Just before 2024 rolled over into 2025, a metallic ring around 8 feet wide and weighing 1,100 pounds crashed into Mukuku Village in Kenya. The Kenyan Space Agency (KSA) has ...
By Nosmot Gbadamosi Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: South Africa prepares to take the helm of the G-20, Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Morocco, and a superhighway takes shape ...
Kenyan President William Ruto took longer than many African leaders to congratulate Donald Trump for his victory in the U.S. presidential election. Ruto had become a close ally of President ...
In May, Kenyan President William Ruto came to Washington on an official state visit. The White House held a glamorous state dinner in his honor; Ruto also attended an Oval ...
Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments. The ...
Rebecca Cheptegei, an Olympic marathon runner from Uganda, was set on fire by her boyfriend and later died at the hospital, according to Ugandan athletics officials. Just weeks earlier, the ...
A Ugandan Olympic marathon runner who was living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend on Sunday, police say. Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, a first-time Olympian at ...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which ...