[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya's mobile money subscriptions rose sharply to 51.4 million in 2025, reflecting growing adoption of digital financial services.

[Nyasa Times] The newly formed Federation of Civil Service Unions (FOCSU) has demanded a major overhaul of salaries and allowances for civil servants, rejecting the government's recent 10-20 percent pay increase as inadequate and unlawfully imposed without consultation.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A Nairobi court has acquitted former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko of money laundering charges, ruling that the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence to sustain the accusation.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kitui Senator Enoch Wambua has called for urgent government action following a horrific spate of deadly bandit attacks in Kitui County that have left at least eight people dead.

[WFP] As conflict, flooding, displacement and economic shocks converge, millions of people across South Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Programme is racing to deliver food and nutrition assistance in hard-to-reach areas, but access and funding constraints threaten to leave families without support.

[allAfrica] Africa's long-articulated dream of integration is slowly edging from rhetoric toward reality--but not fast enough. At the heart of this ambition lies the African Continental Free Trade Area, a flagship initiative of the African Union aimed at creating a single market for goods and services across the continent. If fully implemented, it promises to reshape Africa's economic landscape--unlocking intra-African trade, boosting industrialisation, and enabling the freer movement of people,

[Nile Post] President Museveni has assented to the Employment (Amendment) Act, 2025, introducing sweeping reforms aimed at strengthening worker protections--but leaving the contentious issue of a national minimum wage unaddressed.

[Our City News] The March and March Movement may be new to the streets of Gauteng, but its message is not.

[New Zimbabwe] Sinenhlanhla Mnguni, the lawyer who secured Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe's non-custodial sentence, has dismissed claims that jailed co-accused Tobias Matonhodze pleaded guilty so as to take the fall and save late President Robert Mugabe's son.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has awarded marathon sensation Sebastian Sawe Ksh8 million in recognition of his record-breaking performance at the London Marathon, where he became the first athlete in history to complete the 42-kilometre race in under two hours.

[Premium Times] Mrs Odumegwu-Ojukwu previously served as Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[GroundUp] SA's draft policy contained sources fabricated by a large language model