KENYA NEWS

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,…

A section of leaders allied to Deputy President William Ruto claims there is a plot to use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to block his 2022 presidential bid. Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi and his Kiharu counterpart Ndindi Nyoro alleged that Ruto’s rivals are out to revive his failed case at The…

Four Kenyan MPs have been sent to the US to observe Tuesday’s presidential election pitting Republican candidate, Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. They include Otiende Amollo who is the MP for Rarieda, Jeremiah Kioni (Ndaragwa), Abdi Shurie (Balambala), and Kisumu Senator…

The government through the Office of Attorney-General has filed a notice of appeal against the High Court judgment that awarded former PS Lillian Omollo one shilling for unlawful dismissal. The office of the AG in the notice says it was dissatisfied with the ruling made by Justice Stephen Radido of…

The University of Nairobi (UoN) has been directed to pay a former student for delaying his master’s degree program for five years. High Court Justice Weldon Korir ordered the institution to pay Sh500,000 to Paulpeter Makanda Makokha for delaying the program that normally takes two years. The court…

About 300 MPs have thrown their support behind the final Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. The MPs drawn from both the National Assembly and the Senate unanimously agreed to back the proposals made in the document following a two-day consensus-building retreat in Naivasha. Through a…

Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has warned Kenyans that they will pay a fine of Sh20,000 if they are found without a facemask in public. Mutyambai said police officers across the country are under instructions to arrest anyone found not wearing a facemask in public places and those…