Edith Kamaru Kwobah, girl from Ndeiya who dressed bodies to get money for medical school

By Guest Writer,

By Dr. Susan Adongo Her first shift was on a Thursday night. “I wasn’t sure what to wear,” Edith Kamaru told me. But it didn’t matter becau...

edith kamaru

Private sector activity sinks to a nine-month low in March

By Kepha Muiruri,

The expansion of Kenya’s private sector slumped to its lowest growth rate in nine months across the month of March. This is according to the Stan...

COVID-19 , Kuria Kamau , Stanbic PMI

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

FKF to hold coaching clinics in Machakos

By Douglas Mutiso,

Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Machakos branch is planning to organise training courses for all grassroots coaches drawn from the County once the spo...

Coaching training , FKF , Kefoca , machakos

Jordan’s Prince Hamza defies the military in new recording

By Reuters,

Jordan’s estranged Prince Hamza said in a voice recording released on Monday that he would disobey orders by the army not to communicate with the ou...

Jordan

Obituary: This man John Pombe Magufuli

By Waihiga Mwaura,

Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is dead. Magufuli's death was announced Wednesday night by Tanzanian Vice President Samia Hassan Suluhu. She...

John Magufuli , Tanzania

OBITUARY: Robin – radio legend, gentle-giant and friend gone too soon

By Isaac Swila,

Isaac Swilain Nairobi “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose,” Myles Munroe, the Bahamian televangelist who die...

Covid-18 , death , Radio Managing Editor , RMS mourns , Robin Njogu , Royal Media Services

Where’s Magufuli? Tanzanian leader’s absence fuels health concern

By Reuters,

Tanzania's main opposition leader has demanded information on the health of President John Magufuli, a prominent COVID-19 sceptic whose absence from p...

coronavirus , magufuli , Tanzania

British royal family plunged into crisis after Harry and Meghan allege racism and neglect in Oprah interview

By CNN,

Britain's royal family was facing a once-in-a-generation crisis on Monday after Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, rocked the institution wit...

Wiper leaders tell Raila to step aside, say Kalonzo ready to work with Uhuru

By Enock Muswii,

Wiper leaders have told Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party chief Raila Odinga to step away from his pact with President Uhuru Kenyatta if he truly...

handshake , kalonzo musyoka , President Uhuru Kenyatta , raila odinga

Report: Tiger Woods told cops he didn’t remember driving

By Reuters,

Tiger Woods told responding deputies to his single-vehicle crash last week that he did not know how the accident happened and didn’t remember drivin...

tiger woods

Senate delays debate on Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill while it is read aloud

By Reuters,

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to take up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, but put off the start of a contentious debate...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , President Joe Biden , U.S Senate

Data is key to closing gender gaps in energy access in Kenya: AfDB

By Citizen Reporter,

Gender-specific data, especially detailed information on how women and men use financial resources, is needed to improve interventions geared to closi...

AfDB , energy access , Energy and Mineral Development Minister Irene Muloni

Saudi de facto ruler approved operation that led to Khashoggi’s death: U.S.

By Reuters,

Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler approved an operation to capture or kill murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, according to U.S. intelligence r...

Jamal Khashoggi , President Joe Biden , Prince Mohammed bin Salman , Saudi Arabia , U.S intelligence

Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi arrested

By Hyline Charo,

Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi has been arrested for undisclosed reasons. Maangi was arrested by police at Kisii High School as he waited to we...

Joash Maangi , Kisii

Covid-19 Vaccine: SHOFCO offers to support gov’t in slum vaccination drive

By Agencies,

Ninety-one-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination program rol...

SHOFCO

Not without a fight: Omanga, Mwaura take on Jubilee Party

By Citizen Reporter,

The Registrar of Political Parties has been barred from effecting the suspension of Senators Millicent Omanga, Isaac Mwaura and four others until the ...

Isaac Mwaura , JUBILEE , omanga

First two cases of South African COVID-19 variant found in US

By VOA,

Health officials in South Carolina said Thursday that they had detected two cases of the South African COVID-19 variant, the first cases in the United...

coronavirus

Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions

By CNN,

President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expand...

abortion , marie stopes , PEPFAR

Tension in Trans Mara as several homes, sugarcane farms torched

By Citizen Reporter,

Tension is high along the Nkaararo Enooratet border in Trans Mara following an incident where unknown assailants torched a house and a sugarcane plant...

Transmara