- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 4 – At least 2 million children across 4,800 schools in Western and Central regions have benefitted from Blue Band Nutrition Education Campaign aimed at promoting healthy living. The campaign is part of Blue Band’s journey and commitment towards growing healthy and happy kids by…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 4 – Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has officially announced the names of the house leadership from the Majority and Minority side in the house. In the communication made the speaker announced Kericho senator Aaron Cheruiyot as the majority leader who will be deputised by his Nakuru…
- MAKUENI, Kenya, Oct 4 – The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has received a lobbying boost from Makueni Governor Mutula Kilonzo Junior, who has pledged to advocate for a Sh3 billion re-capitalisation of the state commercial agency. Speaking when he flagged off a more than Sh101 million…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 4 – Kenyans on Twitter (KoT), Kenya’s ferocious online brigade, have continued to unleash a series of sustained attacks directed at Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, a day after he issued a statement claiming that he and the Ugandan army would take…
- Paris (AFP), Oct 3 – The United States will impose “further costs” on Iran for its lethal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden announced, drawing accusations of “hypocrisy” from Iran on Tuesday. Amini, 22, was pronounced dead on September 16, days after the…
- Malang (Indonesia) (AFP), Oct 4 – Elite Indonesian police officers were under investigation Tuesday over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. As public anger grew, police moved to punish those responsible for…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 4 – Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary nominee Alfred Mutua says there is no cause to worry about the cryptic Kenyan invasion messages by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba. His sentiments follow a meeting he held with Uganda’s ambassador to…
- Birmingham (United Kingdom) (AFP), Oct 4 – Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her contentious plan to kick-start economic growth through tax cuts, despite expectations Tuesday of a second damaging U-turn. Fresh from a humiliating climbdown on cutting income tax for the richest, Truss and…
- SIAYA, Kenya, Oct 4 – Siaya Governor James Orengo has sent the County Secretary and all Chief Officers on compulsory leave. Orengo further overhauled the Finance and Economic Department even as he unveiled a taskforce to audit the financial systems of the county. Orengo also reshuffled the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 4 – President William Ruto has a new Aide-De-Camp Colonel Fabian Lengusuranga. Col. Lengusuranga from Kenya Army takes over from Stelu Lekolool who was promoted to Brigadier and deployed to the Department of Defence headquarters. He was first seen with the president at the burial…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 4 – Ugandan opposition leaders Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine and Museveni’s longtime critic Kizza Besigye have fired back at President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s over his sentiments threatening to invade Kenya. In a social media post, Bobi Wine said the…
- Seoul (AFP), Oct 4 – North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. The latest launch — which the United States branded “reckless and dangerous” —…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 4 – Local leaders have mounted pressure on President William Ruto over Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s sentiments calling upon him to summon Uganda’s Ambassador to Kenya Hassan Wasswa Galiwango. In a statement Nandi Senator Samson Cherarkey called…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 4 – As Parliament embarks on its first official sitting today the legislators are waiting with bated breath for the solomonic ruling by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula on who wields the majority and minority position in the house. A fierce battle looms in the National…
- Latacunga (Ecuador) (AFP), Oct 4 – At least 15 prisoners died Monday in the latest unrest inside Ecuador’s prison system, officials in the South American country reported. The agency that manages Ecuador’s prisons, SNAI, gave the death toll in a statement which also said 21 people were injured in…
- Sydney (AFP), Oct 4 – During Xi Jinping’s decade-long rule, China has built the world’s largest navy, revamped the globe’s biggest standing army, and amassed a nuclear and ballistic arsenal to trouble any foe. With China’s neighbours now rushing to keep pace, Xi’s next five-year term is likely to…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 4 – Global Technology Company, Epson’s second Climate Reality Barometer published recently presents fascinating insights into how attitudes are (and are not) changing as the climate crisis unfolds. The Research shows that people see climate change as a primary threat – on a par…
- Paris (AFP), Oct 4 – Reforms to the way that societies collect and treat their waste could slash global emissions of planet-heating methane, a new report said Monday, noting that simple measures like composting were a climate solution “staring us in the face”. Governments around the world have…
- Rio de Janeiro (AFP), Oct 4 – Brazil entered the final stretch of a deeply polarized presidential race Monday after an inconclusive first voting round put far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in an unexpectedly strong position. Bolsonaro, 67, garnered 43 percent of Sunday’s first-round votes compared…
- Bogotá (AFP), Oct 3 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his tour of Latin American countries on Monday in Colombia, where combatting drug trafficking topped the agenda. Blinken met with Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first ever leftist president, who has harshly criticized the war on drugs as a…
- Stockholm (AFP), Oct 3 – Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. Paabo’s research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline called paleogenomics, and…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 3 – President William Ruto has become only the second Kenyan Head of State to have an assistant female Aide-de-Camp after Lieutenant Colonel Rachel Nduta Kamui was spotted on duty at MET site Mukuru in Nairobi during the inspection of the ongoing affordable housing project.…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 3 – Kenya has been re-elected to the Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). According to the Communications Authority of Kenya’s (CA) Director General Ezra Chiloba,…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 3 – The government has lifted the ban on Genetically Modified Crops following a Cabinet meeting chaired by President William Ruto. Consequently, the Cabinet approved the cultivation and importation of White GMO maize. “Cabinet considered a broad array of proposals touching on…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 3 – President William Ruto has announced a mortgage payment scheme that will be applied to allow Kenyans to own homes through the Mukuru Social housing Programme. Speaking while the unveiling of the Programme, President Ruto said those in Bedsitters will pay a mortgage of Sh3,…
- Malang (Indonesia) (AFP), Oct 3 – At least 32 children died in Indonesia’s stadium crush, an official said Monday as police moved to punish those responsible for one of the deadliest disasters in football history. The tragedy on Saturday night in the city of Malang saw a total of 125 people killed…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 3 – Sirisia Member of Parliament John Waluke has exuded confidence that the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party will issue him with the nomination letter to be the representative to the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Speaking during a press conference Monday,…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 3 – Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo has distanced the law firm he jointly owns with Ambrose Rachier from the Freemasonry movement after his partner confessed to being a member. Amollo took to Twitter on Monday a day after NTV aired an exlussive interview with Rachier on the secret…
- KISUMU, Kenya, Oct 3 – The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) has decried lack of preparedness to deal with Ebola should it strike in the counties that borders the neighboring countries. The union’s National Chairman Peterson Wachira, stated that his team has toured a number of counties in the…
- Ouagadougou (AFP), Oct 2 – Security forces fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters outside the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday, as unrest simmered in the impoverished, restive West African nation following the claim of a second coup this year. The latest unrest began on…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – President William Ruto has assured that his administration will streamline the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) to avoid burdening parents and teachers. During his tour in Homabay County, President Ruto pointed out that the 42-member taskforce committee formed to assess the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Newly elected Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Ken Ng’ondi has committed to work with Governor Johnson Sakaja despite their political differences. Speaking on Sunday afternoon in Embakasi, Ng’ondi vowed to be dedicated to serve the people of Nairobi regardless of their…
- Malang (Indonesia) (AFP), Oct 2 – Sam Gilang rushed to the exit of the Indonesian football stadium with thousands of other terrified spectators as police fired tear gas and hit fans with batons, creating a stampede that claimed at least 125 lives. “People were pushing each other and… many were…
- Malang (Indonesia) (AFP), Oct 2 – At least 125 people died at an Indonesian football stadium when thousands of angry home fans invaded the pitch and police responded with tear gas that triggered a stampede, authorities said Sunday. The tragedy on Saturday night in the city of Malang, which also…
- Birmingham (United Kingdom) (AFP), Oct 2 – UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Sunday conceded she should have better prepared Britain for her recent debt-fuelled mini-budget slashing taxes, which sparked market turmoil, dismal headlines and disastrous polls. Less than a month into the job but already…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – President William Ruto has pledged to work with leaders across the political divide to deliver the government’s development agenda across the country. In his first tour of Nyanza region when he toured Homabay, President Ruto asserted that no region will be left behind in…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament George Peter Kaluma has cited lack of means as the reason he was unable to join President William Ruto for a church service in the area. Kaluma would have been among the leaders to welcome President Ruto to the constituency as he was…
- Last Friday, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) announced that inflation hit 9.2 per cent in September, the highest rate in 63 months. This resulted from a stubbornly high cost of living. Between August and September, maize flour prices rose by 8.4 per cent even as power prices went up…
- Quito (AFP), Oct 2 – Hundreds of women marched Saturday against femicide in Ecuador, which a gender violence NGO says has claimed more than 200 victims since the start of the year. The country was rocked by the murder of lawyer Maria Belen Bernal, 34, last month, who disappeared after entering a…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has emerged as the face and voice of the opposition in Kenya’s politics after the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition team failed to clinch the Presidency on August 9. Musyoka’s visibility in recent days has eclipsed that of the coalition’s…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Lawyer Miguna Miguna has clarified that the ongoing fundraiser aimed at ensuring he receives a grand homecoming once he jets home on October 20 is credible. The controversial lawyer acknowledged the drive was one of integrity and honesty- despite questions challenging its…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 2 – Seven family members died after a fire razed their home in Ngimari village in Runyenjes constituency, Embu. The seven (Father, mother, two daughters, a son and two grandchildren) succumbed after their three bedroom timber house was gutted, burning them beyond recognition.…
- Washington (AFP), Oct 1 – Caracas on Saturday freed seven detained Americans — including five oil executives — in exchange for the release of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady who were jailed in the United States for drug trafficking. President Joe Biden issued the announcement that the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – President William Ruto on Sunday arrived in Homa Bay Town to attend a church service at the Africa Inland Church (AIC). The visit to the region is President Ruto’s first after he won the presidency on the August 9, 2022, General Election. President Ruto secured measly votes…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 2 – Lawyer Paul Gicheru will be buried on Thursday at his farm in Bahati in Nakuru County. Ongoing police investigations have yet to yield any result even as Gicheru’s burial preparations get underway. His requiem mass will be held on Tuesday at Regina Caeli Catholic Church in…
- Ouagadougou (AFP), Sep 30 – Burkina Faso’s junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on Saturday urged junior officers to “come to their senses” after they claimed to have ousted him in a reported coup that sparked deep concern among foreign leaders. The officers on Friday said they had toppled…
- Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP), Oct 1 – Ukraine said Saturday its forces had begun moving into the key eastern town of Lyman, located in one of the four Ukrainian regions that Russia annexed, with President Volodymyr Zelensky pledging more areas would follow within the week. The latest development — a…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 1 – The Ministry of Health is appealing to Kenyans to minimize their movement along the Western Border following the Uganda Ebola outbreak. In a statement, health director general Patrick Amoth urged the public to only cross the border unless it is absolutely necessary. He…
- MOMBASA, Kenya, Oct 1 – A Mombasa-based organization has distanced itself from reports that junior officers from the county health department were unlawfully transferred. In a statement, the Capital Youth Caucus said after an in-depth analysis of the matter, it has established that the transfer…
- Kabul (AFP), Oct 1 – The death toll of a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the “genocide” of their minority community. On Friday a suicide attacker blew himself up in…
