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Many Kenyans using mobile money transfer service have fallen victims to a recent scam involving mysterious swapping of sim cards. After swapping sim cards, fraudsters then withdraw any money saved in the mobile cash account and even apply for quick loans from services such as MShwari, leaving the…

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria was accorded a grand reception by residents when he landed at the lakeside city of Kisumu on Saturday. The controversial MP made several stops in the streets of Kisumu to interact with residents.  Kuria took time to mingle with the taxi drivers, boda boda riders…

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i says that he is being harassed and intimidated for doing his job. Speaking in Kisii, Matiang'i said his fight against white collar crimes has earned him enemies who are now keen to bring him down, but stated that he will not succumb to the pressure. "I…

What you have seen so far is only a tip of the iceberg, Opposition leader Raila Odinga has said on the ongoing fight against corruption. Speaking during the burial of George Ndemo, the son of Governor John Nyagarama in Nyamira on Friday, Odinga said the war on the vice just started and told critics…

President Kenyatta has issued an order stopping the launch of new government projects until the ongoing ones are completed. The President said all accounting officers will be held personally accountable for any new projects sanctioned in their departments without authority from the National…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said his administration will not allow foreigners to take advantage of Kenya's hospitality. The president defended the recent crackdown on illegal immigrants and enforcement of tough rules in the issuance of work permits to foreign nationals. Uhuru noted that…

The United States has declared Kenya-based Islamic group Al-Hijra as a terrorist organization.  Al-Hijra, a wing of Somalia-based militia group Al-Shabaab, was named in the latest list of terrorist organizations released by the US Department of State on Thursday. "Terrorism designations expose…

Amnesty International - Kenya Chapter has protested the handing of a death sentence to prison beauty queen Ruth Wanjiru Kamande by the high court. On Thursday, Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit handed the 24-year-old the sentence after she was found guilty of killing her boyfriend Farid Mohammed at…

The High Court has handed a death sentence to Miss Lang’ata Women's Prison, Ruth Kamande for the murder of her boyfriend. On 31st May, the beauty pageant winner was found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend, Farid Mohammed 22 times in 2015 in Nairobi's Buruburu estate. Justice Jessie Lesiit ruled…

The government is set to disband Administration Police (AP) unit in a major restructuring in the National Police Service (NPS) Plans are in top gear to have more than 60,000 officers serving under the unit absorbed into the regular police unit. 10,000 officers serving under the outfit will however…