- Colombia’s plans to relocate 70 “cocaine hippos” descended from drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie will cost approximately Ksh.463.4 million.
- North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens' human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea said.
- The leader of the United Arab Emirates named his eldest son as crown prince of Abu Dhabi and his likely successor as president of the second biggest Arab economy.
- President Vladimir Putin has conceded that Western sanctions designed to starve the Kremlin of funds for its invasion of Ukraine could deal a blow to Russia’s economy.
- Pope Francis has acknowledged the many well-wishes the 86-year-old has received while he’s being treated in a Rome hospital for a respiratory infection.
- The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi is slated to surpass 1,200 after authorities said Thursday hundreds of missing people would be declared dead as hopes of finding survivors fade.
- Elon Musk has surpassed former US president Barack Obama as the most followed account on Twitter, five months after he bought the platform in a tumultuous takeover.
- Azimio leader Raila Odinga has defiantly reiterated that the opposition-led anti-government protests will proceed as planned despite the State declaring them illegal.
- Kenya and the European Commission have reached a Ksh.50 billion financing agreement for the construction of the first dedicated electric bus rapid lane in East Africa.
- A man from The Hague, Netherlands, who is said to have fathered around 550 children through sperm donation has been sued on grounds that he may be increasing the risk of accidental incest.
- On August 18, 2022, just three days after President William Ruto was announced the winner of the General Election, an unfamiliar man strode into the State House, Nairobi, and met its then occupant Uhuru Kenyatta to engage in peace talks.
- The worshippers plunged into the stepwell –- a stair-lined communal water source -- after the floor covering it collapsed in the central city of Indore.
- Fourteen people have been confirmed dead following a grisly road accident along the Nakuru-Naivasha highway involving a Pwani University bus and a matatu.
- The Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party will no longer serve the police with notices of their bi-weekly anti-government protests, ODM Party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna said on Thursday.
- As protests rock parts of the country, heavy police presence has been witnessed at the rural home of former President Uhuru Kenyatta in Ichaweri, Gatundu South Constituency.
- The United States Embassy in Kenya has dismissed reports that President Joe Biden's administration has revoked visas held by four Kenyan politicians among them Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.
- Despite a ban on protests and a warning from police that they would do anything to prevent any kind of gathering, Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga has vowed that the protests will continue.
- A fresh round of protests broke out in Mathare Number 10 area on Thursday morning, with videos showing protesters engaging anti-riot police in running battles.
- A section of women from Gatundu South in Kiambu County now want Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to apologize to Mama Ngina Kenyatta for failing to protect her property.
- The Public Service Commission (PSC) has invited qualified candidates to apply for the Governor and Deputy Governor positions at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).
- Transport in Migori town was on Thursday morning paralysed after protesters participating in the anti-government protests called by the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition barricaded major roads.
