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The United States has donated 10 vehicles to Kenya’s investigating agencies to help boost their efforts in combating corruption and drug trafficking.
The 10 Toyota Hilux pickups were handed over to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC…
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A Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldier and a police officer involved in a shooting incident in Garissa this week have succumbed to their injuries.
The two, alongside another KDF soldier, were admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds after they shot each other in a case of mistaken identity.
The…
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The government has facilitated the evacuation of 120 Kenyan teachers who were stranded in Somalia amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The teachers landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) aboard a Daallo Airlines flight on Thursday evening from Garowe area in Somalia.
Most of the evacuated…
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In 1931, two uneducated young men from Rwathia village, in Kangema, Murang’a County traveled to Nairobi on a mission to change their lives and pull themselves and their families out of abject poverty.
The two; Gerald Gikonyo and Gerishon Kirima arrived in the city with nothing but their tattered…
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The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has obtained orders to freeze three bank accounts belonging to Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua for one week.
The accounts were frozen to give room for investigations against MP Gachagua over graft and money laundering allegations, The Standard reported on Friday.…
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Burundi First Lady Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza has been airlifted to Kenya for treatment after she was diagnosed with Covid-19, according to reports.
Mrs. Nkurunziza landed in Nairobi from Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura aboard an AMREF aircraft on Thursday morning, and was driven to The Aga Khan…
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A video of police officers grabbing and squeezing a man’s genitals during an arrest has sparked uproar among Kenyans on social media.
The eight-second clip that has since gone viral online shows three policemen trying to bundle the man, reported to be a hawker, into a police van after arresting him…
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A former Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) senior manager has been slapped with a Sh2 million fine by a Nairobi court for soliciting a bribe amounting to Sh15 million.
Robert Maina Ngumi, a former manager at KRA’s domestic taxes department, was on Wednesday convicted by Anti-Corruption Court Chief…
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For the second day in a row, Kenya has recorded its highest daily increase in the number of Covid-19 infections, bringing the total positive cases in the country to 1,618.
On Thursday, May 28th, the Health Ministry announced 147 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the past 24 hours, an increase…
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ODM leader Raila Odinga has dismissed a report by a local publication claiming that he called for the cremation of Kenyans who succumb to Covid-19.
The Star in an article dated May 27th quoted Odinga stating that bodies of Covid-19 victims should be incinerated instead of burying in order to…