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World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
The Conversation  |  Oct 05, 2025

Through appreciating the importance of butt-drag impressions, urolites, coprolites and hyraceum, and learning about the environment of rock hyraxes an...

UK police probe suspected arson and hate crime at Peacehaven Mosque in East Sussex
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Oct 05, 2025

According to early reports from mosque officials, two individuals wearing balaclavas were seen approaching the building shortly before the fire began.

MPs demand KeRRA submit project certificates amid road levy discrepancies
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 02, 2025

The committee scrutinised KeRRA’s handling of the 2023/2024 financial year, noting that Sh3,696,888,000 had been transferred from the Fund’s bank acco...

Recognising the risks: The growing burden of cardiovascular disease
Charity Kilei  |  Oct 02, 2025

Research estimates that controlling major risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity, poor diet, and smoking could reduce the risk of heart attack...

Gaza aid convoy says Israeli warships used cyberattack to disrupt mission delivering food, medicine
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 01, 2025

According to Reuters, two Israeli warships closed in on the fleet and encircled its boats, Alma and Sirius, causing their navigation and communication...

Activist petitions IEBC to prove security of election systems amid spyware, AI threats
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 01, 2025

The petitioner, Laban Omusundi, wants the commission to outline a comprehensive cybersecurity framework within 60 days to safeguard electoral technolo...

Another pastor arrested in Kilifi as authorities crack down on rogue preachers
Farhiya Hussein  |  Sep 30, 2025

According to Kiinge, security agencies have intensified intelligence operations at the grassroots level, including scrutiny of religious leaders’ qual...

Shakahola cult: How Mackenzie forged documents to register Good News Church
Farhiya Hussein  |  Sep 30, 2025

The prosecution presented five witnesses before the Shanzu Law Courts in the ongoing trial involving Mackenzie and 95 co-accused persons, who face cha...

Why women are more likely to be misdiagnosed during heart attacks
Charity Kilei  |  Sep 28, 2025

For decades, the medical community has viewed heart attacks through a narrow, one-size-fits-all lens—largely based on data from men, particularly olde...

KNH conducts complex facial reconstruction surgery on young boy injured in Isiolo-Meru bandit attack
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 26, 2025

The procedure aimed to restore both function and appearance to the boy’s face following the severe injuries he sustained in the attack, which affected...

19 first aid units, trauma facilities to be built along Kenya’s blackspots
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 26, 2025

The new trauma centres and first aid posts, backed by trained responders on motorcycles and supported by the police, are expected to directly address...

Religious leaders demand release of SHA funds to hospitals, warn patients’ health is at risk
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 25, 2025

The ACK leadership said the piling debts have forced several hospitals to suspend services, leaving patients stranded.

Drone attack by paramilitary forces kills 15 at market in western Sudan
XINHUA  |  Sep 25, 2025

Meanwhile, the Coordination of Resistance Committees in El Fasher, a volunteer group, reported a drone strike by the RSF targeted a busy local market...

Witness narrates how Mackenzie distorted Bible verses to defend deadly Shakahola fasting cult
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 23, 2025

During Tuesday’s court session, the witness testified that Mackenzie cited passages from the Book of Revelation and reinterpreted them as a countdown...

CBK launches new cybersecurity centre to combat rising financial sector threats
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 22, 2025

CBK said the centre will provide critical services including cyber threat intelligence, incident response, digital forensics and cyber investigations.

Kilifi closes 11 churches over radicalisation, lack of registration
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 22, 2025

The crackdown follows the deaths of more than 484 people linked to cult-related activities in Malindi, including over 450 followers of the Good News I...

Kenya declares Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ur Tahrir terrorist groups in major security crackdown
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 21, 2025

Kenya’s decision to proscribe both groups reflects broader security priorities—particularly preventing the spread of extremist ideologies and blocking...

Westgate attack: The day Kenya’s terror fight became a global concern
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 21, 2025

The siege, which lasted four days, left at least 67 people dead and more than 200 injured.

Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa
The Conversation  |  Sep 21, 2025

Their travel texts are diverse, many available only in archives. They include speeches, commentaries, handwritten accounts, interviews, letters and me...

Chakama residents demand subdivision of 50,000-acre ranch linked to cult activities
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 20, 2025

Residents, led by the local Chakama Pastors’ Fellowship, have linked the vast unoccupied land to cult activity, arguing it has become a breeding groun...

Voluntary disarmament gaining momentum in North Rift, at least 100 firearms surrendered
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 20, 2025

The latest cache of 19 additional firearms, 109 rounds of assorted ammunition, and one rifle grenade was handed over to security officers in Kerio Val...

How Nairobi’s women hawkers risk it all to make ends meet
Barack Oduor  |  Sep 19, 2025

Matatu drivers operating along Mfangano Street under Manchester Sacco face long delays navigating through the disorganised city. Trips that should tak...

Kwa Binzaro cult suspects held for 60 days as investigators uncover grisly graves
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 18, 2025

Detectives told the court they would use the extra time to sort through 102 commingled remains already recovered, carry out post-mortem examinations o...

IPOA reviews 20,000 complaints, inspects 5,000 police facilities in five years
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 18, 2025

This year, IPOA’s report on police response to protests held between June and July 2025 revealed serious violations of constitutional policing standar...

Rescue of starving boy sheds light on Shakahola forest tragedy
Farhiya Hussein  |  Sep 18, 2025

Khadijah Wilson recounted how she and her younger brother found the boy, identified in court only as P.P., lying weak outside their shop in the Maduka...

Education sector sees sharp drop in ransom payments, but staff stress persists -Report
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 18, 2025

This decline contrasts with the past five years, when ransomware was one of the most serious threats to the education sector, with attacks occurring a...

IPOA launches ambitious strategic plan to transform policing in Kenya
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 17, 2025

Chief Justice Martha Koome said the plan is a reaffirmation of the country's constitutional journey that was embarked on in 2010, to entrench accounta...

Somali court sentences woman to 15 years for laundering Sh155 million to Al-Shabaab
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Sep 17, 2025

Banadir Regional Court ruled that Nadiifo Hassan Abdiqadir Abdulle channelled the money through her personal bank accounts, disguising illicit transfe...

Rwanda backs Qatar at UN, demands accountability for Israeli strikes
New Times  |  Sep 17, 2025

The strikes, which targeted senior Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, had earlier drawn condemnation from Kigali.

Shakahola trial hears more harrowing testimonies of starvation and abuse
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 16, 2025

Government Pathologist Richard Njoroge, who performed post-mortems on four bodies recovered from mass graves in Shakahola, described the grim state of...

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