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Deputy President William Ruto has returned to the country following a top-secret four-day trip to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A chartered private Bombardier Global 7500 Executive Jet carrying Ruto arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on Sunday afternoon,…
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Police in Nairobi are pursuing armed robbers who shot and killed a security guard at Mountain Mall along Thika Road. The guard identified as Wycliffe Waweru of Texas Security Company was killed after the gangsters invaded the shopping mall on Sunday night. Confirming the incident, Kasarani DCIO…
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An American national is facing charges after he defrauded American investors of $7.2 million (Sh788 million) in a fake water project in Kenya. The suspect, Verley Lee "Rocky" Sembritzky, Jr. is said to have lured investors into pumping their money into the fake desalination project with a promise…
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Two people who were being remanded at Wang’uru police station in Mwea, Kirinyaga County have died after testing positive for Covid-19. The two died while undergoing treatment at Kimbimbi sub-County Hospital on Sunday, according to Kirinyaga County Police Commander Leah Kithei. Kithei said the two…
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44 school children were on Saturday night arrested at a house party in Nairobi’s Mountain View Estate. The arrests followed a raid conducted by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). The DCI said the minors aged between 14 and 17 years are primary and secondary school…
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The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has announced the death of yet another senior doctor, Dr. Nira Patel. Dr. Patel, a dental surgeon specialized in orthodontics, succumbed to Covid-19 complications on Saturday, according to the union. “We mourn the passing on of Dr. Nira…
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Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have launched a probe into an online syndicate that has been luring school girls from their homes for partying orgies that last for days. Preliminary investigations reveal that the teenagers are being lured through social media accounts…
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The Kenyan medical fraternity is mourning the death of another medical doctor who died from Covid-19. Dr. Anthony Were Omollo, the head of the Renal Unit at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) succumbed to the disease on Friday night. The kidney specialist died while undergoing treatment at a Nairobi…
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Dr. Miriam Mutebi, a Kenyan oncologist, has been elected to the board of directors of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Dr. Mutebi, a breast cancer surgeon, clinical epidemiologist, and health systems researcher, becomes the first African to sit on the board.  Mutebi also…
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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have rescued three of the seven Kenyan girls who went missing from their homes in Nairobi a week ago. The teenagers were found in Nairobi by sleuths drawn from the DCI’s Child Protection Unit on Friday. In a statement posted on…