KENYA NEWS

Kenya Airways has explained why an employee who filmed and shared a video showing the arrival of a Chinese flight carrying 239 passengers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) was suspended. KQ, through a statement on Sunday, said the staff identified as Gire Ali was suspended after the…

11 Kenyan MPs who made an unauthorized trip to Somalia on Saturday have been freed after they were questioned by police. Six of the MPs are from Mandera, three from Wajir and two from Garissa County. On Sunday, police camped at Wilson Airport in Nairobi waiting to arrest and question them upon…

Jubilee Secretary-General Raphael Tuju is set to be discharged from a London hospital next week and return home. Tuju, who was flown to the United Kingdom on February 19th for advanced treatment, will return to the country on Wednesday, March 4th, according to former Jubilee Chairman David…

President Uhuru will not hand over power to a thief in 2022, former Jubilee Party Chairman David Murathe has said. Speaking at a Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) forum at Kinoru Stadium in Meru on Saturday, Murathe said Uhuru was keen to leave the country in safe hands. “Hatutauziwa uoga, Uhuru…

President Kenyatta has heard the cry of a five-year-old Kenyan boy who was stuck in India for several weeks after his family was unable to pay for life-saving surgery. Last week, the boy named Ethan Macharia penned an emotional letter to Kenyatta requesting him to help the family raise Sh3.5…

Police are seeking to arrest and question eight Kenyan MPs who are alleged to have made a ‘secret’ trip to Somalia, according to reports. The eight MPs from North Eastern Kenya are said to have flown to the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Saturday at around 11 am aboard Salaamair Air Express Flight WU…

Police in Kiambu are holding a 26-year-old Kenyan man for allegedly killing his girlfriend in cold blood. Tairus Mwangi, an Administration Police officer based in Malindi, Kilifi County, is alleged to have fatally hit his girlfriend identified as Purity Karwirwa, 26, multiple times in the head,…

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Saturday gunned down four suspected kidnappers in Nairobi.  The four, including an Administration Police officer, had allegedly abducted a Chinese national on Wednesday and demanded a ransom of USD1 million (Sh100 million) to…

The Ministry of Health and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have dismissed reports circulating on social media claiming that Kenya has confirmed its first coronavirus (COVID-19) case. Through Twitter on Saturday evening, KNH urged members of the public to ignore the rumors, terming them as false. “…

Deputy President William Ruto hit back at ODM leader Raila Odinga over his tweet about ‘hustling.’ Odinga, through Twitter on Thursday, noted that the looting of public resources in Kenya was now being referred to as hustling while the dismissal of corrupt and incompetent government officials is…