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Two senior police officers escaped unhurt after a helicopter crash-landed at Wilson Airport in Nairobi on Saturday.
The police chopper of registration 5Y-SFA (Mil Mi-17 Hip) fell meters from the airport’s runway after it allegedly developed a mechanical problem while preparing to land.
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The family of retired President Daniel Arap Moi has once again allayed fears about his health status after he was admitted to Nairobi Hospital last Monday.
In an update on his health, Moi’s family spokesperson and press secretary Lee Njiru denied claims that the former president is in the intensive…
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A lobby group dubbed Okoa Kiambu is this week set to present a memorandum to the county assembly asking MCAs to expedite the process of impeaching Governor Ferdinand Waititu.
The group said it will present a petition for the impeachment of Waititu to the assembly on Wednesday over claims of…
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Embakasi East Member of Parliament Paul Ongili, popularly known as Babu Owino, is admitted to a Nairobi hospital.
In a post on his official Facebook account on Sunday morning, the vocal first-time MP shared a photo of himself lying in a CT scan machine and said he was unwell.
“May God heal me…
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Two Kenyans who went into hiding after allegedly stealing $64,000 (Sh6.5 million) five years ago were on Friday arrested by detectives from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The two former employees of G4S Security Company are said to have escaped with the cash after they were tasked…
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A section of leaders drawn from Mt. Kenya region have vowed to defy President Kenyatta if the much anticipated Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report proposes a parliamentary system of government.
Led by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri, the leaders said they will reject the report…
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The United States says Kenya will reap immense benefits from the proposed Nairobi-Mombasa expressway project.
In a statement on Friday, the US Ambassador to Kenya Kyle McCarter rubbished reports that the Sh300 billion project would burden Kenya with unsustainable debt.
McCarter indicated that the…
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Safaricom customers borrowed Sh140 billion from the company’s MPesa overdraft facility, Fuliza in under nine months of operations.
Launched in January this year, the overdraft service allows Mpesa users to send money or pay for goods and services even when they do not have sufficient money in their…
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A report by the United Nations says that Kenyan women are being forced into marriages and sex slavery in the neighboring Somalia.
Kenyan women from the Coast region are the most targeted, where they are lured with promises of jobs but end up in forced marriages and sex slavery, according to the…
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Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) on Friday repatriated four luxury vehicles stolen from the United Kingdom and illegally shipped to Kenya.
KRA said the four are among 21 high-end cars intercepted at the port of Mombasa between March and September this year after being stolen abroad and shipped to…
