President William Ruto travels to Kigali, Rwanda, at the invitation of President Paul Kagame to attend the inauguration ceremony marking Kagame’s fourth term, following his successful re-election on July 15th. State House spokesperson Mr Hussein Mohammed says
In a successful crackdown on illegal drug activities, police in Thika East have confiscated 59 kilograms of cannabis valued at approximately Ksh 500,000. The operation took place at Maguguni village in Ngoliba ward, Kiambu County where the drugs, packed in half-kilogram sacks and concealed in suitcases, were found in a residential area, ready for transport…
The Mountain Journal Scholars in the country have expressed displeasure over acute shortage of Computer Science lecturers. The gap, the experts say should be filled immediately to equip interested Kenyans with computation, information, and automation knowledge. With increasing recognition of computer science as a fundamental skill and the numerous opportunities that continue to arise from…
A British terror suspect has been deported to the UK after completing a lengthy prison sentence in Kenya. Jermaine Grant, 41, was arrested in London on Thursday after arriving on a flight from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. He was jailed in 2011 after bomb-making equipment was discovered in his flat in Mombasa, a Kenyan coastal city….
Governor Irungu Kang’ata administration is posed to be the first to embrace telemedicine technology in efforts to give the one million population the best health care. Two leading telemedicine providers, Health X and Byon 8 have been engaged by the county government to run the programme for six months on a pilot programme in 35…
Pressure is mounting on Kenyan police officers to deliver on their promise to help bring Haiti’s rampant gangs under control, six weeks after setting foot in the Caribbean nation. When the first contingent of 200 elite Kenyan police officers flew into Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on 25 June, they filed confidently off their Kenyan Airways flight clad in…
A plane has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 61 people on board. The twin-engine turboprop was flying from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city when it came down in the town of Vinhedo, Voepass airline says. Footage circulating on social media shows…
County Government of Kirinyaga has been handed over assets owned by theNational Irrigation Authority (NIA) at the Thiba Dam site.Governor Anne Waiguru said the assets which includes; a medical clinic, residentialhouses, dormitories, canteen and offices will be converted into a medical facility.The handing over of the assets follows a directive by President William Ruto duringthe…
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as Bangladesh’s interim leader, vowing to “uphold, support and protect the constitution”. The 84-year-old took an oath at the presidential palace in Dhaka along with more than a dozen members of his new cabinet, vowing to perform his duties “sincerely”. He flew into the capital, Dhaka, just…
Basillioh Rukanga and Jewel Kiriungi BBC News, Nairobi Kenya’s President William Ruto must be feeling punch-drunk – after suffering another blow to his plans to raise taxes for his cash-strapped, debt-burdened government. After the recent widespread anti-tax protests – that saw parliament set alight – he bowed to public pressure and withdrew his finance bill for…
