KENYA NEWS

The National Government has assumed the functions of the Nairobi County Government after the court barred Governor Mike Sonko from accessing his office last December. In a statement on Tuesday evening, State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena said the national government takes over the functions in…

Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina was on Tuesday morning arrested in Nairobi for allegedly making inflammatory remarks. Ledama was apprehended by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) shortly after exiting Royal Media Services studios on Dennis Pritt Road, Nairobi, where he…

A section of Kikuyu elders drawn from Murang’a County claim that homosexuality is to blame for the current locust invasion in Kenya. Speaking during a media briefing in Murang’a town on Tuesday, the elders alleged that the infestation dubbed the worst in Kenya in 70 years, was a punishment from God…

A Nairobi court on Monday temporarily suspended the prosecution of former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich over the Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal in which Sh63 billion was allegedly looted. Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti put the trial of Rotich, former Treasury PS…

NYS scandal suspect Phyllis Njeri Ngirita has narrated her family's agony after they were charged over the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal. Addressing reporters outside Milimani Law Courts on Monday, an emotional Njeri lamented over the freezing of the family’s bank accounts and assets. She…

There will no longer be traffic police officers stationed along major highways in Kenya, Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has announced. Speaking in Nairobi on Monday, Mutyambai said all static traffic cops will be removed and replaced by mobile officers. He spoke at the Police…

Kenyan tycoon and veteran politician Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki is dead. Nginyo passed away while receiving treatment at the Aga Khan University Hospital in the wee hours of Monday morning, his family announced. “It is with great regret that we the family of Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki announce his…

Police are set to press murder charges against Appeals Court judge Sankale ole Kantai. Justice Sankale was arrested in Mombasa on Friday and was taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi for questioning over the murder of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen. He spent…

The sorry state of the Kenyan health system was exposed after 10 cancer patients were kicked out of Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) last Thursday. The patients were told they could not get life-saving chemotherapy due to lack of blood at the hospital, which is Kenya’s largest health facility,…

Two foreign nationals were on Sunday arrested in Nairobi in connection with human trafficking. The two, identified as Thabit Hanni Yaseen Radman and Faren Yassin Radman, were arrested by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area. During the…