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[Capital FM] Dec 21 - For many Kenyan households, this year's Christmas is less about travel and lavish feasts and more about making do, staying close to home and keeping costs down.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Newly appointed Senior Counsel Prof. Kivutha Kibwana has sparked debate online after arguing that disqualifying Kenyans from joining the defence forces over tattoos amounts to unconstitutional discrimination.
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican publicly owned electricity company, EDM, in the central province of Zambezia, suffered losses of 3.8 million meticais (60,000 US dollars) during this year, due to theft and sabotage.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has raised serious concern over a sharp surge in cholera cases across the continent, with reported infections more than doubling to over 310,000 cases in 2025.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- At least 1,800 people have been displaced and more than 250 households destroyed following renewed tribal clashes in Angata Barikkoi, Trans Mara South, Narok County.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Transmara West and Transmara South sub-counties following renewed tribal clashes that have left one person dead and displaced more than 1,800 residents.
[New Times] Childcare and child protection experts from SOS Children's Villages in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America gathered in Rwanda from December 17 to 19 for a workshop on childcare reform.
[New Times] Renovation works at Huye Stadium are expected to be completed in early February 2026, Times Sport has learnt.
[GroundUp] Poles and electricity boxes were installed in 2023 in Nyamankulu near Cofimvaba, but Eskom and Intsika Yethu Municipality say there are outstanding issues
[GroundUp] Municipal swimming pools have fallen into disrepair
[Ghanaian Times] For the third consecutive year, developing economies paid more in debt service than they received in new financing, reaching a 50-year high in debt outflows during 2022-2024, according to the World Bank's 2025 Year in Review.
[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA -- The Liberia Football Association's Executive Committee has approved a slate of football development projects ranging from stadium lighting to club transportation and new artificial pitches, even as critics question the legality and timing of the decisions ahead of the association's 2026 elections.
[Liberian Investigator] The ST Nagbe United Methodist Church has been at the heart of the crisis in the Liberia Annual Conference with a series of protests that has interrupted its regular Sunday worship.
[Leadership] The city of Oyo in Oyo State was agog on Sunday afternoon with the influx of political office-holders, supporters and traditional rulers for the installation of new traditional chiefs by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade I.
[This Day] Ghana has formally escalated the protracted River Park Estate dispute in Abuja to the ECOWAS Court, marking a significant diplomatic and legal turn in a controversy that now threatens to strain bilateral relations between Accra and Abuja.
[This Day] The United States has ruled out deploying troops to Nigeria, saying its decision to designate the country as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) is intended to encourage reforms through diplomatic pressure and partnership rather than military intervention.
[New Times] In recent times, there is a narrative that portrays post-genocide Rwanda as the source of all Congolese woes. It seems the world has been almost taken hostage by uncontrolled and scandalous anti-Tutsi and anti-Rwanda narratives that have become an easy refrain. Activists, academics, politicians, and even religious leaders continue to be manipulated by opportunist politicians and ethnic agitators.
[New Times] When the government revised its national healthcare tariffs in July 2025, nearly eight years after the last adjustment, the move was widely welcomed as a long-overdue lifeline for private medical facilities struggling under rising operating costs.
[People's Dispatch] The anti-government demonstrations erupted following the death of a young man who had been injured and severely beaten by the Tunisian police in late November.
BBC News Africa
The Fulham midfielder will represent his birth country Nigeria in the competition featuring 24 nations.
Nigerian authorities confirm the remaining students kidnapped from a Catholic school last month have been freed.
