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Police in Kilifi are holding Kenyan-based Turkish tycoon Osman Elsek for allegedly shooting a Kenyan boy.
Osman, 55, is said to have shot the teenager after chaos broke out during a football match in Kilifi on Friday, according to a police report.
This was after a group of village boys…
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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa will spend the weekend in police cells after she failed to raise and deposit bail on time.
Jumwa, who is charged with the murder of 48-year-old Gumbao Jola, was on Friday freed on Sh4 million cash bail or an alternative bond of Sh4 million.
Her co-accused Geoffrey…
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Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has extended a rent waiver offered to over 16,000 tenants living in houses owned by the county government for a further six months.
Sonko pointed out that the decision was informed by the financial challenges occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.
He accused the Kenya…
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International schools in Kenya have suspended the second phase of reopening following a spike in Covid-19 infections.
The Kenya Association of International Schools (KAIS) on Friday said the move affects learners who were scheduled to resume their studies on Monday.
Final year and key transitional…
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Police in Machokos County have foiled a child trafficking deal where a woman was seeking to sell her two-week-old son for Sh60,000.
The operation carried out in Mlolongo area on Friday led to the arrest of two female suspects including the child’s mother, Diana Mwende, 21.
Mlolongo Assistant County…
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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa and her bodyguard, Geoffrey Otieno have been released on a cash bail of Sh4 million and Sh1.5 million respectively after spending four nights in police custody.
The two are charged with the murder of 48-year-old Gumbao Jola on October 15th, 2019, in Ganda village, Kilifi…
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Former IEBC commissioner, Roselyn Akombe has accused President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto of fooling Kenyans.
Akombe through Twitter on Wednesday claimed that the alleged fallout and fights between Kenyatta and DP Ruto were a scheme by the two to divert attention from their failed…
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A Nairobi court has ordered a probe into the mysterious abduction of Liban Abdillahi Omar, a Westgate mall terror suspect who was acquitted on October 7th.
Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi on Thursday directed the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) to investigate the matter amid…
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A South Sudan diplomat collapsed and died inside a banking hall in Nairobi.
Michael Nyang Joook, the South Sudanese Ambassador to Eritrea died at the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Moi Avenue branch on Thursday afternoon.
The 66-year-old is said to have developed breathing difficulties before he…
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Kenya’s daily Covid-19 cases have hit a record high in what raises fears of a second wave of infections.
The Health Ministry on Thursday reported 1,068 new positive cases from a sample of 7,556 tests, raising the total number of infections in the country to 47,212.
The new cases comprise 1,044…
