KENYA NEWS

Iconic Kenyan female freedom fighter Mekatilili wa Menza was on Sunday honored by Google, using a doodle. The US search engine company put a special doodle on its homepage in Kenya to celebrate the life and achievements of Mekatilili. A Doodle is a temporary alteration of Google’s logo on its…

Brookhouse International School in Nairobi is once again entangled in a tussle with parents over the Sh45,000 re-enrollment fee. The school’s management is said to have asked parents to pay the amount to re-enroll their kids by Monday, August 10th. But the institution’s Parents Association…

Tourism CS Najib Balala has revoked the appointment of Pauline Njoki Njoroge to the Tourism Regulatory Authority. This comes a day after her appointment as a board member of the authority caused a stir online over her past Facebook post questioning the economic viability of Nairobi National Park.…

Police in Nairobi are holding a 47-year-old man accused of manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs. The suspect identified as Peter Cummings Thatia was arrested on Friday following a tip-off from members of the public. He was nabbed in Hurlingham, Nairobi County during an operation carried out…

Kenya’s Health Ministry has dismissed claims that a concoction of ginger, lemon, and honey cures and prevents the Covid-19 disease. The ministry’s director-general Dr. Patrick Amoth clarified that while the concoction boots one’s immunity, it does not treat Covid-19. “Ginger, lemon and honey are…

A 21-year-old Kenyan man who went into hiding about five months ago after allegedly killing his girlfriend has been arrested. Leonard Kamanga Kamau is said to have fatally stabbed his lover, Tabitha Wanjiku (25) in Nairobi’s Umoja One estate on March 19th, 2020 before fleeing to Mombasa. He was…

ODM leader Raila Odinga believes the country will hold a referendum to amend the constitution before the end of this year. Odinga predicted the vote would most likely be conducted in late November or in December when the Covid-19 infection curve is expected to have flattened. “Initially we were…

Former Changamwe MP Ramadhan Seif Kajembe has died. Kajembe, a former assistant Cabinet minister, passed away on Friday while undergoing treatment at Pandya Memorial Hospital in Mombasa, where he was admitted two weeks ago. His death was confirmed by Jomvu MP Badi Twalib, who is the deceased’s son-…

Dennis Itumbi claims he worked at State House for one year without receiving pay after he fell out with former State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu. Itumbi, through a chain of Facebook posts, shared the behind-the-scenes drama that characterized his spell at State House starting in 2013. Itumbi was…

Traders are counting losses after an inferno razed a large section of the Marikiti market in Nairobi’s central business district. Stalls used by traders to store their stock were reduced to ashes in the Friday morning fire whose cause remains unknown.  Traders linked the incident to the…