- European Union leaders are considering using about $3 billion (approx. Ks.397.5 billion) a year in windfall profits generated by frozen Russian financial assets to help fund Ukraine’s war effort.
- SRC says Kenya is living beyond its means and that the cost of the wage bill is eating into much of the country's revenues beyond the allowed maximum of 35 percent.
- Families of the 11 Kenyatta University students who lost their lives in a road accident in Maungu area near Voi town on Monday evening have described the deaths as a big loss not only to them but the entire nation.
- Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital say they’ve successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human.
- Police in Nairobi have arrested 24 fake pharmacists and shut down 30 illegal pharmaceutical outlets across the city as part of an operation led by officials from PPB targeting illegal chemists.
- SBL Innovate Limited that has been accused of selling fake fertilizer has sued KEBS for what it terms as giving wrong information about their products.
- The government will involve the church and religious leaders in the ongoing nationwide crackdown on illicit brews and drug abuse, DP Rigathi Gachagua has said.
- This fruit, which generated Ksh.19 billion in 2023, is generating a lot of heat from farmers in the Mt Kenya region and politicians from the area are starting to sweat as they rethink their support of the Finance Act 2023.
- EACC detectives have arrested a Kenya Power official in Diani, Kwale County, for soliciting a Ksh.100,000 bribe from a local resident in order to restore power supply to their premises.
- CJ Martha Koome has defended the Judiciary over the new housing levy law saying the third arm of government was not party to any agreement for the implementation of the programme.
- The High Court has ordered a Nairobi lawyer to pay back Ksh.25.9 million that he reportedly pocketed for fraudulently selling a parcel of land to the Nairobi City Council.
- Former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner (PC) Davis Nathan Chelogoi will spend four days in remand as he awaits the court to rule on whether it will grant him bail.
- The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has announced that housing levy deductions for the government’s affordable housing project take effect from March 19.
- Ethiopia's largest bank is struggling to recoup millions of dollars after a glitch over the weekend allowed customers to withdraw unlimited funds, according to local media reports.
- Kenyans who will purchase homes under the Affordable Housing programme cannot resell the units unless allowed by the housing board, the National Assembly Finance Committee Chairman Kimani Kuria has stated.
- Doctors drawn from the North Rift region today held demonstrations in Eldoret town demanding the government to implement their CBA agreement and absorb interns.
- A consignment of 112,700 passport booklets arrived in the country on Wednesday evening in what is expected to enhance the issuance of passports as well as address the current printing backlog.
- Old Mutual Health, the health insurance arm of Old Mutual, in partnership with Cerba Lancet Kenya, has introduced a self-collection HPV DNA kit aimed at boosting cervical cancer screening rates in Kenya.
- The Kitangani mangrove restoration site, where tens of tons of dredged sand were deposited in 2018 and is now a man-made beach, remains a reminder of such efforts, where planning has been done four times, all in futility.
- A Georgia man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former girlfriend was put to death Wednesday, in the southern US state's first execution in more than four years.
- The Vietnamese parliament on Thursday approved the unexpected resignation of President Vo Van Thuong as a wide-reaching corruption probe roils the opaque communist country.
- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has issued an ultimatum to doctors affiliated with Nairobi County who are participating in the ongoing countrywide strike by the medics to immediately resume duty.
- Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Susan Nakhumicha has cleared the air on why there is an advertisement for the appointment of a Health Director General despite having Dr. Patrick Amoth acting in the position for years.
- Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Susan Nakhumicha has cleared the air on why there is an advertisement for the appointment of a Health Director General despite having Dr. Patrick Amoth acting in the position for years.
- Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has warned that the government might resort to sacking striking doctors as the standoff between medics and her ministry persists.
- Former President Donald Trump is in panic mode as the deadline approaches to secure a half-billion-dollar bond to appeal his civil fraud case in New York, according to multiple sources familiar with his thinking.
- Australia will begin enforcing tougher visa rules for foreign students this week as official data showed migration hit another record high, which is likely to further exacerbate an already tight rental market.
- Suspected gang members were killed during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Haiti's capital, as a clash with police and locals pointed to a resurgence of vigilante justice while the state remains absent.
- From old cellphones to broken refrigerators and discarded e-cigarettes, global electronic waste has reached record highs and is growing five times faster than rates of recycling – bringing a host of health, environmental and climate problems, according to new analysis.
- Russia said on Wednesday its soldiers were pushing Ukrainian forces back and that Moscow would bolster its military by adding two new armies and 30 new formations by the end of this year.
- Israel's military said on Wednesday it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied.
- Housing and Urban Development Principal Secretary Charles Hinga has revealed that the Affordable Housing Act recently signed by President William Ruto outlines tough punishments for State officers found culpable of misappropriating taxpayers’ funds meant to be used for the project.