KENYA NEWS

The US has boosted Kenya’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic with additional funding of $50 million (Sh5.3 billion). The grant provided through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is aimed at helping the country address the challenges posed by the pandemic, according to the American…

The High Court in Nairobi has quashed the sentencing of former Kenya Rugby 7s stars Frank Wanyama and Alex Olaba. The two players were each sentenced to 15 years in jail last August after they were found guilty of gang-rape. On Tuesday, Justice Grace Ngenye Macharia nullified their sentence and…

Chief Justice David Maraga has responded to claims that he fathered the daughter of a woman who caused drama at the Milimani Law Courts on Tuesday. Through his lawyer Danstan Omari, Maraga stated that he does not know the woman and did not sire the alleged 6-year-old girl. Omari noted that the…

A Kenyan woman claiming that Chief Justice David Maraga is the father of her six-year-old child on Tuesday morning caused drama at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi. The woman, identified as Mary Kwamboka Onyancha from Kisii County, told journalists that they had been raising the child together…

Mwai Kibaki’s private secretary Ngari Gituku has dismissed reports that the former President is admitted to the hospital. The Star on Monday reported that Kibaki was under the care of a team of doctors at the Nairobi Hospital’s VIP wing for the past 10 days over abdominal pain. The local daily…

The family of ODM leader Raila Odinga has issued an update on his health condition after he underwent surgery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week. Raila went under the knife at a hospital in Dubai to treat a nerve disorder that has been affecting one of his legs, his wife Ida Odinga told…

Former Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) manager Joseph Chege Gikonyo has been arrested over unexplained wealth amounting to nearly Sh600 million. Gikonyo was apprehended on Monday by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) together with his wife Lucy Kangai on allegations of…

Starehe MP Charles Kanyi Njagua, popularly known as Jaguar, has been arrested over alleged incitement. Jaguar was arrested on Monday for allegedly transporting a group of youths to forcibly occupy shops at a Grogon building, according to Nairobi Police Commander Philip Ndolo. But through Twitter,…

The United States has released a new report naming Kenya as one of the global human trafficking hotspots. The Trafficking in Persons Report 2020 lists Kenya among the countries with the worst human trafficking problems in the world. “Within the country [Kenya], traffickers exploit children through…

Retired President Mwai Kibaki is reportedly receiving medication at the Nairobi Hospital after he was taken ill. Kibaki, who served as the country’s third president between 2002 and 2013, was admitted to the facility on June 19th after he complained of pain in the lower abdomen, according to The…