By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Citizen
University of Nairobi students blocked part of Waiyaki Way and burned tyres to demand government intervention in the month-long lecturers’ strike. Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas, Citizen reports.
The five-day strike by Malian higher-education teachers began on 26 October 2026, with the National Union of Higher Education and Scientific Research demanding payment of the research allowance. Students at Bamako’s Faculty of Administrative and Political Sciences fear delays to their studies and consequences for their plans, Bamada.net reports.
🇲🇱 Mali · Source: Bamada.net ·
The Kenyan Red Cross is strengthening its teams’ preparedness in Nairobi after nine Ebola cases were recorded in the country, one of them fatal. The World Health Organisation considers the outbreak more complex since an imported case was detected in Nigeria, reports Africanews.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Source: Africanews ·
A man was arrested in Nairobi after spending 6,744,354 Kenyan shillings mistakenly paid into his account while processing 74 company payments. Financial crime investigators accuse him of offences including cybercrime and money laundering, Tuko reports.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Source: Tuko ·
US singer Chris Brown has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence in the UK after admitting an offence linked to a fight at a London nightclub in 2023. He will only be imprisoned if he commits another offence during the suspension period, Citizen reports.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Source: Citizen ·
Video reveals the Wanyama brothers’ home in KenyaA video posted on TikTok and photographs reveal the vast family home of Kenyan brothers Victor Wanyama and McDonald Mariga in Soy, Uasin Gishu County. The two-storey Mediterranean-style residence was also photographed and shared in 2024 by their brother Thomas “Heskey” Khumba, Tuko reports.
South Sudanese General Joseph Lagu dies at 95General Joseph Lagu, a key figure in South Sudan’s fight for self-determination and former leader of the Anyanya One movement, has died in Juba at the age of 95. His family confirmed his death, which occurred on Monday after an illness, Eye Radio reports.The week in Africa
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