KENYA NEWS

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Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has urged President Ruto to hold talks with Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga. Sakaja, who spoke on Sunday, said the country’s economy is bad enough and the ongoing mass action by the opposition coalition will further hurt Kenyans. “…
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A driver was burnt to death on Sunday morning after being involved in an accident along Thika Superhighway. The driver is said to have lost control of his Mercedes S-Class vehicle while negotiating a bend in the Pangani tunnel and crashed into the wall of the pavement, according to a police report…
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has ordered residents living in 27 bandit-prone areas in Rift Valley to vacate within the next 24 hours. Kindiki said the government has decided to upscale the security operation to neutralize the banditry menace that has been declared a national emergency…
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Police in Murang’a County are searching for six robbers who stole an unknown amount of money from a Unaitas Bank branch on Saturday morning. The daylight robbery incident happened at around 9 am when two men dressed in black private security uniforms with reflectors approached two police officers…
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President Ruto has nominated Bishop (Dr.) David Adang Oginde for appointment as the Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). The president nominated Bishop Oginde for the position following recommendations by the Public Service Commission (PSC). Oginde will replace…
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The High Court has ruled that having a child with a man or woman is not proof of marriage. Justice Asenath Ongeri made the ruling in a case in which a woman codenamed FCR sued a man codenamed CAL, claiming they cohabited from 1970 to 1990 and had five children together. The woman accused the man of…
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Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga says he will next week name companies whose products and services Kenyans should boycott over their role in perpetuating electoral injustice. Odinga, who spoke in Migori on Friday at the start of the planned countrywide mass action, said some…
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A Mombasa court has sentenced seven foreigners to life imprisonment for trafficking heroin valued at Sh1.3 billion in July 2014. Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku also fined the six Pakistanis and one Iranian Sh3,966,366,000, which is three times the value of the drug, or serve one year in…
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US-based Kenyan tycoon and investor Julius Mwale held a meeting with President Ruto to discuss areas of collaboration in health, agriculture, and infrastructure. Mwale, who is the founder of Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Kakamega, led a group of international investors to State House…
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Captain William Kipkemboi Ruto has been appointed as the new Managing Director of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) for a three-year term. Ruto was appointed to the position by Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen through a gazette notice dated March 10th, 2023. Murkomen indicated…