Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Monday 09 November 2026
Evening Edition for Monday, 09 November 2026. Running time 8:38.
In this bulletin
Diaspora News
Immigration News
- New York Times Exposes Deportation Loophole
- Seventy Groups Fight Refugee Rule
- New Zealand Cuts Green List Roles
- ACLU Warns of Airport Data Tracking
Kenya News
- Hell's Gate Gorge Closed for El Nino
- Moyale Influx as Ethiopia Clashes Rage
- Karauri Joins UDA to Battle Sakaja
- Police Seize 454kg of Methamphetamine
- Mackenzie Faces Prison Isolation
- Ruto Rails Against Gachagua
World News
Entertainment News
Transcript
This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.
Good evening. It's 6 o'clock this evening on Monday, the ninth of November, and here is your evening edition.
Coming up.
Minnesota offers Kenyan nurses chance to relocate with their entire families.
President Ruto accuses Gachagua of extortion in sharpest attack yet.
Mackenzie to be held in isolation as Shakahola families demand wider justice.
Those stories, and more, in the next few minutes.
Turning to diaspora news, Minnesota State Representative Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley has returned to Kenya leading a delegation of fourteen healthcare providers to forge a bilateral employment partnership. She says the initiative offers relocation pathways for nurses and their entire families. Minnesota, which once relied heavily on Asian recruitment, has turned to Kenya's English-speaking, youthful and well-trained nurses. A Minnesota House report projects a shortage exceeding thirty thousand nurses by twenty thirty. She defended the plan, pointing to Kenya's qualified but unemployed nursing graduates.
Turning to immigration news, a New York Times investigation has found the United States is returning immigrants to their home countries despite standing court orders. The newspaper says foreign partner governments accept American deportees, then ship them onward to nations where the United States itself would be barred from sending them. Because the decisive transfer is carried out by a foreign government, the removals went ahead even where American courts had issued restricting orders. The Times calls the practice systematic.
Staying with immigration, seventy organizations across the United States are urging the Department of Homeland Security and Citizenship and Immigration Services to rescind a rule stripping refugees of legal protections. The joint appeal, led by the resettlement agency Global Refuge and reported on Monday, describes the rule as unlawful. The coalition wants the agencies to withdraw the measure administratively rather than leave the question to the federal courts. It argues the rule deepens uncertainty for people who followed every requirement.
Still on immigration, foreign professionals seeking residence in New Zealand through the Green List Tier Two Work to Residence Visa will soon face major changes. The government will remove seventeen occupations from the Tier Two Green List starting March the eighth, twenty twenty-seven. Workers in those roles will no longer access the Work to Residence Visa, which currently requires two years with an accredited employer for applicants aged fifty-five or younger. Officials are steering the roles toward the revised Skilled Migrant Category pathways.
Also on immigration, the American Civil Liberties Union is warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses airline passenger information to locate and arrest people, including on flights entirely within the United States. The ACLU says enforcement at airports is not limited to international arrivals and can affect any noncitizen holding a boarding pass. It lists elevated risks for permanent residents with prior immigration encounters, people with final removal orders, DACA recipients, and those with pending applications.
Turning to Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service has closed Hell's Gate Gorge in Naivasha for the El Nino rainy season, citing the deadly threat of flash floods. The restriction, announced on Monday, bars tourists from the popular Ol Njorowa Gorge. KWS says dangerous torrents often originate miles away, with heavy downpours around Mount Longonot, Mai Mahiu, Nairobi, Kedong and Suswa sending water rushing down drainage channels. In twenty nineteen, flash floods swept away thirteen visitors, leaving seven dead.
Staying with Kenya, security forces have stepped up border patrols in Moyale after stray bullets and unexploded ordnance landed on the Kenyan side of the frontier. Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja ordered extra officers to the border town on November the fifth. Nearly forty thousand Ethiopians have fled into the town after heavy clashes erupted around October the twenty-second between Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regional administrations. The UN refugee agency says women and children make up the majority.
Also from Kenya, Kasarani MP Ronald Karauri has joined the ruling United Democratic Alliance, launching a formal bid to unseat Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja in the twenty twenty-seven election. Karauri was unveiled on Monday at the party's Nairobi headquarters, welcomed by Secretary General Hassan Omar and Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wa. The lawmaker, elected as an independent in twenty twenty-two, declared that Nairobi has not worked. He adopted the slogan, Nairobi Haijawork, Tunataka Nairobi Fiti.
Back in Kenya, police have seized four hundred and fifty-four kilogrammes of methamphetamine in a crackdown that investigators opened after a key suspect was arrested in Tanzania last week. The haul, reported on Monday, amounts to just over one thousand pounds of the synthetic stimulant. Police said the investigation began after the Tanzanian arrest, and the case ran on both sides of the border before the consignment was recovered in Kenya.
Still in Kenya, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen says the government will place preacher Paul Mackenzie in total isolation in prison to stop him radicalising other inmates. Mackenzie was sentenced to two hundred years on November the sixth after being found guilty of murdering one hundred and ninety-one people, including one hundred and ninety children, at Shakahola. Victims' families say the sentence fails to address institutional failures, questioning why local security officials face no consequences.
And in political news from Kenya, President William Ruto has launched his sharpest public attack yet on former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of extortion while in office. Speaking in Nyamira County during a tour of the Gusii region, Ruto claimed Gachagua demanded ten million shillings from one gubernatorial candidate and twenty million from another. He said Gachagua received only four votes out of thirty in the twenty twenty-two running mate selection, adding he chose him out of sympathy.
In world news, Nvidia shares plummeted in pre-market trading after chief executive Jensen Huang admitted a romantic relationship with a corporate executive linked to Chinese intelligence, triggering an independent board investigation. Huang apologised to staff, saying he was unfaithful to his wife. The board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. The woman involved, Alice Huang, worked at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data centre company facing US scrutiny.
Turning to entertainment news, TikTok shut down more than forty-six thousand accounts in Kenya belonging to users suspected to be under thirteen during the second quarter of twenty twenty-six. The platform also removed over seven hundred and fifty thousand Kenyan videos between April and June for violating Community Guidelines. Nearly ninety-nine point eight percent were removed before users reported them. TikTok also interrupted more than eighty thousand live streams for guideline breaches.
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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