- More women are now elected to office than previously, and women achieved valuable milestones and won as first timers for the Gubernatorial, Senatorial, Members of Parliament and Member of County Assembly seats and even the Woman Representative of each county to the National Assembly seats.
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 – Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha says he has delivered during his tenure despite appearing to be arrogant. Speaking during a press conference after commissioning phase 2 Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms in Embakasi, Magoha stated that the results of his…
- Cotonou (AFP), Aug 17 – Their campaign began in northern Mali a decade ago, advanced into the country’s powder-keg centre and from there into neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso. Now, fears are growing that the ruthless jihadists wreaking havoc in the Sahel are heading towards coastal West Africa.…
- Washington (AFP), Aug 17 – President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law a big climate change and health care spending bill, giving Democrats another boost ahead of midterm elections in which Republicans are suddenly less certain of their predicted crushing victory. The law, dubbed the Inflation…
- KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 17 – Outgoing Migori Governor Zachary Okoth Obado has rallied the Luo community to support the President- Elect William Ruto noting that he harbors no hatred for the community. Obado who was the point man to Deputy President in the Nyanza region during the campaigns stated that…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 – The Kenya Kwanza Alliance and Azimio La Umoja One Kenya leadership are set to host separate meetings with elected leaders in the just concluded general election, that will bring together Governors, Members of the National Assembly, Women Representatives and Senators. In a…
- KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 17 – A night guard was found killed in Railways Nyalenda estate in Kisumu Wednesday morning. According to Godfrey Olongo, a tenant, the body of the watchman was found placed under a parked lorry at the parking lot. Olongo stated that the guard appeared to have been hit by a blunt…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 17 – Spiralling prices, endemic corruption and a mammoth debt mountain: Kenya’s president-elect and “hustler in chief” William Ruto will face a raft of challenges when he takes office. – Inflation – The battle to make ends meet was uppermost on many voters’ minds in the August 9…
- San Salvador (AFP), Jun 16 – El Salvador has arrested some 50,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele launched a “war” in March on criminal groups terrorizing the country, the head of the country’s police force announced Tuesday. “We can inform the Salvadoran people that we have…
- São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil) (AFP), Aug 17 – Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro traded insults Tuesday as they launched their campaigns for Brazil’s October elections in dueling rallies highlighting the South American giant’s deep divisions. The two front-runners…
- Jackson (United States) (AFP), Aug 17 – Republican rebel Liz Cheney lost her seat in Congress Tuesday to an election conspiracy theorist, but vowed to fight on and do “whatever it takes” to ensure that former president Donald Trump is never returned to power. Once considered Republican royalty, the…
- Mexico City (AFP), Aug 17 – A crime reporter has been found dead in northwestern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday — the latest suspected murder in what is already one of the deadliest years yet for the country’s press. The body of Juan Arjon Lopez, an independent journalist who ran a news page on…
- Nairobi (AFP), Aug 16 – Kenya’s defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga vowed Tuesday to pursue “all constitutional and legal options” after rejecting the outcome of elections that awarded victory to his rival William Ruto. The 77-year-old veteran politician branded the result of the August 9…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The National Council of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) has urged President-elect William Ruto to reach out to his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta and his main rival in the just concluded election Raila Odinga. Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday, the council’s…
- The commission dispatched the statement after a missing IEBC Returning Officer Daniel Musyoka who disappeared from the Embakasi East Constituency Tallying Center was found murdered.
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Azimio la Umoja presidential candidate Raila Odinga is mulling on yet again going to the Supreme Court to seeks the nullification of the August 9 presidential election. Odinga while making his first address after the election outcome claimed that IEBC chairman Wafula…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 15 – The four Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), who disowned and distanced themselves from the presidential results declared on Monday, have disclosed their reasons. IEBC Vice Chair Juliana Cherera, Commissioners Francis Wanderi, Irene Masit, and Justus…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Azimio La Umoja – One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga has rejected the presidential results announced by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati on Monday. Speaking during a press conference at the Kenyatta International…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 16 – The National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC) says the country remains peaceful and secure a day after the declaration of the presidential results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The Head of Public Service and NSAC Chairperson Joseph Kinyua…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The Kenya Kwanza Alliance is set to have its inaugural meeting of elected leaders in the just concluded general election that will bring together governors, Members of the National Assembly, Women Representatives and Senators on Wednesday. In a statement to newsrooms,…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) will appoint a lawyer to the family of the slain Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Returning Officer for Embakasi East Constituency Daniel Musyoka, who was found dead on Monday. LSK President Eric Theuri, who expressed…
- Nairobi (AFP), Aug 16 – Kenyans have elected a record number of women to positions of power in this month’s polls, with the list including seven governors, three senators and 26 MPs, in a step towards gender equality. The East African nation has long struggled to get women into politics, with men…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) says airport operations are going on as usual despite the strike notice given by staff. In a statement, the Authority indicated that it has further appealed a decision by the Employment and Labour Relations Court that legitimized the…
- As Odinga marches yet again into the familiar territory of the opposition after becoming the official opposition leader from 2013 to 2017, and briefly in 2018 before jumping ship to join President Uhuru Kenyatta's camp, the effect of the state machinery in his political ambition has been the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Incoming Homa Bay governor Gladys Wanga has urged Azimio La Umoja supporters to pray for presidential candidate Raila Odinga follogin his loss to his main rival William Ruto. In a statement on her twitter handle, Wanga also expressed her disappointment over the results. “I…
- The Supreme Court has made elaborate plans to receive any petition against Monday’s declaration by the electoral commission on final presidential results. The results indicated that William Ruto of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) won the presidential vote with 7,176,141 (50.49%) followed by…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Azimio La Umoja – One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga is set to address the nation today following his loss to William Ruto in the just concluded general election. A statement from his press secretary Dennis Onsarigo stated that Odinga will “address to the Nation…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati has gazetted William Ruto as the duly elected president. Through a gazette notice, Chebukati also gazetted Ruto’s running mate Rigathi Gachagua as deputy president. “In respect to Article 136 (…
- BUNGOMA, Kenya, Aug 16 – The court has allowed police to detain Kimilili Member of Parliament Didmus Barasa for ten days, as they complete investigations into the murder of his opponent’s aide. Barasa appeared before a Bungoma court Tuesday morning where the prosecution sought more time to allow…
- John Ochieng, a matatu tout at Kondele said they are waiting for a word from Raila Odinga, the Azimio La Umoja presidential candidate who came second in the just released election results.
- Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) (AFP), Aug 16 – When she understood Russian troops were advancing in the region of Zaporizhzhia, Natalya Chergik helped to fill a truck with a ton of paintings, antique firearms and 17th-century ceramics. “We drove 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) in five days. The trip was awful…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – A day after Deputy President William Ruto was declared President Elect, Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has announced that the Kenya Kwanza Government will serve Kenyans equally regardless of how they voted. On his twitter handle, Wetangula called on President Uhuru…
- Tehran (AFP), Aug 16 – The European Union said Tuesday it was studying Iran’s response to a “final” draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers it presented at talks in Vienna. The United States had already said Monday that it was informing EU foreign policy chief Josep…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has called for speedy investigations into the death of IEBC official Daniel Musyoka, whose tortured body was found in Kajiado. Musyoka was found in a river near Kilombero, Loitoktok by a group of herders who reported the situation to…
- Kinmen (Taiwan) (AFP), Aug 16 – Visiting Taiwan’s tiny Kinmen Islands last week, Joseph Lin practised standing up on his paddleboard, drifting across from the Chinese city of Xiamen, where days earlier fighter jets had screamed overhead. The Taiwanese islets, just two miles from China’s coast, have…
- KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 16 – Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong’o has asked Kisumu residents to suspend their ongoing demonstrations and remain peaceful as Azimio leadership gives the way forward. Nyong’o through a statement issued Tuesday morning told the residents to remain peaceful even if the announcement…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The missing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) returning officer for Embakasi East constituency has been found dead. Daniel Mbolu Musyoka was found in a river near Kilombero, Loitoktok by a group of herders who reported the situation to police officers.…
- Nairobi (AFP), Aug 16 – Kenyans were on Tuesday braced for a potential period of uncertainty after William Ruto was proclaimed winner of the hard-fought presidential election but his opponents cried foul. All eyes were on defeated rival Raila Odinga, who failed at his fifth stab at the presidency…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – The United States Embassy in Kenya has lauded the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) “for organizing a peaceful and orderly voting and counting process” in the just concluded General Election. The Embassy, in a statement, specifically commended the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 16 – Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala was the first Cabinet Secretary to send his congratulatory message to President-elect William Ruto. Balala is known to keep off politics and even went on with minding his business when his colleagues in the cabinet…
- TORONTO, Canada, Aug 16 – Lawyer Miguna Miguna says he is ready to return to Kenya following the election of William Ruto as president. Miguna has been an ardent supporter of Ruto, who earlier in the year, promised that he would facilitate his travel back to Kenya if he got to power. Taking to…
- Tokyo (AFP), Aug 16 – Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. In a quest to shed light on the origins of life and the formation of the universe,…
- Brasília (AFP), Aug 16 – Openly reviled by President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes may have to show the stuff that earned him the nickname “RoboCop” as arbiter in polarizing, disinformation-plagued elections to decide the far-right incumbent’s fate. A Supreme Court justice — a…
- Nairobi (AFP), Aug 15 – William Ruto was declared the winner of Kenya’s close-fought presidential poll on a day of high drama Monday, with violent protests in his defeated rival’s strongholds, claims of rigging and a split in the commission that oversaw the vote. As tensions ran high after his…
- NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 15 – Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto who won the August 9 presidential election has updated his social media profile to President-Elect. Ruto who vied on his United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party was declared winner with 7,176,141 votes representing 50.49pc, defeating…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 15 – Kenya’s deputy president-elect Geoffrey Rigathi Gachagua has weathered corruption scandals and links to the country’s former authoritarian regime to end up within striking distance of the nation’s highest office. Once the personal aide to departing President Uhuru Kenyatta…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 15 – Raila Amolo Odinga has spent most of his adult life in politics, including eight years in prison as a pro-democracy campaigner, but despite five attempts, has never achieved his presidential ambitions. The 77-year-old, who lost his fifth bid for the presidency to Deputy…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 15 – William Ruto was declared Kenya’s president-elect on Monday after a hard-fought poll, but the outcome was challenged by members of the election body and set off violent protests in some parts of the country. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula…
