Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Friday 06 November 2026

Evening Edition for Friday, 06 November 2026. Running time 8:22.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. UK fundraiser Suzzie Otiende warns families on dementia
2. Dan Ochieng takes office at Kenya High Commission in Ottawa
3. US sanctions network trafficking Kenyans into scam compounds

Immigration News

1. Saudi and Kuwait Ebola travel halt hits Kenyan businesses
2. Diplomatic passport rules set for review

Kenya News

1. CS Ruku declares bid for Nairobi governor
2. Kenya's Ebola outbreak nears its end
3. Mackenzie sentenced to 200 years over Shakahola deaths (see also: Death Penalty Demanded for Shakahola Preacher Paul Mackenzie Ahead of Sentencing)
4. Charlene Ruto weds Isaya Yunge in Mwanza
5. Under-21 alcohol ban proposed in Parliament

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

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

Coming up.

Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie sentenced to two hundred years in prison.

Kenya's Ebola outbreak nears its end with just one patient still in treatment.

US sanctions crime network accused of trafficking hundreds of Kenyans into scam compounds.

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

We begin with diaspora news, where UK-based Kenyan fundraiser Suzzie Otiende is urging families to stop treating memory loss in older people as a normal part of ageing. She launched a Facebook campaign for the charity Dementia UK to mark her birthday on the seventh of November. It has already raised over three thousand pounds towards a twenty-six thousand pound target, all of it funding Admiral Nurses. Drawing on her years as a care worker in Britain, Otiende says failing to recognise early signs denies patients medical care. She says more research is needed because elderly people with valuable knowledge are being lost.

Also from the diaspora, seasoned diplomat and legal professional Dan Ochieng has taken office as Minister Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the Kenyan High Commission in Ottawa, Canada. Ochieng arrived in the Canadian capital this week and was formally welcomed at a luncheon hosted by Acting High Commissioner Geoffrey Kaituko, attended by mission staff, locally engaged employees and his family. The High Commission says his background will bolster its capacity, and that it looks forward to working with him to advance Kenya's interests in Canada. The posting comes as Kenya pursues deeper economic and diplomatic partnerships with Canada.

Staying with the diaspora, American authorities have sanctioned a Cambodian-based criminal network accused of trafficking hundreds of Kenyans into forced labour at online scam compounds across Southeast Asia. The action, announced by the US Treasury on Thursday, targets four individuals and forty-one entities linked to the Prince Group. The US Embassy in Nairobi says hundreds of Kenyans were rescued from those scam centres in twenty twenty-six. Victims are lured with fake overseas job offers, then trapped and forced to run internet fraud. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott warned that no criminal network is beyond reach.

Turning to immigration news, a sudden halt on travel to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait over Ebola fears is threatening millions of shillings across Kenya's service economy, private recruitment agencies have warned. Abdalla Mohammed Naim, a director at Naim Investments and former national chairman of the Kenya Association of Private Employment Agencies, says aviation, public transport, health services and government licensing are all losing money. He says applicants had already paid for passports, medical checks, certificates of good conduct and tickets. More than fifty thousand issued work visas now risk expiring as Ramadan approaches, some with only a week or two left.

Staying with immigration, the government is set to review regulations governing diplomatic passports to align them with the twenty-ten Constitution, after concerns that several constitutional office holders were excluded from the entitlement. Immigration Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang told a National Assembly committee on Thursday that the state is willing to amend the twenty-twelve rules. The committee was reviewing a petition by the Commission on Administrative Justice over unequal treatment of officials serving in independent commissions. Kipsang said Regulation thirteen lets the Interior Cabinet Secretary grant diplomatic passports case by case, but he stressed the need to protect the document's integrity.

Turning to news from Kenya, Cabinet Secretary Ruku has declared his candidacy for Nairobi governor, attacking the record of incumbent Johnson Sakaja. The Daily Nation reports the move adds a high-profile name to an increasingly crowded race ahead of the August twenty twenty-seven general elections. Ruku is making Sakaja's performance since twenty twenty-two the central issue. Sakaja won the seat on a United Democratic Alliance ticket after serving as Nairobi Senator, defeating Polycarp Igathe. Both men are drawn from the same broad political establishment that backed President William Ruto, and a win in twenty twenty-seven would give Sakaja a second and final term.

Staying with Kenya, the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak is nearing its end, with a sixth recovery recorded and only one patient still in treatment. Health Director-General Doctor Patrick Amoth announced on Friday that the latest patient, an adult male, tested negative and was cleared for discharge. The country has now gone eighteen straight days without a new infection, with nine confirmed cases from one known chain of transmission and no community spread. Sixty-six contacts have finished their twenty-one-day isolation, while fifty-two remain in monitoring until the eleventh of November. Once the last patient is discharged, a forty-two-day countdown begins towards declaring Kenya Ebola-free.

Also from Kenya, Shakahola cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie has been sentenced to two hundred years in prison by the High Court in Mombasa for the murders of one hundred and ninety-one people, one hundred and ninety of them children. Justice Diana Kavedza Mochache rejected the prosecution's push for the death penalty, saying keeping Mackenzie alive preserves the chance he may disclose where missing children's remains lie. He and twenty-eight co-accused were convicted last month. His accomplices received terms of ten to one hundred and sixty years, mostly one hundred and sixty. The court found his church enforced fatal fasting through indoctrination, intimidation and violence.

Still with news from Kenya, President William Ruto and First Lady Rachel Ruto have attended the lakeside wedding of their daughter Charlene to Tanzanian technology entrepreneur Isaya Yunge in Mwanza. The garden ceremony on the shores of Lake Victoria on Friday brought together political figures, family and business leaders from both countries, among them Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi. The cross-border celebrations began on the eighth of August with a traditional Kalenjin engagement ceremony, a Koito, at the President's farm in Kilgoris. On Tuesday Charlene hosted a white-and-purple bridal shower, and the bride walked a mirrored aisle to an altar of cascading roses.

And finally from Kenya, people under twenty-one could soon be barred from buying alcohol under a Bill read for the first time in the National Assembly on Thursday. The Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs Control Laws Amendment Bill also bans digital sales, including home deliveries, courier services and online platforms, outlaws hawking and vending machines, and stops licensed outlets operating within three hundred metres of any learning institution. Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah says raising the age limit from eighteen to twenty-one will protect young people. A new two-shilling-per-litre levy would fund enforcement, with at least fifteen per cent supporting anti-drug initiatives.

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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