Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Golden, the inescapable hit from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, has become the first ever K-Pop song to win a Grammy Award. Performed by the fictional band Huntr/x, it picked up best song for visual media as the awards ceremony got underway in Los Angeles. It is also nominated for song of the year. Other early winners included British stars Yungblud, The Cure and FKA Twigs, while the Dalai Lama won best audiobook and eight year old Aura V became the youngest ever Grammy recipient, for best children’s album. Ahead of the main ceremony, Kendrick Lamar took home three awards,…

Lord Mandelson says he has resigned his membership of the Labour Party as he does not want to “cause further embarrassment” by his links to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The former cabinet minister, who was sacked as US ambassador last year because of his past connections to Epstein, appeared in the latest release of files by the US Department of Justice on Friday. Documents suggest Epstein made $75,000 (£55,000) in payments to Lord Mandelson in three separate $25,000 transactions in 2003 and 2004. In his letter to Labour’s general secretary, Lord Mandelson said: “I have been further linked…

Ukrainian Defence Forces released images of another Kenyan reportedly killed on the frontlines while fighting for Russia in the Donetsk region. This is the latest such news affecting dozens of Kenyans who were recruited and taken to Russia to join the war with Ukraine. The intelligence arm of the Ukraine defence forces identified the man as Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, a Kenyan citizen, born in 1997. The agency added the body was found at one of the positions held by Russian occupation It stated that Mogesa had been living and working in Qatar before signing a contract with the Russian army,…

Four people were shot and killed in a banditry attack in Aroo area, Kainuk, Turkana County. The victims included three herders and a road user. They were all shot at close range in the Saturday January 31, 2026 incident in Kakong village. The driver was in his saloon car from Lodwar to Kitale when he was trapped by the gunfight. Unknown number of gunmen had raided the village and mopped 500 goats ready to leave. This was after they had shot and killed three herders, police said. Local police reservists and police responded to the scene prompting a gunfight that…

A 33-year-old was found dead in his house after he had killed his wife and later died by suicide in Kuresoi, Nakuru County. The motive of the murder and suicide was not immediately known. The police said the body of James Karanja was found hanging on a truss with a rope tied on his neck while that of his wife Margret Wamuyu, 30 was found lying on her bed. The bodies were first discovered by the couple’s ten-year-old daughter. She told police she woke up on January 31, 2026 and realized her mother had not woken up as usual to…

Detectives are investigating an incident where a boy aged 18 collapsed and died while playing football at a school in Bungoma County. The victim was a form four student at Chemche Day High School. The victim was playing with other students on Saturday evening when he collapsed and died. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending an autopsy. A similar incident happened last week in Migori and it is under probe. In Ntimaru, Migori County, a 44-year-old man was shot and killed in an attack at a common…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX applied to launch one million satellites into Earth’s orbit to power artificial intelligence (AI). The application claims “orbital data centres” are the most cost and energy-efficient way to meet the growing demand for AI computing power. Traditionally, such centres are large warehouses full of powerful computers which process and store data. Musk’s aerospace firm claims processing needs due to the expanding use of AI are already outpacing “terrestrial capabilities”. It would increase the number of SpaceX satellites in orbit drastically. Its existing Starlink network of nearly 10,000 satellites has alreadybeen accused of creating congestion in space, which…

Billionaire businessman and US Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick planned a visit to Jeffrey Epstein’s island with his family, emails show – years after Lutnick claimed to have cut off ties with the convicted paedophile. Lutnick, his wife, their four children and another family planned a visit to Little Saint James in 2012, according to emails included in the latest Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The emails contradict statements Lutnick made in October about vowing in 2005 to “never be in a room” with Epstein again. A Commerce Department spokesperson said Lutnick had never been accused…

South Africa’s Zulu king has raised eyebrows by using a highly derogatory term for foreigners and saying they must all leave the country during a much-hyped speech that was supposed to have been aimed at calming anti-migrant feelings in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. Misuzulu kaZwelithini was addressing his supporters at the place where 20,000 Zulus warriors defeated a British contingent of 1,800 soldiers 147 years ago beneath the rocky outcrop of Isandlwana hill. The Battle of Isandlwana, fought during the Anglo-Zulu war, is something many Zulus wear like a badge of honour: they fought against a foreign army and…

Pakistan’ military says it has killed at least 92 militants blamed for deadly co-ordinated attacks in the south-western Balochistan province on Saturday. The military said 15 security service personnel and 18 civilians were also killed. It accused India of supporting the militants. Delhi has repeatedly denied such accusations. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) rebel group had earlier claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying dozens of soldiers were killed. The claims by both sides have not been independently verified. The escalation is one of the deadliest days of violence in the impoverished province, where Pakistan’s government has been battling an ethnic…

New York Giants co-owner and American filmmaker Steve Tisch sought out Jeffrey Epstein’s help connecting him with women more than a decade ago, according to emails released Friday by the Justice Department. In an email from April 26, 2013, Tisch asked Epstein if he knew anything about a “very sweet girl” who he met at Epstein’s house earlier that week. Epstein replied that he will “get all info” on her and asked if Tisch had contacted another woman, who Epstein described in crude detail. Epstein told Tisch, “I am happy to have you as a new but obviosly (sic) shared…

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling President Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.” Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t schedule the first round of voting until November. Menefee and Edwards were the…

A 25-year-old man was stabbed and killed in a targeted attack in the Kariobangi area, Nairobi. Police said Samson Wesonga was walking from his place of work on Saturday January 31, 2025 when he was accosted by two men riding on a motorcycle and stabbed in the shoulder. The deceased worked at a local bakery. The assailant is said to have alighted from a motorcycle before confronting him briefly and later stabbed him. He jumped onto a waiting motorcycle and rode off, police and witnesses said. Wesonga was rushed to a nearby chemist for attention in vain as he had…

A herder was shot and killed in a banditry attack in Akadeli area, Isiolo Township. This happened during a failed robbery of 200 shoats. The shoats were recovered by police who responded to the scene which happened on Saturday January 31, 2026 evening. Police and locals said gunmen raided the village and killed the teenage herder before attempting to drive off the targeted shoats. Security teams in the area responded and engaged the gunmen in gunfire before they abandoned the animals and escaped. The animals were handed over to the owner as the body of the 16-year-old herder was moved…

American actor Samuel Leroy Jackson is in Kenya and on holiday. He was among a group of Americans who spent the past week in parts of Marsabit and Turkana Counties while on holiday. They stayed in an exclusive and expensive hotel in the area while on holiday, officials said. The group had five choppers that they were using in their tour that started on January 26, 2026. Jackson posted on his social media accounts a picture where he was close to a herd of elephants in the area. “Me and da herd!” Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is…