- Education CS Ezekiel Machogu says there is no crisis in learning institutions across the country following reports of delayed disbursement of capitation.
- Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has announced the establishment of five inter-communal schools in the North Rift Valley region in an attempt to curb insecurity.
- The National Assembly's Finance and Planning Committee has singled out 7 clauses contained in the controversial Finance Bill 2023 for possible amendments.
- Ten more bodies have been exhumed at Shakahola forest where the search for victims of controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie's starvation cult is ongoing.
- A former podiatrist has been rearrested for an alleged murder plot against his estranged wife, four years after serving a sentence for a similar offence.
- Government is committed to make affordable housing programme a successful project for the betterment of the future generations, Cabinet Secretary Zachariah Njeru has said.
- Youth Affairs, Sports and Arts Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba has disbanded the Talanta Hela Council and Technical Committees, consequently revoking the appointment of popular TikToker Azziad Nasenya, comedian Daniel ‘Churchill’ Ndambuki, singers Akothee and Wahu Kagwi among others.
- Suspected Islamist militants hacked 12 people to death in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, local officials said, in the latest attack in the troubled region.
- Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has announced that the government will immediately establish five cross community schools in an Education for Peace Initiative.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has slammed opposition leader Raila Odinga for supposedly sticking his nose into the affairs of the Kenya Kwanza administration.
- A new project has been launched to enhance market access for pawpaw, mango, avocado, and citrus fruits in Eastern Africa, specifically in Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi.
- Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi has been granted relief after the High Court on Friday lifted orders freezing her personal bank accounts.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary (CS) Musalia Mudavadi has urged critics of the Finance Bill 2023 to give the government an alternative avenue to raise revenue to support the country's economy and operations.
- The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has withdrawn a case in which former State House Digital Strategist Dennis Itumbi was accused of forging a letter in 2019 alleging of a plot to assassinate then Deputy President William Ruto.
- A trainee pilot flying a light aircraft was on Thursday night forced to make an emergency landing at the Kisumu International Airport after the plane's landing gear malfunctioned just minutes after takeoff.
- USAID halted food aid to Ethiopia Thursday, citing "a widespread and coordinated campaign" to divert donated supplies from the needy as Addis Ababa vowed to hold perpetrators to account.
- China jailed a human rights lawyer for three and a half years for state subversion, his family said Thursday, in the latest blow to the country's embattled civil society under President Xi Jinping.
- A priest in Athens has been suspended after including two girls as altar servers in a church service, angering hardliners in the country's all-male Orthodox church, his parish and media reports said Thursday.
- South Africa said it was open to hosting talks between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed an African leaders' peace mission seeking to end the conflict.
- Five Arab Israelis were shot dead at a car wash in the north on Thursday, police said, amid the worst crime wave in years to hit the minority sector.
- Saudi Arabia said Thursday its relations with the United States and China were not a "zero-sum game", as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted its ally was not being asked to choose sides.
- The White House on Thursday postponed an outdoor Pride event due to hazardous air pollution in the US capital caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires.
- Senator Edwin Sifuna claims a court order cited by Speaker Moses Wetangula during a ruling where he retained Sabina Chege as Deputy Minority Whip is suspicious.
- 18 county assemblies across the country have adjourned sittings indefinitely to protest the reduction of their salaries and scrapping of plenary sitting allowances by SRC.
- Police in Rongai are investigating an incident where a woman allegedly killed her two children, stabbed her husband three times before attempting suicide.
- Members of Parliament affiliated to the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party are now threatening to impeach National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula.
- The hope of 60 families was rekindled after they took their drug addicted-male kin to a boy child rehabilitation programme spearheaded by Second Lady Pastor Dorcas Gachagua.
- A member of parliament was reportedly injured after a fight broke out in the National Assembly during the ruling by Speaker Moses Wetangula in which he retained Nominated MP Sabina Chege as Deputy Minority Whip.
- A member of parliament was reportedly injured after a fight broke out in the National Assembly during the ruling by Speaker Moses Wetangula in which he retained Nominated MP Sabina Chege as Deputy Minority Whip.