KENYA NEWS

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…

Gire Ali, the Kenya Airways employee who was recently suspended for allegedly filming the arrival of a Chinese flight carrying 239 passengers, says his life is in danger. Gire recorded and shared a video of passengers disembarking from a China Southern Airlines flight that landed at the Jomo…

United States authorities have warned American airlines of possible attacks on their aircraft by extremists within the Kenyan airspace. In an updated advisory dated Wednesday, February 26th, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urged all US–registered airliners to be cautious while overflying…

Two Kenyan doctors have moved to court seeking to have Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo and her Transport counterpart James Macharia charged with attempted mass murder. In documents filed in court on Friday, the two; Joseph Mithika and Cyprian Mwirabua accuse CS Omamo and Macharia…

President Kenyatta, through an Executive Order, has established a taskforce to coordinate Kenya’s preparedness, prevention and response to the threat of coronavirus. The 21-member team comprises Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries in the ministries of Health, Defense, Transport, Foreign…

A Kenya Airways employee who allegedly filmed the arrival of a Southern China Airlines flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) has been suspended. Gire Ali took a video of some of the 239 passengers disembarking from the plane at JKIA on Wednesday.  Kenyans online were furious…