By BBC/ Njoroge Muigai & Anne Okumu On Monday, as anti-government protests swept across parts of Kenya, 12-year-old Bridgit Njoki sat watching television in her family’s modest home. She had no idea that the deadly clashes between these protesters and Kenya’s armed police would find their way into her living room. A single bullet pierced…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The Saba Saba day demonstrations left a trail of destruction in Murang’a, with four deaths, looting of two supermarkets. Two patients were transferred to Kenyatta National Murang’a Level Five Hospitals, for specialised treatment, after they were shot on Monday. Governor Irungu Kang’ata described the destruction as exorbitant, castigating the police for…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kiambu DCP youth leader Peter Kinyanjui alias Kawanjiru was picked by the anti terror unit officers at Ruiru law court in a dramatic episode. Gunshots rent the air as anti-terror squad arrested a suspect after the court released him on Sh500,000 bail with two surities, over claims of burning the Kikuyu…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has warned that ongoing killing of innocent Kenyans by thepolice could plunge the country into anarchy.Waiguru further warned again cover-up of the killings by police officers terming the recentshooting of a street vendor and the killing of Albert Ojwang at the Central Police Station inNairobi as unwarranted…
By AFP Hundreds of men armed with whips and clubs attacked groups of protesters in Kenya on Tuesday as they demonstrated against the recent killing of a man in police custody, AFP journalists saw. Tensions have risen as the East African country approaches the first anniversary of massive Gen Z-led protests sparked by tax rises, which the…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The embattled Nairobi Central Police Station OCS, Samson Talam has appeared before the Milimani Law Courts in connection with the death of social media influencer and teacher, Albert Ojwang. Talam was named by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Chief Mohamed Ibrahim Amina person of interest during a Senate grilling session,…
Portus Chege/The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke The recent death at the hands of Kenyan police of a teacher-cum-blogger painfully recalls the assassination in 2009 of an outspoken human rights activist and brings into sharp focus the spectre of police extrajudicial killing in Kenya. Albert Omondi Ojwang’, a teacher and social media influencer, was tortured before being…
A section of Lol Daiga Conservancy which the British soldier helped to putt after a fire broke in 2021. By BBC A British soldier accused of raping a woman near a controversial army camp in Kenya has been sent back to the UK, as investigations continue, the BBC understands. The alleged rape happened last month close…
Policemen make way for a prison van after a security raid at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s headquarters in Islamabad on July 22, 2024. [AFP] By AFP More than 200 Pakistani inmates escaped from a jail in the mega coastal city of Karachi on Tuesday after several earthquake tremors, government officials said. Of the 216 inmates…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Juja MP George Koimburi has picked by unknown individuals, a day after he escaped a similar situation on a motorcycle. Koimburi was taken on the afternoon of Sunday, during a church sermon in full glare of the congregation,. The congregation watched as Koimburi an ally to former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua…
