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Senegal overcomes a controversial penalty decision and a near-walkout to defeat hosts Morocco 1-0 in extra time, claiming the 2025 AFCON title in Rabat.
Meta's new Ray-Ban Display combines a heads-up display with a wrist-mounted Neural Band controller, offering users AI-powered notifications, translations and hands-free control for $799.
Tesla settled two lawsuits over 2019 fatal crashes involving Autopilot, highlighting growing legal and regulatory pressure on the carmaker's self-driving ambitions.
Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol to provide a common framework for purchases made by AI agents, outlining user approvals, audit trails and examples of agentic shopping while opening the specification to the industry.
A Last Mile Connectivity project launched in Voi will connect more than 1,200 households to electricity, ending reliance on paraffin lamps and boosting the local economy, with officials pledging universal access despite land disputes.
Residents in Kipsitet, Kericho County barricaded the Kisumu–Kericho highway after a lorry accident killed six people and injured four, blaming the county government for neglected street lighting and inadequate transport infrastructure.
Kenya’s Ministry of Education found more than 50,000 non-existent students in secondary schools during a data audit, a discrepancy that has diverted billions of shillings from legitimate learners and prompted plans for a new education data system.
President William Ruto unveiled a commuter rail service linking the SGR terminus to Mombasa’s central business district, promising faster, safer and more predictable journeys for thousands of passengers.
Kenyan apparel exporter Pankaj Bedi joined other African manufacturers in Washington to urge U.S. lawmakers to extend the duty-free AGOA programme, warning that its expiry would raise tariffs from 10 percent to 43 percent and jeopardise thousands of Kenyan jobs.
Kenyan lawmakers criticised a proposed sale of nearly a third of East Africa Portland Cement’s shares to Kalahari Cement, arguing that the secretive transaction lacks transparency and threatens jobs and public investment.
NEMA has instructed businesses with environmental licence applications filed before 1 August 2025 to resolve outstanding technical issues by 30 September or risk having their applications decided without further input or require fresh submissions.
Kenya’s judiciary is mourning Court of Appeal judge Fred Ochieng Andago, who died in Nairobi on 17 September 2025 after a distinguished career that included championing court-annexed mediation and serving in multiple judicial divisions.
Environmental advocates in Dongo Kundu say Kenya’s forest cover is not increasing because tree-planting drives often use species unsuited to local conditions, causing high mortality rates and wasting resources.
