NCBA injects over Sh22 million for new golf series

By Agencies,

Thika Sports Club will host the opening round of the all-new NCBA Golf Series on Saturday with the 20-leg all -year-round amateur series will traverse...

NCBA , NCBA Golf Series

Chaos disrupt Raila’s BBI rally in Githurai

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Violent clashes on Wednesday temporarily disrupted ODM leader Raila Odinga's rally to popularise the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in Nairobi's Gi...

BBI , Githurai , raila odinga

Gov’t imposes 6pm to 6am curfew in Kapedo as hunt for bandits continues

By Elphas Lagat,

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i on Monday announced that a 6pm-6am curfew will be imposed in Kapedo and surrounding areas to quell recurrent...

Baringo-Turkana border , CS Fred Matiang’i , Kapedo , Kenya Red Cross

Djokovic, Nadal to begin 2021 campaigns on February 2

By Reuters,

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal will start their 2021 seasons on Feb. 2 when they lead Serbia and Spain respectively in the team-based ATP Cu...

ATP Cup , Australian Open , Daniil Medvedev , Dominic Thiem , Novak Djokovic , Rafael Nadal

Governor Sang denies charges of malicious damage to property, incitement, assault

By Allan Obiero,

Nandi Governor Stephen Sang on Monday morning denied three counts of malicious damage to property, incitement to violence and a fresh charge of assaul...

Governor Stephen Sang , Incitement , Nandi County

Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard

By Reuters,

Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after a run of five defeats in eight league games left the London side ninth in the Premier League standings...

Kenya writes to AU Commission following renewed fighting at Somalia border

By Ian Omondi,

The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has now expressed concern over renewed fighting in Bula Hawa town, in the northern part of Gedo Region, a fe...

AFRICAN UNION , Bula Hawa , Kenya-Somalia border

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...

She was murdered for catching an Indian priest and nun in a sex act. Three decades later, justice is served

By CNN,

The dead nun's slippers were scattered on the convent kitchen floor -- one near the entrance, the other by the fridge. Her white veil was found sna...

11 trapped miners rescued in China after 14 days underground

By Reuters,

Chinese rescuers pulled 11 gold miners to safety on Sunday with most of them in good condition after 14 days trapped underground after an explosion, b...

china , chinese , Miners

Kenyan group Kiligrit scales Mt Kilimanjaro for a cause

By Agencies,

Kiligrit, a group of senior citizens have today initiated a five-day hike to Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro to raise Sh5 million towards M...

CS Amina Mohammed

Google parent Alphabet shutting down internet-beaming balloon project Loon

By Reuters,

By Reuters and Kepha Muiruri Google parent Alphabet Inc is shutting down its internet balloon business, Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensi...

Alastair Westgarth , Alphabet , Google , Loon , Uhuru kenyatta

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

Slum dwellers battle COVID-19 downturn with virtual currency

By Reuters,

Sitting on a low bench at her shop in a Nairobi slum, Grace Wangari sifted through a handful of grains that a waiting customer had just ordered. As...

coronavirus , sarafu

Trump ends tumultuous term under cloud, faces uncertain future

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump leaves the presidency on Wednesday under a dark cloud of his own making, ending his single four-year term stained by two impeac...

biden trump

Housing Finance secures Ksh.1B from shareholder Britam

By Kepha Muiruri,

Lender Housing Finance has received Ksh.1 billion in new funding from on of its major shareholders in Britam Holdings. The tier II capital injectio...

Britam , Housing Finance

This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex

By CNN,

We know a lot about dinosaurs -- what they looked like, what they ate and what killed them off -- but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinos...

Dinosaurs