- Three more people have succumbed to injuries sustained during the Embakasi gas explosion, bringing to six the total number of people who have since died from the incident.
- Three more people have succumbed to injuries sustained during the Embakasi gas explosion, bringing to six the total number of people who have since died from the incident.
- Former Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion has lauded the initiative by the education ministry to have parents of students in national schools pay fees through the e-Citizen platform.
- At least 10 police personnel were killed and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack on Monday by militants on a police station in northwest Pakistan, police said, as violence escalated ahead of general elections this week.
- Namibia's Nangolo Mbumba, who took over as interim president of the southern African country on Sunday after Hage Geingob died in office, said he had no plans to run in elections due at the end of the year.
- Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni has called on Kenyans to take the HPV vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer, as the country grapples with 42,000 cases of cancer every year.
- Wildfires sweeping through central Chile have killed at least 99 people and hundreds are still missing, authorities said on Sunday, as President Gabriel Boric warned the country faces a "tragedy of very great magnitude".
- Opposition parties prepared to demonstrate on Sunday after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election set for February 25, sparking a wave of international concern.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed the mayor of an occupied city who was once abducted by Russia as the new head of the country's southern embattled Zaporizhzhia region, his office said on Sunday.
- The Anti-corruption Court in Mombasa has issued a summon to former Mandera South MP Adan Haji Sheikh to appear before it on 13th February to answer charges of corruption.
- Three days after the gas explosion tragedy at Mradi area in Embakasi, detectives from the Nairobi County police headquarters are pursuing seven suspects in connection to the incident which has left six people dead and more than 200 others hospitalized.
- However, government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura has assured the affected families that the government is coordinating support to ensure that the learning of students whose homes were burned down is not disrupted.
- The owner of an 8-acre parcel of land in Loresho is accusing former Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Davis Nathan Chelogoi of defying court orders in continuing to illegally occupy the parcel of land.
- A 17-year-old “serial swatter” from California is believed to be responsible for hundreds of swatting incidents and bomb threats throughout the United States and is now facing charges in Florida, according to a pretrial detention motion.
- A 47-year-old man from Mung’ang’a, Miambani in Kitui County died on Sunday while receiving treatment for machete cuts he sustained during a suspected land tussle.
- The man accused of showing his father’s severed head during a politically charged online rant this week first shot the federal worker to death using a handgun he’d bought only a day earlier, a Pennsylvania prosecutor said Friday.
- Charlie is remembered for his appearances on TV shows such as the kid's show Know Zone, Makutano Junction, Changing Times, Count it Out, and The First Grader.
- Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga has trashed the High Court’s ruling that ordered the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to continue without the recommendation of the NADCO report which is before Parliament.
- Opposition Leader Raila Odinga has blasted National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula for moving to the Supreme Court to challenge the Court of Appeal ruling on the controversial housing levy.
- Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has blasted Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja for being absent during a gas explosion tragedy in Embakasi, that killed three people and left over 200 others injured.
- A fiery President William Ruto took on Members of Parliament who are fond of opposing his government's proposals yet they are a no-show when needed to debate in the National Assembly.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi has hit out at opposition leader Raila Odinga over claims that President William Ruto intends to install former IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati as Chief Justice.
- Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has mourned President Hage Geingob, describing him as a great leader who contributed immensely to the liberation of Namibia.
- Police in Baringo County have arrested a 38-year-old Pastor of AIC Kipkures church, who is accused of defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old Form 2 girl in Kapchepkor sub location Baringo North.
- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday spoke with former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta about the escalating conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- President Macky Sall postponed Senegal's planned Feb. 25 presidential election, announcing in a televised address to the nation on Saturday that he had cancelled the relevant law due to electoral issues he warned would fuel disputes.
- Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 51 people and the death toll is likely to keep climbing, authorities said on Saturday, as emergency services battled to snuff out flames threatening urban areas.
- A supremacy battle between Siaya Governor James Orengo and ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo played out during the burial of researcher Ceaser Awuor Handa in Bondo constituency on Saturday.
- Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the "terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world" and the rise in anti-Semitism since the war in Gaza erupted on October 7.
- US strikes killed at least 18 pro-Iran fighters in eastern Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said, giving a new toll.
- Wildfires blazing across central and southern Chile have left at least 19 people dead, officials said Saturday, warning the toll was likely to climb as responders comb through burnt-out homes and the flames continue to spread.
- Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of a presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start.
- The death toll from landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain in the southern Philippines in the past week has risen to 14, official tallies showed Saturday.
- Azimio leader Raila Odinga has continued to criticise Kenya Kwanza's housing project and the levy imposed on it saying there is nothing affordable about it.
- President William Ruto has hailed the housing and health projects undertaken by his administration saying they’re the foundation for social and economic growth.