D-Day as 11m voters pass verdict

Round-up of the first day in the verdict of the athlete's trial

Defections: let voters be the judge on Election Day  The Citizen

Why Voters, Parties Must Exercise Tolerance as Polling Day Draws Near
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar — Scuffles have been reported in primaries at different political parties preparing for the October general election. The latest being Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), which has just ended its internal opinion polls whose members applied to be ...

>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced yesterday that it has registered over 11 million people using the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) technology in 13 regions that have completed registration.

Chelsea agree a deal to sign Egypt winger Mohamed Salah from Swiss side Basel for a fee in the region of £11m (US$18.3m).

By STELLA CHERONO @stellacherono

In Summary
Guinean national being held by the police awaiting an appearance in court for charges of being in possession of drugs.

Police are holding a Guinea national who was arrested with 2.8kg of cocaine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

According to the head of Anti-Narcotic Police Unit, Hamisi Masa, the suspect Abdoulaye Diallo, 45, was arrested as he was waiting to board a plane to Benin.

“The police discovered that he had hidden the drugs with a...

Verdicts in the retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt previously jailed for allegedly aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood are delayed again.

The government has secured Sh110 billion to construct a by-pass bridge along Ali Hassan Mwinyi road in one of several projects to de-congest the city.

The Tanzania Railway Limited (TRL) board will this month determine the fate of six senior officials who were suspended last December.