KENYA NEWS

The government has deployed additional security officers in selected parts of the country ahead of the Supreme Court ruling slated for Monday. Deputy Inspector-General of Police Edward Mbugua directed all regional police commanders to send out additional personnel to violence-prone areas across the…

Juja MP candidate Aloise Kinyanjui has filed a petition challenging the election of George Koimburi Ndung'u. Kinyanjui, who contested on a Jubilee Party ticket, filed the case at the High Court in Kiambu which has since summoned the MP-elect to appear within 15 days. “Service of summons to enter…

Senior Counsel Paul Muite says the four IEBC commissioners led by Vice Chairperson Juliana Cherera stormed out of the Bomas of Kenya to protest the presidential results that Chairperson Wafula Chebukati was about to declare. Muite, who is one of the lawyers representing the four IEBC commissioners…

The High Court in Nairobi has frozen an additional Sh400.6 million belonging to Nigerian start-up Flutterwave. The money held in three accounts at UBA and Access banks and 19 Safaricom MPesa paybill numbers is linked to card fraud and money laundering, according to Business Daily. The funds were…

Former Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi has ditched Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition which is led by Raila Odinga and joined President-elect William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance. Murungi and several leaders of his Devolution Empowerment Party (DEP) were received in the alliance by Ruto at the…

Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition deputy presidential candidate Martha Karua says they will accept the Supreme Court’s decision on the presidential election petition. Speaking at a burial ceremony in Meru County on Friday, Karua stated that they desired to keep peace, but in order to do so,…

Kenya Airways (KQ) has confirmed the death of another passenger aboard one of its flights heading to New York in the United States from Nairobi. In a statement on Friday, the national airline said the passenger died from an unknown illness in the early morning hours aboard flight KQ002. “Kenya…

The High Court has ordered the retrial of all defilement offenders in the country, arguing that the mandatory minimum sentences on sexual offences impinge on a fair trial guaranteed under Article 50 of the Constitution. While making the ruling on Friday, Mombasa High Court judge John Mativo said…

Lawyers representing Raila Odinga in the presidential petition on Friday demonstrated to the court how a Venezuelan national allegedly tampered with Forms 34A on the IEBC server.  Lawyers Paul Mwangi and Julie Soweto showed the Supreme Court judges how one Form 34A they found in the IEBC…

Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong’o has protested the travel advisory issued by the United States Embassy in Kenya ahead of the Supreme Court ruling on the presidential petition. The embassy, in an alert dated September 1st, warned its citizens of possible violence in the country after the apex court’s…