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07/12/2022

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22/04/2021

The Israeli army says a Syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target and exploded near a nuclear facility in Dimona city in the country’s south, an attack a military spokesman said was likely an accident. There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage in the incident that triggere...

22/04/2021

Kenya has signed crucial agreements on transport, security and trade with the Democratic Republic of Congo, signalling a push to improve low figures of business between them. After a bilateral meeting between Presidents Kenyatta and his host Felix Tshisekedi, the two sides on Wednesday signed a new....

22/04/2021

A court has found Jane Muthoni, the woman accused of killing Kiiru Boys High School Principal Solomon Mwangi Mbuthi, guilty of murder. Justice Joel Ngugi also convicted Muthoni’s co-accused Isaac Isaac Ng’ang’a alias Gikuyu. The convicts will be sentenced on May 18. During the trial, Muthoni w...

12/02/2021

Jubilee has threatened to punish MCAs who vote against the Building Bridges Initiative as it rolled out a carrot-and-stick strategy to woo the ward reps. At least 24 county assemblies must pass the BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill for it to proceed to Parliament. The party has rolled out a Sh2m gra...

14/01/2021

A Rwandan peacekeeper was killed and another injured in an attack on Wednesday morning by armed rebels on the outskirts of the city of Bangui in Central African Republic (CAR). A statement by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the CAR (Minusca) condemned the atta...

23/12/2020

Drama unfolded on Tuseday at the funeral of Machakos Senator Boniface Mutinda when mourners walked out on Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka. In a video seen by the Star, Kalonzo was reading President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech when three-quarters of the mourners walked away. Those who witnessed the ...

23/12/2020

The United States military has deployed a group of navy ships off the coast of Somalia to support the withdrawal of some 700 personnel from the country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island and accompanying ships arrived off the Horn of Africa on Monday, 16 days...

22/12/2020

Police in Maara, Tharaka Nithi County are holding a colleague for reportedly sodomising six teens in his house. A police report seen by the Nation indicates that on Tuesday, Sub-County Police Commander Mohamed Jarso was informed by a resident that a chief inspector in charge of Mitheru police post w...

22/12/2020

Police have recovered part of the body of an Assistant Chief who was abducted by suspected Al Shabaab militants on Friday last week. The head of Mr. Omar Adan Buul, who was the Assistant Chief for Gumarey Sub Location in Wajir County, was found on Monday by herders along the Chinese cutline between....

22/12/2020

Somalia’s attempts to have Kenya reprimanded at the regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), fell through after leaders at the Summit largely disagreed with severance of diplomatic ties. Instead, the heads of state and government gathered in Djibouti City on Sunday asked S...

21/12/2020

Breaking: Oman ban ALL international flights, closing its air, land, and sea borders effective tomorrow, following the spread of a new strain across the UK.

21/12/2020

Michael Olunga emerged topscorer in Japan’s top-flight league as the season ended on Saturday. The Harambee Stars forward netted 28 times in 34 league matches for Kashiwa Reysol, with all but one of these goals coming from open play. His last goal on the final day of the league season, but was not...

21/12/2020

Flights from Britain to Poland will be suspended starting from midnight on Monday due to concerns over a new strain of coronavirus, a Polish government spokesman said on Twitter. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Saturday that the new strain had led to spiralling infection numbers. H...

21/12/2020

The swearing-in ceremony of Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Benson Mutura will take place at 10am Monday. In a gazette notice dated December 18, acting county secretary Justus Kathenge said the ceremony will take place at the city county. Mutura’s swearing-in ceremony had been postponed to a furth...

19/12/2020

Somalia accuses Kenya of hosting, arming and a equipping militias with the aim to distabalise Somalia, per statement. Somalia cut diplomatic ties with Kenya on Dec 15. There was no immediate response from Kenya on this latest statement by Somalia.     More to Follow

19/12/2020

IEBC is calling for applications for the posts of signature verification clerks ahead of the BBI verification process. In a notice on Saturday, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said they will need 400 personnel for the verification process. They will be paid Sh1,200 per day for the exercise. This will...

18/12/2020

The former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, several close relatives told AFP on Friday. “President Pierre Buyoya died last night in Paris. He had Covid-19,” a member of his family told AFP, requesting anonymity. Several other relatives confirmed ...

18/12/2020

Gunmen have attacked and destroyed a communication mast in Elele area, Mandera county. The gang believed to be members of al-Shabaab terror group used bombs to bring down the only mast in the area hence affecting communication. Police said no one was injured in the dawn attack adding that the attack...

17/12/2020

French President Emmanuel Macron tests positive for Covid-19 after showing symptoms and will isolate. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.

17/12/2020

A Kenyan member of the al-Shabaab militant group who received pilot training in the Philippines has been charged with terrorism offenses, including conspiring to hijack aircraft for a 9/11-style attack in the United States. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 30, was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019 and wa...

16/12/2020

We stand to lose everything in this diplomatic row with Somalia. Somalia has been a cash cow for Kenya all these years, providing employment for our young men and women. Kenya is the destination of choice for Somalis. So many of them invest in our country, literally growing our economy. But we kept....

16/12/2020

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch said, quoting some as saying they had been tortured or beaten, and that at least three had died since October. In a report issued on Tuesday, the rights group said it had spoken last m...

15/12/2020

15/12/2020

Suspected Al-Shabaab militia destroy a newly constructed police station at Borehole 11 in Mandera South, police say.

15/12/2020

BREAKING : Trump Administration Slapped Sanctions On Turkey Over Purchase of Russian S-400 Missile System.

14/12/2020

Google applications including YouTube, Gmail and Docs suffer rare outage, with users unable to access services The outage started shortly before noon UK time, with Google sites returning server errors when visited. Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play S...

14/12/2020

US officially removes Sudan from state sponsors of terrorism list after 27 years, US embassy in Khartoum announces.

14/12/2020

Sudan’s premier has arrived in Ethiopia as his country continues to absorb tens of thousands of refugees from the latter’s war-stricken Tigray region. The influx comes as Sudan faces a political transition since last year’s ouster of strongman president Omar al-Bashir and an economic crisis ma...

14/12/2020

Gunmen raided the Nairobi residence of billionaire-industrialist Manu Chandaria and robbed the family of Sh600,000 on Sunday night. The gunmen also stole jewelry of unknown value in their Muthaiga residence. Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said the robbers managed to disar...

14/12/2020

A man accused of ra**ng his mother before he strangled her to death with a wire has been lynched by angry villagers who spotted him in Mogonga township, Kisii County on Sunday evening. James Muma, 22, is alleged to have killed his mother on Saturday in Bokimonge village, Kenyenya Sub-County over a l...

12/12/2020

The attackers arrived on motorbikes and started shooting in to the air, causing people to flee, witnesses said. They targeted the Government Science Secondary School – where more than 800 students are said to reside – in Katsina state on Friday evening. Police have not given a figure for how man...

12/12/2020

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has opposed the appointment of the Judiciary ombudsman by the President and urged the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Secretariat to instead allow it to select the office holder. Chief Justice David Maraga noted on Friday that there are alternatives, such as t...

12/12/2020

The country has 827 infectious diseases ICU beds up from just eight beds in March when the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. Uhuru in his 57th Jamhuri Day speech on Saturday also revealed that the number of isolation beds now stands at 20,910, up from 7,4...

12/12/2020

The US Supreme Court has rejected an unprecedented attempt to throw out election results in four battleground states that was backed by President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, filed this week by the state of Texas, sought to invalidate results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. President...

12/12/2020

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it has received an “overwhelming” number of reports about Eritrean refugees in Tigray being killed, abducted or forcibly returned to Eritrea since fighting in Ethiopia’s northernmost region began more than a month ago. “If confirmed, these actio...

12/12/2020

When President Uhuru Kenyatta takes to the podium for his eighth Jamhuri Day speech on Saturday, he will recap the Jubilee administration’s achievements – amid challenges – since he took power in 2013. He is expected to give a scorecard of his government in terms of its legacy projects in the ...