KENYA NEWS

A suspect is nursing serious injuries at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital after he jumped from a high-rise apartment in Embakasi, Nairobi in a bid to evade arrest. Police went to Didmus Mong'are's house on Monday seeking to arrest him over allegations of obtaining money by false pretenses.  The man…

Nearly two weeks after receiving the first consignment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Kenya is yet to roll out the jab. A senior official at the Health Ministry told Nation that they are unable to administer the vaccine due to a lack of special syringes. While ruling out the option of buying the…

322,422 Kenyans have registered on the State-run Boma Yangu housing portal in anticipation of owning houses under the government’s affordable housing project. Housing and Urban Planning Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said the registered aspiring homeowners have so far saved nearly Sh1.3 billion…

Police in Narok County are holding a man and his wife following the accidental killing of their eight-year-old daughter during a domestic fight. Amos Maengwe (30) was reportedly beating his wife Esther Kaiseyi (21) with a wooden object when he missed the target and instead hit the girl on the head…

Kenya has received 210,000 more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the United States to boost the ongoing vaccination exercise. The consignment arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Tuesday morning from the COVAX facility. This is the second batch of the Pfizer vaccine…

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has dismissed claims that he refused to charge key suspects in the murder of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen. Haji stated that there was no sufficient evidence to prefer charges against Appeals Court judge Sankale Ole Kantai, who has been fingered in the…

A team of Kenyan law students has beaten their counterparts from 38 universities in Africa to emerge the winners of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, the biggest of its kind on the continent. Sidney Tambasi and Martin Kioko from Kenyatta University trounced a combined team of…

Nine British soldiers are being investigated in connection with the murder of a Kenyan woman in Nanyuki in 2012. The lifeless body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was discovered inside a septic tank at Lions Court Inn Hotel in Nanyuki two months after her disappearance.  On the night she went…

City tycoon Mike Maina Kamau has sued blogger Dennis Itumbi for alleged defamation. In documents filed in court, Kamau wants Itumbi penalized and compelled to delete statements posted on his social media pages suggesting that he played a role in the July Kiambaa parliamentary by-election that was…

Kenyan nurses who are set to travel to the UK for work beginning next month are set to pocket huge salaries that could be as high as two to three times what their counterparts in Kenya earn. This will be realized if the Kenyan government manages to negotiate for the health workers to earn the same…