OPINION: A salute to Kentice Tikolo for leading the way for women behind you

By Guest Writer,

By Patience Nyange I love it when a Kenyan woman is excellently causing disruption and challenging the status quo. This is a story about Kentice Ti...

Kentice Tikolo

Several injured as Bobi Wine supporters clash with Uganda police

By Reuters,

A music producer for Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine was on Tuesday wounded in the mouth by a rubber bullet during clashes betwe...

Bobi Wine , Joel Senyonyi , President Yoweri Museveni , uganda

Lunga’ho: Clubs may struggle for fresh talents in absence of school games

By Stanley Mativo,

Veteran volleyball coach David Lung’aho has warned that teams may find it difficult in bolstering their squads owing to the closure of feeder taps. ...

Lungáho , New talents , School Games , talents

Online taxi platform lowers charges to cushion Kenyans from expensive travel

By Citizen Reporter,

A new ride hailing entrant in the East African region, Catch Taxi Kenya has offered to slash down travelling costs by 30%. In the newly-launched ho...

Court battle brews over affair between SDA church pastor and elder’s wife

By Ian Omondi,

A case has now been filed in court after a pastor from the Holly Hills Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Thika was found to have had an affair wit...

adultery , Central Kenya Conference , Holly Hills SDA Church , Lawyer Danstan Omari

NASCOP piloting a vending machine for HIV self-test kits

By Kadzo Gunga,

Getting an HIV test could now be as simple as getting a packet of chips or a soft drink, this comes after the government introduced test kit vending m...

AIDS , Farmers Choice , HIV , Nascop , Roselyn Warutere

17 dead, 302 new cases recorded as Kenya’s COVID-19 infections rise to 83,618

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Monday announced that 302 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 3,038 tested in the last 24 hours, bring...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe

Eight dead after cyclone Gati hits Somalia’s Puntland, spread of locusts feared

By Reuters,

A cyclone that hit parts of Somalia this week killed eight people and displaced thousands, flooded farmlands and could worsen a locusts plague, an off...

Cyclone , locusts

EALA passes key bill on protecting Lake Victoria

By Citizen Reporter,

The East African Legislative Assembly enacted the Lake Victoria Basin Commission 2020, providing a legal framework for the Lake Victoria Basin Commiss...

EALA , lake victoria

Kenya crowned world’s leading safari destination

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya has once again been named the World’s Leading Safari Destination by World Travel Awards (WTA), further cementing her position as the global ch...

Carbacid seeks out merger with BOC in Ksh1.2 billion bid

By Kepha Muiruri,

The manufacturer of carbon dioxide gas for industrial use Carbacid Investments has made a Ksh.1.2 billion bid for its peer BOC Kenya, an industrial an...

BOC Kenya , Carbacid Investments , mergers & acquisitions

Safari Rally guru Nagin Chouhan passes on

By Agencies,

Nagin Chouhan -who for donkey's  years served as Mount Kenya area coordinator of the iconic Safari Rally- has passed on in his Nairobi residence aged...

Kenya’s LGBTQ community faces increased abuse during pandemic

By VOA,

Kenya has acknowledged that COVID-19 restrictions are fueling cases of gender-based-violence but has been less open on abuses against the LGBTQ commun...

coronavirus , LGBTQ

Kenya lowers 2020 growth projection, sees rebound next year

By Reuters,

Kenya has lowered this year’s economic growth projection because the first half turned out worse than expected, but growth is expected to rebound in...

coronavirus

Ethiopia war destabilising east Africa, warns EU

By Reuters,

Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African and Horn region...

Ethiopia , tigray

KCB plans to acquire Rwandan and Tanzanian banks

By Reuters,

Kenya’s top lender by assets, KCB Group, plans to acquire 62.06% in Banque Populaire du Rwanda and 100% in African Banking Corporation Tanzania Limi...

African Banking Corporation Tanzania , Banque Populaire du Rwanda , KCB

OPINION: BBI an affront to women’s fundamental rights and liberties

By Guest Writer,

The women of Kenya, represented by women’s rights and civil society organizations and networks, acknowledge that the 2010 Constitution was a consens...

BBI

Diamond League release 2021 calendar

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Rabat, Morocco will host the first leg of the 2021 Diamond League series according to the provisional calendar released on Tuesday. According to the ...

2021 Calendar , Diamond League , Morocco , Rabat

OPINION: Why the media should stop stigmatizing drug ‘addiction’

By Guest Writer,

By Simon Mwangi An executive order issued last week by President Uhuru Kenyatta on establishment of an ultra-modern National Mental hospital in...

Addiction , Drug Abuse

FKF boss Mwendwa in race for FIFA Council seat

By Jacob Icia,

A month after his reelection, Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa is now running for a seat in the all-powerful FIFA Council, the m...

CECAFA , Fifa Council seat , FKF , Nick Mwendwa