Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A ferry with more than 350 people on board sank during the night early Monday near an island in the southern Philippines and rescuers have saved at least 316 passengers and retrieved 15 bodies, officials said. The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3, an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry, was sailing to southern Jolo island in Sulu province from the port city of Zamboanga with 332 passengers and 27 crew members when it apparently encountered technical problems and sank after midnight, coast guard officials said. The ferry sank in good weather about a nautical mile (nearly 2 kilometers) from the island village…

Tens of thousands of people in Mozambique are being rescued as rising waters continue to devastate the southern African nation – the worst flooding in a generation. Teams from Brazil, South Africa and the UK have been helping with life-saving rescue operations. “For me, this is the first time I have experienced a calamity of this magnitude. Elders say a similar disaster took place in the 1990s,” 24-year-old mechanic Tomaz Antonio Mlau says. Mlau and his family, who live near Marracuene – a town 30km (19 miles) north of the capital, Maputo – woke up to find their house inundated…

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has joined other US gun lobby groups in calling for a “full investigation” by the Trump administration into the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota. Comments from the NRA come after a border agent fatally shot Pretti – registered nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital – in Minneapolis on Saturday. State and federal officials have given starkly different accounts. The Trump administration has said Pretti carried a gun and posed a danger to officers – while no available video shows Pretti holding a gun. The NRA labelled a suggestion by a federal prosecutor that people…

Hundreds of thousands of households in the US have no power as a major storm rolls across the country, which is also leading to flight cancellations and road closures. Snow, ice and freezing rain are creating “life threatening” conditions stretching from Texas to New England that could last for several days, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). At least two people died of hypothermia in Louisiana, with state health officials linking their deaths to the storm, and another death was reported in Texas. As of Sunday afternoon, more than 1 million households had lost power, according to poweroutage.us. Meanwhile,…

Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja Sunday directed the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) to launch urgent investigations into a teargas attack that disrupted a church service at St. Peters ACK Church in Witima, Othaya, Nyeri County. According to the National Police Service (NPS), the incident occurred at about 11am while a church service was underway and attended by several political leaders, among them Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua. Police reports indicate that an unidentified individual threw a teargas canister into the church, forcing the congregation to flee and bringing the service to an abrupt halt. Several…

Seven suspects were arrested and more than 150 stolen electronic gadgets recovered following an intelligence-led operation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi. The operation, conducted on January 23, 2026, targeted receivers of stolen mobile phones, technicians involved in illegal refurbishment and flashing of devices, and Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators facilitating the transportation of the gadgets to neighbouring countries, mainly Uganda. According to the DCI’s Operation Support Unit, the syndicate provides a lucrative black market for stolen electronic devices, with payments made upon delivery across the border. During the operation, detectives recovered 150 assorted mobile phones, 16…

At least one person died Saturday morning after a fuel tanker caught fire and exploded following an accident along Southern bypass in Nairobi. Police said the victim was one of the drivers of the two trucks involved in the accident. Another driver was rescued and rushed to the hospital, Langata police boss Pius Mwanthi said. He said he was in a stable condition. “We had one death of the driver in the lorry with unga while the one on the tanker was rushed to the hospital. The scene is being cleared,” he said. The incident happened after a lorry carrying…

There was panic after a fuel tanker caught fire following an accident along Southern bypass in Nairobi behind Carnivore Restaurant. Emergency service providers rushed to a site as police closed the busy Southern bypass to manage the fire. The fire threatened the nearby structures. The incident happened under a bridge on the road after an accident. Witnesses said some road users including bodaboda riders had rushed to the scene to scoop the fuel that had spilled after the accident. Their fate is unknown. Police had to chase some of them from the scene. Details of the accident were scanty. Police…

A gang of bodaboda riders pursued and set on fire a matatu after it ran over one of them in an accident along Juja Road in Nairobi. The matatu belonging to Forward Travelers was racing towards the city center when the incident happened on Friday January 23, 2026. The rider who was moving on the opposite direction is said to have been hit by another rider before he landed on the road where the matatu was. The matatu ran over him killing him on the spot. This prompted the driver to drive off from the scene in fear for his…

A government driver was found dead following a suicide mission at the Ntimaru Deputy County Commissioner’s office in Ntimaru, Migori County. The victim was attached to the local DCC office and was identified as Stephen Onyango, 39. His body was on Friday found hanging behind the local registrar of persons’ office long after the incident. He had been missing for almost a week before the body was found, police said. The motive of the incident was not immediately established and the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Police said they recorded at least five suicide incidents on…

The Duke of Sussex called for the sacrifices of Nato troops to be “spoken about truthfully and with respect”, after the US president claimed allies stayed “a little back” from the front lines in Afghanistan. “I served there. I made lifelong friends there. And I lost friends there,” Prince Harry, who was twice deployed to the country, said on Friday as he paid tribute to Nato troops killed in the conflict, including 457 UK service personnel. The prince was reacting to controversial comments made by Donald Trump in an interview on Thursday. Trump’s words have drawn condemnation from international allies,…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent weighed in on a separatist movement in Alberta, saying the western Canadian province is a “natural partner for the US”. “Alberta has a wealth of natural resources, but they won’t let them build a pipeline to the Pacific,” Bessent told an American right-wing commentator in an interview on Thursday. “I think we should let them come down into the US, and Alberta is a natural partner for the US. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people.” The top US official’s comments come amid strained ties between US and Canada, and as signatures…

European Council President Antonio Luis Santos da Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be chief guests at India’s Republic Day celebrations next Monday. Besides state banquets and the ceremonial pomp of the event, the two leaders will have a more pressing item on their agenda – advancing free trade talks with Asia’s third largest economy. This comes at a particularly trying geopolitical moment for Europe, with President Donald Trump first threatening to escalate his trade war with European allies for opposing a US takeover of Greenland and then backing off. The choice of guests also carries…

The long arm of the law has caught up with two drug peddlers after hawk-eyed detectives swooped in and netted heroin worth over Sh4 million in Utange, Mombasa County. In a coordinated raid, officers drawn from the Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU), the Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU) and Kiembeni Police Station arrested Tawaida Ali Said and Shamim Abubakar, bringing their alleged trade to a halt. Acting on solid intelligence, the multi-agency team stormed a residential house hidden behind a towering perimeter wall in Barawa area, Kisauni Sub-County. A thorough search of the home uncovered several neatly packed sachets of heroin stashed…

President William Ruto Friday nominated Dr Ida Betty Odinga, the widow of Raila Odinga to serve as Kenya’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The nomination was transmitted to Parliament for consideration and approval. If approved, she will replace Ababu Namwamba, who was reassigned as Kenya’s Ambassador to Uganda. Some saw the nomination as politically motivated. Mama Ida Odinga is a respected educationist, civic leader, and advocate for social justice and gender equity. She began her career as a graduate teacher at Highway Secondary School in Nairobi before moving to Kenya High School, where she…