- The ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has distanced itself from a proposal by Nandi County Senator Samson Cherargei to extend the presidential term limit to seven years from the current five.
- On May 17, 2022, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua introduced Maina Muchangi to Kenyans, a man with whom he said they shared a friendship of over 18 years.
- Ruto was speaking at the State House in Nairobi, where the DPP took the oath of office, and emphasized the importance of accountability at all levels and arms of government.
- A former employee of Eldoret-based Ineet Millers Limited wants the company to pay him Ksh. 1.3 million as compensation for unfair and wrongful termination of his service.
- Kathiani Member of Parliament Robert Mbui has expressed concerns over State House Chief of Staff and Head of the Public Service, Felix Koskei’s role in the corruption probe against former CEO of Athi Water, Michael Thuita.
- A 26-year-old Kenyan was on Sunday arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake, Sri Lanka while trying to smuggle in 4 Kgs of cocaine worth an estimated amount of over Ksh.136M (Rs 300M).
- Niger's military rulers on Sunday welcomed the announcement that France will pull its troops out of the country by the end of the year as "a new step towards sovereignty".
- National Assembly Majority Whip Silvanus Osoro has criticised leaders within the Kenya Kwanza coalition for saying Kenya is a country of shareholders.
- Ugenya MP David Ochieng' has poured cold water on the proposal made by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei to increase the presidential term from the current five to seven years.
- Tenants of a residential place in Kagio town, Kirinyaga County were on Sunday night shocked after the body of a 40-year-old woman was found in a bathroom.
- The speaker of Canada's House of Commons on Sunday apologized for praising an individual at a parliamentary meeting who served in a Nazi unit during World War Two.
- Her daughter, now 19, was sentenced in July to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to a felony charge of removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body.
- Handcuffed, a knife still sticking out of his overalls, the Chucky doll hunches against the wall as police hold him by his bright orange hair to take his mug shot.
- Moments after the resignation of Athi Water Works Development Agency CEO Michael Thuita, his Central Rift Valley Water Works Development Agency counterpart Samuel Oruma is now a man under watch as investigations into the multi-billion shillings water projects scam continue.
- Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable.
- The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch.
- On Sunday, her family and friends went to her house, where they discovered the door locked from the inside--and, despite being able to see her lying on the bed through the window, she remained unresponsive.
- The death toll from a truck bombing in central Somalia rose to 21 on Sunday after emergency workers dug through rubble to recover more bodies buried under broken bricks, concrete and metal.
- Troopers were called to a house in rural Faithorn, Michigan, around 8 p.m. on Wednesday after the toddler, Thea Chase, had wandered away from the home, Michigan State Police Lt. Mark Giannunzio told CNN on Friday.
- The government will begin a coffee sector reform initiative that seeks to confront the numerous challenges that have plagued the once-thriving coffee industry for years.
- A section of Western region leaders has opposed Nandi Senator Samson Cherargey’s proposal to increase the presidential term limit from five to seven years.
- Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Ghanaian capital Accra on Saturday for a third day of anti-government protests linked to economic hardship that have led to dozens of arrests.
- Russia’s playgrounds are becoming parade grounds. At schools from the Pacific to the Black Sea, children in nursery grade don uniforms and take part in marching practice.
- Lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi, popularly known as Grand Mullah, has hit out at Cabinet Secretaries Kipchumba Murkomen (Transport) and Prof. Kithure Kindiki (Interior) over their recent engagements in their respective ministries.
- Emurua Dikkir MP Johanna Ng'eno has defended President William Ruto's administration over skyrocketing cost of living, saying everything happening now should be blamed on former President Uhuru Kenyatta's leadership.
- Water and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary CS Alice Wahome has responded to allegations of hesitating to fire embattled Athi Water Board's former CEO Michael Thuita.
- National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) has raised a red flag over the use of bhang in secondary schools within Mt Kenya region.
- Al Shabaab has been battling Somalia's central government for more than a decade, aiming to establish its rule based on strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
- At least 34 people were killed when a contraband fuel dump burst into flames in southern Benin near the border with Nigeria, a government official said on Saturday.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has defended the government over the country’s state of economy which he says has been orchestrated by the global economic crisis.
- “People who are at risk of drowning when abandoned on the waves must be rescued,” Pope Francis said Friday in Marseille, France, at a memorial dedicated to sailors and migrants.
- The United States is the only Western nation among the world’s 50 most conflict-ridden countries, according to new research that measures political violence around the globe.
