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Jubilee Party has dispelled claims that there is a plot to impeach Deputy President William Ruto. Addressing reporters on Tuesday, Jubilee secretary-general Raphael Tuju asserted that the governing party has never held any discussions to plan Ruto’s ouster. He added that if such a motion existed,…

]Kenya Airways (KQ) is expected to operate its maiden cargo flight on the repurposed Boeing-787 Dreamliner. KQ becomes the first global airline to convert the wide-body original passenger jet into a freighter following regulatory approval from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) and the US…

The Jubilee Party has expelled seven nominated senators on the grounds of “disciplinary violations.” Jubilee secretary-general Raphael Tuju said the decision to expel the senators was made by the party’s National Management Committee (NMC) following a meeting on Monday to deliberate on a report…

Nairobi-based lawyer Assa Nyakundi is set to be charged with the murder of his 29-year-old son Joseph Bogonko. This comes after the court dismissed his application seeking to stop the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji’s bid to charge him with murder. He argued that there is an…

More than 300 soldiers at the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) have been placed under isolation over COVID-19 fears. The Mirror reports that a total of 320 British troops in Nanyuki under Exercise Askari Storm camp were isolated after four military personnel tested positive for COVID-19.…

A 16-year-old boy who was found in the wheel arch of a cargo plane that landed in the Netherlands from the UK has been discharged from the hospital. The stowaway, believed to be a Kenyan national, was rushed to the hospital with severe hypothermia on Thursday. He is thought to have clung to the…

Suna East MP Junet Mohamed has apologized to Kenyans living with albinism following his attack on Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura. Junet, who claimed that Mwaura ‘bleached’ his skin to get a nomination slot to represent people living with disability in parliament, noted that his remarks were taken…

Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta has received the 2019 Macky Sall Prize for Dialogue in Africa. The prize was awarded to Mama Ngina on December 11th, 2020, at the Museum of Black Civilization in Dakar, Senegal by President Macky Sall, but due to the COVID-19 outbreak, she could not travel to…

Two siblings of the late Bomet Governor Joyce Loboso have moved to court to block her widower’s bid to manage part of the estate she left behind. Laboso’s siblings Mary Chepkurui and Judy Cheptoo want the court to deny their sister’s widower Edwin Abonyo the right to administer part of the estate…

A lobby group has raised the red flag over the continued discharge of raw sewage into the Nairobi National Park. Friends of Nairobi National Park (FoNNaP) wrote to the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) expressing fears that the discharge could affect the health of animals in the park…