Articles by Karanja Kimani

Fishermen injured by hippos in Lake Naivasha attack

1024, January 10, 2018 (EAT)

Doctors at Naivasha sub-county hospital have been forced to amputate the legs of a fisherman who was over the weekend attacked by a hippo in Lake Naiv...

Police officer shoots girlfriend six times in Naivasha

1219, January 5, 2018 (EAT)

A police officer attached to Kongoni police station in Naivasha was arrested after he shot and killed his girlfriend following an argument. The jun...

Three die, several injured in Mai Mahiu road accident

1405, September 10, 2017 (EAT)

Three people have been killed and more than ten injured after a PSV bus they were travelling in was involved in an accident at Satelite on Narok-Mai M...

Missing girls found murdered in Naivasha

914, September 10, 2017 (EAT)

A two-day search for a 12-year-old missing girl ended on a sour note after her badly mutilated body was found dumped in a thicket in Karati village in...

Gov’t faces accusations of neglecting nurses as strike bites

1711, July 22, 2017 (EAT)

The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General, Francis Atwoli, now blames the government for the ongoing nurses' strike, saying th...

Nakuru IDPs claim lives in danger after vice chair kidnapping

1651, July 11, 2017 (EAT)

A section of Internally Displaced Persons' (IDPs) leaders in Nakuru County have expressed fear for their lives after one of them was allegedly kidn...

NYS empowers unemployed youth – CS Kariuki

1657, June 29, 2017 (EAT)

One hundred and sixty constituencies across the country have benefited from the ongoing nationwide National Youth Service (NYS) projects that seek to ...

Gilgil residents threaten to vote out Uhuru over title deeds

1150, June 22, 2017 (EAT)

Residents of Oljorai in Gilgil, Nakuru County have threatened to vote out President Uhuru Kenyatta in the August 8 polls if the government does not is...

Schools want gov’t to supply them with subsidized Unga

1803, June 17, 2017 (EAT)

The Kenya Secondary School Association (KSSA) has described the high cost of food commodities as a major challenge facing the education sector. The...

NYS programme beneficiaries save Ksh 1.7B in three years

1253, June 8, 2017 (EAT)

The National Youth Service program beneficiaries have saved a total of Ksh 1.7 billion since the programme began in 2013. The money has been put in...

HIV/AIDS prevalence on the rise in East Africa

1337, May 25, 2017 (EAT)

Stigmatization and discrimination among commercial sex workers, transgender, prisoners and homosexuals has been identified as the main causes for the ...

Hundreds of dead fish found floating on L. Naivasha

1554, April 17, 2017 (EAT)

Hundreds of fish are reported to have died in Lake Naivasha in unclear circumstances raising anxiety and fear among fishermen and stakeholde...

Police set to receive 1000 new houses

1359, April 11, 2017 (EAT)

The police force has received a major boost with the 1,000 housing units that have been under construction over the past one year set to be completed ...

Naivasha residents forcefully re-open blocked corridor

1724, March 29, 2017 (EAT)

There was drama in Naivasha after furious members of the public opened a blocked road corridor leading to Lake Naivasha. The group forcefully opene...

Concern over rising trade in game meat

1724, March 28, 2017 (EAT)

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has expressed its concern over the rise in cases of game meat trade in Naivasha and Gilgil areas over the last two mo...

Concern over threats to paralegals by powerful individulas

1705, March 28, 2017 (EAT)

Human rights activists have expressed concern over the cases of threats targeting paralegals by government agencies and powerful individuals. Speak...

Gov’t spending Ksh 16B in upgrading informal settlements

1234, March 24, 2017 (EAT)

The government has committed Ksh 16 billion to upgrade informal settlements in the country through the provision of clean water, better roads and stre...

Fear as dead chicken lined along Naivasha road

1807, March 16, 2017 (EAT)

Residents of Naivasha's Moi South Lake area are a worried lot after they woke up to bizarre scenes of dead chicken placed strategically along a road. ...

Travelers stranded as Matatu Sacco pulls out vehicles for safety check

1524, March 11, 2017 (EAT)

Public transport along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway was temporarily disrupted after one of the main matatu operators pulled out their vehicles from the ...

Naivasha ‘meat-wrappers’ paralyze operations at slaughterhouse

1651, March 4, 2017 (EAT)

Operations at the Naivasha Slaughterhouse were paralyzed for the better part of the day after the operators protested a move by the Nakuru County Asse...