Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Sunday 01 November 2026

Evening Edition for Sunday, 01 November 2026. Running time 8:36.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. Kenyans in Thailand join Bangkok charity football tournament
2. Nairobi agencies lure Kenyans into Russia-Ukraine war frontlines
3. Kenyans in Europe back Sifuna's 2027 presidential bid
4. UK tests continue as Kenyan student Nelbert Kipruto is buried

Immigration News

1. Unpaid taxes could jeopardise US green card applications, lawyers warn

Kenya News

1. Gachagua rules out mediation with Uhuru Kenyatta
2. PS urges millers to make strawberry and vanilla ugali
3. Kalonzo tells Sifuna to await opposition decision on 2027

Sports News

1. Sheila Chepkirui wins New York City Marathon

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

Good evening. It's 6 o'clock this evening on Sunday, the first of November, and here is your evening edition.

Coming up.

Sheila Chepkirui wins the New York City Marathon as Kenya's reign continues.

Gachagua rules out mediation with Uhuru Kenyatta, declaring we are one team.

Intelligence estimates say one thousand Kenyans have been recruited into the Russian military.

Those stories, and more, in the next few minutes.

We begin tonight with diaspora news, Kenyans living in Thailand have joined corporate teams in Bangkok for a charity football tournament dedicated to a rural school. The twelfth Annual Educational Caravan Charity Seven-A-Side Tournament brought together twenty-four teams at the Tata Soccer Stadium. A joint African diaspora side featuring Kenyan nationals competed to raise funds for Ban Khlong Somboon School. Officials from the Kenyan Embassy attended to support the community. Deputy Head of Mission Glenns Etyang, speaking for Ambassador Lucy Kiruthu at the closing ceremony, praised organisers for using sport to drive social cohesion and cross-cultural understanding. He commended Kenyans in Thailand for supporting community initiatives and integrating into their host society.

Also in diaspora news, intelligence estimates suggest roughly one thousand Kenyans have been recruited into the Russian military, lured by deceptive Nairobi agencies promising civilian jobs. Ukrainian authorities put African fighters alongside Russian forces at around one thousand four hundred. Survivor Vincent Odhiambo says a recruiter approached him on Biashara Street, offering shop jobs paying up to five hundred and seventeen thousand shillings a month. The agency, Global Face of Koinange Street, collected a ten thousand shilling airport fee before he flew out on the thirteenth of July, twenty twenty-five. In Saint Petersburg, handlers confiscated passports and return tickets, then drove the recruits to a remote forest and told them they were now soldiers.

Staying with Kenyans abroad, the United Kingdom and Europe secretariat of the Linda Mwananchi Movement has pledged to back Senator Edwin Sifuna's presidential bid. The pledge came on Saturday, after the party's launch in Nairobi. Chairman Francisco Macharia Mbugua urged young people to register as voters. The secretariat praised Generation Z for demanding better governance, citing rising living costs, unemployment and mismanaged public resources. The future of Kenya belongs to its youth, the group said in a statement from London. It welcomed Doctor Gilbert Shanga as Secretary for International Affairs and Doctor Eunice Juma for Diaspora Affairs. Those appointments face ratification at a National Delegates Convention on the thirteenth of November, twenty twenty-six.

And still with the diaspora, Kenyan nursing student Nelbert Kipruto Rirei was buried on Saturday at his family home in Nariri Village, Kesses, in Uasin Gishu County. A post-mortem by United Kingdom pathologists found no physical trauma or suspicious circumstances. But the exact cause of death remains unknown, with toxicological and laboratory tests still under way. Rirei had been living and working in Cambridge. He disappeared on the eighth of October, last seen around nine pm after being dropped at a shop in Chesterton. Police later recovered his body from the River Cam. The Kenyan diaspora in the UK held a riverside memorial there on the sixteenth of October, leaving flowers in quiet remembrance.

Turning to immigration news, lawyers in the United States are warning that unpaid federal taxes can jeopardise green card applications. The Times of India reports the agency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, is scrutinising tax compliance more closely in adjustment of status cases. Applicants adjust status using Form I four eight five. In family-based cases, the sponsoring relative must file an Affidavit of Support, showing tax returns for the past three years and household income of at least one hundred and twenty-five percent of federal poverty guidelines. A sponsor with unfiled returns or an unresolved tax balance may fail those requirements, and tax delinquency feeds into the public charge analysis.

Turning to news from Kenya, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has dismissed calls for mediation with former President Uhuru Kenyatta, insisting they need no broker because they stand on the same side. We are one team, Gachagua said. The statement comes as parties position for the August twenty twenty-seven general election. Both men anchor their support in the Mt Kenya region, the country's largest voting bloc. Gachagua served as deputy president from September twenty twenty-two until parliament removed him in October twenty twenty-four. The National Assembly impeached him on charges including gross violation of the Constitution, and the Senate upheld five counts. He denied the allegations and called his ouster politically driven.

Staying with Kenya, Industry Principal Secretary Juma Mukwana has challenged maize millers to develop strawberry and vanilla flavoured ugali to capture international markets. Speaking at Saturday's Kenya Millers Fortification Index Awards, he said a population projected to reach seventy million by twenty fifty demands innovative food options with global appeal. He asked how millers would feed seventy million people, suggesting flavoured ugali could cross the oceans. Cereals Millers Association Chairman Beju Shah accepted the challenge, but pointed to inadequate state grain reserves. He urged the National Cereals and Produce Board to store enough maize for millers. The country plans imports of up to twenty-five million ninety-kilogram bags from Tanzania and other regional markets.

Also from Kenya, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has told Senator Edwin Sifuna to wait for the opposition to decide its twenty twenty-seven presidential ticket. Speaking on Saturday at Machakos Senator Agnes Kavindu's house-opening ceremony, Kalonzo said Sifuna is just a party leader, and a joint opposition flagbearer must be chosen through formal procedures. He said, we have to wait for the thirteenth of November, when we will talk with other presidential candidates. The remarks followed a chaotic launch of the Linda Mwananchi Movement headquarters, where Kalonzo faced hostile chants after rejecting an endorsement of Sifuna by Democratic Party of Kenya leader Eugene Wamalwa. Chants of President Sifuna forced him to pause his speech.

And in sport, Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui has won the New York City Marathon, leading the women's field across the finish line on Sunday to extend a decade of Kenyan dominance in the race. Chepkirui completed the twenty-six point two mile course through the city's five boroughs ahead of a world-class field. Runners started on Staten Island, crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn, and finished in Central Park. More than a million spectators typically line the route. The marathon is one of the six World Marathon Majors, alongside Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin and Chicago. Mary Keitany won it four times, and Hellen Obiri, Joyciline Jepkosgei and Peres Jepchirchir have also triumphed.

And that is your evening edition. The next bulletin is at midday tomorrow. You can read every one of these stories in full, and much more besides, at Mwakilishi.com.

Have a good evening.

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