KENYA NEWS

A majority of Kenyans are happy with the way President Kenyatta has handled the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report. Results of an opinion poll released by Infotrak on Sunday indicate that 62 percent of Kenyans expressed confidence with Kenyatta’s performance during the crisis. 77 percent…

Kenya’s Covid-19 cases have soared to 2,767 after 167 more people tested positive for the virus on Sunday. This marks the highest number of infections registered in a single day since Kenya confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on March 13th. The Health Ministry on Sunday said the 167 new Covid-19…

Kenyan celebrities are coming out to narrate their personal experiences with racism following the death of unarmed African-American George Floyd in the hands of a white policeman in the US. Kenyan media personality Julie Gichuru recently laid bare her encounter with racism in the United…

Police in Nairobi have opened an investigation into a fake tender advert published in a local daily by con artists masquerading as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The tender notice appearing on Sunday Nation on May 31st called for the supply of consumable goods including vegetable oil,…

The Talai Council of Elders has denied reports that Deputy President William Ruto visited them on Friday to seek cleansing and powers to protect himself from bad omen as well as harm from enemies. The elders through their chairman Rev. James Baasi, a retired Anglican Church cleric, clarified that…

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria is at risk of losing his property to auctioneers over rent arrears amounting to Sh7.25 million. This comes after law firm Mputhia Advocates in a demand l etter dated June 2nd sanctioned the sale of a property belonging to Kuria in a bid to recover the rent arrears…

Although he deactivated his Facebook and Twitter accounts in 2019, it appears President Kenyatta has been keeping tabs on what Kenyans say on social media. In his address to the nation on Saturday, Kenyatta admitted to reading memes and jokes Kenyans were making on social media in anticipation that…

Wachira Mathenge, a former presidential escort officer has passed away. Mathenge is said to have collapsed at his home in Chaka, Nyeri County on Friday night and was rushed to Outspan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Until his death, Mathenge served as the commissioner of police…

In what villagers have termed as a miracle, a 42-year-old Kenyan man who was reported missing last month was pulled out of a 60-foot well after staying there for 13 days. Royford Mugambi, a mentally challenged man, disappeared on the morning of May 22nd, 2020, from his elderly mother’s home in…

President Kenyatta has extended the nationwide curfew for a further 30 days as Kenya’s Covid-19 cases climbed to 2,600. Addressing the nation from State House, Nairobi on Saturday, Kenyatta also said the number of Covid-19 fatalities increased by four to 83.  Uhuru indicated that due to…