With 100 days to go, Tokyo scrambles to stage pandemic Olympics

By Reuters,

When Japan won the bid to host the Olympic Games eight years ago, it billed Tokyo as a reliable and secure location, contrasting it with rivals strugg...

Japana , Olympic Games , pandemic , Tokyo

Medvedev tests Covid-19 positive, out of Monte Carlo Masters

By Reuters,

World number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been withdrawn from this week’s Monte Carlo Masters, the ATP sai...

COVID-19 , Daniil Medvedev , Monte Carlo Masters , tests positive

Man, 27, stabs Form Four girl to death in Kitui then attempts suicide

By Citizen Reporter,

A Form Four girl was stabbed to death in Kavasya, Kitui under unclear circumstances. Maluki Mumo, the area chief, reported the incident on Monday nig...

form four , stabbed

Botswana probes deaths of two people who took AstraZeneca shot

By Tonny Ndungu,

Botswana is investigating the deaths of two among thousands of people who had been given doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to see if there is ...

coronavirus

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

J&J COVID-19 vaccine under EU review over blood clots

By Reuters,

Europe’s drug regulator said on Friday it is reviewing rare blood clots in four people in the United States who received Johnson & Johnson’s C...

coronavirus

OPINION: Age appropriate sex education can be life saving

By Guest Writer,

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a lot of adolescents and young people remain and stay in homes: some are bored at home and always on their ...

GBV , sex education , SRHR

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

Robert Alai barred from publishing defamatory articles against Mediheal hospital

By Citizen Reporter,

The High Court has restrained blogger Robert Alai from publishing any defamatory words against Mediheal Hospital and Fertility Centre, a hospital asso...

Mediheal Hospital , MP Swarup Mishra , robert alai

Blaming and shaming GBV survivors in the media must end: lobby groups

By Guest Writer,

One week ago, the public were shocked by the disdainful comments made by former Homeboyz radio station presenters during a breakfast show aired on Mar...

GBV , Homeboyz

PROFILE: Judy Kihumba, bridging the gap for mothers whose hearing is impaired

By Guest Writer,

By Patience Nyange and Esther Kiragu This week in the Kenya Women Series we feature Judy Kihumba, a sign language interpreter; communicator; passio...

Judy Kihumba

Activist Mutemi Kiama freed on Ksh.500K cash bail, ordered not to use social media

By Dzuya Walter,

Activist Edwin Mutemi Kiama was on Thursday freed on a Ksh.500,000 cash bail pending police probe following alleged cybercrime offences of producing '...

Activist Edwin Mutemi Kiama , cybercrime , DP William Ruto , IMF , President Uhuru Kenyatta

Pharmacy board now denies reports one person died after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine

By Ian Omondi,

The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has now refuted reports that one person died after taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Kenya. Th...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

Former Nairobi Governor Kidero tests positive for COVID-19 a week after vaccination

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has tested positive for COVID-19. Kidero says he underwent a test for the disease on Tuesday, April 6 together...

COVID-19 , EVANS KIDERO

Man City post Sh.19 billion loss for disrupted 2019-20 season

By Agencies,

Premier League leaders Manchester City have reported a loss of £126m for the 2019-20 season which was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The c...

loss , manchester city , Premier League

Chile’s government distributed faulty birth control pills. Now more than 150 people are pregnant.

By CNN,

In Chile's arid Atacama desert, Tabita Daza Rojas is trying to scrape together enough money to finish construction on her home before her baby, due an...

birth control , Chile

How Dr. Jill Biden is transforming what it is to be FLOTUS

By CNN,

Dr. Jill Biden is back in the classroom this month, carrying a course load of three classes as she returns to her full-time teaching job at Northern ...

Man captured on video torturing suspect using burning mosquito net arrested

By Ian Omondi,

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Monday arrested a man captured in a viral video torturing a suspected offender in ...

Ajab Unga Factory , DCI detectives , Mombasa County.

20 people arrested for flouting COVID-19 safety protocols at a bar in Homa Bay

By Aly Abich,

Twenty people were Saturday night arrested in a bar in Homa Bay town for flouting protocols and guidelines issued to curb the spread of COVID-19  in ...

Homa Bay