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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has promised to settle the hospital bill of Mukami Kimathi, the widow of Kenyan freedom hero Dedan Kimathi. Kimathi’s family appealed for assistance from Kenyans of goodwill after Mukami was detained at a Nairobi hospital over a medical bill of over Sh1 million.…

A Kenyan man who was set to relocate to Europe this month for work is disappointed after the company that hired him downsized, rendering his position redundant.  Tom Mboya Opiyo, an ICT specialist as per his LinkedIn profile, says he received the devastating news just four days before his…

Michael Mithamo King'ori was on Saturday ordained as the first-ever blind priest in the history of the Catholic Church in Kenya. Father Mithamo of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri was conferred holy orders by Archbishop Anthony Muheria. “Jubilation and thanksgiving to God as the Catholic Church in…

Kenya’s freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi’s widow Mukami Kimathi is appealing for help from Kenyans of goodwill to offset a Sh1 million hospital bill. Mukami, 91, was hospitalized in Nairobi on January 5th with pneumonia symptoms and was treated and discharged on Thursday, The Standard reports. The…

3.77 million National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) members will no longer get services in government and private hospitals after defaulting on monthly contributions. The latest NHIF data for the financial year ending June 2022 shows that the number of defaulters rose to 8.8 million from 5.03…

The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs has denied reports that Kenya plans to set up an embassy in Hargeisa.  Hargeisa is the capital of Somaliland, a de facto sovereign state in the Horn of Africa that is still considered internationally to be part of Somalia. “I wish to clarify that…

Medical researchers in Nairobi have discovered a strain of super gonorrhea that is resistant to most drugs used to treat the STI, according to reports. The drug-resistant gonorrhea was isolated from a sample taken from one of 24 sick sex workers from Nairobi last year, The Star reports. The…

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has appealed to members of the public to volunteer any information that may lead to the arrest of four terror suspects. The suspects were identified as Abdullahi Banati, Maalim Ayman, Ramadhan Kioko, and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir. In a statement…

The Ministry of Health has warned Kenyans against using the home DNA test kits that are being marketed on social media platforms, saying they are unauthorized. The ministry, through the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB), said it has not authorized the sale of such test kits and urged Kenyans to be…

The US government has offered a reward of up to $10 million (about Sh1.2 billion) for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect behind the January 2019 terrorist attack on the DusitD2 complex in Westlands, Nairobi. US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman announced the reward during a joint…