KENYA NEWS

Nairobi Women Representative has confirmed that she will be defending her seat in the upcoming elections. Silencing rumors that she will not be on the ballot, Shebesh said on Thursday that she is incident of retaining her seat on a Jubilee ticket. Her long silence on the matter had led to rumors…

The son of Kenyan billionaire businessman Jeremiah Kiereini is dead. The son, Githae Kiereini, 42, was found dead in his Karen house on Wednesday morning by a worker. A police officer called to the scene said there were no visible injuries on Githae’s decomposing body. The elder Kiereini lost…

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s older sister, Margaret Wambui Kenyatta, has passed on. Wambui, the first daughter of Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta and his wife Grace Wahu, died on Wednesday at her Lavington home in Nairobi. She was of 89. She served as Mayor of Nairobi from 1970 to 1976…

President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that Jubilee will not offer direct nominations to any candidates running for any seat in the country. The President said Jubilee respects democracy and will let voters make the choice of those they want to lead them when the party holds nominations on April 21st…

ODM nominated senator Elizabeth Ongoro on Wednesday stormed Orange House, the ODM headquarters, along with a crowd of her supporters to protest ODM’s decision to bar her from contesting the Ruaraka parliamentary seat. Police had to shoot in the air to disperse the rowdy protestors. Ongoro claimed…

National Assembly Minority Leader Francis Nyenze has again said Wiper Party will only support NASA if Kalonzo Musyoka is named the presidential flag bearer.  Nyenze clarified that the decision to walk away unless Kalonzo is not the flag bearer was not his or that of Wiper alone, but has been…

The Kenyan government on Tuesday deported three Italian nationals arrested in a drug trafficking swoop at the Coast last week. The three, Mario Mele, Leone Alberto Fulvio and Stephano Poli, were wanted in Italy for various crimes, and were on Interpol’s Most Wanted list. They were arrested along…

Police in Nyanza have banned ‘Men in Black’ from campaign rallies in the area. Assistant Inspector General of Police Joseph Keitany warned politicians not to use private security guards at their functions, and instead request for such help from the National Police Service. Keitany said only the…

Nominated Senator Elizabeth Ongoro has defected from Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Ongoro’s move comes less than a week after she was barred by ODM from contesting in this month’s ODM nomination for Ruaraka parliamentary seat against area MP To Kajwang’. ODM at the time said she was barred…

Former Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara has announced he will support President Uhuru Kenyatta for re-election. Imanyara, a former fierce critic of the Jubilee administration, on Sunday said his move is final and that it is for the good of his constituents that he is supportive of the current…