“Goodbye Raila”, a new documentary from BBC World Service’s award-winning investigative unit, BBC Africa Eye, uncovers new evidence about the events which led to a series of fatal shootings at Nairobi’s Kasarani Stadium during a national farewell to former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Declaring 2026 the “year of artificial intelligence,” Kazakhstan’s president is in the midst of an ambitious drive to transform the Central Asian nation into a “digital state,” with AI at the centre of the effort.
The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Anthony Kwasi Sarpong, has disclosed that a preliminary investigation report into the recent drug shipment case involving containers that left Ghana has been submitted to President John Dramani Mahama.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates// – The World Economic Forum (WEF), in collaboration with the Government of the United Arab Emirates, will convene the inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders in Dubai from 13 to 15 October 2026.
The world’s most important borrowing rate is racing towards 6%, a level unseen since 2000, and the shockwaves could impact stocks, credit and household budgets, warns the CEO of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations.
Paola Vesco, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); Amber Deniz, Uppsala University; David Randahl, Swedish Defence University; Johan Brosché, Uppsala University, and Magnus Öberg, Uppsala University Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely difficult. In 2025, for instance, […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria// — Eight-year-old Ali Ibrahim sat up in his bed at the Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU) in Njimtilo, Borno State, eating and looking forward to going home. Days earlier, repeated diarrhoea and vomiting left him severely dehydrated and unable to stand.
Høvik, Norway// – Energy-importing countries are scaling clean energy three times faster than exporters, as governments seek to reduce reliance on imported oil and gas by expanding domestically produced power, according to the tenth edition of DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook.
Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted last week that he has prepared for a once-unthinkable scenario – a US invasion.
Members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front walk along a main road in Mekele, the regional capital of Tigray, on Sept. 23, 2026. AFP via Getty Images Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Indiana University Four years after a fragile ceasefire ended widespread conflict in Ethiopia, the region is again slipping back into full-out war.
