President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Mogadishu’s Police Commissioner Moallim Mahdi have officially registered as voters ahead of General Election slated for May 2026. [Courtesy] Three member states of ...

Around 59 people remain trapped under the ruins of a collapsed school on Indonesia's main island of Java, a rescue service official said Thursday. [AFP] Around 59 people remain trapped under the ruins ...

Josey Kamanda, innovation calling scientist at IWMI, Strategic programme director IWMI, madam Inga Jacobs Mata and Muluken Elias, Deputy Country Representative for Ethiopia. [Juliet Omelo, Standard] A ...

Thousands of protesters marched again in several cities across Madagascar on Thursday while the movement in the capital Antananarivo took a "strategic" break after a week of demonstrations. The Indian ...

A family is seeking the release of their kin, allegedly arrested by police officers at an entertainment joint on September 22, 2025.

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera on Thursday officially submitted his candidacy for elections later this year that he is tipped to win. His file was handed over at the ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each on Thursday, the latest in a series of swaps that have continued despite the lack of progress towards ending the conflict.

Vihiga Senator and ODM Deputy Party leader Gofdrey Osotsi at Bunge Towers, Nairobi on March 10, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] Vihiga Senator and ODM Deputy Party leader Gofdrey Osotsi has told ODM ...

The Anti-Corruption High Court has handed former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko a major reprieve after finding that the Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) could not prove that his Sh500 million were ...

The long-running probe is one of several into Sanchez's family and former close allies that have embarrassed him and heaped pressure on his minority coalition government.

Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and two human rights groups have accused Ugandan authorities of abducting two Kenyan activists in Kampala, calling the incident a grave escalation of cross-border repression ...

Unlike Earth and other planets in our solar system which orbit the Sun, rogue planets float freely through the universe untethered to a star.