KENYA NEWS

Seven Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) governors have been given direct party nominations. ODM announced the governors are free to collect their nomination certificates after not having any opponents in the party primaries. The seven governors are Evans Kidero (Nairobi), Hassan Joho (Mombasa),…

Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho says the shooting incidence that took place at an ODM campaign rally in Migori on Monday was an assassination attempt on his life. Though reports indicate the incidence that led to Joho’s bodyguard and at least one other person getting shot and injured occurred after…

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has said it is the only body in the country allowed by law to tally and announce election results, and any other body or political party planning to do so would be acting illegally. IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati announced this on Monday in…

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has said NASA (National Super Alliance) will tally and announce its own results in the August general election to ensure the voting fraud does not happen. The ODM leader said NASA has the votes needed to kick Jubilee out of power if the votes are tallied correctly,…

Justice Said Chitembwe of the Malinda High Court has issued an injunction stopping the deportation of an Italian national arrested last week in Malindi for drug trafficking and wanted in Italy on tax evasion charges. Mario Mele, 56, is among three Italians last week arrested in an operation in…

State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu at a press briefing on Sunday defended Cabinet and Principal Secretaries campaigning for President Uhuru’s re-election, saying it is their duty to explain to Kenyans the progress the Jubilee administration has made. “They have to account for the trillions of…

A new poll shows Evans Kidero a strong favorite to win back his governorship seat in Nairobi. The TIFA poll has Kidero’s chances of winning at 46%. Peter Kenneth has the support of 20%, Mike Sonko 18%, and Bishop Margaret Wanjiru at 2% support. 11% of those polled remain undecided. Peter Kenneth…

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has threatened to go on strike again next month to protest inadequate funding of teachers in the budget proposal presented by government las week. KNUT Secretary-General Wilson Sossion said the government only allocated Sh2 billion to hire 5,000 tutors,…

A photo has surfaced online of Uhuru Kenyatta on his graduation day in 1985 at Amherst College in Massachusetts, USA. The photo, probably meant as further proof that the president received an undergraduate degree show Uhuru in his graduation regalia receiving a peck on the check from his mother,…

Kenya Police boss Joseph Boinnet has ordered an investigation into a video circulating on social media that depicts a person believed to be plainclothes police officers shooting dead two suspected gang members. The incident happened in Eastleigh, Nairobi. When the video starts running, one of the…