Investigators say forensic analysis of CCTV footage points to a deliberate act of arson. As families mourn, Kenya is once again forced to confront uncomfortable questions about school safety, student welfare and a troubling history of dormitory fires.
Most young Africans do not dream of working in agriculture. But at the 2026 World Seed Congress in Lisbon this May, the world's largest annual gathering of seed leaders, scientists and innovators, farming looked less like a struggle with the soil and more like a frontier of technology. In a wide-ranging conversation with African Seed Trade Association Secretary General Yacouba Diallo,it emerged that Africa's future in agriculture may depend less on land and rainfall than on its willingness to embrace innovation.
A government that said yes without asking its people, a phrase that captured a continent's anger, and a court that had to step in to say what the presidency would not.
Six international bodies have confirmed genocide. The weapons are still flowing. The gold is still selling. Here's who is responsible, and what must be done
Kenya is pressing ahead with a nuclear power plant on the shores of Africa's largest freshwater lake, on ground its own scientists said was too dangerous, without consulting the millions who depend on the lake, and without a single published plan for managing the radioactive waste it will produce for thousands of years.
Reports of attacks against African migrants have alarmed Ghana, Nigeria, and human rights officials, raising new questions about immigration, safety, Afrophobia, and African unity.
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