In Kenya, church leaders are supposed to stay out of party politics, but during this week’s presidential election preachers and prayers are playing a role ⤵️
President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived to cast his vote, with today’s presidential election largely seen as a referendum on his 10 years of leadership.
Besides the presidential election, Kenyans will also go to the polls to vote in governors, Members of the National Assembly, senators and Members of the County Assembly.
Kenya's electorate are voting in #KenyaDecides2022 for lawmakers and a new president - with little confidence the next gov't will deliver change from deep-rooted corruption and spiking food prices ⤵️
@Nanjala1 “There is so much poverty in this country, our youths are turning to crime.”
Eric Moracha, a voter in Nairobi, said he particularly likes Raila Odinga’s plan to give $50 (6000 KSh) per month to two million poor and vulnerable households.
@Nanjala1 As Kenyans vote in #KenyaDecides2022, here's a look at how politicians are paying influencers to push disinformation and dangerous propaganda online ⤵️
UNRWA says Israeli forces have forced between 60,000 and 70,000 Palestinians to evacuate from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the already densely crowded al-Mawasi area.
Israeli forces have bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding others, according to the report.
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has signed an order banning all visits to Palestinian prisoners for another month, extending a ban that has been in place since Israel launched its war on Gaza.
Paramedics and witnesses reported finding children 'torn to pieces' and 'body parts everywhere' after Israeli attacks hit a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians.
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured, including paramedics, as Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted the Hamama and al-Huda school complex sheltering Palestinian families.
An Israeli woman has been killed and three others wounded in the city of Holon after a Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank attacked them with a knife, reports the Times of Israel.
The Australian government has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.