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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has received advanced forensic investigation equipment from Germany through its embassy in Kenya.
The Sh27 million equipment comprising specialized crime investigation kits, video, and photographic cameras were handed over to DCI Director George…
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Police in Kisumu are investigating an incident where a man snatched a gun from a traffic cop and shot dead two people on Friday morning.
Five other people, including a police officer named Joel Migiro, sustained gunshot wounds during the 8:30 am shooting incident that occurred at Kisumu Bus Park.
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A group of Kenyan MPs are planning to visit Thailand for a benchmarking trip on how to combat the rising insecurity in the boda-boda sector.
The trip is meant to help the MPs drawn from the National Assembly’s Security and Administration Committee to learn ways of bringing sanity in the industry…
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President Kenyatta on Thursday flagged off the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the country.
Nearly half of the 1.025 million COVID-19 doses that arrived in the country this week were released from the National Vaccine Depot in Kitengela to other parts of the country.
Speaking during the…
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The government is set to officially roll out the COVID-19 vaccination drive on Friday, days after the first batch of vaccines arrived in the country.
The launch will be done at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), where the first Kenyan is expected to receive a COVID-19 jab.
“We have been…
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The High Court has directed Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru to serve US tech giant Google with court papers.
On Tuesday, Justice Weldon Korir gave Waiguru two months to furnish Google with court documents in a defamation case.
The judge made the order after Waiguru’s attorney filed an application…
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Kenya has received 1.025 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX facility.
A Qatar Airways flight QR1341 carrying the first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi at 11:23 pm on Tuesday.
The delivery…
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A 22-year-old Kenyan man who allegedly threatened to kill President Kenyatta has been arraigned in a Kiambu court.
Simon Muchiri was arrested after he made a Facebook post in which he stated that he would shoot President Kenyatta if he had a gun.
The court heard that the suspect shared the post on…
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Members of Parliament (MPs) have passed a Bill regulating the treatment of Kenyans out of the country.
The Health (Amendment) Bill of 2020, which was sponsored by Kesses MP Swarup Mishra, was approved by the National Assembly on Tuesday. It seeks to streamline the mechanisms for the referral of…
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The US government, through the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), has warned of possible Al-Shabaab attacks on flights on the Kenyan airspace.
In its latest advisory to civilian airlines flying in the Kenyan airspace, FAA said Al-Shabaab militants have weapons capable of shooting down aircraft…
