KENYA NEWS

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has rejected an application by a foreign company to put up a marijuana factory in the country. Speaking on Friday, Matiang’i said he had received an application from a company seeking to grow and process cannabis in Kenya for pharmaceutical use. CS Matiang’…

Veteran Kenyan radio journalist Mohammed Juma Njuguna has passed on. Juma died on Saturday morning while receiving treatment at Nairobi Hospital. He had been battling illness for long. Until his death, the football commentator was working as a content producer at Royal Media Services' Radio…

President Kenyatta has mourned the death of Kenyan billionaire Wilfred Murungi. The Mastermind Tobacco founder, who was in his seventies, passed away on Thursday morning. The management of Mastermind Tobacco announced his demise in an internal memo circulated to all members of staff.  "It is…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested two suspects believed to be part of a theft syndicate that mainly targets customers in high-end shopping malls.  The two have been identified as Rebecca Kinuthia Waruguru and Stephen Ochieng. Police said the two…

A Member of Nyandarua County Assembly (MCA) has sued Nominated Member of Parliament Maina Kamanda for child support. In an application filed under a certificate of urgency, the nominated MCA wants the court to compel Kamanda to pay for her one-year-old child's maintenance. She wants Kamanda ordered…

The United States Embassy in Nairobi has warned Kenyans of fraudsters using its name to offer non-existent jobs. In a post on its social media pages, the embassy says it is not recruiting at the moment and had urged members of the public to disregard fake job adverts being used by fraudsters to con…

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji will this weekend lead a delegation of Kenyan prosecutors and top detectives to the United States. During the trip, the Kenyan team will seek President Trump administration's help in the war against corruption, drug, and human trafficking, as…

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has issued a three-day ultimatum to The Star newspaper to apologize over an article claiming that he is HIV positive. Sonko threatened to institute legal proceedings against the publication if it fails to issue an apology over an article published on Friday. “….that…

Members of Parliament on Thursday approved the nomination of Mwende Mwinzi as Kenya’s High Commissioner to Seoul, South Korea, paving the way for her appointment by President Kenyatta. Mwende's nomination was approved alongside that of Kariuki Mugwe (Abu Dhabi), Peter Angore (Algiers, Algeria),…

President Kenyatta has announced a ban on the use of single-use plastics in protected areas in the country. Speaking during the plenary session of the ongoing Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Canada, Kenyatta said the ban will take effect on June 5th, 2020. The protected areas covered by the ban…