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The number of Covid-19 infections in Kenya has passed the 2,000-mark after the Health Ministry reported 59 new cases on Monday. The new positive cases are from 1,518 samples examined in various laboratories across the country in the past 24 hours. There are now 2,021 Covid-19 infections in Kenya…
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President Kenyatta says his administration’s achievements in the past seven years dwarfs what his predecessors Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel Arap Moi, and Mwai Kibaki accomplished in 50 years combined. Uhuru, in his 57th Madaraka Day celebrations speech at State House on Monday, listed some of the…
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A Kenyan man whose wife succumbed to cancer last week has narrated the suffering he went through in the hands of cruel police officers. Charles Mwenda said his wife died in Malindi, Kilifi County, where he works, but decided he would bury her at his rural home in Tigania, Meru County. Due to the…
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Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula has insisted he is still the Ford-Kenya party leader, terming his ouster as illegal and inconsequential. Addressing reporters in Nairobi, Wetang’ula said the Ford-Kenya National Executive Council will take disciplinary actions against all errant members who held the…
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Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula has been stripped of his position as Ford Kenya Party leader. He was ousted following a Ford Kenya National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at Raddison Blu Hotel in Nairobi on Sunday. Wetang’ula, who was removed on grounds of gross misconduct, was replaced by…
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Deputy President William Ruto has been elected to a global governance body where he will represent both Kenya and Africa. Ruto will serve for three years in the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a governance body that brings together government leaders and civil society…
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Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika has told off a section of Kenyans judging her on the account of her father’s wrongdoings. Susan, who is the daughter of the late Kanu-era MP Kihika Kimani, took to Twitter to castigate Central Organization of Trade Unions (Cotu) secretary-general Francis Atwoli for…
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Alex G Ndiritu, the 27-year-old Kenyan man whose social media comment on the ongoing protests in the US over the killing of an unarmed civilian, George Floyd in Minneapolis went viral says he is living in fear. Ndiritu in an interview with The Standard on Saturday said he is fearing that American…
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31 inmates have been evacuated from the Nairobi Remand and Allocation Prison after they tested positive for Covid-19. The prisoners were picked from the facility by the Nairobi County Emergency Response Team on Sunday morning and shuttled to various treatment centers in the city. The 31 were among…
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Former Starehe MP Bishop Margaret Wanjiru has been discharged from the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi after recovering from Covid-19. Bishop Wanjiru was released from the facility on Saturday, 10 days after she tested positive for the virus. She is among 26 Covid-19 patients who were…