- The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs emphasized the imperative to operationalize newly approved foreign missions, essential for expanding Kenya’s diplomatic footprint and fostering closer ties with international partners.
- A planned Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) address in Mathare descended into chaos on Wednesday when local residents stormed into the venue brandishing placards denouncing area MP, Anthony Oluoch.
- Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu says the Ksh.588 million graft charges levelled against him were politically instigated after he fell out with the ruling class.
- According to the family, Stephen Njuguna, 17, went to a local shop in Nyahururu town to buy clothes, but the attendants suspected he was planning to steal and frog-marched him to a room where he was tortured for two hours.
- French police were on Wednesday hunting for a group of gunmen who killed two prison officers in an attack at a motorway toll that freed a convict linked to gangland drug killings.
- A landslide that followed heavy rain in central Kenya has swept away at least five people, residents said on Wednesday, and the Red Cross said its workers would assist in rescue efforts.
- Tana River Senator Danson Mungatana has criticised Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over his comments on pushing for a ‘one-man-one-shilling’ county revenue-sharing formula.
- The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has recovered several pieces of public land from grabbers within Eldoret town valued at Ksh.3.2 billion.
- Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has urged MPs allied to the Azimio opposition coalition to reject the proposed Finance Bill 2024 when it is finally tabled in parliament, arguing that the proposed law is only meant to hurt Kenyans more.
- President William Ruto has defended the government’s plan to levy additional taxes on Kenyans, stating that it is part of a broader strategy to enhance the country’s revenue and reduce reliance on borrowing.
- US President Joe Biden's administration informed Congress on Tuesday of a $1 billion weapons package for Israel, official sources told AFP, a week after threatening to withhold some arms over concerns of a Rafah assault.
- Taipei said Wednesday it had detected 45 Chinese military aircraft around Taiwan, the highest single-day number this year and coming less than a week before the self-ruled island inaugurates its new president who China regards as a "dangerous separatist".
- Kuria Kimani, the MP for Molo Constituency and chair of the National Assembly Finance Committee has defended the government’s proposal to levy car owners through a motor vehicle circulation tax.
- Police in Migori County have arrested three suspects linked to the death of a 42-year-old businesswoman who was killed at Chamgiwadu trading centre in Rongo Sub County on the night of May 4, 2024.
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has assured parents and learners that the city's Dishi na County school feeding program will not be affected by the national government's plan to do away with school feeding programmes
- Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering, raising fears of yet further civilian casualties.
- Rescue workers used excavators to clear mangled metal debris in their final search for survivors trapped underneath a billboard that collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing at least 14 people.
- Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes.
- Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer known as "The Fly", killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the United States for what he called a “crucial package” of aid, as he hosted talks Tuesday in Kyiv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
- RMS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecoms firm Huawei and Mango Television of China aimed at content sharing, talent development and strengthening the media digital space in the country.
- Narc-Kenya party leader Martha Karua and Jubilee Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni have maintained that the Limuru Three Conference slated for this Friday will go on as planned.
- He was accused of stabbing his younger brother, Joseph Ojuma, in the belly and killing him on the spot because they could not agree on who would take the liver of the animal slaughtered for the burial.
- Mudavadi regretted that issues on non-tariff barriers have been hampering cross-border trade between the two countries and called for not only extensive discussions but also a conclusive position to enable augmentation of bilateral trade.
- Three suspects charged with defrauding a British national Ksh.60 million in a fake tender project to supply laptops and other accessories to the Ministry of ICT have been released on a Ksh.3 million bond each.
- The Thika Law Courts has granted an application by police to detain the primary suspect in the gruesome murder of 19-year-old Mount Kenya University student Faith Musembi.
- The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) reviewed the prices of super petrol, Diesel and Kerosene downwards by Ksh. 1, Ksh1.20 and Ksh.1.30 respectively.
- The consignment of new equipment includes 10 high-capacity Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), which the Interior Ministry posits will boost the country's capabilities in frontline operations.
- Businessman Hussein Ibrahim Alew has moved to court seeking to have the government compelled to produce his brother who allegedly disappeared on May 2, 2024.
- Busia Woman Rep Catherine Omanyo has claimed that someone tried to bribe her to write a favourable report in the impeachment case against embattled Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi.
- Three French prison officers were killed and two others wounded Tuesday in an attack on a prison van transporting an inmate who escaped, a police source told AFP.