- All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide.
- The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is set to partner with the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to enhance tax literacy among learners in the country.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has promised avocado farmers that issues they have raised will be addressed to ensure they reap the best earnings from their farms.
- A second royal photograph issued to the media by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and his wife Kate, was digitally altered in eight places, Reuters said on Tuesday after an analysis of the picture by the news organisation's photo editors.
- Boeing (BA.N), is looking at how Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N), could shed or sharply reduce its ties to Airbus (AIR.PA), as the supply-chain giant's work for the European planemaker poses complications in rival Boeing's attempt to acquire its former subsidiary.
- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that his government is willing to engage with protesters after hundreds of Cubans partook in rare public protests at the weekend to decry worsening conditions on the island.
- Russian state media confirmed on Tuesday that the Kremlin replaced the head of the country’s navy following a string of successful Ukrainian attacks on its Black Sea fleet.
- A New York state judge on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against several social media companies alleging the platforms contributed to the radicalization of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in 2022, court documents show.
- Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Kakamega County have impounded 700 bags of fake fertilizer from a depot in Malava, Kakamega County.
- Hunter Elward, a former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who faced the most serious of federal charges against him and five other officers in the torture of two Black men last year, was sentenced to 20 years in priso n in a highly emotional hearing Tuesday.
- KU has cancelled its planned educational trip to the Coast following the fatal road accident involving one of the institution's buses at Maungu area along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway.
- Talks between the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) and officials from the ministries of health and labour for a return-to-work formula collapsed on Tuesday.
- Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen has ordered the immediate reassessment of drivers operating PSVs and heavy commercial vehicles in response to the recent surge in road accidents countrywide which have claimed numerous lives and left many seriously injured.
- Police in Bomet have arrested two suspects in connection with the heckling and booing during a presidential function in the county on Saturday last week.
- Efforts by a Parliamentary committee to establish how KDF spent Ksh.135 billion proved futile after the Ministry of Defence declared that revealing such details equates to risk to national security.
- Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a man and woman in possession of bhang estimated to have a street value of Ksh.5 million.
- Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki has asserted that the number of road traffic accident fatalities in a year has surpassed the number of people who died from the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has stated that the directive to have bars operating from 5 am to 11 pm will provide job opportunities for the Kenyan youth.
- Kenyans have reacted to a video which shows residents of Chemaner Ward in Bomet County rejoicing as their Member of County Assembly, Richard Ruttoh Kigaru, unveiled a new Probox converted into an ambulance which he donated to his constituents to help them deal with the area's medical emergencies.
- A Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) officer was on Tuesday morning killed another one injured after being run over by a runaway lorry at Chaka along the Nyeri - Nanyuki highway.
- High Court judge Grace Nzioka has closed an appeal filed by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) against Joshua Waiganjo, who had been accused of impersonating a police officer.
- Businessman Cleophas Shimanyula alias Toto now says that the Ksh.800 million demanded from him by Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale as damages for defaming him is unjustified.
- A High Court in Kisumu has suspended Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kithure Kindiki’s order on the closure of bars in the fight against illicit brew in the country.
- The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) of the National Assembly Chairperson George Muragara has affirmed that the Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS) are not state officers unlike Cabinet Secretaries (CS) and Principal Secretaries (PS).
- Bodies of Kenyatta University students who died in an accident at Maungu area in Voi on Monday are set to be transferred to the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRH) morgue today.
- President William Ruto's government has been put into question on how it plans to implement the unsavory Affordable Housing Bill once it is passed into law today.
- KUCCPS has opened its application portal for the first revision of applicants’ choices for placement to universities, TVET institutions, Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs), and the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC).
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia and Egypt this week to discuss efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and increase humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday.
- President William Ruto will today Tuesday, March 19, 2024, assent to the Affordable Housing Bill to pave the way for the return of housing levy deductions.
- Gambian lawmakers on Monday debated whether to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, which has been on the rise in recent years despite activist campaigns to end the practice.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's contentious bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda moved closer to becoming law on Monday after his government rejected all the proposed changes from the upper house of parliament.
- At least ten people were killed in a wealthy suburb of Haiti's capital on Monday, there were reports of looting, and thefts of electricity equipment cut the power supply as lawlessness spread to affluent areas and gangs tightened their grip on the city.
- Kidnappers have abducted over 100 people in two new attacks in northwest Nigeria weeks after more than 250 school pupils were seized in the same state, residents and officials told AFP on Monday.
- Eleven Kenyatta University students died and 21 others were seriously injured on Monday evening when their college bus collided with a truck in the Maungu area near Voi on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
- At a time when farmers in Trans Nzoia should be on their farms getting ready for the planting season, they find themselves at the Kitale NCPB depot looking for government-subsidized fertilizer.
- Residents of the Zimbabwean village of Buhera stood in groups at a primary school waiting to be called by name to receive life-saving handouts of grain, peas and cooking oil.
- Five people died while 18 others were injured after a 14-seater passenger van rammed a tractor in the Kimugul area along the Olenguruone-Silibwet road in Bomet County.