- ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo on Thursday launched three Free Public WiFi Hotspots at Sikhendu Market, Kiminini Market, and Kitale Bus Stage, all in Trans Nzoia County.
- Police in Nairobi have arrested a 29-year-old former Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officer who is believed to be part of a gang that has been committing a series of robberies in Embakasi and Kayole areas.
- President William Ruto has nominated Andrew Mukite Musangi as Chairperson of the Central Bank of Kenya. Mukite's name has also been forwarded to Parliament for vetting.
- The collaboration between the two countries arose from a meeting on Thursday at the Kenyan parliament between National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah and German Ambassador to Kenya Sebastian Groth.
- President William Ruto on Thursday reiterated his commitment to seal all corruption loopholes in his government to see him achieve the promises made to Kenyans.
- According to the clerics, introducing family planning and the use of contraceptives for young learners will sexualize the learning environment, contributing significantly to the high rates of teenage pregnancies and abortion.
- Fifty-five people have been killed and 146 wounded in the worst clashes in the capital Tripoli in a year which erupted on Monday night, Libyan media reported.
- A section of lawmakers allied to the Azimio la Umoja coalition now want the United States of America’s Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman to withdraw her remarks which gave the August 2022 General Election a clean bill of health.
- This comes after businessman Joseph Ndungu filed a lawsuit challenging the Ministry of Agriculture's decision to lift the ban on exporting in-shell macadamia nuts.
- The image quickly gained traction after it was posted by Twitter user Henry Kabogo who tagged budding online environmentalist Hanifa Adam saying, "Only @Honeyfarsafi has the passion to change the face of Nairobi. How do you imagine Nairobi in 10yrs?"
- Wambua claims, through his lawyer Danstan Omari, that EACC incorrectly tagged his account, which was set up specifically for dowry payments and to which his family and friends had contributed.
- Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago alongside two of his co-accused persons has been released on a bond of Ksh.2 million shillings a surety of a similar amount or a cash bail of Ksh.500,000.
- The younger child was taken Monday to a hospital, where he died, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D. Stronko said in a news conference.
- The study, published on Wednesday in The Lancet, was conducted at a reproductive health services centre in the Chinese city between 2018 and 2022, and used a randomised controlled trial of 860 women who requested emergency contraception.
- The violence broke out in Jaranwala, on the outskirts of the industrial city of Faisalabad, after allegations spread that Christians had desecrated the Koran, forcing families to flee their homes.
- Francis Mwangi Gachui, 50, was shot three times 50 metres from his homestead while driving his saloon car with his wife and two of his workers, according to Mwea-east Sub-county police commander James Mutua.
- NACADA has lauded the NPS after conducting a successful narcotics crackdown in which they recovered suspected marijuana substances and over Ksh.12 million in cash.
- NACADA has lauded the NPS after conducting a successful narcotics crackdown in which they recovered suspected marijuana substances and over Ksh.12 million in cash.
- Traditional medicines are a "first port of call for millions of people worldwide", the UN health agency said, with the talks in India bringing together policymakers and academics aiming to "mobilise political commitment and evidence-based action" towards them.
- More than 60 people are believed to have died after a migrant boat from Senegal was found off West Africa's Cape Verde islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.
- Hundreds of Muslim men set fire to churches and vandalised Christian homes during a rampage in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, after Christians were accused of blasphemy.
- The death toll from an explosion that ripped through a commercial area of a town in the Dominican Republic has risen to 25, a civil defence official said Wednesday.
- At least 55 people were killed and 146 others injured when clashes broke out between two powerful armed factions in the southern Libyan capital of Tripoli, emergency services spokesman Malik Marseet told local media outlets on Wednesday.
- Niger's junta on Wednesday said 17 of its soldiers were killed in an ambush by insurgents, the deadliest attack since a July 26 coup whose leaders have cited persistent insecurity as a justification for deposing the civilian government.
- Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has come out to clarify the recent move by the government to deploy 1000 police officers to help restore normalcy in Haiti.
- Detectives in Nairobi on Wednesday arrested businessman Edwin Ochieng Oduk on allegations of illegally obtaining some Ksh.7.2 million from a foreign national after allegedly luring him into a fictitious minerals deal.
- KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah now says that, even as the country marks 10 years of devolution, the health sector has very little to show for it.
- President William Ruto has said the national government will transfer all the remaining devolved functions to county governments within the next 60 days.
- US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman has given a rundown of statistics and data that she believes makes Kenya the perfect destination for all global investors.