- During the debate boycotted by Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga who enjoys the backing of the State, a major outage was reported in Western, Nyanza, Rift Valley and Nairobi North for nearly the entire duration Deputy President William Ruto faced two moderators in a solo debate.
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi told reporters in Nairobi on Friday that no decision had been made to suppress voter turnout in Rift Valley region and denied holding secret meetings with administration officials to coordinate disruptions on Election Day.
- KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 5 – The government has assured Kenyans that there will be enough unga on the shelves in the coming days. Government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna says the government is trying hard to break a deadlock between the millers and retailers. Oguna says the millers have come up with new…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 5 – The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has urged Kenyans to exercise vigilance and be ready to report threats to peace in their communities, in next week’s polls. The Commission’s Chairperson Samuel Kobia on Friday advised Kenyans to maintain peace even when…
- Taipei (AFP), Aug 5 – Taiwan blasted its “evil neighbour” on Friday after China encircled the island with a series of huge military drills that were condemned by the United States and other Western allies. During military exercises on Thursday and Friday, China fired ballistic missiles and deployed…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 5 – With just three days to the next week’s general election, the two presidential front-runners, Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya Kwanza and Raila Odinga of the Azimio One Kenya Coalition will be holding their last rallies on Saturday. The Azimio brigade will pitch camp…
- CHINA, Aug 5 – For traditional Chinese painting, the use of ink, loaded with strong cultural connotations and a unique aesthetic value, has become synonymous with the country’s artistic form and style. As renowned Chinese painter Huang Binhong said, “In the ink wash resides the national character…
- Editor’s note: South Africa is the first country in Africa to sign a cooperation document under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It has also witnessed historic moments on the continent, as the country hosts events under the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and BRICS. In today’s…
- Taipei (AFP), Aug 5 – A Taiwanese woman who set off the island’s deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence. Last October’s inferno in the southern city of Kaohsiung raged through multiple floors of a dilapidated…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 5 – The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has administered oaths of secrecy to Presiding and Deputy presiding officers, in readiness for the general election. Presiding and Deputy Presiding officers play a major role in Kenya elections, as they are mandated…
- Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP), Aug 5 – Three ships loaded with grain for the global market left Ukraine on Friday, amid a mushrooming controversy over accusations that the war-torn country is violating international law and endangering civilians in its defence against Russia’s invasion. The vessels loaded…
- The Independent MP was roughed, punched and had his shirt torn by irate youths who ejected him out of Thursday's event mounted by the Azimio presidential campaign despite having been invited.
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 5 – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has ordered the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to conduct investigations on the alleged transfer of voters by Independent Electoral and Boundaries (IEBC) officials. In a letter to EACC boss Twalib Mbarak…
- MIGORI, Kenya, Aug 5 – Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Hon. Peter Munya has officially opened the newly built Sori Landing Site in Nyakite Sub County -Migori. The facility which was built at a cost of Sh140 million will act as a landing bay where fishermen will be…
- Bogota (AFP), Aug 5 – Betty Garces grew up in an impoverished port city on Colombia’s Pacific coast to the rhythm of drums and marimbas, always with a background echo of violence. Until she was a teenager, she had never even heard of opera. Now she is one of Latin America’s few black sopranos.…
- SIAYA, Kenya, Aug 5 – President Uhuru Kenyatta should not be faulted for declaring his support for former prime minister, Raila Odinga to succeed him, Rarieda Member of Parliament, Otiende Amollo has said.Amollo said the president was within his democratic right to support any candidate of his…
- Beijing (AFP), Aug 5 – Chinese missiles flew over Taiwan during Beijing’s latest military drills, state media reported Friday, as the country pressed ahead with exercises encircling the island following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi was the highest-profile US official to head to…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Voting technology was introduced in Kenya to build trust and credibility around elections — but has sometimes had the opposite effect. Here’s what to know as Kenya’s votes on August 9: – Fingerprints and photographs – After the death of more than 1,100 people in violence…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Once a street child in Nairobi and a grave digger in Britain, George Luchiri Wajackoyah barged onto the political scene with a “bhang”: vowing to legalise marijuana, breed snakes and sell hyena testicles to China to offset Kenya’s mammoth debt. Impulsive, immoderate,…
- Pingtan (China) (AFP), Aug 4 – China fired ballistic missiles and deployed fighter jets Thursday as it held its largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan, a show of force condemned by Washington as a gross overreaction to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island. The US House speaker was the highest-…
- Lampedusa (Italy) (AFP), Aug 4 – Italian anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini warned Thursday his country would not host “the refugee camp of Europe” as he visited a migrant centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa on a campaign stop for September elections. Dozens of overcrowded boats have arrived…
- Mexico City (AFP), Aug 3 – Rescuers raced Thursday to free 10 workers trapped in a coal mine after a cave-in in northern Mexico, where desperate relatives spent a sleepless night waiting for news. Dozens of military personnel, emergency workers and rescue dogs were deployed after flooding caused…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 4 – Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga has told off Deputy President William Ruto over attacks directed at President Uhuru Kenyatta saying any issues should be addressed to him or his running mate Martha Karua. Odinga said Thursday while campaigning in…
- Kabul (AFP), Aug 4 – The Taliban said Thursday they have no knowledge of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s presence in Afghanistan, days after US President Joe Biden announced the Al-Qaeda chief had been killed by a drone strike in Kabul. A carefully phrased Taliban statement neither confirmed Zawahiri’s…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives on Thursday rescued a High School student from undergoing a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) procedure in Narok. According to the investigative agency, the Form two student learnt of a plan by her parents to force…
- Beijing (AFP), Aug 4 – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba reported flat revenue growth on Thursday for the first time ever, as the country grappled with an economic slowdown and Covid-19 resurgences kept consumers jittery. Alibaba’s performance is widely seen as a gauge of Chinese consumer sentiment…
- Berlin (AFP), Aug 4 – A huge fire broke out Thursday in a popular forest in western Berlin next to a police munitions storage site, sending plumes of smoke into the skies and setting off intermittent explosions. The army sent in a tank aimed at evacuating munitions at the affected storage site as…
- Keelung (Taiwan) (AFP), Aug 4 – In Taiwan’s Keelung port dispatchers spent much of Thursday broadcasting warnings to fishing boats heading north, reminding them that China’s military was conducting live-fire drills nearby. “This is the Keelung radio station,” the radio system crackled. “China’s…
- VIHIGA, Kenya, Aug 4 – Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said that he will accommodate Amani National Coalition (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi in his government, if he wins elections. Odinga while campaigning in Vihiga County, which is Mudavadi’s home turf on Thursday told Vihiga…
- Vienna (AFP), Aug 4 – Negotiators kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran’s nuclear programme in Vienna on Thursday, seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran’s atomic ambitions. Officials from world powers and Iran were meeting in the Austrian capital for the first time since March, when…
- Goma (DR Congo) (AFP), Aug 4 – Rwandan troops have attacked soldiers inside DR Congo and aided the M23 rebel group, according to a report by independent experts for the UN seen by AFP on Thursday. The findings follow months of deepening tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and…
- MAKUENI, Kenya, Aug 4 – President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday made an inspection visit to Eni Kenya, the country’s first agri-hub that produces vegetable oil and related bio-products. The agri-hub located at Kwa Kathoka in Makueni County started production last month and has already employed close…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Raila Amolo Odinga, a veteran Kenyan political leader and one-time prime minister, has long cast himself as an anti-establishment firebrand, despite belonging to one of the country’s top political dynasties. But his decision to strike an alliance with his arch-rival,…
- Beirut (AFP), Aug 4 – Crisis-hit Lebanon marked two years Thursday since a massive port explosion ripped through Beirut, with victims’ relatives planning protest marches and the country bracing for silos to collapse at the blast site. The dockside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Kenya’s William Ruto, the sharp-suited deputy president now running for the top office, is one of the wealthiest men in the country but likes to portray himself as a champion of the poor and downtrodden. Despite being dogged by corruption allegations going back years, the…
- Yangon (AFP), Aug 4 – A Japanese journalist detained in Myanmar has been charged with breaching immigration law and encouraging dissent against the military, the ruling junta said Thursday. Myanmar’s military has clamped down on press freedoms since its coup last year, arresting reporters and…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 4 – The United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has called for peaceful and transparent elections in Kenya next week on Tuesday. Blinken said in a statement Wednesday that the countrywide exercise will give Kenyans an opportunity to “showcase their democracy to the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Civil Society Organizations now want the government to halt any developments and sub-divisions on the Kenyatta University lands, pending the determination of a petition filed on the matter. The civil societies represented included Kenya Human Rights Commission, Katiba…
- Fagradalsfjall (Iceland) (AFP), Aug 4 – Curious onlookers made their way Thursday to the site of a volcano erupting near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik to marvel at the bubbling lava, a day after the fissure appeared in an uninhabited valley. The eruption was around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – A Screen Four Children Home Director has been jailed for 100 years after the court found him guilty of defiling children under 13 years. According to trial magistrate Zeinab Abdul, the prosecution proved the case against Stephen Nzuki beyond reasonable doubt. She stated that…
- The Deputy President, while addressing the media on Thursday, went further to claim that President Uhuru Kenyatta was well aware of the scheme orchestrated by the said officials.
- MURANGA, Kenya, Aug 4 – Azimio-One Kenya – One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga has gained his popularity in Mt Kenya region in the recent past, Murang’a County Woman Representative Sabina Chege has said. She observed that since Odinga started visiting the region a few months ago, he has…
- With only four days to the General Election, a section of Kenyans have expressed fears of election-related violence as candidates contesting for different positions battle it out.
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – At least 18, 000 local and international election observers will monitor next Tuesday’s high-stake general election. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) revealed on Thursday that already it has processed the clearance of 10, 000 observers. “As a…
- KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 4 – Kisumu City plans to issue a circular that will ban the opening of bars, restaurants, lodgings, kiosks and markets on 8th August night to allow people to wake up fresh to go vote the following day. The Acting City Manager Abala Wanga says his office is soon issuing the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – StopReflectVerify.com, a website that hosts an internet-based quiz focused on misinformation, has launched a new quiz focused on the Kenyan general election. Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy Chris Machin stated that the elections are reaching a fever pitch with…
- Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 4 – Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho now says the Kenya Kwanza presidential running mate Rigathi Gachagua was fired from the Interior Ministry for desertion of duty and mismanagement of relief food. Kibicho who spoke Thursday morning during an interview with Radio…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 4 – Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah has affirmed that he is still on the ballot despite confusion that has arisen in the political outfit days to the general election. Wajackoyah and his deputy Justina Wamae differed on the issue of who to endorse between…