- A 16-year-old boy killed two women in a knife attack at a discount shop in the Czech Republic on Thursday, police said, adding the motive remained unclear.
- A Member of the County Assembly (MCA) of Kitui is set to be arraigned on Friday for allegedly forging vehicle documents to defraud the House of Ksh.2.2 million forgery.
- Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country Thursday as most French forces departed from countries across West Africa.
- Rwanda on Thursday described recent criticism of its Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris St Germain football sponsorship deals by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s foreign minister as a threat to regional peace and stability.
- Guerrilla fighters carried out four bomb attacks that wounded six people in northeast Colombia overnight, officials said Thursday, stoking concerns for a fragile peace process.
- The Kenyan government is considering evacuating its citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as violence continues to escalate in the country.
- There was drama outside the Kiambu Law Courts on Thursday morning after security officers attempted to re-arrest Juja MP George Koimburi, who had just been released after the hearing of his court case.
- Public Service CS Justin Muturi resurfaced on Thursday in Parliament after days of maintaining a low profile, this time round sustaining an onslaught against the government he is serving under for initiating new projects while numerous others had stalled.
- The planned press conference by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of Sudan in Nairobi on Thursday was rocked by confusion, with conflicting information flooding newsrooms.
- Jubilee Party branch leaders have thrown their weight behind former Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang'i as their preferred presidential candidate.
- Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary (PS) Dr. Korir Sing’oei has come under fire for posting an AI-generated deepfake on his official X account, highlighting Kenya’s role in peace diplomacy in Sudan.
- KMPDU has issued a 30-day ultimatum to the government to resolve the ongoing internship wage crisis or face nationwide demonstrations starting March 18, 2025.
- Detectives in Mandera have arrested Bula Power Sub Location Assistant Chief Yussuf Maalim Issak for allegedly enabling terrorism by allowing illegal aliens to acquire Kenyan Identity Cards.
- President William Ruto has announced the suspension of the ongoing mediation talks between the South Sudan government and the country’s opposition hold-out group.
- Fifteen police officers have been remanded by the Kiambu High Court over their alleged involvement in the disappearance and murder of two Indian nationals and their Kenyan taxi driver in 2022, pending bail hearing.
- The Rural & Urban Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) has announced it will suspend Social Health Authority (SHA) services starting Monday citing continued ignorance to iron out existing challenges.
- The state departments of Housing, Water, Energy and ICT are among the biggest casualties in the latest supplementary Budget II 2024/25 which seeks to adjust the budget to cover all expenses up to June 2025.
- Thirdway Alliance party leader Ekuru Aukot says Kenyans are staring at potential constitutional amendment following former prime minister Raila Odinga’s loss in the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson election.
- The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has been urged to ensure that member states uphold their treaty obligations while effectively managing internal affairs.
- US airline Delta will offer $30,000 (Ksh.3885000) to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a "dictator" on Wednesday and warned he had to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his country, deepening a feud between the two leaders that has alarmed European officials.
- A joint Egyptian-British mission has identified an ancient tomb near Luxor as that of King Thutmose II, marking the first discovery of a pharaonic royal tomb in more than 100 years, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Tuesday.
- Hamas is due to hand over the bodies of four hostages Thursday, including those of the Bibas family, who have become symbols of the hostage crisis that has gripped Israel since the Gaza war broke out.
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has put billionaire Elon Musk in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, appearing to contradict the White House over who runs the cost-cutting program.
- Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.
- Attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Force have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state, Sudanese officials and rights groups said Tuesday.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday his country needs to build trust with the United States before his country’s three-year war on neighboring Ukraine can be resolved.
- A total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "a dictator without elections" and said he had better move fast to secure peace or he would have no country left.
- Residents of Koisagat village in Kericho County on Wednesday staged protests after the severed head of a middle-aged man was found in a sufuria in one of the houses.
- The Ministry of Health is seeking the help of Parliament to plug the Ksh.59 billion funding shortfall that has been exacerbated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding freeze.
- Thirty-nine students from Bureti Technical Training Institute were on Tuesday rushed to Kapkatet sub-county hospital after falling ill due to suspected water contamination.
- Kenya has defended its recent decision to host Sudan’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Nairobi despite backlash from the Sudan government.
- Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a 43-year-old woman who is alleged to have brutally murdered her mother in Matiliku village, Makueni County.
- More than one million Kenyans in marginalized areas of the country will benefit from a new Ksh.10 billion initiative launched by President William Ruto on Wednesday.
- Homa Bay Senator Moses Kajwang has stressed the importance of Kenya augmenting its military infrastructure in light of changing global warfare and emerging security threats.
