KENYA NEWS

A Kenyan assistant chief from Busia County was this week sentenced to 115 years in prison after he was found guilty of incitement. Ong’aroi assistant chief Andrew Odata was accused of inciting villagers to burn down the homestead of one of the residents named Francis Ong’amo in 2016. This left the…

Kenyan attorney Paul Gicheru made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday days after he surrendered himself. He was brought before Judge Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou of Pre-Trial Chamber A where he denied all the six charges leveled against him. “I do…

Kenya Airways (KQ) is considering suspending flights to London (England) and France in the wake of the second lockdown in the two countries. Authorities in the two nations were forced to impose fresh lockdown following the emergence of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The restrictions has…

President Kenyatta is set to deliver this year’s State of the Nation Address in Parliament on November 12th. In a gazette notice dated Friday, November 6th, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi and his Senate counterpart Ken Lusaka asked MPs to attend the address to be delivered at the National…

President Kenyatta held a meeting with Pope Francis during his official visit to the State of Vatican. He landed in Italy on Thursday evening aboard a Kenya Airways aircraft and was welcomed to the Vatican Palace by the pontiff—his host. Kenyatta, who is in Rome at the invitation of Pope Francis,…

Police in Nairobi have opened a probe into the death of a 34-year-old woman who was reported a few weeks ago. The decomposing body of Sheila Kawira Mwirichia was found inside her apartment in Nairobi’s Lavington estate on Tuesday. Her body was discovered after the caretaker of Lavington Valley…

The Appeals Court has upheld the death sentence of Miss Lang’ata Prison 2016, Ruth Wanjiru Kamande. Kamande was in 2018 found guilty of murdering her boyfriend Farid Mohammed (24) by stabbing him 22 times at his house in Nairobi’s Buruburu estate in 2015 in a suspected case of love gone sour. “…

Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru is slated to make his first appearance at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday. He will appear before Judge Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou of Pre-Trial Chamber A at 4:00 pm (The Hague local time). “During the initial appearance hearing, the judge will…

An application seeking to have President Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga appear in court for cross-examination has been thrown out. Two security guards who are accused of leaking CCTV footage of Uhuru and Raila were seeking to have the two leaders compelled to record statements and appear in…

The government is set to form a special squad whose task will be to deal with those breaching Covid-19 containment measures. President Kenyatta on Wednesday directed the Interior Ministry to constitute a Special Enforcement Unit to enforce compliance with Covid-19 protocols at the national and…