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A three-member team has been appointed to probe the barbaric burial of James Oyugi, a Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) staff who died of coronavirus on April 10th. Speaking on Monday, Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga said the team has been tasked to investigate who issued orders for Oyugi’s burial against…
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A 45-year-old Kenyan judiciary employee has gone into hiding after she allegedly hacked her husband and daughter to death with an axe. Naomi Wanjiku, a clerk at Karatina law courts, is said to have committed the heinous act their home in Kioru Village in Ndia, Kirinyaga County on Saturday. She…
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Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) has opened a probe into claims that a chief poured hot liquid on a granny's face in Eldoret. This comes after a photo showing the administration officer pouring what is believed to be illicit liquor, locally known as chang’aa, on the elderly Kenyan woman…
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Deputy President William Ruto has trashed claims that President Kenyatta was trying to kick him out of Jubilee Party. Ruto, through Twitter on Sunday, said Uhuru was not part of a scheme meant to oust him from the governing party, which they formed together ahead of the 2017 presidential election.…
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A zebra at the Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya has given birth to a peculiar-looking foal after she reportedly mated with a donkey. Although the foal has stripes, they are not dark and barely cover her body. Caregivers at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust established that the foal is not a zebra but…
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The number of coronavirus infections in Kenya has climbed to 197 after the Health Ministry confirmed six new cases on Sunday. The six cases were detected from a total of 766 samples tested for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a press statement. Five out…
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34 people, including Embakasi Central MP Benjamin Gathiru Mwangi, have been arrested at an entertainment joint in Nairobi for defying social distancing directive. MP Gathiru was apprehended on Saturday at Ruai Gardens along the Eastern Bypass alongside 18 others for flouting the directive meant to…
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A 53-year-old United Nations (UN) staff who tested positive for coronavirus in Juba, South Sudan has reportedly been evacuated to Nairobi. Kenya allowed the woman to be flown from Juba to Nairobi for treatment after she was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Monday, April 6th, according to a report by The…
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Brenda Akinyi, the daughter of a Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) staff who succumbed to coronavirus last week has accused the Coast General Hospital of negligence. Her mother, Ursula Buluma died while undergoing medication at the hospital on April 2nd after she was diagnosed with Covid-19. Brenda, 42,…
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Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (Kuco) claims that six of their members have contracted coronavirus in the line of duty. Speaking during a media briefing in Nairobi, Kuco secretary-general George Gibore accused the government of failing to make the treatment of the six clinical officers a priority…