KENYA NEWS

The United States has released a new report naming Kenya as one of the global human trafficking hotspots. The Trafficking in Persons Report 2020 lists Kenya among the countries with the worst human trafficking problems in the world. “Within the country [Kenya], traffickers exploit children through…

Retired President Mwai Kibaki is reportedly receiving medication at the Nairobi Hospital after he was taken ill. Kibaki, who served as the country’s third president between 2002 and 2013, was admitted to the facility on June 19th after he complained of pain in the lower abdomen, according to The…

Six Kenyan MPs are presently admitted to the hospital after they contracted Covid-19, according to reports. The Standard on Monday reported that one of the six MPs is fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit at a Nairobi hospital. Several MPs who interacted closely with their infected…

Former presidential aspirant Peter Kenneth has thrown his support behind President Kenyatta. Kenneth vowed to work with Kenyatta to help him fulfill his promises to Kenyans ahead of 2022 when his current and final term will expire. “It is impossible for the President to work with people who insult…

Sirisia MP John Waluke’s wife has angered Kenyans on social media after she sent an appeal to the public to help the family raise the Sh727 million fine slapped on her husband by the court. Waluke was handed the hefty fine by Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Juma on Thursday after he was found guilty of…

Police in Naivasha are holding a 42-year-old woman who allegedly poisoned all her four kids to death. Beatrice Mwende Kimotho is said to have locked the children inside her house at Kabati estate on Saturday afternoon and fed them food laced with poison.  The four children aged between two…

The High Court has frozen over Sh200 million deposited in bank accounts belonging to Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua. The accounts were frozen for 90 days pending a petition by the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) seeking to have the funds forfeited to the government, Sunday Nation reports. The money…

Wambui Kamiru, the widow of the late Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has spoken out on how his death has affected her. Speaking to Sunday Nation ahead of Collymore’s first death anniversary next Wednesday, Wambui disclosed she lost her sense of smell following his demise on July 1st last year. “I lost…

Narc-Kenya Party leader Martha Karua has weighed in on the flopped impeachment of Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru. Waiguru survived impeachment on Friday after the Senate Select Committee tasked to hear her case cleared her of all the charges laid by Kirinyaga MCAs. The committee chaired by…

Police in Kirinyaga County have found the body of a 27-year-old Kenyan woman believed to have been murdered and secretly buried by her boyfriend. The remains of Eunice Wambui were exhumed from a shallow grave at Kianderi village in Kirinyaga Central Sub-County on Friday. It is believed Wambui was…