Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Sunday 08 November 2026

Evening Edition for Sunday, 08 November 2026. Running time 8:21.

In this bulletin

Kenya News

1. Kenyan Families Shelter Ethiopians Fleeing Conflict at Moyale
2. Murkomen Warns Mackenzie Is Radicalising Inmates
3. Four Dead as Truck Collision and Fire Close Mombasa Road
4. Twenty-Four Hour Nairobi Water Shutdown Begins Monday
5. Linda Mwananchi Accuses Ruto Government After Kalonzo Convoy Attack
6. Matiang'i, Gachagua and Kalonzo Meet to Quash 2027 Feud

World News

1. Diwali Lights Up India and the Global Diaspora

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

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

Coming up.

Murkomen warns Shakahola cult leader Mackenzie is radicalising fellow inmates in prison.

Four dead as trucks collide and burst into flames on Mombasa Road.

Kalonzo convoy attacked in Migori as movement accuses Ruto government of stoking violence.

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

Turning to news from Kenya, families living along the border with Ethiopia are sheltering Ethiopians who fled the fighting on the Ethiopian side of the frontier. The Star reports that the arrivals crossed into Kenya to escape the conflict and were taken into private households rather than any formal settlement. The situation is unfolding around Moyale, the border town in Marsabit County. Host families have been feeding and sheltering the arrivals alongside their own family members, drawing on supplies at home. But the strain is showing. The Star reports food and water are running short as households divide what they have among the extra people now living under their roofs. The Daily Nation separately reports the conflict has brought the Moyale crossing to a standstill. Moyale straddles the border and is the main gateway on the road corridor linking Nairobi with Addis Ababa.

Also in Kenya, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has warned that Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie is trying to radicalise inmates. Speaking in Kakamega County on Sunday, he said intelligence reports show the preacher is attempting to influence prisoners serving alongside him, and the government will isolate him within correctional facilities. The warning comes two days after the High Court in Mombasa jailed the founder of Good News International Ministries for two hundred years over the deaths of one hundred and ninety-one people, including one hundred and ninety children, in the Shakahola Forest tragedy. Justice Diana Kavedza-Mochache handed down consecutive one-hundred-year terms on Friday, for one hundred and eighty-three murders by starvation and eight homicides. Twenty-six co-accused received between one hundred and one hundred and sixty years, while two plea bargains brought ten-year terms. Mackenzie faces separate cases including manslaughter, radicalisation and terrorism-related offences.

Staying with Kenya, four people died on Sunday when two trucks collided head-on and burst into flames at Kiunduani in Makindu, along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. The crash left both heavy commercial vehicles engulfed in a massive fire that trapped the occupants inside the wreckage. Police and witness accounts differed on who the victims were. Some spoke of the two drivers, a woman and her child, others of the two drivers and a pregnant woman. Footage showed gridlocked traffic as motorists used the highway's shoulders to pass, and passersby rushed to douse the flames. Police are investigating the cause. The tragedy highlights the dangers of the four hundred and sixty-one kilometre corridor, amid a nine point two per cent nationwide rise in road fatalities reported by the National Transport and Safety Authority. Highway fatalities have passed forty since October, including the Salama crash that killed seventeen.

Back in Kenya, Nairobi faces a twenty-four hour water shutdown from Monday morning. The Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company says the cut will run from eight in the morning on Monday, November the ninth, to eight in the morning on Tuesday. The utility says the outage is needed to install new pipe connections near Kianda School along Waiyaki Way. Similar disruption is planned in Kisumu. Affected sites include Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi Hospital, Mbagathi Hospital, Forces Memorial Hospital, the Department of Defence, Langata Women's Prison and Uhuru Park. Residential estates hit include Westlands, Parklands, Kilimani, Lavington, Upper Hill, Madaraka, Kibera and areas along Ngong Road. The utility asked customers to use available water sparingly, apologised for the inconvenience and appealed for patience. It is the third major disruption after a twenty-nine hour cut earlier this month hit Kasarani, Roysambu, Zimmerman and Kayole.

Still in Kenya, the Linda Mwananchi movement has accused President William Ruto's administration of fuelling political violence and intolerance, after an attack on a campaign caravan led by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka in Migori County. The movement made the charge as politicians mobilise for the next national vote. Musyoka was leading the caravan as part of campaigning by the Wiper Patriotic Front ahead of Kenya's next general election, which the constitutional calendar places on August the tenth, twenty twenty-seven. Musyoka is a veteran politician, first elected to Parliament in the nineteen-eighties, who served as foreign affairs minister before becoming vice president from two thousand and eight to twenty thirteen. The attack unfolded in Migori, a county in western Kenya's Nyanza region bordering Tanzania, with more than one point one million residents. Accounts of the assault have not specified who carried it out.

Meanwhile in Kenya, opposition heavyweights Fred Matiang'i, Rigathi Gachagua and Kalonzo Musyoka held a closed-door breakfast meeting in Nairobi on Sunday, seeking to paper over differences over the twenty twenty-seven presidential race. The talks came hours before separate rallies in Nanyuki and Kitengela. Tensions boiled over after Gachagua suggested a pact between himself, Kalonzo and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna had the numbers to defeat President Ruto. Matiang'i slammed the plan as majoritarian arrogance, insisting the candidate must emerge through inclusive consultation, not boardroom deals. Democratic Party leader Justin Muturi accused Gachagua of political bullying. Gachagua hit back from his Wamunyoro residence, saying nobody should speak to him like a child, and insisting he delivered William Ruto's presidency. Matiang'i later shared a photo of the three leaders with a message of unity, writing that brothers will always put Kenya first. But the truce was quickly tested.

Turning to world news, homes, temples and streets across India glowed on Sunday as Hindus marked Diwali, the festival of lights and the most widely observed celebration on the Hindu calendar. The observance extends beyond India, with diaspora communities from the Gulf and Southeast Asia to Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and the Caribbean holding festivities. Celebrations featured fireworks, prayers, family reunions, rangoli designs at doorways, communal feasting and the sharing of sweets. Its name means a row of lights, and it falls on the new-moon night of the Hindu month of Kartik. It symbolises the victory of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance. The main night centres on Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity, invoked in homes cleaned for her arrival. The date recalls Lord Ram's return to Ayodhya after fourteen years of exile, welcomed with rows of oil lamps.

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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