- Somali police and international navies were preparing on Monday to attack a commercial ship that was hijacked by pirates last week, the Puntland region's police force said, two days after Indian commandos rescued another cargo vessel held by pirates.
- Morocco's first legal cannabis harvest was 294 metric tons in 2023, after the country approved its cultivation and export for medicine and industrial uses, cannabis regulator ANRAC said.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has urged families to stop hiding their alcohol-addicted kin as he pushed for concerted efforts to end illicit brews and drug abuse.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election victory, hailing the Russian president as a force for progress as Moscow's ties with Beijing deepen.
- Government communication is known to be bureaucratic and old school yet the audience we were communicating to was the youthful population that has a preferred way of communicating, through a mixture of English, Swahili and slang.
- Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha on Monday said her ministry will begin posting medical interns on April 1,2024 after a meeting with representatives from the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU).
- The High Court has extended orders stopping Businesswoman Dorcas Joan Kiptoo from interfering with a parcel of land situated in Karen that is worth Ksh.4.6 billion.
- The Kenya Medical Association (KMA) has revealed plans to head to court to challenge introduction of electronic tax invoice management systems in the health sector by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
- Former Water, Sanitation and Irrigation Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has called on young and upcoming leaders to brave themselves for a tough journey in leadership, especially in the political arena.
- Families of over 400 victims of the Shakahola cult massacre will finally receive the bodies of their loved ones today, almost a year after the unsettling incident was brought to light.
- Belgut Member of Parliament Nelson Koech has opined that the now heightening crowd heckling witnessed during President William Ruto's public addresses is fueled by supremacy battles in the Rift Valley region.
- China's rapidly aging population is fuelling a promising and fast-growing market for companies providing recreational classes and activities for the elderly middle class, from yoga to African drumming and smartphone photography.
- The Ministry of Health and the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union (KMPDU) will on Monday meet for a dialogue to end the nationwide doctors’ strike.
- A 26-year-old man is facing murder and other criminal charges after allegedly killing three people, including his 13-year-old sister, at two different homes in Pennsylvania before carjacking a driver and fleeing to New Jersey.
- President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine.
- A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight this month repeatedly tried to open the cockpit door, prompting flight attendants to barricade the door and have the man restrained until landing, court documents filed in federal court allege.
- During an interdenominational prayer service in Trans Mara on Sunday, Ruto affirmed yet again that he will be signing into law the bill that was passed by both chambers of parliament in concurrence.
- Riley Strain, a 22-year-old University of Missouri student, was drinking with friends on downtown Nashville’s bustling Broadway thoroughfare Friday night when he walked out of a bar and crossed a nearby street, police said. He hasn’t been seen since.
- Patients in public hospitals continue to be stranded as doctors maintain a hard stance that will accept nothing less than the implementation of the 2017 CBA and the speedy posting of intern doctors in tomorrow's meeting with the Ministry of Health leadership.
- By the time the swearing-in of a new president takes place, a lot of behind-the-scenes deliberations and preparations take place, spearheaded by the assumption of office of the president committee.
- U.S. President Joe Biden took jabs on Saturday at former President Donald Trump with jokes about the mental fitness of his election opponent during a speech at the Gridiron Club dinner, a Washington tradition that began in the 1880s.
- The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Attorney General, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and Transparency International Kenya have raised red flags over a bill before the justice and legal affairs committee at the National Assembly.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Sunday read the Riot Act to Rift Valley leaders asking them to stop the incessant wrangling and focus on service to the people.
- The United States is organizing a charter flight to evacuate its citizens from Haiti, the US embassy said on Saturday, after weeks of gang violence that has paralyzed the Caribbean country.
- Plans to construct a mega highway through the Aberdare National Park hit a new roadblock following the filling of an appeal by the Conservation Alliance of Kenya (CAK) at the National Environment Tribunal earlier this month.
- Clashes have broken out between government forces and M23 rebels leaving eight UN peacekeepers injured after a brief lull in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said.
- President William Ruto on Sunday urged all leaders within Narok County to amicably solve their disputes to help wipe out the deeply-rooted insecurity in the region.
- Kenya’s Poisons and Pharmacies Board (PPB) signed a Confidentiality Commitment with the United States's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on March 15, 2024, in Washington D.C.
- Police in Kibwezi, Makueni County have arrested a 60-year-old man who had gone into hiding after defiling and impregnating a student from Kyaani High School.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has over the past two decades built up a system of domestic repression and confrontation with the West that is almost certain to guarantee a fifth term in office on Sunday.
- West African data center and connectivity provider MainOne said on Friday that an internet outage that hit West and Central Africa earlier this week was caused by a break in its submarine cable system.
- West African data center and connectivity provider MainOne said on Friday that an internet outage that hit West and Central Africa earlier this week was caused by a break in its submarine cable system.
- A volcano in Iceland erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December, the country's meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the dark night sky.
- Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has commiserated with the Kapsabet Boys High School fraternity after a tragic accident on Saturday that killed a student, teacher and left scores injured.
- Bandits on Saturday shot at the convoy of Baringo North MP Joseph Makilap, Baringo County Woman Representative Florence Jematia and Redcross officials along Yatya -Chemoe road.
- A joint operation conducted by Anti-Narcotics and Transnational Organized Crimes detectives led to the separate arrest of four drug-peddling suspects among them three Nigerian nationals.
- Most of the nine people who will sit on Haiti's political transition council have been named by the groups they represent, although a couple are still pending, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.