Defence CS Adan Duale says government will divert development funds into drought mitigation plan

3 Jul 2025 - Growing up in a small, remote village, Kalwande village, in Kenya, Collins Odiwuor’s earliest memories of sport are stitched into the muddy football fields where he played barefoot with friends. It was in these rain-soaked games that a deep love for…

3 Jul 2025 - With 25 months until the 2027 General Election, discussions of forming a grand coalition to unseat President William Ruto are gathering momentum behind the scenes. At least seven key political heavyweights are quietly laying the groundwork for their own…

3 Jul 2025 - Microsoft on Wednesday said it was slashing a little less than four percent of its global workforce as it seeks to cut layers of middle management and leverage new technologies.

3 Jul 2025 - County governments’ total wage payments dropped for the first time in five years despite a 2.3 per cent increase in workers to 226,000, signalling tight financing conditions at the National Treasury.  According to the 2025 Economic Survey by the Kenya…

3 Jul 2025 - Kenya is on the verge of reintroducing the controversial consumptive utilisation of wildlife law, which flopped in the 1970s following a sharp decrease in wildlife population.  On June 25, the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife concluded the public…

3 Jul 2025 - The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has strongly condemned the harassment and threats directed at striking doctors in Kwale County.  This follows a Tuesday, July 1, 2025, incident where tension flared up at the…

3 Jul 2025 - A prominent Zimbabwean journalist was detained Wednesday over a satirical article critical of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a charge media groups decried was another attack on freedom of expression.

3 Jul 2025 - Several senators have criticised their National Assembly counterparts for excluding them from formulating the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2025, which seeks to entrench various government funds. Senators Edwin Sifuna (Nairobi), Samson Cherargei…

3 Jul 2025 - Teacher and social media influencer Albert Ojwang’ was on July 2, 2025, eulogised as a man of few words but with boundless generosity.   A low-key memorial service attended by a handful of mourners at the Ridgeways Baptist Church in Nairobi was held in…

3 Jul 2025 - Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has gazetted two days for Isiolo Governor Abdi Guyo’s impeachment trial. This even as Guyo’s defence team prepares to challenge the move by the county assembly to defy a court order not to proceed with the impeachment motion.…