KENYA NEWS

The government has come under sharp criticism for offering free COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of foreign diplomats based in Kenya, including United Nations employees. Local medics are questioning why the government has prioritized expatriates even though it has not completed vaccinating its own…

A Kenyan family is mourning the death of their kin who collapsed and died during the burial of his wife.  55-year-old Daniel Tauni collapsed shortly after he began addressing mourners at the funeral of his late wife Janet Koikoi at Mukhula village in Navakholo, Kakamega County. He had been…

The late Juja MP Francis Munyua Waititu’s widow Susan Njeri has clinched the Jubilee Party ticket to vie for the seat in the upcoming by-election. Njeri won the ruling party’s primary held on Saturday after garnering 1,596 votes ahead of her competitors Joseph Kang’ethe (889 votes), Muiga Rugara (…

Former Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama has congratulated his former wife Agnes Kavindu following her election as the new Machakos Senator under a Wiper party ticket. Kavindu, who legally separated with Muthama in 1983, won last Thursday’s Machakos senatorial by-election after garnering 104,352…

A new survey by the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Solutions Network has ranked Kenyans among the unhappiest people in the world. The World Happiness Report 2021 released on Friday placed Kenya at position 121 out of the 149 countries surveyed. In 2020, Kenya was ranked at position 121…

Two people were killed after an aircraft they were flying in crashed in Marsabit County on Saturday morning. The light plane registration number 5Y-JKN crashed at Mlima Kofia Mbaya in Marsabit, according to Armistice Security Consult International (ASCI). The accident was confirmed by the Kenya…

Kericho Deputy Governor Susan Kikwai has passed away. Kikwai succumbed to COVID-19 complications at Siloam Hospital in Kericho on Saturday, according to her family. Reports indicate that the deceased had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) last week after contracting the virus and was…

Joseph Kinyua Murimi, the prime suspect in the rape and murder of 23-year-old hotel worker Velvine Nungari Kinyanjui has been arrested. Murimi is said to have met Velvine at Ruiru’s Destiny Park where she worked as a waitress and asked her out on a date two days later. On February 23rd, the suspect…

The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has revealed plans to swap the Lang’ata Cemetery land with another parcel next to it. This is after the 100-acre cemetery, which is the largest burial site in the country, was declared full 20 years ago. NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi on Friday said the…

Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi has gone into self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19. Meru County Health Executive Misheck Mutuma on Friday dismissed rumors that Murungi is hospitalized, saying he isolating at his home in Nairobi. “He has been advised to self-isolate. He is okay and doing…