- France deployed troops to New Caledonia's ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency on Thursday after three nights of clashes that have left five dead and hundreds wounded.
- Kenya has received 450,000 doses of self-injectable contraceptives in a bid to simplify and enhance the accessibility of family planning among sexually active women.
- Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has broken her silence on the controversial finance bill saying that she will still vote for it despite having some misgivings about some clauses in it.
- National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah has discredited Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s proposal of a ‘one-man-one-shilling’ county revenue-sharing formula.
- Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has told off National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula for blaming Members of Parliament who are criticizing the national budget proposals in public.
- National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has chastised Members of Parliament for politicizing the national budget making process, reminding them of their integral role in its formulation and passage.
- Kennedy Ondiek, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party co-ordinator for South Nyanza, has dismissed criticism against President William Ruto over his plan to raise the country’s average tax rate from the current 14 per cent to 22 per cent by the end of his term in office.
- The Office of the Director General for Health in a letter to public county health officers and copied to the Kenya Bureau of Standard says the Sherehe GSM maize flour is unfit for human consumption.
- A 22-year-old man on Thursday morning escaped death by a whisker after his house burnt in a suspected arson incident at Abom village in Bondo, Siaya County.
- Nigeria's headline consumer inflation accelerated to a new 28-year high in April, hitting 33.69% year-on-year, up from 33.20% in March, statistics agency data showed on Wednesday.
- Singapore on Wednesday swore in Lawrence Wong as its new prime minister Wednesday, replacing Lee Hsien Loong following two decades in office, with the new leader warning that the trade-dependent city-state faced a riskier, more conflict-ridden world.
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries on Wednesday when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination that stunned his small Central European nation and drew a chorus of international condemnation.
- U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman has seemingly expressed reservations about President William Ruto's plan to increase Kenya's tax rate from 14 percent to 22 percent by the end of his term.
- The Limuru III meeting, pegged as a socio-economic and political gathering for Mt. Kenya region, has drawn interest from across the political divide, just two days before the meeting.
- France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Wednesday after three young indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.
- The National Assembly’s Committee on National Administration and Internal Security is now advocating for new passport applications to be processed within a three-day timeframe.
- Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed Wednesday to hold presidential debates in June and September after the Democratic incumbent challenged his rival to "make my day" and the scandal-plagued Republican replied he was ready to "rumble."
- Cases of harassment and debt shaming by digital lenders have plummeted by 75% since 2022, Data Protection Commissioner, Immaculate Kassait has revealed.
- Roads and Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen has said that the government will require about Ksh.30 billion to repair all roads damaged by floods nationwide.
- The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs emphasized the imperative to operationalize newly approved foreign missions, essential for expanding Kenya’s diplomatic footprint and fostering closer ties with international partners.
- A planned Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) address in Mathare descended into chaos on Wednesday when local residents stormed into the venue brandishing placards denouncing area MP, Anthony Oluoch.
- Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu says the Ksh.588 million graft charges levelled against him were politically instigated after he fell out with the ruling class.
- According to the family, Stephen Njuguna, 17, went to a local shop in Nyahururu town to buy clothes, but the attendants suspected he was planning to steal and frog-marched him to a room where he was tortured for two hours.
- French police were on Wednesday hunting for a group of gunmen who killed two prison officers in an attack at a motorway toll that freed a convict linked to gangland drug killings.
- A landslide that followed heavy rain in central Kenya has swept away at least five people, residents said on Wednesday, and the Red Cross said its workers would assist in rescue efforts.
- Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana has criticised Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over his comments on pushing for a ‘one-man-one-shilling’ county revenue-sharing formula.
- The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered several pieces of public land from grabbers within Eldoret town valued at Ksh.3.2 billion.
- Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has urged MPs allied to the Azimio opposition coalition to reject the proposed Finance Bill 2024 when it is finally tabled in parliament, arguing that the proposed law is only meant to hurt Kenyans more.
- President William Ruto has defended the government’s plan to levy additional taxes on Kenyans, stating that it is part of a broader strategy to enhance the country’s revenue and reduce reliance on borrowing.
- US President Joe Biden's administration informed Congress on Tuesday of a $1 billion weapons package for Israel, official sources told AFP, a week after threatening to withhold some arms over concerns of a Rafah assault.
- Taipei said Wednesday it had detected 45 Chinese military aircraft around Taiwan, the highest single-day number this year and coming less than a week before the self-ruled island inaugurates its new president who China regards as a "dangerous separatist".
- Kuria Kimani, the MP for Molo Constituency and chair of the National Assembly Finance Committee has defended the government’s proposal to levy car owners through a motor vehicle circulation tax.
- Police in Migori County have arrested three suspects linked to the death of a 42-year-old businesswoman who was killed at Chamgiwadu trading centre in Rongo Sub County on the night of May 4, 2024.
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has assured parents and learners that the city's Dishi na County school feeding program will not be affected by the national government's plan to do away with school feeding programmes
- Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering, raising fears of yet further civilian casualties.
- Rescue workers used excavators to clear mangled metal debris in their final search for survivors trapped underneath a billboard that collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing at least 14 people.