KENYA NEWS

A boat ferrying an unknown number of passengers has sunk in Lake Victoria, according to reports. The vessel dubbed Water Bus was headed to Usenge beach in Siaya County from Mageta Island on Saturday, May 2nd, when the incident happened, Citizen Digital reported. It is suspected that the boat…

Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria has built a 35-bed capacity intensive care unit (ICU) within a period of 21 days. Governor Mwangi commissioned the construction of the ICU facility at Murang’a Level 5 Hospital on April 9th and on Friday, May 1st, the unit was fully completed and ready to admit…

Elders drawn from the Kikuyu community have performed a special ritual in a bid to save the country from the raging Covid-19 pandemic. On Friday, May 1st, the elders converged at the sacred meeting point of the Agikuyu near River Chania in Thika, Kiambu County to conduct the ritual similar to that…

President Kenyatta says the Covid-19 pandemic presents Kenyan men with a perfect opportunity to stay home and get to know their wives better. Kenyatta, in his Labor Day speech, urged men to seize the chance and use it to forge better relationships with their spouses and children. “Let’s stay home,…

Kenya’s Ambassador to China Sarah Serem has expressed concerns over the low number of passengers who have booked a Kenya Airways flight organized to evacuate Kenyans from China amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Amb. Serem, through Twitter on Friday, May 1st, said only a few Kenyans have booked the flight…

The government has listed 23 areas in the counties of Nairobi and Mombasa as Covid-19 hotspots. The two counties account for more than 90 percent of the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country, according to the Ministry of Health. In Nairobi County, nine constituencies including…

A Kenyan man has been abandoned by his wife and children after he brought home a young baboon and insisted on living with the animal. Isaack Kibet from Elgeyo-Marakwet County returned home with the then newborn baboon after he found her abandoned on his farm. Neighbors advised him to take the ape…

Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi has declared the county Covid-19-free after all patients were discharged having recovered from the disease. On Friday, May 1st, Governor Kingi said the last six patients to test positive for the bug in the county were discharged from Jibana Health Centre on Thursday. “…

President Kenyatta has told off Kenyans criticizing the government over its decision to gift flowers to UK healthcare workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.  Uhuru, in his Labor Day speech on Friday, May 1st, said the move was a way of marketing Kenya’s flower industry, which has been adversely…

Over 100,000 Kenyans have lost their jobs following the outbreak of coronavirus in the country, according to a government report. The Ministry of Labor in a report filed in Parliament this week said at least 133,657 Kenyans have been rendered jobless as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a…