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A Kenyan man has been arrested and charged with rape in the US state of Kansas. Samuel Wambugu is accused of sexually assaulting an 86-year-old resident of a nursing home in Overland Park, Kansas. Police say the accused was a former staff member at The Heritage of Overland Park nursing home...

Authorities in DR Congo have arrested Kenyan terror suspect Salim Rashid Mohamed alias Chotara. Salim was apprehended on suspicion of being a member of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist rebel group in Uganda and DRC. It is alleged that Salim, who hails from Mombasa and scored an A-...

Swedish-Kenyan company Opibus has introduced the first African-designed and manufactured electric bus in Kenya as part of its efforts to bring clean energy to public transportation. Opibus, which was the first company to make electric motorcycles in Kenya, plans to launch the bus commercially...

Police in Kiambu are holding two suspects for allegedly defrauding a gold investor. Posing as agents of a Congo-based gold baron, Rogers Kipkogei and Collins Chavera obtained more than Sh1 million from a gold investor after showing him dust from crushed padlocks. The two were smoked out of...

The United States has donated 517,140 more Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines to Kenya to boost the ongoing vaccination drive. The consignment donated through the COVAX facility landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Saturday and was received by the Ministry of Health officials. The...

Kenyan long-distance runner Ruth Chepng'etich has smashed the world half-marathon record. The 26-year-old won the Istanbul Half Marathon on Sunday after clocking one hour, four minutes, and two seconds (1:04:02), taking off 29 seconds from the previous record set by Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia...

Kenyans are up in arms after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a Sh255 billion loan to Kenya to help support the country’s COVID-19 response. The Washington-based international lender on Saturday announced that its executive board approved the 38-month program under the Extended...

There was drama in Nthongoni village Kibwezi sub county of Makueni county after a burial ceremony turned chaotic. This is after the workmates of the deceased, a conductor caused mayhem during the burial. Apparently, the workmates complained that the ceremony was taking longer than expected...

President Trump’s administration has issued a new travel rule targeting countries whose citizens have higher rates of overstaying visitors and business visas. The new temporary ruled issued on Monday may require nationals from 24 countries, most in Africa, to deposit a bond of up to $15,000 to...

Popular Kenyan musician Esther Akoth, alias Akothee, has cut ties with her ‘adopted’ son Shadrack Mwita following a bitter fallout. Akothee rescued the young man from the streets in May this year after learning the suffering he was going through having lost his left leg at the age of seven in a...

Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu has revealed plans to make a political comeback in 2022. Waititu lost the governor’s seat in January this year after the Senate upheld Kiambu MCAs’ decision to impeach him on the grounds of gross misconduct, abuse of office, and violation of the...

Police in Tana River county are searching for a gardener who fled after impregnating all three of his employer’s underage daughters at around the same period. The girls said the man would often lure them to their farm where he would sexually defile them. One of the sisters confessed to sneaking...

A newly released report indicates that wealthy Kenyans are hiding a whopping Sh457 billion in offshore accounts. The funds, which are stashed in low tax territories, represent 4.8 percent of Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the State of Tax Justice 2020 report released by the...

DCI detectives recovered Sh52,000 from one of the seven teenage girls who had been reported missing from their homes in Nairobi last week. The teenagers aged between 14 and 16 reunited with their families over the weekend after they were rescued by police. During interrogation, the girl told...

A 41-year-old Kenyan woman who hosted 44 school kids for a party at her house in Nairobi’s Mountain View Estate was on Monday arraigned at Milimani law courts. The woman, Millicent Muthoni Kithinji appeared before Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot alongside three other suspects...

Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have launched a probe into an online syndicate that has been luring school girls from their homes for partying orgies that last for days. Preliminary investigations reveal that the teenagers are being lured through social media...

Kenya Power has raised alarm over the growing number of customers shifting to solar energy. The State-owned electricity distributor indicated that its industrial clients who account for nearly 60 percent of its revenues are gradually installing solar power systems, dealing a blow to its already...

Seven teenage girls who were reported missing after allegedly being lured from their homes in Nairobi a week ago have spoken out. Reports indicated that the teens were lured from their homes by a Caucasian man who had promised them lucrative auditions. A US telephone number (+176896663236)...

The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has announced the death of yet another senior doctor, Dr. Nira Patel. Dr. Patel, a dental surgeon specialized in orthodontics, succumbed to Covid-19 complications on Saturday, according to the union. “We mourn the passing on of Dr. Nira...