Author: Samuel Otieno
Louvre museum director resigns months after high-profile heist
Laurence des Cars submitted her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, who praised her decision at a time when the museum needed "calm and a strong...
Ghana drops coup leader's name from main airport
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka was among a group of officers who deposed Nkrumah in 1966. He himself was killed at the airport the following year during a fail...
India: Seven killed in air ambulance plane crash
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said the Beechcraft C90 airplane operated by Redbird Airways had "requested for deviation due to weather...
Kim Jong Un re-appointed leader of North Korea's ruling party
The announcement by the rubber-stamp party congress on Sunday comes as little surprise, given that the Kim family has ruled the dictatorship since the...
Mexican army kills leader of powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The drug lord was the Mexican government’s biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration in its efforts to crack down on the cartels, and his dea...
Coast General Hospital CEO suspended over governance concerns
In a statement issued on February 22, 2026, the county said the decision was reached following a special sitting of the hospital’s board to deliberate...
New York mayor Mamdani orders citywide travel ban ahead of major snowstorm
The ban will not affect essential workers or New Yorkers needing to travel due to emergencies, according to Mamdani.
Moroccan court sentences 19 fans to jail for AFCON hooliganism
After a hearing that lasted more than five hours, the presiding judge ruled that the fans -18 Senegalese and a French national --were guilty of more t...
Kanjama beats Wanyama to clinch LSK presidential seat
Kanjama secured the top seat after garnering 3,728 votes.
Ex-prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
The arrest comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former princ...
Ghana releases passport of Russian man accused of secretly filming women
At a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, February 18, Minister for Communications Samuel Nartey George released the suspect’s passport, identifyin...
Security agents foil Al-Shabaab terror plot targeting Nairobi
The unit added that the Somalia-based terror group had planned to attack during the month of Ramadan.
Man charged in Nairobi court for defrauding American of Sh28 million
Willis Onyango Wasonga was arrested after a report was filed at Capitol Hill Police Station by Gershonov Oleg on behalf of his American business partn...
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies
Jackson died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family, they say in a statement.
Sydney police plead for return of elderly man kidnapped by mistake
Chris Baghsarian, who lived alone, was taken from his house in the suburb of North Ryde by at least three attackers early on Friday morning, and bundl...
Accused Bondi beach killer appears in Sydney court for first hearing
Akram and his father, Sajid, allegedly attacked a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in December in the nation's worst mass shooting in nearly three decades.
At least 179,000 people in need of relief in Kwale - NDMA
According to the latest assessment, around 90 percent of the county has been hit, with all six sub-counties—Lunga-Lunga, Msambweni, Samburu, Matuga, K...
Eleven killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, rescuers say
The Palestinian Red Crescent said a strike on a tent encampment in northern Gaza killed at least six people, while another strike in the south of the...
Kenyans warned against illegal travel channels to Russia
The advisory follows numerous inquiries from citizens and their families about suspicious employment deals arranged by online recruiters and unlicense...
Hundreds of thousands join Iran protests around the world
Addressing an estimated 250,000 people in Munich, Reza Pahlavi - who has called for the overthrow of Iran's Islamic regime - denounced a crackdown on...
Pilot praised after crash-landing faulty Somali passenger plane on seashore
The crew of the aircraft, a Fokker 50, reported a problem shortly after take off from Mogadishu on Tuesday morning and requested that the plane return...
Indonesia preparing to deploy up to 8,000 soldiers to Gaza
The army chief of staff, General Maruli Simanjuntak, said training for the soldiers had already begun, and that they would focus on medical and engine...
Ahmed Farah takes over as EABC Executive Director
Farah is a distinguished expert in trade policy and a former TMEA Country Director.
Nyeri detectives arrest suspect after murder of 9-year-old girl
The lifeless body of Shantel Waruguru Kagema was retrieved from the latrine in Kianjathi village, following her mysterious disappearance on February 8...
Plane crashes near Mogadishu shoreline, all passengers safe
The Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) confirmed that the aircraft went down in a coastal area just outside the airport’s western perimeter.
French police arrest six over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping
Four men and one woman were detained, three overnight and two on Sunday morning, Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran told AFP. He later confirmed a minor had...
António Seguro wins Portugal's runoff presidential election
Polls by the country’s three main broadcasters suggested the moderate Seguro won a five-year term in Lisbon’s riverside “pink palace” with around 70%...
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison
The media tycoon and British citizen was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditio...
Flash floods sweep northern Morocco, killing at least four
The Moroccan authorities had, until this point, not reported any casualties, but said they had evacuated over 150,000 people since the flooding starte...
Three suspects in Russian general shooting named
They include the man said to have carried out the attack, who has been named as Russian citizen Lyubomir Korba.
KMTC student shot dead in Huruma chaos as residents demand justice
Sheryl Adhiambo was shot on the night of Saturday, February 7, 2026, at Jonsaga while helping her mother sell fish at a local shed.
Portugal: Seguro, Ventura face each other in runoff presidential election
Recent opinion polls say Seguro will collect twice as many votes as Ventura in the head-to-head between the two top candidates in last month’s first r...
