South Sudan's local voting is still 'Queue behind your candidate format' In Africa secret ballot has had its fair share of criticism for aiding rigging. In South Sudan, 'all eyes can see'

🚨 Uganda's dance sensation Ghetto Kids enjoy Moscow ahead of the 3rd Russia Africa Summit kicking off Wednesday, 28th October, 2026.

🦋 A butterfly tastes food with its feet. Africa has a myriad of butterfly species. Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) lead the continent in butterfly species diversity

⚡ Mozambique seeks to train over 14,000 medics too plug deficit in healthcare workforce.

📸 Paul Kagame and family.

🚨 South Africa ambassador to the United States Roelf Meyer advises his country should mend relations with the USA.

🚨 MOST CAPITALIST NATIONS IN AFRICA REVEALED Mauritius, Seychelles and Botswana are the most capitalist countries in Africa, according to a new ranking published last week and reported by Agence Ecofin. The Global Capitalism Index was established by researchers at the University of Virginia in the United States. Using data going from 2009 to 2025, it studies the economic and institutional characteristics of 161 countries to assess the quality of these countries' market systems. Coming in 48th place, Mauritius is the highest African nation in the Index, followed by Seychelles in 50th and Botswana in 52nd place. Namibia (59th), Cape-Verde (66th), Rwanda (74th) or Morocco (85th) are also among the 10 highest ranked on the continent.

🚨 Ebola update: Ugandans returning home from DR Congo -- which has been hit by its worst ever Ebola outbreak -- will be required to spend 21 days in quarantine, the health ministry said Sunday. The DRC, which shares a border with Uganda, has recorded more than 4,600 deaths since it declared its 17th Ebola outbreak in May. The virus has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the last 50 years.

🚨 MASSACRE in oil-rich and disputed ABYEI: At least 153 people have been killed in a drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei region, where a fire at a nearby fuel depot continued to burn on Tuesday. Local officials blamed Sudan’s military for Monday’s attack, which also left dozens injured. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, and the AP could not independently verify who carried it out. The oil-rich Abyei region’s status was left unresolved by a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war and remained unsettled when South Sudan became independent in 2011. A proposed referendum stalled over disagreements about who could vote PHOTO: abyei region.

🚨 The United Nations announced that at least 80 people were killed and 27 injured in drone strikes targeting the Abyei region on October 19. 📹 Video Courtesy

🚨 DEVELOPING: Tanzanians hit the streets over rising cost of living. SAMIA Suluhu must go.

🚨 Lieutenant Colonel Halima Maryan Lahaga 📹 Video Courtesy

🚨 A multi storey building that was under construction collapses on Kenya's Eastleigh Business District. 'it went down like one struck by a drone' 📹 Video Courtesy

🚨 Fighting in the border town of Moyale—located between Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regions—has forced hundreds of Ethiopians, mostly women and children, to cross into Kenya's Marsabit County since October 21, 2026 Kenyan police said on Thursday that hundreds of Ethiopians, mostly women and children, crossed into Kenya through several entry points in Moyale, including the Sessi, Kore, Biashara, Foundation and Miti areas. The Kenya Red Cross said it was setting up temporary shelter and distributing essential items including cereal and porridge flour. “The response will initially reach 1,000 households,” the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement on Thursday.

🚨 DEVELOPING - Kenya -Ethiopia border flares up, military and police intelligence on high alert as refugees cross over

🚨 Samantha Lewthwaite: The British Terror Suspect on the Run for over 20 years. Ms Lewthwaite, was first thrust into the spotlight after the 7 July bombings in London in 2005, as the widow of bomber Germaine Lindsay, who killed 26 people when he blew up a Piccadilly Line Tube train near King's Cross. She was also suspected to have masterminded the Kenya Shopping mall attacks, but later Al Shabaab group denied that any woman was involved. Will she ever be caught, or it was a creation of the war loving western world?

🚨 AFRICA KILLS HER SON. Tanzania seeks death penalty for opposition young winger. Pambalu, a member of Chadema's national council and former leader of the party's youth wing, is accused of intending to "persuade the public to cause obstruction of the General Election" in 2025, the charge sheet read. The document accused him of "conducting endless protests... for the purpose of intimidating (the) Executive of the Republic of Tanzania." Pambalu is the second Chadema official to face treason charges after party leader Tundu Lissu. Lissu's trial, seen by observers as largely political, is set to wrap up shortly. "I'm informed that our John Pambalu has been charged with treason," Chadema's deputy chairperson John Heche told a public meeting in the northern city of Arusha. "I know that they plan a similar case for me but I will not run away from my own country," Heche said, vowing that Chadema "will fight to the end."

🚨 Kenya hands over Comesa chairmanship to Zimbabwe

Africa CDC calls an Ebola crisis summit as Nigeria records its first case Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the Oct. 28 meeting would “strengthen our collective response.”

Samora Machel month