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Aliko Dangote revolutionized Africa's oil industry by solving a 50-year paradox: Africa is the world's major crude producer, but almost all of it was exported to Europe to be refined and re-imported at full price. How Aliko Dangote Petroleum Refinery changed that model: 1. World's largest single-train refinery Built on 2,685 hectares of swamp near Lagos at a cost of about $20 billion, with 650,000-700,000 barrels per day capacity. It is Africa's largest privately funded industrial project. At peak, 70,000 workers, 320 cranes, 1,200 pieces of equipment and the world's largest stone quarry were deployed. 2. Ending import dependency Before 2023, Nigeria, which is Africa's biggest oil producer, exported crude and imported all refined petrol because state refineries were dead. Dangote said the significance is Nigeria will become self-sufficient and West/Central Africa will also be self-sufficient — "the crude oil will not now leave the continent". By April ...

President William Ruto renewed call for Africa inclusion in the permanent membership of the UN Security Council at the 81st UN General Assembly in New York — his second push in 3 days. Speaking on Wednesday, he argued the Security Council no longer reflects the modern world: Ruto stated: "Every nation in this hall has one vote. Every nation is sovereign and equal under the Charter. Yet on the gravest questions of war and peace, five nations possess a permanent power that the other 188 do not." "The equality proclaimed in this Assembly ends at the doors of the Security Council," Ruto further added. Key points made by President William Ruto 1. Africa's exclusion: Africa has 54 Member States, more than a quarter of the Assembly, "yet no permanent voice in the body entrusted with the primary responsibility for international peace and security". "We are frequently the subject of its decisions, permanently discussed but permanently excluded." 2. 1....

  Uhuru Kenyatta has stated that Raila Odinga, who died on October 2025, won the 2022 presidential election, contrary to the official results.  However, he has not publicly detailed a specific mechanism of how Odinga was allegedly “rigged out.” On 22 September 2026, during a Jubilee Party National Executive Council meeting in Nairobi, as he handed party leadership to Dr. Fred Matiang’i, Kenyatta said Jubilee had done everything possible to support Odinga’s bid after joining the Azimio campaign.  He stated, in Swahili, widely reported and translated: “We did everything possible to help Baba become President of Kenya. He received the votes, and to this day, I know that he won that election… We know how things went, and we do not want that to happen again.”  He also pointed to Azimio’s stronger performance in parliamentary, senatorial, and gubernatorial races as inconsistent with a presidential loss. Official 2022 results and legal outcome IEBC declared William Ruto the...

Googlebook is a premium laptop platform from Google which combines Android and ChromeOS ideas, with a major focus on desktop apps and tight Android phone integration. Googlebook laptops need high-end hardware like 16GB+ RAM, powerful AI chips, high-resolution touchscreens and long battery life, with several brands already showing models. Googlebook Operating System offers deep Gemini features, app and file syncing with Android phones and support for desktop apps, third-party apps and all Android apps from Google Play. The OS was introduced on May 2026 as a higher-end successor and alternative to Chromebooks.  It runs Googlebook OS (an Android-based desktop OS that also incorporates ChromeOS foundations) and is designed from the ground up around Gemini Intelligence. Main Points It is not a replacement for Chromebooks: Chromebooks continue for education and budget use. Googlebooks target the premium consumer and laptop market with tighter Android phone integration, on-device AI and h...

Online clashes are now the biggest headache for Linda Mwananchi top echelon, not just physical clashes at rallies, but fights online between supporters of its own leaders. What's driving the division  Fight over the political party vehicle for 2027 This is the core dispute. The movement needs a registered party to run in 2027. Embakasi East MP Babu Owino says he already had a party before Linda Mwananchi started and it was considered as the vehicle On the other hand, Saboti MP Caleb Amisi says his party People's Renaissance Movement (PM) — was also considered and claimed that he was removed from Linda Mwananchi WhatsApp groups after disagreements Others have floated Ukombozi Peoples Party as an alternative, which Babu has criticized A post from a Bungoma news page summarized it as "BABU VS AMISI: CONFUSION ROCKS LINDA MWANANCHI AS TOP ALLIES CLASH OVER PARTY STATUS!" Amisi himself posted a video on September 15 saying the movement was formed to propel him politically ...

 The National Police Service officially described the Linda Mwananchi as a 'blueprint for future political conduct' after the Jacaranda rally. Contextual analysis On Sunday 13 September at Jacaranda Grounds, in Embakasi East Constitution, the Linda Mwananchi the successfully held a peaceful rally. Senator Edwin Sifuna-led Linda Mwananchi held its Nairobi mega-rally.  It started with a church service at All Saints Cathedral at 9am, then a convoy through Marikiti, Gikomba, Burma Market, Jogoo Road, Manyanja, B Centre, Stage 17 and ended at Jacaranda at 2pm. The rally brought together Edwin Sifuna, Babu Owino, James Orengo, Richard Onyonka, Godfrey Osotsi, among others.  Thousands attended and unlike previous political rallies in Kenya, there was no violence, no looting and  no clashes with police. On Wednesday 16 September the National Police Service (NPS) issued a statement with regard to the Jacaranda event. In a rare praise statement released today, NPS said: "What ...