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Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua has urged President Kenyatta to deploy the military to enforce some of the government orders aimed at combating the spread of Covid-19.  Mutua said operators of bars, nightclubs, and entertainment joints have been flouting Covid-19 rules including the nationwide…

ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has called on the Kenyan authorities to hand over two other Kenyan nationals wanted by The Hague-based court. The two, Philip Kipkoech Bett and Walter Osapiri Barasa, are accused of interfering with witnesses in the Kenyan cases at the ICC. Bensouda, who hailed…

Kenya on Wednesday reported a record number of daily coronavirus cases after 1,494 people tested positive. This is the highest number of Covid-19 infections recorded in a single day since the country registered its first case in March. The new cases which were detected from 8,839 samples raised the…

14 Kenyans who were recently nominated by President Kenyatta for different diplomatic positions have a net worth of at least Sh30 million each. The 14 ambassador and high commissioner nominees have a combined wealth of Sh935 million, according to documents submitted to the National Assembly Defense…

President Kenyatta has announced a raft of new measures aimed at suppressing the second wave of Covid-19. Addressing the nation after chairing the 6th Extraordinary Session of the National and County Governments Coordinating Summit, Uhuru extended the existing nationwide curfew by 60 days to…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested three people in connection with online fraud involving cars. The three suspects were identified as Moses Owino Angelo (a lawyer), George Tsuma, and Charles Kipsang Koech, alias Charles Brian Koech alias Ibrahim Merrali.…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday established a pre-trial chamber to hear the case against Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru. Judge Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou, a national of Benin, has been appointed to hear the case. This comes a day after Gicheru surrendered to authorities in…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have opened a probe against the suspended betting company, SportPesa over fraud allegations. The DCI is looking into claims that the recently signed partnership between SportPesa and Milestone Games Ltd. was used to defraud Kenyans of…

Deputy President William Ruto has suspended his empowerment meetings that were set to take place this weekend in the Ukambani region. Ruto in a statement on Tuesday announced the scaling down of his nationwide visits and public gatherings citing the rising cases of Covid-19 in the country. “The…

A Nairobi court has directed the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) to pay a lawyer Sh10 million for erroneously listing her as a defaulter. Eunice Ng’ang’a moved to court after HELB listed her with Credit Reference Bureaus (CRB) as a loan defaulter despite not being a beneficiary. In his ruling,…