- DP Rigathi Gachagua on Friday shared a podium with opposers of the ‘one man, one vote, one shilling’ revenue sharing formula during a women economic empowerment fundraiser in Samburu County.
- Uganda suffered a rare nationwide electricity blackout for several hours on Friday, its state-run power grid operator said, adding that electricity was gradually being restored late in the afternoon.
- The DCI is seeking 14 days to continue detaining six people, among them four police officers, arrested in connection with a Ksh.2.2 million robbery in Utawala.
- Ian Njoroge, the 19-year-old who was captured in a viral video assaulting a traffic police officer in Mirema, has been granted a bond of Ksh.700,000.
- Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi can now breath a sigh of relief after he was acquitted of all charges in a case in which he was accused of forging his academic documents.
- Migori Senator Eddy Oketch has tabled a Bill in Parliament seeking to turn around the creatives industry following concerns of neglect from sector players and the government.
- Survivors and victims of torture, who endured brutalization or lost their lives at the infamous Nyayo House torture chambers by police officers, have filed a petition against the government seeking to have the chambers transformed into a national monument.
- Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi has signed the IGAD Protocol on transhumance following a successful meeting with the IGAD Secretariat Delegation led by Dr. Fatma Adan, IGAD Head of Mission in Kenya.
- Sudan's army said on Thursday it would deliver a "harsh response" to an attack a day earlier on a village by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that pro-democracy activists said killed more than 100 people.
- Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the U.N. site.
- The U.N. General Assembly approved five new members Thursday for two-year terms on the organization’s powerful 15-nation Security Council in a lackluster “election.”
- The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Palestinian militant group Lions' Den, the State Department said, in the latest move aimed at those Washington says threaten peace and stability in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
- Hamas has seen about half its forces wiped out in eight months of war and is relying on hit-and-run insurgent tactics to frustrate Israel's attempts to take control of Gaza, U.S. and Israeli officials told Reuters.
- Close to half of Kenyans do not seek medical care due to lack of resources, a report by Twaweza Kenya shows. According to the report, half of Kenyans (53%) have access to some form of health or medical insurance, whereas (47%) do not.
- The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in al-Jazira State on Wednesday, killing more than 100 people, local pro-democracy activists said, noting that the army did not respond to pleas for help.
- Government officials would be acting unlawfully by implementing Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in breach of an order from Europe's human rights court, a civil servants' trade union told London's High Court on Thursday.
- More than two-thirds of Kenyans are opposed to the Finance Bill 2024 which contains the government’s taxation plan for the next financial year which commences in July 2024.
- Stakeholders from counties that grow Miraa and Muguka now want President William Ruto to intervene in resolving the stalemate in the coastal region that poses an economic challenge in the wake of the ban of Muguka business.
- Thousands of parents with young children in the country can now breathe a sigh of relief after 8 million life-saving vaccines arrived in the country after a two-month wait.
- Parliament has approved a Ksh.4.006 trillion budget, the highest ever in Kenya's history. The National Assembly’s Budget and Appropriations Committee Chair Ndindi Nyoro on Thursday said the figure was a climb down from the initial budget policy statement.
- High Court has suspended President William Ruto's Executive Order Number 3 of 2024 which outlines new guidelines on the management of state corporations.
- A former Kenya Navy officer and two other individuals have been arrested on suspicion of being part of a motorcycle theft syndicate operating in Nairobi's Ruai and Kamulu areas.
- Business operators situated along Dar es Salam Road, in Nairobi County will be spared from demolitions after the court issued orders stopping the exercise.
- A family in Kibera is mourning the loss of their 3-year-old son Stephen Ambani, ahead of plans to lay him to rest at their home in Kabras, Kakamega County.
- Police in Busia are on the hunt for two suspected drug traffickers who evaded arrest on Wednesday when officers intercepted 451 kilograms of bhang, worth an estimated Ksh.13 million, along the Busia-Kisumu Road.
- The three, Tom Ouma, Paul Ochieng, and Ruth Atieno, appeared before the JKIA Court on Wednesday for sentencing in a case that began with their arrest on August 14, 2020.
- The government has reviewed the terms of an agreement made with medics last month during the signing of the return-to-work formula following a protracted strike.
- Opposition leader Raila Odinga has backed calls for the "one man, one vote, one shilling" model advocated by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and a section of leaders from the Mt. Kenya region.
- Human Rights defenders are concerned over more additional bodies of Shakahola victims at the Malindi sub-county hospital mortuary amid the 5th phase of the exhumation exercise.
- A youth group in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County is entering an implementation phase of a drone-driven large-scale survey on forest cover and water tower restoration in parts of the region.
- Royal Media Services-owned Citizen Television, Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa and the Kenya Red Cross have been voted among Kenya’s leading brands in a new survey.
- Following the government's directive to demolish all structures built on riparian land, residents of Soweto in Embakasi South Constituency claim they are yet to receive the Kshs.10,000 compensation fee.
- Mwingi North Member of Parliament Paul Nzengu says he intends to sponsor a Bill in the National Assembly that will stop leaders from pushing the allocation of funds based on population.
- Makueni Senator Dan Maanzo believes that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is gutted by the government's move to support Raila Odinga's bid for the African Union Chairperson (AUC) chairperson job.
- Fresh details surrounding the pitiful death of a senior National Intelligence Service (NIS) officer who shot himself have resurfaced intimating that he was battling depression.
- In the months leading up to Kenya's deployment of police officers to Haiti, President William Ruto has consulted political advisers, security officials and foreign leaders about the high-profile anti-gang mission.
- A 24-year-old man accused of perpetually scaling perimeter fences of homes in Kaimumbi, Kiambu County at night and vandalising motor vehicles was on Thursday morning arrested.
- Jurors at Hunter Biden's trial for allegedly buying a handgun while using crack cocaine heard testimony Wednesday from his ex-wife who recalled finding a crack pipe in their family home.
- A police officer attached to Parliament Police Station in Nairobi is facing corruption charges for attempting to extort Ksh.40,000 from a suspect with an outstanding matter at the station.
- Having about 1.3M people living with HIV, Kenya recently reported about 22,000 new cases. The figure is however showing a reduction in new HIV cases compared to the previous years.
