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Human rights activists on Tuesday blocked the police from arresting their colleague Boniface Mwangi during a protest in Nairobi’s Central Business District. Mwangi was in the company of other activists demanding justice for missing persons. A video doing the rounds on social media shows Mwangi lying on the ground with the police officers trying to…
The interdenominational memorial service for the 21 victims of the Hillside Endarasha Academy fire tragedy has been pushed to Thursday. The government had earlier announced that the service would be held on Wednesday at Mweiga Stadium. Addressing a press conference on Monday, the acting regional commissioner in Nyeri Pius Murugu said logistical problems have forced…
Lecturers and staff from public universities on Wednesday took to the streets to air their grievances as their strike officially took effect. The lecturers and other university staff were armed with vuvuzelas, whistles and placards on which they had written messages they wanted to pass across. They are workers under the Universities Academic Staff Union…
Although Abdi Ali* was released from prison in June this year, he remains a prisoner of the disease he contracted there. He served one year for assault and contracted tuberculosis (TB) in the prison’s overcrowded cells. His lungs are scarred and he developed resistance to the common antibiotics used to treat TB. He is lucky…
Kenya Power has notified customers across six counties of a planned system maintenance that will interrupt electricity supply on Tuesday. The interruption will be effected at varied times between 8.30am and 5pm to enable company engineers undertake repairs on the grid. Nairobi county Area: General Mathenge, Eldama Ravine Time: 9am – 5pm Part of General…
President William Ruto has reiterated that no extrajudicial killings will occur in the country under his watch. He was responding to questions during a town hall meeting in Kisumu Thursday night where he said anyone with a missing relative believed to have been abducted during the recent anti-government protests should present the name of the…
One suspect has been taken into police custody in relation to the seizure of ethanol along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said in a statement Tuesday evening the suspect was arrested by a combined team of detectives from DCI headquarters and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officers. The detectives said the arrest…
Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli has said the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) deployed in Haiti has registered significant progress. This is even as today, August 26, 2024, marks two months since the first Kenya Police contingent was deployed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The first team landed there on June 25, while the second one…
Members of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have maintained that they will continue with their strike until the government heeds to their demands. This has been demonstrated by the poor attendance witnessed in secondary schools countrywide on day one of the third term. A spot check by the KNA of secondary…
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has withdrawn the teachers’ strike notice set to elapse on August 25, midnight. Knut said there is progress in addressing the issues they had raised and commitment to resolving all of them. “The NEC has therefore, today August 25, 2024, agreed to withdraw the strike action notice which was…
