KENYA NEWS

Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura claims that he was harassed by the United States secret service officers at the United Nations headquarters in New York. In a social media post on Friday, Senator Mwaura alleged that he was unfairly treated by the officers on three different occasions for ‘being an…

Retired presidents Mwai Kibaki and Daniel Arap Moi will not face any pay cuts after Treasury rejected calls to slash their pension. Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) had advised the government to adjust the pension for the two former presidents in line with a reduction of President…

Four suspected gangsters were on early Sunday morning killed during a shootout with officers from Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Juja Road in Nairobi. During the operation, detectives recovered two pistols loaded with several rounds of ammunition and four daggers. The four robbery…

Deputy President William Ruto is mourning the death of one of his aides who was killed in a road accident on Friday night. Anthony Kariuki, who worked in Ruto’s communication team, was fatally hit by a tour van while crossing Outering Road in Nairobi. The former editor at Nation Media Group was…

President Kenyatta this week visited his alma mater, Amherst College in Massachusetts. Uhuru visited his former college on Thursday where he met with Kenyan students, according to Citizen Digital. A video taken during the visit shows Kenyatta cracking jokes with a group of seven Kenyans students…

A Kenyan woman who recently returned to the country after going through hell in the Middle East has narrated the suffering she went through in the hands of her cruel employer. Lucia Nekesa, a mother of three, left Kenya for Iraq eight months ago after securing a well-paying house help job which she…

The United States is set to seize assets belonging to a number of wealthy Kenyans who are accused of financing terrorist organizations. This comes after President Trump's administration imposed sanctions on individuals over allegations of supporting terrorist groups. On Wednesday, the US Treasury's…

The siblings of slain Dutch businessman Tob Cohen are opposing the release of his wife, Sarah Wairimu on bail. In affidavits filed in court, Bernard Cohen and his sister Gabrielle Van Straten say Wairimu, who is the prime suspect in the murder of her husband, should not be granted bail. The two…

A Ukrainian businessman is currently stranded in Nairobi after he was allegedly defrauded out of nearly Sh1 billion by fake gold scammers. Hennadii Kovalenko traveled to East Africa three years ago to buy 350 kilograms of gold using his savings and borrowed money, according to Daily Nation. In…

The High Court on Friday upheld the inclusion of the statue of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta in the new currency notes. Justices George Kimondo and Asenath Ongeri ruled that the image of Kenyatta in the new banknotes does not fit the description of a portrait as stipulated in the 2010…