Category: Kenya

A Kenyan judge has suspended flights between Kenya and China and ordered the state to prepare a plan to prevent the spread of coronavirus. China Southern Airlines flights on the Guangzhou-Changsha-Nairobi route had been suspended since 11 February but that suspension was lifted on Wednesday when 239 passengers arrived in Kenya. The Law Society of […]

Kenya plans to repatriate its 85 students who are stranded in China’s Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, and quarantine them on their return home. The country’s health administrative secretary told parliament’s health committee that the evacuations will be done once China lifts the lockdown in the city. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

Police in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa Kenya have arrested a man who walked into a church and confessed to being a member of militant Islamist group al-Shabab. Local media reports say the pastor decided to call the police after the unidentified man admitted to having recently been in Somalia, where the al-Qaeda-linked militants […]

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is tracking a lion which has eaten a man in a residential area on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi. Residents have been warned to stay indoors while the hunt continues. Anxiety is spreading in the Rongai area where the mauled remains of a man were discovered on Monday morning. […]

At least 24 people are reported to have died in landslides caused by severe weather in West Pokot County, Kenya. Officials told local media that the bodies of at least 12 people, including seven children, were recovered on Saturday. The landslides, affecting the villages of Nyarkulian and Parua, were reportedly caused by heavy rains. Officials […]

Kenyans have expressed outrage after a video of police officers brutally beating a university student was shared online. The 22-second clip recorded from a high-rise building on Monday shows four officers kicking, hitting and stamping on the student as he lies on the ground. The Kenyans recording the video can be heard expressing shock at […]

The grave site of one of Kenya’s best-known anti-colonial fighters, Dedan Kimathi, has been identified 62 years after he died, a foundation set up in his name says. Kimathi, a leader of the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule, was executed in 1957. He was buried in an unmarked grave, reportedly in Nairobi’s […]

Some Kenyans have taken to Twitter to express their anger following a report in the Standard newspaper that soldiers harassed residents of the coastal city of Mombasa during Sunday’s celebration of Heroes Day. There was an intensified security operation in Mombasa as the country marked the holiday at an event attended by President Uhuru Kenyatta and other […]

At least seven children have died after a classroom collapsed at a primary school in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say. The wooden structure at Precious Talent Top School collapsed just minutes after the start of the school day on Monday. Dozens of people were injured and have been taken to hospital in the city. […]

The noose around controversial city pastor James Ng’ang’a’s neck appears to be tightening after the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) fined him Sh1 million (GHS 52,000) for showing a woman’s breast during one of his live church services aired on his Sasa TV channel. Ng’ang’a was penalised by CA for broadcasting the indecent content during […]

A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform. The 14-year-old’s mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 200 parents protesting outside the […]

Police in Kenya are investigating the circumstances that led a 14-year-old girl to take her own life in the hours after her school uniform became stained with menstrual blood. Her mother, Beatrice Chepkurui Koech, says her daughter was humiliated by a teacher at Kabiangek Primary School on Friday for soiling her uniform. “She had nothing […]

The family of a two-year-old boy who was shot dead by police during a raid on an illicit brew den in a slum in the northern outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, are calling for justice. The boy, identified by local media as Duncan Githinji, was playing outside his parents’ house when he got caught up […]

Six bodies have been recovered from Hell’s Gate National Park in Kenya after flash floods on Sunday, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says. One tourist is still missing and the search and rescue operation continues, it said. According to the KWS, the tour group was made up of a local tourist guide and six tourists […]

An Ethiopian man in Kenya was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for joking about a bomb after boarding a Kenya Airways flight, the BBC has learned. Chifraye Bekele’s joke led to the cancellation of the Johannesburg-bound flight in April and to a three-hour shutdown of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in the […]

Most universities in Kenya could be forced to drop Business Administration, Education and Journalism degrees as the Ministry of Education moves to stop uneconomical multiplication of degrees. Currently, nearly all of the 74 private and public Kenyan universities offer the three degrees, making it uneconomical to manage them as they fail to attract enough entrants. […]

Kenya’s so-called moral policeman is facing criticism for banning the hit song, Wamlambez, that includes slang references to oral sex. Ezekiel Mutua, the Kenya Film Classification Board boss, said the lyrics were deemed to be “pure pornography” and should not be played where children could hear them. This means it cannot be broadcast on radio […]

CNN’s efforts to reach Sonko and his staff for comment were unsuccessful. When asked about the governor’s comments, Okoth’s brother, Imran Okoth, told CNN: “No comment. It’s a personal matter.” The alleged mother of Okoth’s child declined to comment. Nairobians immediately took to social media with the hashtag #Sonko to jokingly warn each other not […]

A heated debate about market stalls was disrupted by a foul smell and furious finger-pointing at a Kenyan regional assembly on Wednesday, local reports say. “Honourable Speaker, one of us has polluted the air and I know who it is,” Julius Gaya reportedly told Homa Bay county assembly. But the member he accused of farting […]