The Mountain Journal Scores were arrested in Witeithie Estate, Juja of Kiambu County last night following a major swoop mounted by police to flush out criminals from their hideouts. The crackdown followed the murder of a patron in a local bar in the early morning on Monday. In the crackdown, the suspects arrested were booked…
Thomas Mackintosh & Will Vernon BBC News Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old billionaire was arrested under a warrant for offences related…
Kenyan police are offering a cash reward for information leading to the capture of a serial murder suspect who escaped from custody on Tuesday. The suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha escaped alongside 12 suspects from Gigiri Police Station in Nairobi. Eight police officers have since been suspended and five charged in court over the escape, which…
Metropolitan National Sacco Society Limited, home to 100,000 members, has lost a staggering Sh15 billion in savings between 2021 and 2023. The discovery has left the members mouth wide open reeling, with no clear resolution in sight. The leadership has blamed the former leadership for this financial misappropriation over the alleged gross mismanagement and the…
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…
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….
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place. The trade followed years…
