A Kenyan court has found religious sect leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and 28 associates guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola mass starvation case. The verdict, delivered in Mombasa on Monday, October 19, 2026, marks a major development in proceedings arising from the discovery of mass graves in a remote forest […]

President Bola Tinubu has ruled out restoring Nigeria’s fuel subsidy, warning that reversing the policy would place an unsustainable burden on government finances and could bankrupt the country. Speaking at a City Boy Movement event in Abuja on Monday, October 19, 2026, Tinubu defended his administration’s decision to end the subsidy and challenged political opponents […]

The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) has rejected reports that the country’s electricity grid suffered a nationwide collapse on Monday, October 19, 2026, attributing the disruption to a partial system disturbance. According to the operator, the incident began at approximately 12:40 p.m. following trappings on the 330-kilovolt transmission network. Power generation subsequently fell from about […]

Mauritius, Seychelles and Botswana have ranked as Africa’s leading economies in the inaugural Global Capitalism Index, which assesses how freely capital can be deployed in open markets. Developed by researchers at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Karsh Institute of Democracy, the index covers 161 countries and territories, drawing on institutional and […]

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, arrived in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Saturday, October 17, 2026, for an urgent operational visit following an insurgent attack that reportedly killed 15 soldiers and five civilian militia members. President Bola Tinubu ordered the visit as the military reviews its counterinsurgency operations amid increased activity by […]

Survivors of an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 72 people at a gold-mining camp near the disputed Sudan-Egypt border have described an aircraft repeatedly circling the site before attacking a gathering of workers. The October 10, 2026, bombardment struck Jabal al-Uqaydat, a remote mountainous mining area claimed by both countries. Rights organizations, including the […]

Tiriane Balbine Nadège Noah has been elected national president of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC), becoming the first woman to lead the opposition party since its formation. Noah secured 1,246 of the 1,286 ballots cast at an extraordinary elective convention held at the party’s headquarters in Odza, Yaoundé, on Saturday, October 17, 2026. Her 96.88 […]

Former Senegalese President Macky Sall has withdrawn his candidacy to become the next United Nations Secretary-General, saying his decision would help efforts to reach agreement on a successor to António Guterres. Sall announced his withdrawal on Saturday, October 17, 2026, a day after an informal Security Council poll exposed divisions over the seven contenders. Each […]