KENYA NEWS

A policewoman lost her three kids and housemaid after fire broke out in her house in Nakuru on Saturday night. Reports indicate the Mary Wandia, a police officer attached Elementaita Police Post, had just moved into the rental house in Pipeline estate three days ago. Confirming the incident, Nakuru…

Police have opened a probe into an incident where renowned Kenyan actor Ainea Ojiambo accidentally shot two people in Nairobi CBD on Friday. CCTV footage of the Friday evening incident shows Ojiambo having a conversation with an unidentified woman outside a shop along Moi Avenue in Nairobi. Two…

A police officer is among five terror suspects who were arrested with explosives in Mtito Andei, Machakos County on Saturday. They were apprehended after detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), who were on patrol within the township, received a tip-off from members of the…

A Kenyan woman claiming to be a widow of the late Italian tycoon Giovanni Forino is embroiled in a dispute over the estate left behind by the deceased. Giovanni, who died of cancer in January 2019, left behind a Sh2 billion estate in Malindi, Kilifi County. The estate includes Twiga resort in…

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu is set to visit Kenya next week, State House has announced. She will arrive in Nairobi on Tuesday for a two-day State visit that will see her meet with President Kenyatta at State House. In a statement on Sunday, State House spokesperson Kanze Dena said further…

Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko is seeking an out-of-court settlement in a case where Interior PS Karanja Kibicho sued him for defamation. Kibicho sued Sonko early this year for linking him to the violence witnessed in Nairobi in the run-up to the 2017 general election and land grabbing. On…

Deputy President William Ruto has continued to defend his ‘Hustler’ campaign ideology ahead of the 2022 general elections.  Through Twitter, Ruto shared a screengrab of US President Joe Biden’s tweet in an attempt to justify his ‘Hustler movement’, which seeks to empower low-income earners and…

President Kenyatta has lifted the cessation of movement into and out of the one-zoned area comprising the counties of Nairobi, Kiambu, Nakuru, Machakos, and Kajiado. Curfew hours in the five counties that were previously declared as covid-infected areas have also been reviewed to begin at 10 pm and…

Grace Keziah Aoko Obama, the step-mother to former US president Barack Obama, has finally been laid to rest. The deceased was buried in a brief ceremony on Saturday at her home in Nyang’oma Kogelo village, Siaya County. The 78-year-old passed away on April 13th at a UK hospital, where she was…

The body of former US President Barack Obama’s step-mother Mama Grace Keziah Aoko Obama has arrived in Kenya for burial. Aoko, who died while undergoing treatment in the UK on April 13th, will be laid to rest in Nyang’oma Kogelo village, Siaya County on Saturday. Her remains arrived at Jomo…