Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Evening Edition, Friday 13 November 2026

Evening Edition for Friday, 13 November 2026. Running time 8:19.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. Kenya Signs Minnesota Elderly Care Deal
2. Paris Embassy Repairs to Cost Millions
3. Kenya Lobbies Saudi Arabia Over Travel Ban and Jobs
4. UK Farm Worker Urges Training for Overseas Jobs
5. Kenyan Domestic Worker Stranded in Saudi Arabia

Immigration News

1. New Germany and Australia Rules for Kenyans

Kenya News

1. Somali National Freed on Bond at JKIA
2. Six Dead in Nairobi Building Collapse
3. Wairimu's Thailand Claim Over Tob Cohen
4. Spoilers Could Shape 2027 Race, Analysis Says
5. Ruto Signals EU Observers Welcome for 2027

Sports News

1. Fraud Alert as Bayern-Ajax Tickets Sell Out

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

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

Coming up.

Six workers die as building collapses near Nairobi's SGR terminus.

Kenya signs Minnesota deal creating elderly care jobs for Kenyan professionals.

Ticket fraud alert as fifteen thousand Bayern Munich versus Ajax seats sell out.

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

Turning to diaspora news, Kenya has on Friday signed a statement of intent with LeadingAge Minnesota, an organisation representing ageing services providers in the United States, to place Kenyan professionals in Minnesota's elderly care sector. The preliminary deal sets the stage for a formal Memorandum of Understanding. Principal Secretary Roseline Njogu said the focus is safe, structured pathways. Kenyan and Minnesota training institutions will partner to align geriatric care standards, with professional exchanges to build local capacity.

Staying with Kenyans abroad, a parliamentary committee says the government needs at least two hundred and thirty-three million shillings to repair crumbling diplomatic properties in Paris. The National Assembly committee found structural cracks, blocked drainage and a damp basement at the chancery, which Kenya bought in nineteen ninety-seven. Contractors estimate full chancery repairs at about one hundred and forty-six million shillings. The ambassador's residence in Vésinet also needs substantial renovations. Lawmakers blame years of neglected maintenance and budget deficits.

Also from the diaspora desk, Kenya is lobbying Saudi Arabia to lift Ebola-linked travel restrictions and unlock two hundred and ninety-three thousand six hundred jobs promised by Saudi recruitment agencies. Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua told a Saudi vice minister in Riyadh on Thursday that the single Ebola case was isolated, with no community transmission. The two sides signed a technical annex to protect workers, after an Amnesty International report documented unpaid wages, excessive hours and confiscated passports among Kenyan workers in the kingdom.

Still with Kenyans working overseas, a Kenyan finance graduate is urging young job seekers to take short agricultural courses to qualify for government-backed UK farm placements. Romano Munene, who graduated in twenty twenty-one, posted a TikTok video from a muddy British field harvesting turnips, where workers must pick at least eight crates an hour for bonuses. He cited a Kenya-UK agreement allowing TVET students six-month agricultural internships. Munene joked about the effort behind the remittances relatives request.

And in the diaspora, a forty-year-old Kenyan domestic worker remains stranded in Saudi Arabia with her infant son after a Riyadh court sentenced her to one hundred lashes and one year's banishment for giving birth outside marriage. The Kenyan Embassy issued travel documents, but the criminal case blocked her departure and those papers have since expired. Esther Wanja Muthoni gave birth in August twenty twenty-five, and hospital staff reported her to police under state rules. Rights groups call the punishment an act of violence.

Turning to immigration news, Kenyan workers and students heading to Germany and Australia now face stricter qualification, certification and visa compliance rules. A Kenyan-German forum in Nairobi, dubbed Talent Gateway, tackled the recognition of local qualifications abroad, which often blocks skilled Kenyans from overseas jobs. And Kenya's High Commissioner to Australia, Wilson Kogo, has dismissed social media claims that Australia has closed its doors to international students, urging reliance on official channels after new visa rules took effect on the second of October.

Back in Kenya now, a Somali national arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been freed on a four hundred thousand shilling bond after denying four fraud charges over Kenyan identity documents. Prosecutors say he was unlawfully present in Kenya and made false declarations to obtain a passport and a permit. The court ordered him to surrender his passports and return on November the twenty-fifth. Last month, the same court fined another Somali national three hundred and seventy thousand shillings for similar offences.

Staying in Kenya, six workers are dead and one is missing after a building collapsed along the Syokimau SGR access road in Nairobi. The structure gave way at about nine fifty-two in the morning during concreting works on the ninth floor, after a failure of the formwork. Five workers were pulled out alive and rushed to hospital. Nairobi police boss Issa Mohamud says rescuers are still combing the rubble. The tragedy follows the Eastleigh collapse on October the twenty-third, which killed eight people.

Also from Kenya, the Daily Nation reports Sarah Wairimu told detectives her missing husband, Dutch businessman Tob Cohen, was in Thailand. Cohen, a former chief executive of Philips East Africa, was reported missing in July twenty nineteen, and Wairimu was arrested the following month. His body was found in September twenty nineteen in an underground septic tank at their Kitisuru home, turning the inquiry into a murder case. Wairimu has pleaded not guilty and maintains that position through the trial.

In Kenyan politics now, a new Daily Nation analysis warns that homegrown spoilers could decide the twenty twenty-seven State House race. Under the constitution, a winner needs more than half of all votes cast and at least twenty-five percent in twenty-four of Kenya's forty-seven counties. The analysis says candidates with narrow paths to the presidency could still pull enough votes in their strongholds to push frontrunners below the winning threshold. It comes ahead of Kenya's first election since William Ruto won in twenty twenty-two.

Still on the twenty twenty-seven election, President William Ruto has reportedly signalled Kenya is willing to host European Union observers for the August vote. The EU has observed Kenyan elections since two thousand and two, most recently in twenty twenty-two, when Ruto was declared winner with seven point one eight million votes against Raila Odinga's six point nine four million. The Supreme Court upheld that victory. The disputed two thousand and seven election triggered violence that killed about one thousand one hundred people.

Turning to sport, organisers of the Bayern Munich versus Ajax friendly in Nairobi have warned fans against fake tickets after fifteen thousand seats sold out. The match on the fifth of January twenty twenty-seven will open the sixty thousand seater Raila Odinga International Stadium. Standard tickets cost between two thousand five hundred and five thousand shillings, with platinum seats at up to one hundred thousand. Sports Principal Secretary Elijah Mwangi says about one thousand international buyers secured seats, and five thousand are reserved for travelling supporters.

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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