- The leaders, led by Ruto’s long-time aide Farouk Kibet, instead accused former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of inciting the region against the Head of State.
- Musyoka described the incident as a state-sponsored assault, alleging that the government was behind what he termed an orchestrated attempt to intimidate political opponents in sacred spaces. Speaking during the service, he expressed dismay at the growing politicization of places of worship.
- The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) on Sunday arrested two people and seized contraband goods in Usigu, Siaya County.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said Kenya strives to take lead in AI research and application keeping in mind the transformative potential of AI moving into the future.
- A police officer died by suicide after killing his two children and another child belonging to his brother-in-law at the Kakdhimu area in Rachuonyo, Homa Bay County.
- Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have left around 30 people dead while wrecking havoc in the central African megacity, an official told AFP on Sunday.
- Prime Cabinet Secretary (CS) and CS for Foreign Affairs Musalia Mudavadi has dismissed reports of his alleged affiliation with a new political outfit formed by his allies following ANC’s merger with the ruling UDA party.
- Pope Francis made a surprise Sunday public appearance as he mingled with crowds at the Vatican just two weeks after leaving hospital for a serious case of pneumonia.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua fired at his former boss, President William Ruto, over an attempted attack by goons at a church service on Sunday.
- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's security fired gunshots on Sunday morning to disperse a rowdy group attempting to interrupt a church service at PCEA Kasarani East Parish.
- A magistrate court in Wajir has granted the Directorate of Criminal Investigations a green light in exhuming the body of Gaala Aden Abdi, a 17-year-old who was burnt to death after allegedly refusing to marry a 55-year-old man in Wajir County.
- European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures on up to $28 billion of U.S. imports from dental floss to diamonds.
- Zimbabwe's President said Saturday he would suspend all tariffs on goods imported from the United States, days after US President Donald Trump levied 18 percent tariffs against the southern African nation.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to travel to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump, discussing issues including tariffs and the "Iranian threat," his office said Saturday.
- Violent storms battering the central-eastern United States have killed at least 16 people, officials said, with the National Weather Service warning on Saturday of "severe" flash flooding in the coming days.
- The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan's failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens, at a time when many in Africa fear that country could return to civil war.
- Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.
- Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. on Saturday, part of some 1,200 demonstrations that were expected to form the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk.
- A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he saw Israeli troops firing at emergency vehicles that he later saw stained with blood.
- President William Ruto concluded his five-day working tour of the Mt. Kenya region, in what appears to be a change of strategy aimed at silencing his critics
- Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday, as the country grapples with an unprecedented migrant crisis.
- Four people have been imprisoned for 25 years after being found guilty of beating a 19-year-old Kenya Certicicate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate to death for allegedly stealing a mobile phone.
- On the final day of the tour, Saturday, the President led an extensive inspection of key projects in Nyeri Town and Othaya in Nyeri County, as well as Githunguri and Lari constituencies in Kiambu County.
- A Russian attack killed at least 19 people including nine children in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said, but Russia's Defence Ministry said it targeted a military gathering there.
- British police said they charged actor-comedian Russell Brand on Friday with rape and multiple counts of assault in cases relating to four separate women between 1999 and 2005.
- Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since the administration launched its rapid-fire effort to put a conservative stamp on government.
- Kenya has renewed a contract to purchase fuel on credit from three state-owned Gulf companies by two years and renegotiated lower margins, Bloomberg News quoted the country's energy regulator as saying.
- On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the latest round of trade tariffs on all imports into America, which ultimately caught up with Kenya.
- A 50% reciprocal trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on U.S. President Donald Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said on Thursday.
- Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country's massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration's dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response.
- The Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya) Secretary General Francis Atwoli has called for the government to regulate social media use countrywide to tackle the growing misuse of digital platforms.
- U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump's unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week.
- Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested four suspects linked to a notorious motor vehicle theft syndicate operating in Nairobi and its environs.
- Jubilee Party Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni has warned against what he says are plans to institute cases against former Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i, saying attempts to delay his political ambitions are bound to fail.
- During his Saturday tour of Nyeri County in Othaya, President Ruto told Nyeri residents that he is ready to go home in 2027 if he fails to meet their expectations.
- The last group of 78 Kenyans who were rescued from Myanmar scam compounds has arrived today after a successful repatriation through the Kenyan Embassy in Thailand.
- Thirteen people are nursing injuries at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital after a bus they were traveling in was involved in a road accident on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.
- A sombre mood engulfed Ifo1 and Ifo 2 Food Distribution Points in Dadaab, Garissa County, after a stampede broke out among refugees queuing for food, resulting in the loss of one life.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica, as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis.
- Githunguri Member of Parliament Gathoni Wamuchomba has been summoned to Kiambu Police Station over alleged incitement of crowds during President William Ruto’s Mt Kenya tour on Friday.
- The government has announced a 50 per cent duty waiver for the importation of 5.5 million bags of yellow maize over one year to cushion Kenyans from soaring unga prices.
- Chief Justice Martha Koome has called for increased budgetary allocation to the judiciary, citing resource constraints as a major barrier to the effective delivery of justice.
- For the second day, the home of the late Dutch businessman Tob Cohen in Kitisuru was transformed into a high court as two witnesses took the stand to testify.
