Mwakilishi News Bulletin - Midday Edition, Sunday 15 November 2026

Midday Edition for Sunday, 15 November 2026. Running time 7:59.

In this bulletin

Diaspora News

1. Kenyans in US and UK mourn Joyce Magu and Meshack Kilonzo
2. Richard Kisang dies in Baltimore after collapsing at home

Kenya News

1. Aid agencies struggle to support more than fifty thousand Ethiopian refugees
2. Mysterious hippo deaths in Lake Naivasha raise poisoning fears
3. Babu Owino vows to resign rather than face impeachment as governor
4. Gachagua tells Ruto to stop wooing opposition figures
5. Court bars Asset Recovery Agency from forfeiting unlinked wealth

Transcript

This is the news from Mwakilishi.com.

Good afternoon. It's midday on Sunday, the fifteenth of November, and here is your midday edition.

Coming up.

Iran targets US military base in Bahrain in second attack within three days.

Court bars Asset Recovery Agency from forfeiting wealth not linked to crime.

Gachagua tells Ruto to stop wooing opposition leaders ahead of twenty twenty-seven.

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

Turning to diaspora news, two Kenyan families abroad are mourning sudden losses in the United States and the United Kingdom. In Alabama, the community is grieving Joyce Nyokabi Magu, who passed away on Friday the sixth of November in Hoover. Joyce was the wife of Joe Magu and mother of two children, Blake and Bailey. She is survived by her sisters Mugure and Alice of Kennesaw, Georgia. Relatives and friends have organised prayer gatherings in Hoover, Atlanta and Nairobi. Funeral arrangements will be announced later, and the family has appealed for financial help. Donations are being received through Cash App, Venmo and Zelle. Meanwhile, Kenyans in the United Kingdom are gathering online today to remember Meshack Kilonzo, found unresponsive in his room in South Wales earlier this month. UK-Kenyans in South Wales are holding a virtual memorial to celebrate his life and comfort his relatives.

Staying with the diaspora, a Kenyan man has died in Baltimore after an eight-day battle for his life. Richard Kisang, from Kowow Village in Elgeyo Marakwet County, suffered a sudden medical emergency during a church service in Maryland. He began feeling unusually tired and dizzy, and asked a friend to drive him home. That evening his condition worsened and he collapsed. He was rushed to Frederick Health Hospital, where doctors diagnosed a brain haemorrhage. Because of the severity, medics arranged an emergency airlift to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Surgeons there operated shortly after his arrival. He remained under intensive care for eight days before he succumbed. His death has triggered mourning among relatives and friends in Maryland and in his rural home in Kowow Village. The family is expected to announce funeral arrangements and support plans in the coming days.

Turning to Kenya, aid agencies are struggling to deliver food, medical care and shelter to more than fifty thousand Ethiopian refugees in the country. The caseload is stretching relief operations already under strain across the Horn of Africa. The Ethiopians add to the much larger displaced populations Kenya already hosts, mostly from Somalia and South Sudan. Kenya has for decades been one of Africa's principal refugee-hosting nations. The bulk of that population lives at camps in Dadaab in Garissa County and Kakuma in Turkana County, both set up in the early nineteen nineties. Ethiopia has faced successive displacement crises, including the two-year war in Tigray, ended by the Pretoria agreement of November twenty twenty-two. Refugee protection is governed by the Refugees Act of twenty twenty-one and the Shirika Plan, the government's framework for turning camps into integrated settlements.

Also in Kenya, heavy rains and thick water hyacinth are slowing efforts to recover and test four hippo carcasses spotted in Lake Naivasha, and local fishermen suspect poisoning. The latest discoveries in the Kibokoni area and near the Malewa River bring the number of hippos found dead in the lake in two weeks to more than six. Kenya Wildlife Service communication officer Duncan Juma said patrol teams were sent to collect samples, but heavy rain and water hyacinth around the carcasses had hampered the operation. Laban Ewoi of the Kamere Beach Management Unit said it is rare to find so many dead hippos in one week. Grace Nyambura of the Lake Naivasha and Lake Oloiden Fishermen's Organisation said six hippos died in the lake in the last week, all with bloated stomachs. She called this very suspicious and urged a quick investigation.

Staying with Kenya, Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has rejected calls for opposition unity talks ahead of the August twenty twenty-seven Nairobi gubernatorial election. Speaking on K24, Owino dismissed the idea of stepping down for a joint candidate, insisting he is already leading the race to unseat Governor Johnson Sakaja. He said he wants to face his competitors directly at the ballot, and that Nairobians will punish them once and for all. The race for City Hall has drawn several prominent figures. Alongside Sakaja and Owino, the contenders include Embakasi North MP James Gakuya, Kasarani MP Ronald Karauri, Makadara MP George Aladwa and Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku. Owino also pledged a strict performance timeline. He promised to resign within two years if he fails to deliver, saying he would leave office voluntarily rather than wait for the county assembly to impeach him.

Also from Kenya, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has told President William Ruto to stop wooing opposition figures ahead of the twenty twenty-seven polls. Speaking in Kiambu and Nyeri counties over the weekend, the Democracy for the Citizens Party leader dismissed a recent poll that portrayed him as the opposition's biggest source of division. The TIFA survey released on November the twelfth found forty-three percent of opposition supporters blamed Gachagua for internal disagreements. President Ruto and his UDA administration came second at fifteen percent, while Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna was cited by seven percent. Addressing worshippers at AIC Bathi in Kimende on Sunday, Gachagua rejected the findings and insisted he is the one bringing the opposition together. He named Sifuna, Jubilee leader Fred Matiang'i, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and People's Liberation Party leader Martha Karua among those who had ruled out working with the President.

Still in Kenya, a court has stopped the Asset Recovery Agency from forfeiting wealth unless it first proves a connection between the targeted assets and a crime. The Standard newspaper reported the judgment today, and characterised it as a brake on the agency's forfeiture push. The court held that a person does not have to be charged with a criminal offence before the agency can move against their property. But it found the agency bears the responsibility of linking the wealth or cash it seeks to forfeit to an actual crime. That places the burden of proof on the state body rather than the owner. The Asset Recovery Agency traces, freezes and recovers the proceeds of crime. It was established under the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act of two thousand and nine, and became operational in twenty eleven.

And that is your midday edition. The next bulletin is at 6 o'clock this evening. You can read every one of these stories in full, and much more besides, at Mwakilishi.com.

Have a good afternoon.

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