Cyber-crimes targeted at more women than men during pandemic: study

By Agnes Oloo,

Cyber- crime offenses have been on the rise during the COVID-19  pandemic period in Kenya with cyberbullying taking centre stage. And a majority of ...

Cyber Crime , GBV

GBV cases in Kenya up by 92pc between January and June 2020

By Rachel Ombaka,

Cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Kenya increased by 92percent between January and June 2020, a study has found. Gender CS Margaret Kobia sai...

GBV

UN official: May be ‘many months’ before full scale of Tigray rapes is known

By Reuters,

Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of rape. A senior United Nations official says that it may be many months before the full s...

Ethiopia , rape , tigray

Activist Edwin Mutemi Kiama released unconditionally

By Citizen Reporter,

Activist Edwin Mutemi Kiama has been released unconditionally after the prosecution failed to provide sufficient evidence to charge him for alleged cy...

Activist Edwin Mutemi Kiama , cybercrimes act

Raila urges candid discussion on GBV amid rising cases

By Citizen Reporter,

Raila Odinga, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader, has called for an urgent candid discussion on Gender Based Violence, asserting that t...

GBV

India’s Delhi to lock down for six days as COVID-19 outbreak worsens

By Reuters,

The Indian capital New Delhi will be under a strict lockdown for six days starting on Monday night, the city's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, ad...

coronavirus

‘Expect more going forward,’ Police tell Nairobians on curfew enforcement roadblocks

By Ian Omondi,

Nairobi Regional Commissioner James Kianda has defended the move by police to mount roadblocks along major highways in the city during curfew hours. ...

Commissioner James Kianda , curfew , Nairobi

Kenyans up in arms over police curfew enforcement exercise on Thika Road

By Ian Omondi,

Kenyans plying the Thika Road route were for the better part of Saturday night stranded on the way after police officers mounted a curfew enforcement ...

curfew , Thika Road

How Bitcoin gained its glory

By Agencies,

The famous cryptocurrency has crossed this primary psychological milestone, with a price of $51,202. Mastercard and BNY Mellon, two financial technolo...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s stepmother Kezia Obama dies

By Ian Omondi,

Kezia Aoko Obama, the stepmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and the mother of his half-siblings Auma Obama and Malik Obama, has died. Ta...

Auma Obama , Kezia Aoko Obama , Malik Obama , Mama Sarah Obama , President Barack Obama

The new ‘jollof wars’ and why Twitter chose Ghana over Nigeria for its first Africa base

By CNN,

Twitter's announcement Monday that it will set up its first Africa base in Ghana, West Africa, has generated fierce debate among Nigerian users of t...

Ghana , Jack Dorsey , Nigeria , Twitter

Facebook removes page for French town named Bitche

By CNN,

Sometimes, life can be a Bitche. The residents of a French town thought just that after social media giant Facebook removed Ville de Bitche's official...

facebook , Mayor Benoît Kieffer , Ville de Bitche

MP Moses Kuria among 30 arrested for flouting COVID-19 protocols

By Citizen Reporter,

Moses Kuria, Member of Parliament for Gatundu South, is one of 30 people arrested on Monday for violating the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 protocols....

mosea kuria

Lives and Livelihoods Fund deliver sanitation trucks to tackle rapid urban growth challenges in Guinea

By Agencies,

The Government of Guinea and the Lives and Livelihoods Fund (LLF) provided 56 sanitation trucks to the National Agency for Public Hygiene and Sanitati...

Man suspected of defiling his 6-year-old daughter arrested in Kisii

By Citizen Reporter,

A man who is suspected of defiling his 6-year-old daughter a week ago in Megogo village, Marani, Kisii County, was on Sunday afternoon arrested.  ...

defiled , defilement

President Samia Suluhu wears a mask in first official visit to Uganda

By Tonny Ndungu,

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu has made her first trip as President to Uganda, where she is spending the day, and appears to have broken tradition b...

Samia Suluhu

Calls to tackle vaccine hesitancy as African Union drops AstraZeneca

By Reuters,

Wariness about taking AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Africa could be compounded by the African Union’s decision to halt plans to procure the sh...

coronavirus

Kenyans urged to file tax returns digitally due to COVID-19 restrictions

By Tonny Ndungu,

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited physical visits, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has urged Kenyans to use digital platforms to fi...

KRA , tax

Arrest of Mutemi Kiama, others are acts of state repression: KHRC

By Citizen Reporter,

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has condemned the arrest and prosecution of activist Mutemi Kiama. In a statement on Friday, the KHRC terme...

Mutemi Kiama

500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site

By CNN,

Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the compan...

LinkedIn