Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died in a hospital following a short illness aged 74 edition.cnn.com/2025/12/22/e...

Entries for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest which recognises and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year are open until 17th January 2026 www.worldpressphoto.org/contest/2026?

Cyclists embark on 1,500km journey from Malindi to Kampala to raise arthritis awareness www.youtube.com/watch?v=72gL...

Former MP for Lugari and Likuyani constituency Dr Enoch Kibunguchi has died at a hospital in Eldoret on Monday night. www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-12...

World’s largest electric ship completes its open water trial with 275 tons of batteries interestingengineering.com/transportati...

The annual journey back home to Western Kenya has become Kenya's culture and economy... www.talkafrica.co.ke/when-the-luh...

Somalia will beef up security by deploying more than 10,000 security personnel in the capital, Mogadishu, ahead of next week's local elections – the first direct polls in nearly 60 years www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...

31 of the greatest movie twists ever, from Planet of the Apes to Arrival to Spider-Man: Homecoming to Oldboy... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

The aftermath of Tanzania’s post-election violence has forced government officials into a fire fight they never planned for, dealing a blow to a foreign policy that had sought a smooth path forward. www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/eas...

Andrew Tate has left battered and bruised and with blood pouring from his face after a gruelling loss to reality TV star Chase DeMoor in his controversial ring return. www.news.com.au/sport/boxing...

Jake Paul’s artless spectacle robbed boxing of its democratic dream as Netflix’s 300M global subscribers got what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutally www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

The week that was...

CAF President Patrice Motsepe has announced that The Africa Cup of Nations will be staged every 4 years following an edition planned for 2028 in a major change to what is currently a biennial showpiece... www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...

Prospera the billionaires' utopia island allowed by 38th Honduras' president who was serving 45yrs in a US jail has ran into problems with one of the champions Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer calling it a failed project www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — demarcation for outer space that lies 100Kms above sea level. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/20/s...

Marine litter... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5M...

MPigs are seeking sweeping new powers that would require all newspapers published in the country to be submitted to Parliament, a proposal that has ignited fears of legislative overreach into media freedom. www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/202...

The 2025 Policy Year in Review vellum.co.ke/the-2025-pol...

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/m...

Obama's annual lists for 2025...

Newsom trolls Trump after president’s eyes seen drooping during afternoon event www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kash Patel's girlfriends fiasco keep getting weirder and weirder... slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why you might need a new browser... www.vice.com/en/article/w...

A minister has admitted that The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October by Storm1849, a Chinese hacker group, raising fears that thousands of confidential documents and data may have been compromised. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Two drill rappers from Liverpool who were seen carrying guns and parading with troops in Somalia during a cross-border clan conflict could be questioned by police upon their return to the UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump erects White House plaques for ‘divisive’ Barack Obama and ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Meanwhile...

South Africa has accused the US of using Kenyan nationals without work permits at a facility processing applications by white South Africans for refugee status. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Supreme Court Judge Ibrahim Mohammed has died just as he was about to retire from the bench leaving behind an illustrious 23yr legal career legacy.... www.citizen.digital/article/supr...

Announcement today of agreement by Diageo to sell to Asahi its 65% shareholding in EABL, and its shareholding in the Kenyan spirits business, UDVK. www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/...

Politricks of the day

MIT's Prof. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, shot dead at his home as authorities investigated if his murder is connected to the Brown University shooting abcnews.go.com/US/mit-profe...

Look who is talking...

Paul Doyle the 54yr old British driver who injured more than 130 people by speeding his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during a championship victory parade in May has been sentenced to 21 and a half years. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/p...

28 ships queue in Mombasa amid diversions from Dar es Salaam port www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business...

Politricks of the day...

Tens of thousands of Hungarians have taken part in a demonstration in Budapest demanding Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s resignation over his inaction towards repeated child-abuse scandals in the country. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in All in the Family and went on to direct the classic film comedies like When Harry Met Sally…, died in his California home alongside his wife, Michele Singer, on Sunday aged 78. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The week that was...

Pending elections for 2025... electionguide.org/elections/ty...

Lionel Messi's tour of India kicked off on a chaotic note on Saturday as fans ripped up seats and threw them onto the pitch after his brief 20min visit to the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata... www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Eritrea has withdrawn from East African regional bloc IGAD, accusing the organisation of "becoming a tool against" countries like itself. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The US Air Force said the delivery of the first of two new Air Force One jets from Boeing has been delayed by another year to mid-2028... www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/u...

Kenyan climate activist Truphena Muthoni has set a new world record after hugging a tree for 72 consecutive hours in Nyeri County, completing the feat on Thursday. www.trtafrika.com/english/arti...

The academic validation and the Nigerian [African] child... medium.com/@viviancbk/a...

More than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a UK museum in September... www.trtworld.com/article/65ef...

Google's doodle for today #JamhuriDay

The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year time.com/7339685/pers...