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A family in Nairobi is demanding justice for their 30-year-old son who died under unclear circumstances inside a cell at Pangani police station. Robert Mureithi was arrested on July 8th for failing to observe COVID-19 protocols and was arraigned in court the next day where he was fined Sh200 or…
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An autopsy has been conducted on the body of a Kenyan woman who died under mysterious circumstances in Saudi Arabia.  The postmortem examination carried out by Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor at Chiromo mortuary on Tuesday revealed the body has compression on the neck and…
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An autopsy has revealed that slain Kenyan environment activist Joanne Stutchbury was shot six times while trying to defend herself from her killers and died of excessive bleeding. Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor, who conducted the postmortem examination at Montezuma Funeral Home in…
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KCPE 2020 top candidate Faith Kawee Mumo has won a four-year full scholarship following a public appeal. The 14-year-old received a Sh120,000 cheque from Matungulu MP Stephen Mule, who committed that NG-CDF will sponsor her education for the next four years. “She is one of the best students in our…
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The family and friends of the late Kikuyu benga singer Edward Irungu Njaro, alias Wanjaro Jr, have raised questions about his sudden death. Wanjaro is alleged to have committed suicide by drowning himself in River Tana over a Sh700,000 debt. His body was retrieved from Masinga Hydroelectric Power…
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Jubilee party has dismissed the outcome of last week’s hotly contested Kiambaa parliamentary by-election. The ruling party lost to Deputy President William Ruto-linked United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party by a slim margin of 510 votes. UDA’s candidate John Njuguna Wanjiku garnered 21,773 votes…
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Police in Nairobi have opened a probe into the murder of a 23-year-old university student. Christine Ambani, a student at Kiriri Women's University, was found murdered in Githurai days after her disappearance. She went missing on July 12th after leaving campus for a date with an unidentified male…
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The family of 2020 KCPE top candidate Faith Kawee Mumo is appealing for financial aid to enable their daughter to join Form One. Faith was the best performing candidate in last year’s KCPE exam after scoring 433 marks out of the possible 500. Her parents are unable to raise the Sh120,000 required…
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The family of the late police officer Caroline Kangogo has dismissed claims that she was murdered. Kangogo’s father Barnaba Kibor, a retired police officer, insisted that her daughter committed suicide contrary to reports that she may have been killed. Addressing journalists at his home in Iten,…
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The environment and land court has ordered the closure of Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite.  Justice Kossy Bor in a ruling on Thursday directed the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) to relocate the filled-up dumpsite within six months. NMS is required to find an alternative environmental-friendly…