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IEBC seeks Sh3.5 billion new office away from CBD to beat high rent, city protests
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 06, 2025

If the Uchaguzi Centre is completed as envisioned, it will serve as IEBC’s permanent operational base, easing cost burdens, enhancing security, and sh...

Monday is not a public holiday! Civil servants ordered to report to work despite Saba Saba protests
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 06, 2025

Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has warned that any civil servant who fails to report to duty on Monday will face disciplinary action,...

Fire erupts at Embakasi Girls Secondary School in Mukuru, no injuries reported so far
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 06, 2025

At the time of publishing, no injuries or fatalities had been reported, and the full extent of the damage remained unclear.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o would have cheered Gen Z’s push for reform - Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan
Barack Oduor  |  Jul 06, 2025

Led by Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan, Prof Kimani Njogu, playwright Sitawa Namwalie, and socio-political commentator Mohammed Amin, they said Gen-Z agitat...

Japanese Embassy officials tour Kamukunji, praise local innovation and enterprise
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Jul 04, 2025

The visit commenced at Kamukunji Technical and Vocational College, where the two officials were briefed on the institution’s operations. The college p...

June 25 protests death toll rises as autopsy shows two youths died from gunshot wounds
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 03, 2025

The revelations come in the wake of the death of 22-year-old hawker Boniface Kariuki, who was shot at close range during a protest in Nairobi demandin...

Autopsy reveals Kariuki died from severe head injury caused by four bullet fragments
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 03, 2025

Karuki died on Monday, June 30, after spending two weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), where he had been under...

Police brutality, state censorship are a threat to Kenya's democracy, civil society groups warn
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 03, 2025

They highlighted multiple signs of democratic backsliding, including the use of masked police in unmarked vehicles, closure of media stations, violati...

Two years later, BATUK probe stalls as Kenyan delegation remains silent during UK visit
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 03, 2025

Yet beneath the polished dispatches and promises of green growth and trade, a festering issue was quietly sidestepped — again. The elephant in the roo...

Burial of slain hawker set for July 11 as calls for justice mount
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 03, 2025

Maina criticised the use of excessive force by police and urged the government to retrain officers to prevent future incidents.

National Integrity Alliance demands CS Murkomen, IG Kanja’s resignation over police brutality and rights abuses
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 02, 2025

The alliance condemned the June 25 crackdown on protesters, slamming the three government officials for failing to prevent widespread human rights vio...

Boniface Kariuki: Mask vendor shot during Gen Z protests dies at KNH, family confirms
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 30, 2025

Boniface Kariuki had undergone two surgeries at Kenyatta National Hospital, where he remained in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) until his death.

High Court transfers police officers Taalam and Mukhwana's petition on Ojwang murder case to Kibera court
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Jun 30, 2025

Justice Lawrence Mugambi noted that the issues raised in the petition could be adequately addressed within the ongoing proceedings at the lower court.

Starlink loses over 2,000 Kenyan users in 3 months as market share drops below 1 per cent
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 30, 2025

In November 2024, Starlink halted new subscriptions in Nairobi and nearby counties, citing limited network capacity.

At least four officers in every riot unit carry live firearms, Charles Owino reveals
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 30, 2025

Owino defended police conduct during the recent protests, acknowledging public anger but emphasising that officers had exercised notable restraint des...

MPs push for Interior CS Murkomen’s ouster over 'shoot to kill' remarks amid public outrage
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 30, 2025

The MPs argue that Murkomen overstepped his legal authority by endorsing the use of lethal force—an action they say puts lives at risk and erodes the...

UK to inject Sh266 billion into Kenya under new deal focused on trade, climate and tech
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 29, 2025

The Kenya-UK Strategic Partnership 2025–2030 aims to boost investments, create jobs, and enhance Kenya’s global position in key areas such as climate...

Boniface Kariuki, hawker shot by police during Nairobi protest declared brain dead, family says
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 29, 2025

Family spokesperson Emily Wanjira said doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital informed them that while Kariuki still has a pulse and his organs remain...

Bullet fragments still lodged in Boniface Kariuki’s brain as family battles Sh2.7 million KNH bill
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 29, 2025

According to his family, the medical team at Kenyatta National Hospital has now conducted three major procedures, but warned that removing the remaini...

Albert Ojwang murder: Activists urge court to hold DIG Eliud Lagat accountable
Joseph Ndunda  |  Jun 25, 2025

Led by Lawyer Lempaa Suyinka and former university don turned activist Prof Fredrick Ongola, the activists say the exclusion of Lagat from the prosecu...

Journalists urge police and protesters to respect press freedom during June 25 protests
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 24, 2025

The MCK cautioned both police and protesters against targeting journalists, stressing that they play a vital role in informing the public and must be...

Albert Ojwang murder: DPP opposes bail for OCS Samson Taalam, Constable James Mukhwana
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Jun 24, 2025

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), led by Senior Assistant DPP Duncan Ondimu, submitted that the accused are facing a possible death penalty,...

Boniface Kariuki’s family says he cannot survive without life support after police shooting
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 23, 2025

Doctors recently conducted a second high-risk surgery lasting four hours to remove bullet fragments lodged in Kariuki’s skull.

Murder charges approved against OCS Talaam, five others in Albert Ojwang's case
Joseph Ndunda  |  Jun 23, 2025

The suspects are accused of killing the deceased while under custody after he was booked at the station by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal...

CS Geoffrey Ruku makes impromptu visit to Rift Valley Regional Offices, locks out hundreds of staff
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 23, 2025

CS Geoffrey Ruku, who was in Nakuru for an impromptu inspection of service delivery in national government offices, expressed disappointment that most...

Kamukunji's quiet triumph: How community effort revitalised a historic Nairobi space
Charity Kilei  |  Jun 22, 2025

For now, though, Kamukunji Grounds stands as a quiet triumph—a model of what happens when a community decides to reclaim and reshape its own spaces.

‘We were told not to cry’: The untold mental health crisis facing Kenya’s men
Charity Kilei  |  Jun 22, 2025

Like many others in his situation, Erick Mwari turned to substances to cope, numbing emotional pain with harmful distractions.

Father of injured protester Boniface Kariuki scammed Sh200,000 while facing Sh1 million hospital bill
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jun 21, 2025

Jonah Kariuki, speaking to the media outside the hospital, revealed that he lost Sh200,500 to fraudsters posing as officials from the Social Health Au...

Over 10,000 students in Kamukunji receive bursaries worth Sh71.5 million
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Jun 21, 2025

Speaking at the event, Kamukunji Member of Parliament Yusuf Hassan highlighted the importance of education in transforming lives and addressing povert...

Tears flow as Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan recalls life in exile, activism struggles with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Barack Oduor  |  Jun 20, 2025

Addressing a gathering at a memorial event organised by the University of Nairobi to celebrate Ngũgĩ’s life and work, Yusuf moved the audience with po...

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