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1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - China is set to construct a Sh5 billion mixed-use development at the Jamhuri Showground in Nairobi, in a project hailed as a major…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) has announced that all licensing processes for…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan software developer Rose Njeri has been named among the world’s most influential rising changemakers in the 2025 TIME100 Next…

1 Oct 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration has indicated support for a one-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has raised the alarm over a surge in forged movement permits being used to transport timber, charcoal…

1 Oct 2025 - JOHANESBURG, S.A. - South Africa’s opposition leader Julius Malema has been found guilty of discharging a firearm in public, seven years after a…

1 Oct 2025 - PARIS, France - South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, was found dead on Tuesday outside a hotel in Paris in circumstances that French…

1 Oct 2025 - VIRGINIA, U.S. - US President Donald Trump has signaled a dramatic shift in America’s defense priorities, telling military leaders that their role is…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Ministry of Education has unveiled a special unit dedicated to addressing teenage pregnancies and protecting learners from…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s Contingencies Fund, set aside to cushion the country during emergencies, has been put under scrutiny after the Auditor…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya — African policymakers will soon have access to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and digital skills training through a new…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States Embassy in Nairobi has announced a partial suspension of its operations following the shutdown of the US…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu, popularly known as Baba Yao, will remain in custody after the High Court declined his…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – The High Court has ordered Nation Media Group (NMG) to pay Nyamira Senator Erick Okong’o Mogeni and his wife, Dr. Christine Atieno…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The World Bank Group has launched the Africa Skills for Jobs Policy Academy, a new program designed to help African countries tackle…

1 Oct 2025 - Homa Bay, Kenya – The academic community is mourning the tragic death of Prof. Thomas Tonny Onyango Mboya, an Associate Professor at the Technical…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) have pledged to work together…

1 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Julia Muthoni Mwangi are facing accusations of illegally occupying a Nairobi property…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The plea-taking of Kennedy Kalombotole, the prime suspect in the murder of two patients at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), has…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – Tension is rising in public universities as students threatened to take to the streets within 24 hours if the government fails to…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The High Court has declined to release six police officers and three civilians accused of murdering blogger Albert Ojwang at the…

30 Sep 2025 - KINSHASA, DRC - Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Joseph Kabila has been sentenced to death in absentia after being found guilty of…

30 Sep 2025 - ISIOLO, Kenya - The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has flagged a new tax evasion tactic where smugglers strip imported goods of their original…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – The Judiciary has intensified its push for digitisation by expanding the E-Filing System, a move officials say will transform access…

30 Sep 2025 - Nairobi, Kenya – Kenya has stepped up its preparedness against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats with…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has placed a Sh1 million bounty on Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, the key suspect in the…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Weetabix East Africa has appointed James Mugo as its new ICT Executive, entrusting him with leading the company’s digital…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Weetabix East Africa has appointed James Mugo as its new ICT Executive, entrusting him with leading the company’s digital…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Passenger traffic surged worldwide in 2024, with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport once again claiming the top spot…

30 Sep 2025 - KILIFI, Kenya - Security officials in Kilifi County have sounded the alarm over the resurgence of cult-like religious movements, warning residents to…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has warned that Kenya’s ambition to expand milk exports will…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Most parts of Kenya will remain hot and dry this week, even as pockets of rainfall continue in parts of the Rift Valley, Western and…

30 Sep 2025 - TINDERET, Kenya – Two young men were shot dead on Monday in clashes between police and residents along the Tinderet-Chemelil border, reigniting a…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The High Court has stopped the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from obtaining confidential medical records from two…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has sought to calm growing anxiety among farmers after warning that this year’s final bonus…

30 Sep 2025 - KITUI, Kenya - The government says preparations for this year’s Mashujaa Day celebrations in Kitui County are nearly complete, with 92 percent of the…

30 Sep 2025 - LODWAR, Kenya – Relief and tears of joy marked the corridors of the Lodwar Law Courts on Tuesday after a woman who had spent seven years battling…

30 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has unveiled an ambitious plan to net Sh300 billion from 11 million personal identification number…

30 Sep 2025 - Nairobi, Kenya – Child custody cases remain among the most delicate disputes handled by Kenyan courts, often arising in the wake of divorce,…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Kenya Editors Guild (KEG) has appointed Linda Bach as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective October 16, 2025. Bach, who…

29 Sep 2025 - WENZHOU, China - A Chinese court has handed down death sentences to 11 members of a notorious family crime syndicate that ran massive scam centres in…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya – Visiting Kenya’s world-renowned wildlife parks and reserves is set to cost more from October 2025 as the government introduces…

29 Sep 2025 - WASHINGTON - The United States is considering whether to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, Vice-President JD Vance confirmed on…

29 Sep 2025 - BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union (EU) will begin electronically recording entry and exit data for non-EU nationals travelling to 29 European…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is preparing to introduce new compensation rules for e-money and digital wallet users, in a move…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The government has disbursed Sh881 million to support more than 440,000 households caring for orphans and vulnerable children under…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) has completed restoration works on the Loiyangalani–Suswa 400kV…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - The High Court has ruled that hospitals in Kenya have no legal right to detain the bodies of patients over unsettled medical bills,…

29 Sep 2025 - The 2025 Africa Concours d’Elegance, held on Sunday, September 28, at the Nairobi Racecourse, was a grand showcase of automotive heritage, attracting…

29 Sep 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyans and foreign tourists will start paying revised fees to access national parks, reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries from…