Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for public office for five years, meaning she cannot run in the 2027 French presidential election. She was found guilty of embezzling European funds to finance her French far-right National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen left the courtroom as the judge handed down details of the sentence. She has also been given a four-year prison sentence – but two years are suspended, and two years will likely be spent with a tag, rather than in custody. She has also been given a four-year prison sentence, of which two will be suspended. The…

Seven family members were Sunday night killed in an accident along Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road. The victims were returning from a memorial service when their car rammed onto a lorry, police said. The accident happened on Sunday night, killing four children and three adults. The bodies of the seven family members taken to Naivasha mortuary, police said. Police said they are investigating the incident. In Mahiu-Mahiu, a lorry carrying crates of beer overturned causing a major traffic jam. This is after a section of locals started to loot the alcoholic drinks. Police presence did not deter the looting. Some consumed the…

There was drama when a swarm of bees on Sunday March 30 disrupted rescue efforts by Good Samaritans and firefighters at an accident scene along the Kathiani-Machakos road. Witnesses said the bees ran riot indiscriminately attacking residents who had rushed to the scene to rescue passengers after a 14-seater van overturned at the Kwa Kakonzi corner, near Iveti hills, in Machakos. Firefighters from Machakos County called to the scene had to use hose pipe water to spray and scatter the insects — and allow rescuers to access the wreckage. Witnesses said rescue efforts were temporarily hampered by the bees, but…

Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ruled out any reconciliation with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a video statement on Saturday in which he vowed to crush the group. “We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate,” he said, reaffirming the military’s commitment to restoring national unity and stability. Burhan also said fighters who “repent to the truth” could still be amnestied if they lay down their arms, particularly those who are in rebel-held areas. Earlier on Saturday, the army said it had taken control of a major market in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, which had previously been…

Multi agency teams are still searching for the body of a Kenyan police officer who was killed in an ambush in Haiti, Inspector General of police Douglas Kanja has revealed. Kanja said the body of constable Benedict Kabiru Kuria is yet to be found after the March 25 incident. “The search is ongoing and we hope to find him. We have teams on the ground for that mission,” he said. He added a fund that was created to manage the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti is functioning. “The fund is in existence and many countries including USA and…

A police officer believed to have been radicalized was buried at a church compound in Kamagambo, Migori County prompting police investigations. Police have blamed occultism for the incident and declared the teachings at the St Joseph Missions of Messiah in Africa church in Opapo village in Kamagambo are misleading. Constable Dan Ayoo Obura died on March 27 following sickness before his body was interred at the church the following day. Obura was a police officer based at the General Service Unit headquarters in Nairobi. His wife told police he fell sick as they were at home and decided to take…

A family in Kenya is mourning after a Kenyan military officer was Friday killed while on a peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic. Maj Paul Ndungu Njoroge of Kenya Army was the only person killed in the ambush. Maj Ndungu was in the troubled country since February 2025 as a military observer. A statement from the UN Spokesperson’s office on behalf of António Guterres said the peacekeeper had been killed on Friday March 28 by so-far unknown assailants when his unit was on a long-range patrol near the village of Tabane in the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, in the southeast of the…

Interior and National Administration CS Kipchumba Murkomen Sunday defended top security bosses on the hateful messages over their recent remarks at a public lecture. Murkomen told off those who have criticised the Chief of Defences Forces (CDF) Gen Charles Kahariri and Director General National Intelligence Services Noordin Haji over their remarks on ‘Ruto Must Go’ saying they were talking from a point of information. He said there are laid down legal provisions to exercise constitution rights to remove elected leaders from office. “They are answering the CDF and the NIS DG, those two gentlemen are talking from a point of…

Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to impose a 50% tariff on countries buying Russian oil if he did not agree to a ceasefire. “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which it might not be… I am going…

Richard Chamberlain, the actor best known for his role in the 1960s medical drama Dr Kildare and leading role in Shogun, has died aged 90, his publicist has confirmed to the BBC. Chamberlain earned the title “king of the mini-series” for his leading roles in Shogun and The Thorn Birds. He died late on Saturday night local time (10:15 GMT Sunday) in Waimanalo, Hawaii, after suffering complications from a stroke, his publicist Harlan Boll confirmed – just hours before he would have turned 91. Martin Rabbett, Chamberlain’s longtime partner, called him an “amazing and loving soul” in a statement. He…