Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A 52-year-old Briton died after being stung by a swarm of bees at her farm in Taita Taveta County. Police said Charalyn May De Wet was at her farm in Chumvini area on May 5, 2026 when she was attacked by the bees. She had toured their farm in the area and was returning home when she was attacked by the bees. Workers and her family responded to the scene and rushed her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was to be moved to Nairobi for preservation and autopsy pending other procedures. The family…

Police are investigating claims a hotel owner was abducted by six armed men outside his premises in Pumwani, Nairobi, in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to witnesses, the incident occurred at around 3:00 a.m. outside Paradise Hotel, located opposite Pumwani Hospital. A manager at the hotel told police that the owner, Abdi Hakim, had just driven into the hotel compound in his Toyota TX Prado when he was suddenly accosted by six men. The assailants reportedly bundled him into their vehicle and sped off to an unknown destination. Moments after the incident, Hakim’s mobile phone was switched off,…

The National Assembly Thursday passed the National Infrastructure Fund Bill 2026, which now awaits assent by President William Ruto to become law. The Bill, which was approved with significant amendments, gives Parliament and the President more power in the control of the much-publicised Sh5 trillion fund, expected to boost Ruto’s “Singapore dream” of transforming Kenya into a developed country. The Bill, which has been touted as one of the most consequential in the history of Kenya’s Parliament since Sessional Paper No.10 spearheaded by former Minister for Economic Planning Thomas Joseph Mboya in 1965, sailed through Parliament with crucial amendments. Parliament…

At least 18 people, including seven troops, were killed when jihadists raided a base and a nearby community in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state near the Cameroon border, residents, militia members and rangers told AFP on Thursday. Africa’s most populous nation is battling a 16-year insurgency, with the Nigerian army’s attempts to fight the uptick in radical Islamist violence complicated by the presence of other armed groups in the region. Fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist group attacked an army base outside Ngoshe village in Gwoza district late on Tuesday, dislodging the soldiers after a fierce gun battle, sources told AFP.…

Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet. Meta claimed it was blurring faces in images, but sources disputed that this blurring consistently worked, reports noted. The news prompted the U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, to investigate the matter. Now, the tech giant is facing a lawsuit in the United States, as well. In the newly filed complaint, plaintiffs…

Sooner or later, advisers in President Donald Trump’s orbit all come to learn the same unwritten rule: no-one can outshine the boss. Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, became the latest reminder of that on Thursday when Trump announced he was removing her as the face of the administration’s crackdown on immigration. Noem will be replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin at the end of the month, Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The US Senate will have to confirm him in the post. The president said Noem would move to a new job…

The White House has praised the US House of Representatives for rebuffing a bid to halt President Donald Trump’s military action in Iran, a day after a similar measure collapsed in the Senate. The House war powers resolution – rejected in a narrow vote of 219-212 – was largely symbolic and would have been unlikely to survive an expected veto from the president. Democrats have criticised Trump for launching strikes without congressional approval and questioned whether the US was facing the kind of “imminent” threat that would justify the president ordering strikes on his own. The US and Israel launched…

Two dozen states in the US sued the Trump administration, seeking to block the latest tariffs announced by the White House. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, adds to the uncertainties surrounding trade policy, after the US Supreme Court ruled that many of the duties President Donald Trump had announced last year were illegal. The White House swiftly responded by imposing a temporary 10% tariff under a different law – Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. But the state officials, all Democrats, say that tariff is also illegal, arguing that the law was not meant to address trade imbalances. According…

The Director of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed I. Amin, has called for stronger international collaboration among law enforcement agencies to combat transnational criminal networks that increasingly exploit global systems. Speaking in Nairobi while presiding over the closing ceremony of the East and South Africa Regional Conference organised by the National Crime Agency, Amin said criminal enterprises are becoming more sophisticated and require coordinated global responses. The high-level conference, convened in collaboration with the British High Commission Nairobi, brought together international liaison officers, senior law enforcement officials, policymakers and security experts from across East and Southern Africa. The meeting focused on strengthening…

The United Opposition opposed the proposed National Infrastructure Fund Bill, 2026 and Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2025, which seeks the partial divestiture of the Government of Kenya’s stake in Safaricom PLC, terming the twin proposals a “co-ordinated assault” on constitutional public finance safeguards and strategic national assets. In a press statement issued Thursday, the opposition outfit urged Parliament to reject both measures, arguing that they pose serious governance, fiscal, and national security risks. The group described the proposed National Infrastructure Fund as “a solution in search of a problem,” arguing that Kenya’s infrastructure challenges stem not from lack of…

The Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin announced new changes in the service including the appointment of a new Regional Criminal Investigations Officers (RCIO) for Coast and Nairobi. This follows the official retirement of the director of investigations bureau at the DCI Abdallah Komesha on March 5, 2026. Komesha retired after serving for more than 30 years and attaining retirement age. Coast RCIO Daniel Kandie was moved and appointed the new RCIO Nairobi, replacing Benson Kasyoki. Kandie now takes charge of investigations in the capital, a region considered one of the most sensitive and complex in the country due to…

Streaming service Showmax will be discontinued in the near future following a decision by the MultiChoice Board, the company has announced. In a notice sent to subscribers on Wednesday, the company said the move follows a “comprehensive review” of its operations and is part of a broader plan to strengthen its overall digital offering amid intensifying competition in the global streaming market. “Following a comprehensive review, the Showmax Board has taken the decision to discontinue the Showmax service in the near future,” the statement read. The company assured customers that there will be no immediate interruption of service. Subscribers can…

At least people were Thursday killed in a road crash in the Manyatta area of Taita Taveta County. This was after a Chania Executive bus was involved in a head-on collision with a trailer along the Nairobi–Mombasa highway. Police said the bus driver was attempting to overtake when the truck rammed into the bus, wrecking its right side before the vehicle veered off the highway. Several other passengers sustained injuries and were rushed to Moi Referral Hospital in Voi for treatment. This comes amid heightened operations to address fatal accidents in the country. The morning accident increased to 11, the…

A 27-year-old man was shot and killed during a robbery mission in Obwolo area, Kisumu County. Edward Osamba, 27 was a customer at a chemist in the area when a gang of three on a motorcycle struck on Wednesday, March 4 at night. The gang had arrived and approached a chemist in the area before ordering the customers therein to get out along the Mamboleo-Guba Road. They later ordered the victims to lie down when Osamba reportedly resisted. This prompted one of the gunmen to reach out for his G3 rifle which was in a bag and shot him in…

At least 70 foreign nationals were rescued during a police operation targeting suspected human trafficking in Ruai, Nairobi. According to police, the raid was conducted Wednesday by detectives from the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) based at DCI Headquarters, acting on a tip-off. The officers stormed a residential house in Ruai Block 10 area, where they discovered dozens of foreign nationals locked inside under unclear circumstances. They were later joined by officers from Ruai Police Station during the operation. Police said 70 individuals were rescued from the house. Of these, 66 are Ethiopian nationals while four are Eritrean nationals. One…