A trader who pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful installation and fraudulent consumption of electricity has been ordered to pay a Sh40,000 fine. In default, Peter Ndolo Kimiti will spend four months in prison for the offence of unlawfully installing a conductor and bypassing the meter to consume electricity without paying. Kimiti [...]

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Thursday issued new food safety and hygiene guidelines for all workers in the food production and supply chains as the fight against Covid-19 intensifies. The guidelines highlight the need for use of personal protective equipment (PPEs), management of staff sickness at premises, physical distancing, identification [...]

Under-fire Gor Mahia chairman Ambrose Rachier has asked the Confederation of African Football (Caf) to sanction the match referee who handled his team's chaotic Confederation Cup play-off match away to Zambia's Napsa Stars. The club boss also denied reports his players attacked the match referee in that game. The Kenyan champions settled [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 – The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) called off a nationwide strike on Wednesday following a restraining order by the Labour Court. The suspension of the strike followed an order issued by Labour Court Judge Maureen Onyango who also stayed disciplinary measures that had been undertaken [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 – The Ministry of Health reported two more COVID-related deaths on Wednesday raising fatalities reported since April to 1,839. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, through a statement, noted that the cumulative cases reported in the country since March 2020 rose to 104,780 after 280 people tested positive [...]

Niamey, Niger, Feb 24 – Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane on Wednesday claimed he narrowly won Niger’s presidential elections, a day after official results said he lost by more than 11 percentage points. “The compilation of results… which we have in our possession through our representatives in the various polling stations give us [...]

Justice James Wakiaga ruled that it would not be possible to have a free and fair trial if the case was transferred to Migori. [...]

The lawyer argues that the Wafula Chebukati-led commission should have first sought to compare the signatures it received with those it held [...]

The organisation gives a score based on data on child mortality, child undernutrition, and inadequate food supply to assess progress. [...]

He left the group over royalties and ‘degrading’ lyrics [...]

The two teams were set to join 10 others from South America in the tournament, which will be hosted by Argentina and Colombia in June and July. [...]

Kolkata Knight Riders bought all-rounder Shakib for 32 million Indian rupees on Thursday for this year’s IPL, which is set to begin in mid-April. [...]