KENYA NEWS

Nairobi lawyer Assa Nyakundi has been arraigned in court over the killing of his son last month. Appearing before Senior Principal Magistrate Bosibori Nyang’ena on Friday, Nyakundi was charged with manslaughter. Nyakundi was released on a cash bail of Sh300,000 and a surety of Sh1 million. The…

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday witnessed the signing of project delivery agreements worth Sh226 billion between Kenya and China. The deals are for the Konza Data Centre and Smart Cities Project by telecommunications giant Huawei as well as the construction of an expressway linking the Jomo…

Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero was on Friday morning arrested over graft allegations. Kidero has been arrested in Nairobi by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) over alleged irregular payment of Sh68 million by Nairobi County government to a law firm identified as…

Ahmed Kolosh of Jubilee Party has been declared the winner of Wajir West parliamentary by-election held on Thursday. Kolosh garnered 11,053 votes ahead of his closest rival Sheikh Ibrahim of Kenya African National Union (KANU) who got 6,532 votes. The seat fell vacant after the Supreme Court…

A Kenyan court has convicted a British national accused of possessing explosive-making materials. Jermaine Grant was charged alongside his wife Warda Breik and Frank Ngala after he was arrested at an apartment in Kisauni, Mombasa in 2011. The house is said to be owned by one of the most wanted…

Details have emerged on how tech-savvy criminals stole Sh14 million from four Barclays Bank ATMs in Nairobi last weekend. Citizen TV reports that detectives from the cybercrime unit suspect that the robbers jack-potted the machines to spit money. Jack-potting is a technique used by hackers to…

The family of the late Juliah Mwashi, who was among the 36 Kenyans who perished in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash in March, is embroiled in a fierce fight for the compensation to be paid by the airline. Mwashi's husband Henry Macharia and her parents in Kakamega are fighting over who should…

State House has refuted reports claiming that the Huduma Namba card is linked to the US multinational financial services company, MasterCard. State House Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita has dismissed the reports as false, stating that there is no link between Huduma Namba card and the global payments…

A Nairobi-based Dutchman has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Inspector General of Police over harassment by his estranged Kenyan wife. Tob Cohen, the CEO of Tobs Company accuses his estranged Kenyan wife of using police and the justice system to harass and intimidate…

Former Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner-General John Munge has passed away. Munge passed on while undergoing treatment at a Nairobi hospital on Tuesday. President Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence to the family and friends of Munge following his death. Kenyatta has described Munge…