Former Beninese president and current Senate President Patrice Talon has intensified efforts to reunify the Celestial Church of Christ, a religious movement divided by competing leadership claims for more than four decades. Talon’s intervention reflects concerns extending beyond internal church administration. The process touches on public order, religious governance, national heritage and Benin’s position as […]

Kenya’s long-running effort to reform the National Police Service has returned to the national spotlight following the publication of a taskforce report that former Chief Justice David Maraga says the government failed to release and fully implement. Maraga, who chaired the National Taskforce on Police Reforms, published the complete report after issuing President William Ruto’s […]

The body of King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the late Omukama of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom, has been returned home following his death in the United States at the age of 34. King Oyo died on August 27, 2026, while receiving cancer treatment in the United States. His remains arrived in Uganda on Friday, […]

Kenyan authorities have activated nationwide contingency measures as forecasters warn that a strengthening El Niño could bring above-normal rainfall during the October–December 2026 short-rains season. The government is preparing for flooding, landslides, displacement, disease outbreaks and extensive damage to roads and other essential infrastructure. National and county agencies are working with humanitarian organizations, security services […]