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The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has denied reports that one person died after being injected with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Kenya. In a statement, the board said the woman did not die from post-jab complications, terming the claim as a misreporting. “The Pharmacy and Poisons…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have opened a probe into the murder of Kenyan journalist Betty Barasa. Betty, who worked as a senior video editor at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), was shot dead by gunmen at her home in Ololua area, Ngong’ on Wednesday evening…

Nairobi has been ranked as the most innovative city in Africa, according to the Knight Frank Horizons Report 2021/22. The Kenyan capital beat 500 other cities on the continent including Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cairo, and Lagos to claim the top spot. Nairobi ranked highly in three components namely…

An American national who was recently posted to the US Embassy in Kenya as the head of security was on Wednesday found dead in a hotel room in Gigiri, Nairobi. The 58-year-old man is said to have committed suicide inside the hotel room where he was self-isolating after arriving in the country…

Popular Kenyan activist Mutemi wa Kiama has been paraded in court over alleged cybercrime offenses. Mutemi was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly making two widely circulated posters bearing the portraits of President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. He spent the night at Nairobi Central…

Yahya Ahmed Shee, the MCA for Mkomani Ward in Lamu County has been handed a five-year prison sentence. A Lamu court last week found Yahya guilty of attempting to aid the escape of three convicts on June 2nd, 2017. The court heard that the politician together with others tried to forcefully rescue…

A police officer attached to Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i shot dead his wife on Tuesday night before turning the gun on himself. The lifeless bodies of Police Constable Hudson Wakise and his wife Pauline Wakasa, who was also a police officer, were found in their home on Wednesday…

Over 200,000 Kenyans have in the past 24 hours signed an online petition asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cancel the recently approved loan of Sh255 billion to Kenya. They are aggrieved by the Jubilee administration’s huge appetite for borrowing without proper accountability for the…

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has declared Abdikadir Mohamed Haji as the duly elected Senator for Garissa County. IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati in a gazette notice dated April 6th, 2021 said there will be no by-election as Abdikadir was the only candidate in the race…

Police in Machakos County are holding a school principal for allegedly sharing a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination paper on social media. Betta Mutuku, the principal of ABC Kiseveni Secondary School in Machakos, is said to have posted the contents of Mathematics Paper 2 on…