COVID-19: Kenya records 141 cases, 207 recoveries, 6 deaths

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced that 141 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of a sample size of 3,571 tested in the last 24 hours, ta...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , ministry of health

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases cross 100,000 mark as 69 people test positive

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Monday revealed that 69 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of a sample size of 2,814 tested in the last 24 hours, takin...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe , ministry of health

Don’t worry about us, says Klopp after Liverpool FA Cup exit

By Agencies,

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp responded to his side's FA Cup defeat by Manchester United by saying "don't worry about us". The loss to their fie...

FA Cup , Jurgen Klopp , Liverpool FC

African beach volleyball Olympic qualifiers to be replayed after Kenya appeal

By Stanley Mativo,

The Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) has successfully appealed for the repeat of the second round of the African Beach Volleyball Olympics qualifiers...

Beach volleyball

Contrasting starts for GSU, Prisons as KVF season gets underway

By Stanley Mativo,

The Kenya men's volleyball titans General Service Unit (GSU) got their season underway in an unusually sluggish manner for their standards but still m...

US talk show legend Larry King dies aged 87 after catching coronavirus

By Agencies,

American talk show legend Larry King has died aged 87. He passed away this morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles after a battle wit...

Panama, Portugal detect first cases of South Africa COVID-19 variant

By Reuters,

Panama has registered its first case of a COVID-19 variant matching a strain of the virus detected in South Africa, the Central American country’s h...

coronavirus

CS Magoha dismisses KEMRI’s projection of possible rise in COVID-19 cases

By Citizen Reporter,

Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha has downplayed a research by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) that indicated a possibl...

Education CS Magoha , KEMRI

Real Madrid coach Zidane tests positive for coronavirus

By Reuters,

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for the coronavirus, the La Liga club said in a statement on Friday. The French coach was isola...

Zinedine Zidane

FIFA ex-president Blatter was in coma after heart surgery, daughter says

By Reuters,

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter spent a week in an artificially induced coma after heart surgery last month, his daughter has told Swiss media. �...

FIFA , Sepp Blatter

Japan stands firm on Olympic Games schedule, denies report of cancellation

By Reuters,

Japan stood firm on Friday on its commitment to host the Tokyo Olympics this year and denied reports of a possible cancellation but the pledge looks u...

Olympic Games , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 chief expects vaccine rollout to aid Games

By Reuters,

Six months from the start of the rearranged Olympics, Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto is cautiously hopeful that successful rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines ...

COVID-19 , Oympics , Tokyo 2020

Bach says ‘no Plan B’ for Tokyo Games

By Reuters,

There is “no Plan B” for the Tokyo Games, says International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who reaffirmed his commitment to holding the...

olympics , Thomas Bach , Tokyo 2020

Nock lands sponsorship from charity as Olympics nears

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock) has signed a five-year partnership deal with lottery firm Kenya Charity Sweepstake (KCS) in what is a m...

NOCK , olympics

Treasury bags Ksh.137B from bonds in January

By Kepha Muiruri,

The National Treasury has continued to find easy pickings from the local debt market having added another Ksh.81.1 billion from an infrastructure bond...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , domestic borrrowing , National Treasury

Olympics may be too big a gamble, disease expert says

By Reuters,

As embattled Tokyo Olympics organizers enter the final six months of preparations for the delayed Games on Saturday, virus experts believe hosting the...

The powerful duality of Kamala Harris’ ascent

By CNN,

Two weeks after a deadly insurrection put on display the White outrage that threatens the country's multiracial democracy, a dramatically different sc...

kamala harris

Biden begins sweeping away travel ban on African, Muslim-majority countries

By Reuters,

U.S. President Joe Biden signed half a dozen executive orders on Wednesday including immediately lifting a travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and...

Biden , DACA

African consumers hit as Asia gobbles up rice supplies

By Reuters,

Tightening global supplies of basic foodstuffs and disruptions to shipping caused by the coronavirus pandemic are driving up the cost of rice, the mos...

coronavirus , Rice

Biden sworn in as U.S. president, takes helm of deeply divided nation

By Reuters,

Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning for his presidential inauguration, ready to take over a country battered by the coronavirus...