KENYA NEWS

Visitors entering Kenya through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) are being ordered to leave behind plastic bags at designated bins in the airport as ban on plastic bags takes shape. The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has erected bins at entry points at the country's largest airport for…

Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino has been arrested by police following his Sunday remarks insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta. The newly elected MP has been taken to Director of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi for questioning. In a National Super Alliance in Nairobi on…

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri says that Jubilee had invited the International Criminal Court (ICC) to monitor opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate Raila Odinga's moves. Kiunjuri said that the Hague-based court will arrest Raila if there is bloodshed in…

Kenyans have taken to social media to criticize Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino over his filthy remarks on Sunday that appeared to be directed at President Uhuru Kenyatta. Speaking while on a campaign trail with National Super Alliance (NASA) Leaders the newly elected MP insulted the…

Police on Monday morning temporarily arrested and detained Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho at the Nyali Police Station. Joho was taken in by police following a confrontation over alleged land grabbing, causing tension at the station. The vocal governor in company of a few county officials arrived…

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner Roselyn Akombe has disowned WhatsApp messages doing rounds on social media purportedly exposing communication between her and some politicians. Akombe distanced herself from the messages, saying they are fake and meant to malign…

National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has given Independent Electoral and Boundaries (IEBC) officials upto to Monday evening to vacate office, failure to which Nasa will hold mass protests starting Tuesday to eject them over bungled August 8th presidential election.…

A section of Civil Society groups will be staging a series of demonstrations outside the Supreme Court starting next week to push for the resignation of Justice Isaac Lenaola and Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu. Last week, Derrick Ngumu filed two petitions with the Judicial Service Commission…

Bungoma senator Moses Wetangula says that the country is staring at a constitutional crisis should the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) fail to conduct the repeat presidential election within 60 days as stipulated in the constitution. The National Super Alliance (NASA)…

It has emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta has instructed his lawyers to go move back to the court seeking re-counting of presidential votes cast on August 8th general elections that has since been nullified. The Standard reports that the president’s legal team will file a judicial review of the…