KENYA NEWS

A Nairobi court on Thursday ordered Embakasi MP Paul Ongili, better known as Babu Owino, be taken to hospital after his lawyer said he was ailing. This came after Babu, who is in police custody awaiting bail ruling, failed to show up in court for a hearing in another case where he is charged with…

Kenya was ranked at position 137 in the 2019 Transparency International’s global corruption index that was released on Thursday. Kenya scored 28 points out of 100, putting it at position 137 out of 180 countries and territories that were assessed, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI…

Felix Orinda, alias DJ Evolve, who was shot on the neck by Embakasi East MP Babu Owino on January 17th, has reportedly developed complications. Orinda is presently hospitalized at The Nairobi Hospital’s ICU wing after he underwent two successful surgeries to remove a blood clot as well as a bullet…

A Kenyan man who allegedly used a fake Twitter account to defraud an Arsenal fan out of USD100 (about KSh10,000) has been exposed. The fraudster, who posed as a British national, used Twitter handle @ArcellanoR and pretended he was in a position to sell to the fan a match day ticket, according to…

Controversial Kenyan blogger Cyprian Nyakundi is on Friday set to be arraigned in court to face charges of extortion, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Wednesday. Nyakundi was arrested in Nairobi on Monday together with his coconspirator Emmanuel Nyamweya on allegations of…

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria could find himself in trouble with authorities after new details merged showing that he awarded multi-million-shilling contracts to members of his family contrary to the law. Moses Kuria's brother, Aloise Kinyanjui Kuria, is among the MP’s close relatives that were…

New reports by a section of the US media claim that soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) failed to cover their American counterparts during an al-Shabaab attack on Camp Simba in Manda Bay, Lamu County on January 5th. Kenyan soldiers allegedly hid in the grass when armed gunmen stormed the…

Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has reportedly re-opened a probe into a land fraud case against Deputy President William Ruto. In the case, Ruto had been charged with defrauding Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) through the sale of a parcel of land that was hived off Ngong Forest for KSh272…

Following bilateral talks between President Kenyatta and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom has agreed to abolish travel advisories it has been imposing on Kenya over the years. In their meeting in London on Tuesday, the two leaders pointed out that the travel warnings are not good…

A Voi court on Wednesday dropped an assault case against embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko. The case, in which Governor Sonko was accused of assaulting Coast Regional Police Commander Rashid Yakub, was dismissed after an application by the complainant on Tuesday to withdraw the charges.…