KENYA NEWS

Deputy President William Ruto on Monday denied being behind the distribution of poisonous relief food to residents of Kikuyu Constituency in Kiambu County. Several residents who received and consumed the food items packaged in bags labeled William Ruto Foundation and Kimani Ichung’wah are said…

It has emerged that relatives of a 36-year-old Kenyan woman from Kisauni, Mombasa who made headlines early this month after boiling stones for her starving children, have been trying to steal money she has been receiving from well-wishers. This was confirmed by Kisauni deputy county commissioner…

Tanzania’s Interior Minister has ordered the removal of all pot-bellied traffic police officers from the roads saying they are not fit to serve there. Interior Minister George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene directed Tanzania’s Inspector-General of Police Simon Sirro to redeploy such policemen…

Sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal investigations’ (DCI) homicide unit on Saturday, May 23rd, drove to the house of slain police officer Kipyegon Kenei. The detectives arrived at Kenei’s house in Villa Franca Estate in Imara Daima, Nairobi on Saturday evening to pursue new leads into the case…

President Kenyatta has unveiled an eight-point plan whose aim is to revamp the country’s economy, which has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Sh53.7 billion has been allocated towards the initiative dubbed the Economic Stimulus Program, which targets key areas among them Education,…

President Kenyatta says the government is spending Sh250 million per week to cushion vulnerable Kenyans from the harsh economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. 250,000 poor families are benefitting from the program with each household receiving Sh1,000 weekly to help them afford basic needs amid…

Scientists attached to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) have begun carrying out tests on herbal medicine Zedupex to determine whether it can effectively be used to treat coronavirus (Covid-19). Zedupex is a herbal medicine developed by Kenyan researchers in 2015 and has been used to…

Controversial Kenyan tycoon Jackson Kibor’s sons have dared him to make good his threat of subjecting them to DNA tests to ascertain if he is their biological father. Kibor, 88, said he will have his six sons undergo paternity tests after he defeated them in a court battle over a 1,250-acre parcel…

President Kenyatta has hinted at lifting the nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew and cessation of movement of people in and out of Nairobi and four other counties. Kenyatta, in an address to the nation on Saturday, May 23rd, admitted the Covid-19 pandemic has brought Kenya’s economy to a standstill,…

Jubilee secretary-general Raphael Tuju wants Justice Grace Nzioka to recuse herself from the Sh1.6 billion debt row between him and East African Development Bank (EADB). In an application filed in court, Tuju has asked Justice Nzioka to disqualify herself from the case, arguing that she has been…