- Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not from baggage, but from a group of passengers who just so happened to be sumo wrestlers.
- The National Security Council has petitioned Parliament to approve the deployment of Kenyan police officers on a UN-backed security mission to the war-torn Caribbean nation of Haiti.
- After five months of back and forth, court rulings and threats from all different quarters, Nominated MP Sabina Chege has finally been removed as Deputy Minority Whip.
- Cooperatives CS Simon Chelugui has distanced himself from media reports linking him to the private entity at the centre of the Uasin Gishu scholarship scam.
- Three Aimi Ma Lukenya Society officials who were arraigned on Monday over the disputed East African Portland cement land in Mavoko, Machakos County will remain in police custody for six more days pending conclusion of investigations.
- Ralph Edward Nzwii Nguma was charged that on October 24, 2018, at the High Court in Mombasa, not being a person qualified as an advocate he presented Liu Dong Sheng before the Registrar of the High Court.
- Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has declared that all new government employees will now need a National Youth Service clearance certificate when they apply for jobs.
- "Those who do not follow the law, will not be allowed to work," Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting.
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has issued orders that no hawkers will be allowed to sell their wares on the roads in the Nairobi CBD effective immediately
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has issued orders that no hawkers will be allowed to sell their wares on the roads in the Nairobi CBD effective immediately
- Kasarani Member of Parliament Ronald Karauri has waded into the land tussle pitting hundreds of families against former Starehe MP Gerishon Kirima's family over ownership of 1000 acres in Njiru, Nairobi.
- A British climber, identified as Shilpa Shah, aged 60, fell to her death on Tuesday alongside her tour guide Kelvin Muriuki Mwithi who attempted to rescue her as they were on a descent from Peak Lenana on Mount Kenya.
- This is after the prosecution told the court that investigations against the suspect are complete and asked the court to close the chapter miscellaneous file so as to proceed with charging the lady with murder.
- This is after the prosecution told the court that investigations against the suspect are complete and asked the court to close the chapter miscellaneous file so as to proceed with charging the lady with murder.
- North Korea has closed its embassy in Uganda as it aims to reduce the number of embassies in the region to “increase efficiency” and streamline Africa operations.
- The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called on the government to offer para-military training for teachers working in insecure pockets around the country and issue them with guns to enhance their security.
- Baringo North Member of Parliament Joseph Makilap has stated that the operation to disarm bandits in the North Rift region has never been effective for over a decade now.
- The UDA party Secretary General Cleophas Malala has revealed a fresh twist in the ongoing party leadership contention at the Nairobi County Assembly.
- Nigeria is aiming to reduce the number of taxes levied by federal and state governments from more than 60 to fewer than 10, the head of a tax reform committee said on Tuesday, part of changes to make it easier to conduct business and to boost revenues.
- The Spouse of the Deputy President, Pastor Dorcas Rigathi, emphasized her boy-child campaign to Kenyans living in Belgium during a dinner meeting on Tuesday evening.
- Luwero Police are investigating the theft of eight buckets of gold worth 2.5 billion Ugandan shillings. The victims, employees of the Bullion Refinery, were en route from Arua to Kampala when they fell prey to a gang of five armed thugs on Sunday night.
- Queen Máxima of the Netherlands on Tuesday visited a medical facility to experience how digital loans have enabled female health entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and enhance healthcare.
- It happened at a home on Rosewood Street, which is just off East Lawson Street near South Alston Avenue, that has not been lived in for years. Neighbors said a lawn-mowing crew comes periodically to tidy up around the home; that's who reportedly found the woman's body.
- Researchers used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, to take a series of images of Jupiter 10 hours apart, applying four different filters to detect changes in the planet’s atmosphere. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and the Webb telescope’s unprecedented capabilities have been…
- Lagat, who looked shaken in the dock, was accused of threatening to kill Duncan Kitur with a panga on September 15, 2023 at Chemaluk area along the Eldoret-Iten highway in Uasin Gishu County.
- Fighting raged in Gaza Tuesday more than two weeks after Hamas gunmen stormed into Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking over 200 hostages, according to Israeli officials.
- A leading Arab Israeli actor has been detained on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism" over a social media post about Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, police and her lawyer said Tuesday.
- An off-duty pilot who was riding in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight en route from Washington state to San Francisco on Sunday is facing dozens of attempted murder charges after he tried to shut down the plane’s engines mid-flight, authorities say.
- Another former lawyer for Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping the former U.S. president's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state of Georgia and agreed to testify against Trump if called upon.
- Education analyst and advocate Kennedy Echesa says complex procedures of reporting exam irregularities and low motivation among examiners are to blame for the cases of cheating in national examinations.
- Education analyst and advocate Kennedy Echesa believes that this year's KCSE exams will witness a surge in cases of exam malpractices compared to previous years.
- China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu was fired on Tuesday two months after he disappeared from public view, becoming the second high-profile minister to lose his job recently without any official explanation.
- Nigeria’s government is celebrating a “landmark victory” after a UK court ruled it was not liable for a multibillion-dollar payout earlier awarded to a private firm over a failed gas project.
- The Kremlin on Tuesday denied a report that President Vladimir Putin was ill, and laughed off persistent rumours that he used body doubles to cover for him in public appearances.
- Police are now seeking to detain the woman suspected to be involved in the disappearance of her husband for 21 days after a body recovered in Murang’a was positively identified to be that of the missing taxi driver.