FACTBOX: Facts about Diego Maradona

By Reuters,

Diego Maradona has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, according to reports in his native Argentina. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and...

diego maradona

Minister wants Nigeria to sanction CNN for report on shooting of protesters

By Reuters,

Nigeria should sanction CNN for a report that the country’s military shot and killed protesters demonstrating against police brutality, a minister s...

#SomeoneTellCNN , Nigeria

President-elect Joe Biden names his chief of staff

By CNN,

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Ron Klain to be his incoming chief of staff, the Biden transition office said in a news release Wednesday, elevat...

Joe Biden , White House

I was in a lonely, dark place – Kyrgios

By Agencies,

Australia's Nick Kyrgios says he was in a  'lonely, dark place" after suffering with depression while on tour. The 25-year-old has not played sin...

'lonely , Australia , dark place" , depression , Nick Kyrgios

Boris Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million

By Reuters,

Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million COVID-19 cases...

Boris Johnson , coronavirus , COVID-19 , lockdown , United Kingdom

Former James Bond actor Sean Connery dies aged 90

By Reuters,

Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to gra...

Women in Business: Rose Mwebi fights to stay afloat amid COVID-19

By Dorcas Wangira,

Rose Mwebi, 42, steels herself everyday to keep her business ventures in Kenya's Kisii County afloat at the time of a global pandemic. She cannot a...

rose mwebi , Sheilamo Investment Uniform Centre and Noa Printing Press

‘Quack doctor’ Mugo wa Wairimu fined Ksh.1.4M or serve 11 years in prison

By Dzuya Walter,

'Quack doctor' Mugo wa Wairimu was on Wednesday fined Ksh.1.4 million or serve 11 years in prison for running an unlicensed clinic. Mugo was charge...

Milimani Law courts , Mugo wa Wairimu , Prestige Hospital

OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Guest Writer,

By Levi Gikandi 243 days ago, on a feverishly hot Wednesday afternoon, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in the manicured State House grounds w...

coronavirus , inequality , inua jamii , Kibera , Oxfam

OPINION: Huduma Namba to exclude millions of Kenyans, violates court orders

By Guest Writer,

Millions of Kenyans will be excluded from Huduma Namba if the new (National Integrated Identity Management System) NIIMS rules under the Registration ...

Huduma Namba

Kakuzi battles human rights abuse allegations as 79 Kenyans file case in UK court

By Kepha Muiruri,

Local agricultural cultivation and manufacture company Kakuzi PLC is facing human rights abuse allegations between 2009 and 2020. The case against ...

Kakuzi PLC , Leigh Day , Tesco

COVID-19 fuels surge in sexual violence, child marriage

By VOA,

Fresh out of university, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi was living in the southern Nigerian state of Rivers when she was sexually assaulted. A housemate...

coronavirus

September inflation cools to 4.2 per cent on lower energy, transport costs

By Kepha Muiruri,

The cost of living has continued to ease with the rate of inflation in September cooling further to 4.2 per cent from 4.36 per cent in August. Acco...

Inflation , Kenya National Bureau of Statics (KNBS)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Candle in the Wind’ explores loss, grief and everything in between

By Guest Writer,

By Ricky Thomas Nyakach The spring before he was born, Stanley Kunitz’s father committed suicide in the park. It broke his mother. So one day, as...

Austine Arnold , Candle in the Wind , grief

Civil groups seek to quash Kenya’s tax agreements with 10 ‘tax havens’

By Kepha Muiruri,

Two civil society organizations- the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) and the Katiba Institute (KI) have moved to court in a bid to stop the implemen...

Double Tax Agreements (DTAs) , money laundering , National Treasury

Venus is a Russian planet — say the Russians

By CNN,

No longer confined to territories here on Earth, Russia has now staked its claim on Venus, saying it is a "Russian planet." This week, Dmitry Rogoz...

Russia claims planet Venus , Venus

FIA officials visit paraplegic driver Nikhil as he fine-tunes car for next season

By Citizen Team,

Following the recent safety equipment grant from FIA Disability and Accessibility Commission, Kenya's pararalegic driver Nikhil Sachania has taken adv...

Nikhil Sachania

Three former officials of Siaya County fined Ksh.1m for irregular Ksh.14.9m tender award

By Tonny Ndungu,

Three former officials of Siaya County Government have been fined Ksh. 1m and in default, serve a 12-month jail term. The trio was found culpable o...

SIAYA COUNTY

I’m doing my best to control on-court emotions, says Djokovic

By Reuters,

World number one Novak Djokovic says that he cannot guarantee he will not make a similar mistake to his disqualification at the U.S. Open for striking...

Novak Djokovic , Striking a judge with a ball , US Open

Leeds fined for title celebrations at Derby

By Reuters,

Leeds United have been fined Sh2.8 million by the Football Association (FA) and received a warning about their future conduct for using pyrotechnic de...

Leeds United , Marcelo Bielsa , Premier League