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[Capital FM] NAIROBI, Kenya June 26 - Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has described Wednesday's nationwide protests as a "well-planned and unconstitutional attempt at regime change," adding that the government has gathered clear evidence pointing to the organisers and financiers.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen now says criminals were ferried from Murang'a, Nyeri, Thika and other areas to stage an attempted coup during the Gen Z-led protests that turned chaotic on Wednesday.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The rise in global demand for donkey skin used to manufacture ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine made from donkey skin, has led to widespread donkey theft and sharp drops in household income across the African continent, a new report by The Donkey Sanctuary has revealed.

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[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Abuja, described the Nigerian civil service as the backbone of any effective administration, extolling the invaluable roles they play as the engine room through which government is able to deliver public goods and programmes.

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[Leadership] Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has attributed Africa's stagnation to a combination of poor leadership, endemic corruption, overdependence on foreign aid, and the continent's adoption of a democratic model ill-suited to its realities.

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[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has said the lack of funding to manage elephants in its game reserves is negatively impacting elephant conservation efforts, leading to increased human-wildlife conflict.

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[New Zimbabwe] STIGMA and discrimination remain the most damaging barriers to the country's national HIV response, Health and Child Care Minister Douglas Mombeshora has said.

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[New Zimbabwe] FORMER cabinet ministers Saviour Kasukuwere and Tendai Biti have pushed back against controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, describing him as the "face of corruption" whose rise to power will be dire for Zimbabwe.

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[SNA] Port Sudan, June 26, 2025 (SUNA) - Prime Minister Dr. Kamil Idris issued a decision on Thursday to maintain and reactivate dialysis centers that had ceased service during the war throughout Sudan, while stressing the continuity of patient treatment at the state's expense.

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[UN News] It wasn't an average Thursday morning in Manhattan. In the early hours, UN diplomats (and UN News) hit the streets in their sneakers - from Times Square to East River - following a route that traced the shape of "UN@80".

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[UN News] The UN is monitoring the situation in Kenya in the wake of deadly antigovernment protests on Wednesday.

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[Dabanga] N'djamena / Atbara -- The Chadian government has agreed to allow approximately 10,000 Sudanese students currently residing in eastern Chad to sit for their secondary school certificate exams on its territory. Chad's refusal to host the exams last year caused widespread frustration among thousands of displaced students and their families.

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[UN News] The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN's top aid official said on Thursday.

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[The Conversation Africa] The unintended consequences of measures introduced to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus from 2020 to 2022 have been studied extensively. Research in South Africa shows that some of these measures added to social ills, such as unemployment and poverty.

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[UNHCR] Pretoria, 26 June 2025 -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes the outcome of the first-ever Joint Ministerial Meeting on Forced Displacement, Fragility Mitigation, Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Responses, convened by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on 25 June 2025. Member States approved a regional approach that brings together these interconnected issues under a single coordinated programme.

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[The Conversation Africa] Every December in Nigeria and Ghana a giant party takes place, unfolding in a whirlwind of concerts, festivals, weddings, art shows, dress-ups, meet-ups and travel. Locals and diaspora west Africans returning from overseas come together to create Detty December, a festive event stretching from mid-December to the new year.

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[The Conversation Africa] The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has raged since April 2023. It's turned Sudan into the site of one of the world's most catastrophic humanitarian and displacement crises.

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[The Conversation Africa] Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, many west African film-makers, writers, artists and media audiences were jubilant.

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[IPS] United Nations -- The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families, Congolese laborers face abuse and life-threatening conditions working in unregulated mines.

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[The New Humanitarian] Barracked in poor conditions, underpaid, and isolated, officers operate more as an occupying force and extension of the elite than a public service.

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Cases of repression in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have fuelled concerns about possible collaboration.