KENYA NEWS

Popular Kenyan activist Okiya Omtatah’s 21-year-old daughter has passed away. Maryanne Marisyanna Omtatah, a third-year student at Riara University, died while receiving treatment at Bungoma Hospital on Thursday night. Maryanne was in a coma for a week at the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU)…

Nairobi nominated MCA Anne Muthoni Thumbi, a trained nurse has volunteered to work in a local health facility amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Kenya. Muthoni decided not to let her medical skills go to waste after the Nairobi County Assembly suspended sittings for 30 days over fears of the virus. The…

The government has suspended the disbursement of retirement package to ODM leader Raila Odinga due to the Covid-19 crisis. This comes after the National Treasury withdrew Sh1.5 billion in retirement benefits that had been set aside for former Prime Ministers, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, and…

The tally of coronavirus infections in Kenya has increased to 246 after 12 additional people tested positive for the disease. The 12 cases were confirmed from 450 samples tested by Friday morning, according to Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. Kagwe, while addressing reporters at the Jomo…

Kilifi Deputy Governor Gideon Saburi has been released on a cash bail of Sh200,000 or an alternative of Sh500,000 bond with one surety of a similar amount. Saburi, who has been in custody since April 3rd, was freed on Thursday by Mombasa Resident Magistrate Elvis Micheka, who faulted the…

President Kenyatta has announced the confirmation of nine additional cases of the coronavirus disease in the country. Uhuru, while addressing the nation from State House on Thursday, said the nine new cases were detected from 704 samples tested within the past 24 hours. He said the ages of the nine…

Rome-based Kenyan Catholic priest Richard Oduor has been released on a cash bail of Sh500,000 in a case in which he is charged for failing to self-quarantine over Covid-19. Father Oduor, who tested positive for Covid-19 last month, was arrested last Thursday after being discharged from a Nairobi…

The High Court has dismissed an application seeking to have the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed by the government late last month suspended. In an application filed on March 30th, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) asked the court to stop the 7 pm to 5 am curfew, arguing that it is illegal. LSK claimed…

Needy Kenyan families are set to receive a weekly stipend from the government to cushion them against the financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Addressing the nation on Thursday, President Uhuru said his administration has begun the process of identifying vulnerable families that will benefit…

A police officer attached to Kenyatta National Hospital has been arrested in connection with the murder of Carilton David Maina, a Kenyan University of Leeds student who was shot dead in Kibra, Nairobi in December 2018. Police constable Emmanuel Ambunya Oyombe was apprehended on Thursday by…