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RSF drones target Sudan army bases and key infrastructure in escalating civil war
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 14, 2025

According to an army official who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, the strikes targeted the headquarters of the Sudanese army’s 18th Division i...

Guardians of time: Conservators breathing life into Egypt's millenia-old treasures
XINHUA  |  Sep 14, 2025

In the NMEC's Stone Conservation Lab, they tackle statues weighing over 120 kilogrammes, employing an overhead winch to lift and reassemble colossal f...

President Ruto backs UN peace efforts in Sudan, urges warring sides to end violence
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 13, 2025

On July 28, Sudan’s ruling council accused Kenya of undermining its sovereignty after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced the creation of a paral...

14 foods that don’t mix well and why you should avoid them
Margaret Wanjiru  |  Sep 13, 2025

Food is chemistry, how we combine ingredients influences how our bodies process and benefit from them. It is not just what we eat, but how we pair it.

Over 13 million Sudanese children out of school amid ongoing conflict
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 13, 2025

Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...

UN appeals for funding as floods displace over 100,000 in South Sudan
XINHUA  |  Sep 13, 2025

The UN refugee agency warned that if the flooding continues, about 400,000 people could be displaced by the end of the year, exceeding the levels seen...

US, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt call for Sudan truce
DW News  |  Sep 13, 2025

The US, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have proposed a roadmap for peace in conflict-battered Sudan. The plan calls for a permanent...

Human rights activists, lawyers condemn surge in violence, want insecurity declared national disaster
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 13, 2025

Human rights defenders have emphasised that the combined threats to lawyers, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens make it imperative for the...

Smart driving licence access expanded to 15 Huduma Centres
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 12, 2025

In Nairobi, the services are available at the General Post Office (GPO) Huduma Centre and Kibra.

South Sudan's vice-president Riek Machar charged with treason, murder
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 12, 2025

The charges come despite the peace deal of 2018 that ended a bloody five-year civil war between Machar’s supporters and forces loyal to President Salv...

Parliamentary committee sends away Prisons boss for failing to table key documents
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 11, 2025

The session, chaired by Nyeri Town MP Duncan Mathenge, grew tense as MPs expressed frustration that this was Arunduh’s second appearance without the r...

Nairobi’s mitumba and retail traders pin hopes on affordable basics to keep customers buying
Alfred Onyango  |  Sep 11, 2025

Traders are urging the government to keep basic commodities affordable, saying squeezed household budgets remain the biggest barrier to their growth i...

IGAD launches new guide to boost media and civil society efforts in combating extremism
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 09, 2025

The guide, launched in Addis Ababa by Norway’s Ambassador to Ethiopia Stian Christensen, draws from last year’s discussions between the two sectors on...

Five healthy reasons to add basil to your meals
Margaret Wanjiru  |  Sep 09, 2025

Beyond its fragrant leaves and distinctive taste, nutrition experts say basil packs a powerful punch of health benefits that make it more than just a...

Kenya has introduced new banking policies; an economist weighs them up
The Conversation  |  Sep 09, 2025

The lifting of the moratorium on new banks and raising capital requirements could be the start of more changes in the Kenyan banking sector.

Stakeholders decry gaps in cancer care under Social Health Insurance
Alfred Onyango  |  Sep 06, 2025

Despite the SHA Act’s promise to guarantee affordable healthcare for all, especially those grappling with chronic and critical illnesses like cancer,...

Court halts government plan to scrap teachers’ hardship allowances
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 05, 2025

The report had proposed a reduction of hardship allowances and the scrapping of some categories altogether. It has also proposed the degazettement of...

AMREF plane crash: Flight data recorder sent to US for analysis
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 05, 2025

Kenya, being the country where the aircraft was registered, operated and where the accident took place, is required to notify the countries responsibl...

New Bill could allow civil servants to access entire pension upon exit
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 05, 2025

Under the current system, government contributions only fully belong to an employee after a decade of service, and withdrawals are limited until age 5...

Babu Owino says Kenya Moja’s 70 MPs ready to challenge government in Parliament
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 05, 2025

Owino described Kenya Moja as a platform where like-minded MPs can exercise oversight over the government.

Why we declined to be part of victims' compensation panel - Activists Hanifa Adan, Hussein Khalid
Barack Oduor  |  Sep 04, 2025

Hussein revealed that he was contacted to be part of the team that will oversee the compensation of the victims of protests, but he declined because h...

Millions of Kenyans facing financial hardship as cost of living outpaces wages – report
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 04, 2025

Real wages fell from negative 1.4 per cent in 2020 to negative 4.1 per cent in 2023, before showing only minor recovery in 2024.

Senators grill Mombasa governor over poor accessibility to public buildings for PWDs
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 03, 2025

The Senate Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare heard testimonies detailing how outdated infrastructure continues to lock out vulnerable gr...

89 per cent of Sudan’s farmers facing reduced yields amid civil war - report
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 03, 2025

89 per cent of smallholder farmers reported lower crop yields since fighting began, while more than half said insecurity had prevented them from harve...

Study: Over 130,000 Ugandan civil servants 'bought' jobs
DW News  |  Sep 03, 2025

A report by Uganda's Inspectorate of Government reveals that one out of three civil servants bribed their way into the job. Now there are calls to ref...

SRC approves Sh43 billion salary rise despite wage bill concerns
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 03, 2025

The payout followed months of stalled approvals earlier in the year after the commission was left without a quorum when the terms of seven commissione...

Landslide kills around 1,000 in Sudan’s Darfur amid ongoing civil war
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 02, 2025

Additional media reports indicate that delivering aid to the area has been difficult, with rescuers struggling to recover and properly bury those buri...

How civil servants are illegally drawing salaries from both counties, National Government
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 02, 2025

The audit, covering the financial years 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24, reveals widespread misuse of taxpayer money, with employees appearing on more th...

Finnish court jails Nigerian-born activist Simon Ekpa for six years on terror charges
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 01, 2025

The Päijät-Häme District Court in southern Finland delivered the unanimous ruling, finding that Ekpa attempted to advance the Biafra cause through unl...

LSK demands urgent probe into abductions of lawyers, warns of persecution
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 31, 2025

LSK President Faith Odhiambo said lawyers pursuing matters of public interest had increasingly become the greatest targets in what she described as po...

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