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EU launches Sh530 million airlift to deliver life-saving aid to Darfur amid deepening Sudan crisis
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 15, 2025

The EU has launched an eight-flight airlift worth Sh530 million to deliver 100 tonnes of life-saving aid to Sudan’s Darfur region, as conflict and res...

Kenya sets ambitious energy expansion with new national policies and transport financing
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

The Cabinet has approved new energy and petroleum policies and a transport financing model, as President Ruto cites daily load-shedding and targets 1...

Cabinet approves Sh9.7 billion livestock value chain support project to boost dairy and cereals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

Cabinet has approved a Sh9.7 billion Livestock Value Chain Support Project to upgrade dairy and cereal production across dozens of counties, alongside...

FKF demotes FIFA referee Erick Njogu after controversial Premier League decisions
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 15, 2025

Football Kenya Federation has demoted FIFA referee Erick Njogu to the National Super League and formally warned assistant referee Frederick Kajongo af...

Ugandan military confirms it is holding missing Catholic priest missing for two weeks amid public outcry
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 15, 2025

Uganda’s army has confirmed it is holding Rev Fr Deusdedit Ssekabira, a Masaka Diocese priest missing since 3 December, accusing him of subversive act...

Chinese national linked to Dar es Salaam killing charged with illegal firearm possession in Kenya
Farhiya Hussein  |  Dec 15, 2025

A Chinese fugitive wanted over a 2022 Dar es Salaam killing has been charged in a Mombasa court with unlawful firearm possession and assault, after hi...

Affordable Housing falls short as less than 300,000 Kenyans register despite Sh81.4 billion spent
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

Data from the State Department for Housing and Urban Development shows that only 292,326 people had enrolled, representing roughly 0.5 per cent of the...

KNEC warns schools over misleading 2025 KJSEA performance reports
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

KNEC explained that the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) framework assesses each subject independently and reports learners’ achievements using clear...

Nearly 30 per cent of Kenyan public secondary schools face low enrolment crisis
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

Education experts have also highlighted that the rapid growth of small and often unplanned schools is worsening the teacher shortage facing the sector...

IEBC drops census data, adopts ID and passport records for voter registration targets
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 15, 2025

According to the IEBC, the earlier approach to setting targets using census figures “has proven inaccurate, unsustainable and not verifiable”.

Nine dead, 17 injured in RSF drone strike on Sudan’s Dilling military hospital
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 14, 2025

A drone strike on Al-Dilling Military Hospital in southern Sudan killed nine civilians and injured 17, including medical staff, as a doctors’ group bl...

Family care and cohesion: How to survive and even thrive over the holidays
The Conversation  |  Dec 14, 2025

A South African researcher explains how trust, shared care and meeting emotional as well as material needs help families stay cohesive, and how “bad c...

Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo to be buried at Lumakanda home in Kakamega on December 30
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 14, 2025

Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo will be buried on December 30, 2025, at his Lumakanda home in Kakamega County, next to his parents, following a fatal r...

South Sudan grounds UNMISS aircraft over spy gear and smuggling allegations
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 14, 2025

South Sudan has grounded four aircraft contracted to UNMISS after finding undisclosed surveillance systems and alleged sandalwood smuggling, prompting...

Eastleigh boda boda riders adopt unique reflectors to boost safety, gain customer trust
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Dec 14, 2025

Boda boda riders in Eastleigh, Nairobi, are using numbered reflector vests showing their stages to improve customer safety, traceability and accountab...

UN Secretary-General condemns ‘horrific’ drone strike on peacekeepers in Sudan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 15, 2025

A drone attack on a UN logistics base in Kadugli, Sudan, killed six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and injured eight, prompting condemnation from the UN chi...

Government enforces festive school holiday safety measures to protect learners
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 14, 2025

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen last month emphasised that safeguarding children during the long holiday was non-negotiable.

Grade 9 transition: Why population, poverty and performance will guide senior school placements
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 14, 2025

Starting Monday, learners will be assigned to institutions based not just on exam scores but also on distance to school, county size and infrastructur...

Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
The Conversation  |  Dec 14, 2025

After failing to secure consensus, COP president Andre Corrêa do Lago announced these roadmaps as a voluntary initiative. Brazil will report back on p...

Tanzania’s CHADEMA party accuses prison authorities of alleged abuse of detainees
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Dec 14, 2025

CHADEMA claimed that the reported treatment is more extreme than what Kaunya and his colleagues experienced while held at a police station before appe...

UN chief alarmed by drone strike killing over 30 Sudanese civilians
XINHUA  |  Dec 13, 2025

Guterres also calls on the parties to agree on an immediate cessation of hostilities and to resume talks to reach a lasting ceasefire and a comprehens...

Thiaroye massacre: report on the French killing of Senegalese troops in 1944 exposes a painful history
The Conversation  |  Dec 13, 2025

Regarding the death toll, one may rely on a literal reading of the archives, which consistently report 35 deaths (or 70 in one officer’s report, phras...

Africa’s imports surge as East Asia leads exports in global trade expansion - report
Alfred Onyango  |  Dec 13, 2025

Africa and East Asia are powering global trade growth in 2025, with rising imports and exports offsetting slower activity in North America and Europe,...

(Hold) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Habwe, Mwangi and Mulwa - icons Kenya bid farewell in 2025
Barack Oduor  |  Dec 13, 2025

Kenya’s arts and literary world in 2025 was marked by the deaths of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, John Habwe, Meja Mwangi and David Mulwa, closing a chapter for...

Cyrus Jirongo: YK92 and the Sh500 note that defined an era
Barack Oduor  |  Dec 13, 2025

Former Lugari MP and YK92 leader Cyrus Jirongo has died after a road crash in Karai, Naivasha, along the Nairobi–Nakuru highway, ending a decades-long...

Over 150,000 students fail to progress to Grade 9 under CBC
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Dec 13, 2025

New KNEC data show more than 150,000 CBC learners in Kenya failed to reach Grade 9, with boys dropping out in higher numbers and similar attrition see...

Sudan war: Aid teams say deal struck to reach stricken El Fasher
UN News  |  Dec 13, 2025

Securing access for aid teams remains an urgent priority, humanitarian agencies insist, amid network blackouts that have largely cut off communication...

Peace falters as fighting in eastern DR Congo raises fears of regional war
UN News  |  Dec 13, 2025

Civilians across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing collapsing health services and mass displacement as fighting spreads, under...

JKIA–ABC road corridor to get new look as Ruto revives city roadworks
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Dec 12, 2025

Beyond Mombasa Road, the government is working on 60 kilometres of roads across the city, including Valley Road, Ngong Road, Haile Selassie Avenue, Ma...

Health Ministry clarifies Kenya–US health partnership respects sovereignty, data protection
Charity Kilei  |  Dec 12, 2025

The Ministry reiterated its commitment to protecting citizens’ health data while leveraging international cooperation to strengthen Kenya’s health sys...

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