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By Joseph Ndunda A Chinese national will serve a 10-year jail term for committing an indecent act with a 17 year old minor after touching her inappropriately inside a flight at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Mr. Li Jianjun, 44, was handed the sentence by Senior Principal Magistrate Njeri Thuku of the JKIA Law [...] The post Chinese man handed 10-year jail term for “touching girl”…
Nairobi, Kenya – At least 25 people have died after flash floods swept through several parts of the country following heavy rains that intensified overnight between the night of March 6 and morning of March 7. In a statement issued Saturday, the Ministry of Interior said Nairobi recorded the highest number of fatalities, with 23 [...] The post 25 Dead as Flash Floods Hit Nairobi and Several…
KAREN, Kenya- National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has called for stricter aviation safety regulations and heightened caution during adverse weather conditions following the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Emurua Dikirr MP Hon. Johana Ngéno and three others. Speaking in the wake of the tragedy, the Speaker urged members and users including pilots to [...] The post Speaker…
WASHINGTON, United States — The United States government has imposed sanctions on the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and four senior Rwandan officials for alleged support to the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—a move that could further strain relations in the volatile Great Lakes region. The sanctions, [...] The post US Sanctions Rwanda Defence…
By Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf For much of my public life, I have sat in rooms where the fate of nations was negotiated line by line. Those moments are rarely dramatic from the outside. They unfold in dense briefing papers, in long evenings parsing clauses, in decisions that determine whether a country retains control over its future [...] The post The World should brace for Africa’s new generation of…
A Kahawa court on Thursday postponed the plea taking of Festus Arasa Omwamba, the man accused of running a human trafficking syndicate, to allow both the prosecution and the court to scrutinise High Court orders said to bar his arrest and prosecution. Omwamba was presented before the Kahawa Law Courts after his arrest earlier this [...] The post Court Defers Plea for Festus Arasa Omwamba in…
MOMBASA, Kenya – A 20-year-old man and a minor female TikToker arrested in Mombasa a fortnight ago were on Friday afternoon charged with allegedly trafficking 109.17 grams of heroin valued at KSh 327,510. Amir Latif and the girl pleaded not guilty to trafficking in narcotic drugs contrary to Section 4(a)(ii) of the Narcotic Drugs and [...] The post Man and Minor TikToker Charged with Trafficking…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Security across Kenya’s Coast region is being reinforced following a coordinated crackdown on violent criminal gangs in Mombasa, Kilifi, and Kwale counties, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has confirmed. The operation, based on actionable intelligence, targeted members of profiled gangs linked to a series of violent attacks and community disruption in [...] The…
NAIROBI – A court in Mombasa has directed authorities to conduct an age assessment on a young woman who identifies as a TikTok content creator after she was arrested alongside a male suspect over alleged drug trafficking. Resident Magistrate Green Odera ordered the Nyali Sub-County Children’s Officer to prepare a social inquiry report to determine [...] The post Court orders age verification for…
NAIROBI — New findings by Canada-based research group Citizen Lab indicate that digital forensic software linked to Israeli firm Cellebrite was likely used on a mobile phone belonging to Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi while it was in police custody. Mwangi was arrested on July 19, 2025, by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). [...] The post How State Hacked Boniface…
