KENYA NEWS

Kenya Railways on Monday launched the operation of express rail service to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) from Nairobi CBD. Under the new rail service, passengers heading to JKIA will board Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) at the Nairobi Central Railway Station and alight at Embakasi…

Over 20,000 Kenyan nurses on Monday downed tools in protest of the lack of sufficient Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE). Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) secretary-general Seth Panyako said nurses will not resume work until the government meets their demands. One of their demands…

Deputy President William Ruto has rejected calls to lead the ‘NO’ campaigns in the impending Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) referendum. Speaking on Sunday, Ruto said he has no intention of leading the team opposed to the proposed constitutional amendments and will continue to push for a non-…

A 48-year-old Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) Pastor is on the run after he allegedly sodomized a 14-year-old girl. Pastor Bernard Tambo, who is in charge of Homa Bay East District, went underground after learning that police were after him. He is said to have defiled the Class Eight pupil…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have rescued two children at the Busia border while being trafficked to neighboring Uganda. The two minors aged eight and four had been stolen from their home in Nairobi’s Buruburu estate on Saturday after their parents left them…

A police officer and his wife were on Sunday morning found dead in Kwale in a suspected case of murder-suicide. The bodies of the two; Tonik Okoth Oloo and his spouse Lucy Atieno were found inside their house at police quarters within Lunga Lunga police station. Police said their bodies had gunshot…

Thika-based millionaire businessman Julius Gitau has resurfaced more than two months after he was reported missing. Gatanga Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) head John Kanda told Daily Nation that the self-made tycoon reappeared on Sunday, ending fears that he was dead. “We have spoken…

Agnes Wangui, the late Matunga MP Justus Murunga’s alleged mistress, did not attend his burial. Murunga was laid to rest at his Makunda village home in Matungu, Kakamega County on Saturday. The ceremony was attended by Deputy President William Ruto, ODM leader Raila Odinga, Kakamega Governor…

Kenyan grassroots conservation leader John Kamanga has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa. Kamanga, the founder and director of South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO), was named the winner of the prestigious award by Britain’s Prince William—the…

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has refused to rule out possibilities of reviving the cases against Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang. Bensouda told Daily Nation that her office is ready to receive new information on the cases…