Wednesday June 3, 2026 Wajir, Kenya (AX) — Kenya’s Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale on Tuesday said the Somali community in Kenya has secured political freedoms and openings that, he argued, were previously out of reach under President William Ruto’s administration. Addressing a gathering in Wajir County, Duale mounted a strong defense of Ruto’s approach to northern Kenya and to the Somali community, saying generations had faced discrimination in schooling, public sector jobs, access to identity documents and…

Venâncio Mondlane insists the 2024 race was his to lose only on paper. Now, as Peter Fabricius writes for Daily Maverick, he is turning his focus to the long game: building a party capable of taking power in 2029. In Mozambique’s 2024 presidential election, Mondlane was officially recorded as finishing second. Yet in his own view — shared by many commentators — he believes he came first. The state electoral authority nevertheless declared Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo the winner, crediting him with 65% of the vote to…

by STEPHEN ASTARIKOWednesday June 3, 2026 Health CS Aden Duale addressing residents of Maalimin, ladgera sub county./STEPHEN ASTARIKO Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has urged President William Ruto to reopen the Kenya-Somalia border and accelerate the tarmacking of the Garissa-Liboi road, arguing that both steps would unlock the economic promise of North Eastern Kenya. Speaking in Maalim Sub-County at the launch of a Mini-Grid project, Duale took the opportunity to deliver what he called a special appeal on behalf of…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has brushed aside mounting resistance from a bloc of retired military generals and former senior civil servants to Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3, declaring “whoever wins, wins” as the fight over the proposed changes intensifies. Mnangagwa is pressing ahead with amendments that would keep him in power beyond the constitutionally stipulated two terms, setting up a sharp confrontation with the group, which has come out strongly against the bill. Represented by retired Air Marshal Henry…

By Afyare Abdi ElmiWednesday June 3, 2026 People protest against the extension of the extension of the mandate of the current federal government, at the Eng. Yariisow Stadium along Dr. Kadare Road in Mogadishu, Somalia May 10, 2026 With its election calendar broken and no political transition agreed, Somalia has slipped into one of the gravest and most perilous phases in its modern history. On May 15, the day President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s four-year term was originally set to end, United States- and United Kingdom-backed…

Wednesday June 3, 2026 President William Ruto has ended his three-day tour of Northern Kenya with a renewed promise to direct more development funds to a region he says has been left behind for too long. He argued that Kenya can only unlock the area’s huge untapped potential if the North is fully woven into the national development blueprint. “Northern Kenya is not peripheral; it is central to the development of Kenya,” he said on Tuesday at Maalimin in Lagdera Constituency, Garissa County. He added: “I am on a mission to…

by STEPHEN ASTARIKOTuesday June 2, 2026 Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi delivering his remarks at Wajir Stadium during the Madaraka Day celebrations./PCS Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi has said the people of Wajir, speaking through their council of elders, will present President William Ruto with 100 camels as a symbolic show of gratitude for what he described as the President’s steadfast support for development, inclusion, and empowerment in Northern Kenya. The pledge was made on Monday during the 2026 Madaraka Day…

By Moses KinyanjuiTuesday June 2, 2026 President William Ruto on Monday moved to immortalise a revered Wajir political figure by endorsing a request to rename the newly completed Wajir Stadium as the Ahmed Khalif Wajir Stadium. The proposal came during the 63rd Madaraka Day celebrations in Wajir County, where Governor Ahmed Abdullahi urged the President to use the landmark as a lasting tribute to the late leader, whom he described as one of the region’s most distinguished sons and a man who rose to the country’s highest…

The government of Mozambique has reported that five of its citizens lost their lives in a series of "xenophobic attacks." In the wake of escalating anti-immigration protests, families have been compelled to abandon their residences in Kleinmond and Gansbaai, located in the Overberg area of South Africa’s Western Cape province.

Tuesday June 2, 2026 From Wajir County, a landmark moment has arrived for Kenya. In a clear message of inclusion, history was being made on Tuesday as the country marked Madaraka Day in the north for the first time in 63 years of self-rule. It was, in the words of the speaker, proof that the Bottom-Up promise to leave no one behind is being put into action. For the first time since independence, a national celebration of Madaraka Day was taking place in Wajir, deep in Northern Kenya. Far from being a symbolic gesture, the…