Nurses ordered to report back to work immediately as strike called off

By Ian Omondi,

The nurses' strike has now been called off after 79 days following a court order issued by the Labour Court on Monday. Kenya National Union of Nurs...

Justice Maureen Onyango , KNUN , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

COVID-19: Kenya records 194 new cases, 39 recoveries, 10 deaths

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday announced that 194 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of a sample size of 3,935 tested in the last 24 hours, ta...

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

Super Tuesday: All systems go as 28 county assemblies pass BBI Bill

By Ian Omondi,

The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)  Bill is now headed to the National Assembly and the Senate after it on Tuesday crossed the 24 counties mark re...

BBI Bill , National Assembly , raila odinga , senate

Man who released video of Lamu Senator Loitiptip smoking shisha charged

By Dzuya Walter,

A man who released a now viral video of Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip smoking shisha in the company of a woman identified as Aeedah Bambi has pleaded g...

Magistrate Martha Mutuku , Senator Anwar Loitiptip , shisha

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases rise to 102,613 as 260 test positive

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health on Friday announced 260 new Covid-19 infections in the country, tested from a sample size of 5,873. The total number of confi...

coronavirus

CA kicks off project to avail telcom services to 17 marginalised counties

By Citizen Reporter,

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has awarded contracts to five companies to roll out telecommunications cellular mobile network infrastructu...

Communications Authority of Kenya , Safaricom

OMAR: Kenya key to Somaliland growth and push for international recognition

By Guest Writer,

Bashe Omar Awil Last December, Somaliland President Muse Bihi visited Kenya on invitation from President Uhuru Kenyatta eliciting varied reaction fro...

Diplomatic ties , kenya , President Muse Bihi , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Somaliland

Kenya records 141 new coronavirus cases, 64 recoveries

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health has announced 141 new cases of the coronavirus, tested from a sample of 5,644 people in the last 24 hours. In a televised addr...

coronavirus

Magufuli says some Tanzanians were infected with ‘strange’ coronavirus after going for COVID vaccine

By Benjamin Muriuki,

President John Pombe Magufuli says he is aware that some Tanzanians left the country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, only for them to return home inf...

President John \pombe Magufuli , Tanzania

KEMRI projects spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths in March

By Citizen Reporter,

With schools having reopened and Kenya recording a test positivity rate of below 5% consistently in the past two weeks, it may seem the country is bor...

coronavirus

Govt says it is in control of desert locust swarms

By Dennis Otieno,

Since the beginning of September last year, the East African region was facing an acute food security following a second wave of desert locust invasio...

Kenya records 138 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kenya has risen to 98, 693 after 138 more people tested positive for the disease from a sample size of 4,526...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , kenya

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases rise to 97,954 as 221 people test positive

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Education on Friday announced that 221 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 6,190 tested in the last 24 hours, br...

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

COVID-19: Kenya records 271 new cases, 4 deaths, 609 recoveries

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Kenya has confirmed 271 new COVID-19 cases from a sample size of 5,830 tested in the last 24 hours, bringing to 97,398 the number of confirmed positiv...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , mutahi kagwe

COVID-19: Kenya records 124 new cases, 216 recoveries

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health has announced 124 new cases of COVID-19, tested from a sample of 2,885 in the last 24 hours. The new infections push Kenya's ...

coronavirus

‘Era of ethnic politics and personality cults overtaken,’ DP Ruto says

By DPPS,

DP William Ruto has said the era of ethnic politics, personality cults and political parties bondage has been overtaken by people-centred politics. ...

ruto

First wave of desert locust swarms invades Kenya

By Citizen Reporter,

On 21 December, immature desert locust swarms from the north first arrived in northeast Kenya where they were seen southwest of Mandera. In the fol...

desert locusts

COVID-19: Kenya records 112 new cases, 816 recoveries and 2 deaths

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Ministry of Health in a statement on Wednesday, announced 112 new COVID-19 infections, tested from a sample size of 3,327. The new infections, t...

coronavirus

Kenya’s COVID-19 cases rise to 95,923 as 80 people test positive

By Ian Omondi,

The Ministry of Health on Sunday announced that 80 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 1,601 tested in the last 24 hours, bringi...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , CS Mutahi Kagwe

Kenya Special Forces kill three Al-Shabaab militants in raid at Boni Forest

By Citizen Reporter,

Kenya Defence Special Forces soldiers early Sunday raided and destroyed an Al-Shabaab terrorist group camp in the vast Boni Forest, Lamu County. Th...

Al Shabaab , Boni Forest , Kenya Defence Special Forces , Lamu County