Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Saturday 07 November 2026

Evening Edition for Saturday, 07 November 2026. Running time 8:42.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. Canada extends foreign worker approvals but tightens low-wage hiring

Kenya News

1. Mudavadi and Wetang'ula warn Western region against Sifuna's 2027 bid
2. Kenya bars repatriation of Ebola deaths from abroad
3. Students snatch gun from KCSE monitoring team
4. Chief Justice Koome says goon financiers should be sent to hell
5. ODM and UDA race to finalise joint manifesto
6. Court freezes accounts and crypto over Equity Bank heist

Lifestyle News

1. Hybrid workers happier than fully remote staff, study finds

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

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

Coming up.

FKF General Assembly expels Mariga and six officials after tear-gas chaos in Meru.

Court freezes accounts and crypto in one point five billion shilling Equity Bank heist.

Kenya bans repatriation of bodies of citizens who die of Ebola abroad.

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

In diaspora news tonight, Kenyans seeking jobs in Canada face a mixed outlook under sweeping changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Programme. The reforms double the maximum duration of Labour Market Impact Assessment approvals from one year to two. That clearance is mandatory before Canadian employers hire foreign labour, proving local citizens are unavailable. But a clampdown on low-paying jobs takes effect on the first of March, twenty twenty-seven. In cities above two hundred and fifty thousand people with unemployment below six per cent, employers may only hire foreign workers in occupations identified as facing shortages. Similar rules cover smaller metropolitan areas. Ottawa also proposes raising the foreign worker limit from ten to fifteen per cent in selected towns, while priority industries keep twenty per cent.

Turning to Kenya, senior figures from the Western region are warning the Luhya community against backing the opposition Linda Mwananchi Movement led by Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula spoke at separate weekend events. Addressing clergy in Nyang'ori, Vihiga County, Mudavadi dismissed Sifuna's twenty twenty-seven presidential ambition as a fallacy. He said a candidate needs twenty-five per cent of votes in at least twenty-four counties plus an absolute majority. Taking all of Western gives only four counties, five with Trans Nzoia, leaving a shortfall of nineteen. Mudavadi also attacked the choice of former Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza as First Deputy Party Leader. She was impeached in twenty twenty-four, and the High Court upheld that decision in twenty twenty-five.

Staying with Kenya, Kenyans who die of Ebola abroad will no longer have their bodies repatriated home for burial. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale presented the Public Health Ebola Disease Rules, twenty twenty-six, to a parliamentary committee on Thursday. For deaths within Kenya, only trained personnel in protective equipment may handle bodies, which must be placed in sealed leak-resistant bags. Practices such as washing, embalming or redressing the body are banned. Duale said families may still attend burials, following Christian or Islamic customs within health limits. The rules mandate screening for arrivals from high-risk areas, including Kenyans returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo for Christmas. Suspected cases may be isolated and contacts quarantined for twenty-one days, though no Kenyan will be denied entry for visiting an affected region.

Also from Kenya, students at Nyabisase Secondary School have attacked a team monitoring the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations and snatched a gun. The incident was reported by the Daily Nation. The monitoring team was at the school on duties connected to the examination when students turned on the visitors, and a firearm was snatched in the confrontation. The report did not indicate whether the weapon has been recovered, whether anyone was injured, or whether arrests have been made. The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education is the final national examination for secondary candidates, administered by the Kenya National Examinations Council. Monitoring teams deployed by the council and the Ministry of Education check that containers are opened on schedule and invigilators are at their stations.

Still in Kenya, Chief Justice Koome has declared that goon financiers should be cursed and sent to hell, classifying goonism as organised serious crime. According to The Standard, she said on Thursday that goonism falls under organised serious crimes that go against the Rome Statute and humanity. Her condemnation was aimed at those who finance goon activity, not only those who carry it out. The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. Adopted in Rome on the seventeenth of July nineteen ninety-eight, it entered into force on the first of July two thousand and two. The court sits in The Hague with jurisdiction over four crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Kenya ratified the statute in two thousand and five.

Back in Kenya, ODM and UDA separated technical policy work from high-level political bargaining as their joint manifesto committee races to finish a shared blueprint for the twenty twenty-seven elections. Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir confirmed the division of labour. A separate team will handle the pre-election coalition agreement under party leaders' guidance, leaving the committee to focus on policy. The technical committee, led by Engineer Carey Orege for ODM and Doctor Emmanuel Nzai for UDA, is outlining the broad-based government's development agenda. Nassir said drafting requires minimal friction because both parties share priorities, including affordable housing, remunerating Community Health Promoters, special economic zones and social protection. With ten months to the polls, the team faces a February deadline, and consultations will include deputy party leaders, secretaries-general, governors and MPs.

In other Kenya news, a court has frozen bank accounts and cryptocurrency assets as investigations continue into the theft of one point five billion shillings from Equity Bank. The frozen assets include conventional bank accounts and digital currency holdings, suggesting part of the money was moved into cryptocurrency before the court stepped in. Equity Bank is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and serves millions of customers, with subsidiaries in several East and Central African countries. The sum ranks among the largest reported stolen from a Kenyan bank in recent years. Freezing orders preserve property during investigations, stopping funds from being transferred, withdrawn or spent. The Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act allows preservation orders, and the Assets Recovery Agency traces and freezes assets linked to crime.

Turning to lifestyle news, hybrid workers who split their time between the office and home enjoy better mental well-being than people who work entirely remotely, according to a major study published in the journal Social Indicators Research. The research surveyed nearly fifty thousand people across ninety-two countries. People in hybrid setups reported higher well-being scores than fully remote employees, and those living in larger households with family or flatmates scored better than people living alone. Financial security and job stability proved critical, with employed people and higher earners reporting significantly better emotional well-being than the unemployed or those with limited resources. Younger generations reported the lowest well-being scores worldwide, struggling most with emotional stability, energy and daily stress. Researchers cautioned against ranking nations, citing cultural context and survey methods.

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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