KENYA NEWS

Details have emerged that the Sh350 billion Mombasa-Nairobi expressway will bypass the capital city after a change of the initial plan. The Business Daily reports that the state-of-the-art dual carriage motorway will now branch off just past Konza and end along the Nairobi–Nakuru highway at Kikuyu…

A 28-year-old Kenyan woman who delivered quintuplets last month has passed away in the hospital. Evelyn Namukhula from Sisokhe Village in Kakamega County died on Sunday at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, where she was admitted with her five newborns. She is said to…

A Dutch pedophile who was recently charged with sex offenses in a Kenyan court was on Thursday confronted by two women foreigners in the streets of Nairobi. The Daily Nation reports that the two women identified as Eustacia and Suzana confronted Hans Viens Egon Dieter in Nairobi's Roysambu estate,…

Prof. Olive Mugenda has been appointed as the Non-Executive Chairperson of the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral, and Research Hospital board. Prof. Mugenda has been appointed to the position by President Kenyatta in a gazette notice dated April 1st, 2019. The former Kenyatta University Vice-…

The director of Public Health Dr. Kepha Ombacho has condemned a Chinese company that donated alcohol to starving Baringo residents on Friday.  Chuanshan International Mining Company delivered a consignment of food items to residents of Katikit village, who are grappling with severe hunger as a…

New United States envoy to Kenya Kyle McCarter is on Saturday set to be crowned as an elder of Tharaka community. Ambassador McCarter and his family lived with the Tharaka community for several years before returning to the US. McCarter's family, who lived in Mukothima area, are celebrated and…

Deputy President William Ruto has celebrated the defeat of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in the Embakasi South and Ugenya by-elections. Julius Mawathe of Wiper clinched the Embakasi South seat after trouncing ODM’s Irshad Sumra. In Ugenya, Raila's political bedrock, David Ochieng…

Controversial Kenyan televangelist James Maina Ng'ang'a of Neno Evangelism Center has been angered by media reports about his arrest. Ng'ang'a was reportedly arrested on Thursday evening and spent the night at Central Police Station before being released on a police bond on Friday morning. The city…

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has cleared Nuteez peanut butter two months after the product was declared unfit for human consumption and recalled from the shelves. The agency says it has lifted the ban imposed on the brand after the manufacturer, Jetlak Foods Ltd, complied with the required…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Friday impounded a luxury car belonging to flamboyant Nairobi politician Steve Mbogo.   In a statement, the DCI says duty for the Range Rover was not paid and has a registration number belonging to a Toyota Probox. "…