV in North Darfur as Sudan's conflict rages
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 27, 2025

According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), many victims and survivors reported brutal assaults by multiple armed perpetrators while attempting to fl...

Russian behind recruitment of Kenyans to fight in Ukraine arrested
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 26, 2025

Detectives say Mike Lyapin, an employee of the Russian embassy in Nairobi, who first came to Kenya on March 6, 2017, was arrested in Nairobi as he pla...

South Sudan: Is Riek Machar's trial threatening stability?
DW News  |  Sep 26, 2025

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar is on trial for charges that include murder and treason, sparking fears of renewed civil war and political st...

DCI busts human trafficking syndicate recruiting Kenyans for Russia-Ukraine war front
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 25, 2025

An intelligence-led operation at Great Wall apartments in Athi River on Wednesday night found 21 Kenyans in a house waiting to be processed to travel...

IGAD and Geneva Call join forces to protect civilians, promote peace in Horn of Africa
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 25, 2025

The two organisations vowed to continue engaging with governments, civil society and local communities to ensure humanitarian action translates into l...

Rwanda and DRC renew commitment to peace pact
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 25, 2025

DRC and Rwanda reaffirmed their commitment to the CONOPS’ desired end state, which includes eradicating the FDLR threat in the DRC, lifting Rwanda’s d...

Kenya faces rising human-wildlife conflicts with 255 dead amid habitat loss, poaching
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 23, 2025

The government now says it requires over Sh1.2 billion to compensate victims, warning that poaching, closure of wildlife corridors, and human encroach...

South Sudan crisis: Suspended VP Riek Machar charged with treason and terrorism
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 22, 2025

Machar faces multiple charges, including treason, crimes against humanity, murder, terrorism, and conspiracy, all linked to an alleged attack on a gov...

Kenyans unite against Gaza genocide, call for Israel boycott at Uhuru Park protest
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Sep 21, 2025

The event brought together Islamic scholars, political leaders, imams from across the country, civil society leaders, and members of the public, all e...

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