- Tharaka Nithi County has promoted 21 medical consultants from Job Group Q to S, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has announced.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) is set to be officially launched on June 3, 2025, at the Kasarani Indoor Arena in Nairobi.
- Activist Boniface Mwangi has delivered a chilling and unfiltered account of the brutal torture he and fellow Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire allegedly endured while in Tanzanian custody, calling out President Samia Suluhu by name and demanding justice for his missing comrade.
- Activist Boniface Mwangi has delivered a chilling and unfiltered account of the brutal torture he and fellow Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire allegedly endured while in Tanzanian custody, calling out President Samia Suluhu by name and demanding justice for his missing comrade.
- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
- Entertainment giant Disney has placed at least 45 Venezuelan employees on unpaid leave, the company told AFP Thursday, following the US Supreme Court's decision to allow the revocation of a special legal status that shielded them from deportation.
- Italy's highest court ruled Thursday that women in same-sex couples who become mothers through IVF have the right to be recognised on the birth certificate even if they are not the biological parent.
- Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill could help bring stability but it is not conducive to deficit reduction.
- South Africans voiced anger Thursday at US President Donald Trump's persistent false claim of a genocide against white farmers that were repeated in talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
- Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed by a lone gunman in Washington, D.C., while leaving an event outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, and the suspect chanted "Free Palestine" after he was taken into custody, officials said.
- Security guards opened fire on a woman who drove toward the gates of the CIA's headquarters near Washington, D.C. on Thursday, ignoring orders to stop, and she was then taken into custody, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- Several people are feared dead after a small plane crashed into a California neighbourhood before dawn Thursday, destroying homes and setting cars on fire.
- President William Ruto has said that no revisions will be undertaken on the leasing of four sugar mills, accusing a section of leaders of politicising the process.
- Just two days after President William Ruto officially handed over more than 1,000 government-built housing units to residents of Mukuru kwa Njenga, only one family has moved in.
- A total of 183 refugees from Kakuma who were to travel to Germany as part of resettlement plans have been returned to the refugee camps after the German government paused all new resettlement submissions until further notice.
- A sombre mood engulfed Christians, family and the clergy during the burial of slain Nyahururu Catholic Priest Fr. John Maina Ndegwa, whose death is shrouded in misery.
- The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested 14 suspects in connection with the incident at Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya's home, where a group of unidentified people stormed the premises and disrupted an operation by Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers.
- Police have arrested six suspects linked to the shocking Thursday murder of Father Allois Cheruiyot Bett, a Catholic priest from St. Matthias Mulumba Tot Parish, who was gunned down by unknown assailants in Kabartile Village, Elgeyo Marakwet County.
- People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua has written to various continental organisations, demanding immediate action from Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu's administration regarding the detention and torture of human rights activists Boniface Mwangi and Uganda's Agather Atuhaire.
- Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura has taken a U-turn on his previous remarks that the Public Seal was moved from the Attorney General's custody to the Office of the Head of Public Service.
- EACC detectives have arrested two employees of Mumias Level IV Hospital for allegedly soliciting a Ksh.200,000 bribe from a supplier to facilitate payment for medical equipment.
- The Land Acquisition Tribunal has dismissed a Ksh.3.9 billion compensation claim against the Nairobi City County Government filed by the Registered Trustees of Jamia Mosque over a hotly contested 5.14-acre parcel at Globe Cinema Roundabout.
- Human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has spoken publicly for the first time after being arrested, detained and allegedly tortured by Tanzanian authorities for nearly a week.
- The Senate is mulling starting a parallel process to change the Constitution to make an Upper House as sibling rivalry with the National Assembly continues.
- Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said the government will not allow the country to descend into election-related violence, assuring Kenyans that what happened in 2007 will never recur.
- In a detailed testimony before the High Court, Michael Oyamo, one of the suspects in the Sharon Otieno murder case, firmly denied any involvement in the planning or execution of her killing.
- Public interrogation is escalating after controversy, once again, rocked President William Ruto's office this time round on one of the most important State instruments, the Public Seal.
- Narok County leaders have urged the Narok County Commissioner, Kipkech Lotiatia, to ensure that all suspected officers involved in the fatal shooting of five civilians in Ang'ata Barrikoi, Kilgoris, Narok County, are brought to book.
- Murang’a Senator Joe Nyutu has urged President William Ruto to listen to Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General Edwin Sifuna instead of Siaya Senator Oburu Odinga.
- Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday said Tanzanian authorities have denied it access to activist Boniface Mwangi since he was arrested in Dar es Salaam on Monday.
- Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei says the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party will crack down on other “rebellious” members following this week’s expulsion of nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba.
- Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new pope's American hometown and raised questions about Leo XIV's history of dealing with accused priests from Chicago to Australia.
- President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.
- Uasin Gishu Governor Jonathan Bii has said the ghost projects flagged by the Senate Public Accounts Committee last weekend were initiated by his predecessor Senator Jackson Mandago towards the end of his term as governor and he should not be blamed.
- Kenya has admitted to assisting in the kidnapping of a Ugandan opposition leader on its soil last year, prompting his lawyer to accuse Nairobi of acting like a "rogue state."
- Over 1,000 residents of Mukuru Kwa Njenga who have moved into newly built affordable housing units will pay a total of Ksh.3,000 per month under a government rent-to-own arrangement.
- Garissa's Jarajila Ward MCA, Noor Sheikh, the knife-wielding man caught on camera chasing people inside a restaurant, has issued a public apology for his behaviour.
- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Principal Secretary Susan Mag'eni says that the government will seek to write off bad loans amounting to Ksh.6 billion borrowed by 10 million Kenyans in 2022.
