KENYA NEWS

Retired President Mwai Kibaki has reportedly been readmitted to the Nairobi Hospital barely two weeks after he was discharged from the same facility. The Star reports that Kibaki, 88, was driven back to the hospital on Monday evening and was admitted to the VIP wing, where he is being attended by a…

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has declared Friday, July 31st, a public holiday. Matiang’i through a Gazette Notice No. 5277 issued on Wednesday said this will allow Muslim faithful to celebrate Idd-Ul-Adha. “In recognition of the vital role of faith as a unifying force within our Nation…

Kenyan tycoon Jimi Wanjigi has been sued over alleged attempts to grab a prime parcel of land in Nairobi valued at over Sh400 million. In a case filed at the Environment and Lands court, the complainant, Cissy Kalunde Musembi, claims Wanjigi and his wife Irene are hell-bent to obtain and sell her…

Police have opened a probe into the death of a man who was hit by a car belonging to Taita Taveta Woman Representative Lydia Haika. The middle-aged man was crushed by the speeding vehicle at Sultan Hamud area along Nairobi-Mombasa highway at around 8 pm on Tuesday, according to Citizen Digital.…

A 60-year-old Kenyan national wanted by US authorities over ivory-related offenses has been arrested. Mansur Mohamed Surur, alias Mansour, was apprehended by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) moments after landing at Moi International Airport in Mombasa from Yemen on…

Authorities are searching for the body of a Kenyan woman who drowned while taking photos at Thompson’s Falls in Nyahururu on Sunday. The deceased, Jemimah Oresha, is said to have slipped from a rock and fell into the ravaging waters of the Ewaso Nyiro River. She had visited the world-famous…

The Health Ministry has accepted hospitals in Nairobi have been overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe on Tuesday said most of the stretched facilities are those that offer intensive care. “There are facilities that are overstretched especially those that relate to intensive care…

Pictures of police officers clobbering Nairobi MCA Mutheu Musyimi have gone viral on social media, leaving Kenyans in uproar. The images show Mutheu, an MCA representing Mlango Kubwa Ward, on the floor at City Hall premises begging police officers for mercy as they beat her with a pipe and club.…

Pilots and crew members will not be allowed to leave their hotel rooms after landing in Kenya from abroad. This is contained in the new health safety protocols published by the Tourism Ministry in consultation with the Ministry of Health ahead of the resumption of international flights on August…

Police in Mtwapa, Kilifi County are investigating an incident where a British woman escaped from prison last week. Joanne Goodman had been held at Mtwapa Remand Prison for four months and sneaked out of the facility on July 24th. She was arrested for being in the country illegally and was detained…