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Justice Mugambi agreed with Kituo Cha Sheria, Haki Africa, and Charles Njue — a relative of a victim of enforced disappearance — that parallel investi...
On Thursday, the University of Nairobi Council announced Prof Bitange Ndemo as the next vice chancellor to succeed Prof Hutchinson after his diplomati...
The falling-out highlights persistent governance challenges in Kenya's public universities, especially the University of Nairobi, where political infl...
Small-scale traders and ordinary Kenyans are calling for lower taxes, reduced fuel prices, and a more compassionate government to ease the high cost o...
"La pace sia con tutti voi!" (Peace be with you!), Leo's first words in public, echoed the ones Catholics use in their celebrations but also offered a...
The grassroots elections were supposed to happen at the same time across the country, but they have been delayed several times.
Aged 69 and originally from Chicago, Prevost has spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru and became a cardinal only in 2023.
The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls on Wednesd...
A total of 55 incidents of enforced disappearances occurred between January and December 2024.
CS Ogamba said the crisis stems from limited budgetary allocations and uneven teacher distribution across counties.
This was an hour more than it took for smoke to be seen after the first vote in the 2013 conclave that picked the late Pope Francis.
Nairobi was the deadliest county for extra-judicial killings followed by Kiambu and Migori.
No pope has been elected on the first day of a conclave for centuries, so voting could continue for several days before one of the red-hatted princes...
Older teens aged 15 to 19 registered 231,102 cases, showing a 4.3 per cent decline. These figures offer hope that ongoing efforts to address teenage p...
NOC-K President Paul Tergat announced the decision in a virtual meeting of the Committee's executive, noting that the exercise, originally slated for...
Gathungu says the government has already paid Sh7.8 billion for these projects, some of which are now accruing penalties due to delayed payment of cer...
The clarification comes amid earlier reports suggesting that Cardinal Njue had not received an invitation to participate in the conclave.
Kenya's economy grew much slower than anticipated in 2024, recording a GDP growth rate of 4.7 per cent against the projected 5.7 per cent.
Education, military and aviation are among the major winners in the expenditure plan for the financial year starting July, even as recurrent spending...
He stressed that his absence was not due to health issues but admitted that he was unsure why he had been left out.
Macharia is scheduled to exit on June 30, 2025, bringing to a close a decade-long leadership that began in July 2015. She is currently serving her sec...
Out of the 2,014 vacancies,1,309 positions allocated for primary schools, 32 for junior schools and 673 for senior secondary schools.
Two cardinals, one from Spain and one from Kenya, will not be joining the conclave for health reasons, the Vatican said.
The union argues that the layoffs violate the agreed terms between the union and the university management, accusing the institution of bypassing prop...
The vehicle, used by the late pontiff during his 2014 visit to the Holy Land, is being outfitted with diagnostic and emergency medical equipment to he...
According to the Treasury, the move is aimed at tightening tax compliance and ensuring that foreign firms contributing to large public contracts also...
These delays leave thousands of Kenyans, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), squatters, and families living in extreme poverty, in a state...
MPs condemned the commission’s continued disregard of the 2019 Employment and Labour Relations Court ruling, which found the age restriction discrimin...
The president was in Migori as part of a developmental tour of the region. Earlier in the day, he attended an interdenominational prayer service at Ka...
Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni will oversee the NRM members' verification exercises in Rwakitura and Ntungamano Ireenga, respectively.
