Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says his technology firm Block is laying off almost half its workforce because artificial intelligence (AI) “fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company.” “Intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working,” he wrote in a note to staff. The layoffs will mean the headcount at the company – which owns Square, CashApp and Tidal – will fall to less than 6,000 from 10,000. Block has seen several rounds of layoffs since 2024 but this is the first time it has cited…

A university student in New York was released from custody after federal immigration agents allegedly posing as local police arrested her. According to a local official, agents wore “fake badges” to disguise themselves as New York Police Department (NYPD) officers to access a student residence at Columbia University. Columbia student and online influencer Elmina Aghayeva was detained but later released after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a personal appeal to President Donald Trump, according to the mayor. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denies that agents misrepresented themselves as NYPD officers. The arrest on Thursday morning took place at…

At least one American citizen was shot dead and another injured by Cuban officials intercepting a speedboat off its coast on Wednesday, a US official has said. Border guards shot dead four people and injured the remaining six aboard the Florida-registered speedboat. Cuba accused the 10 people on the boat of planning “an infiltration with terrorist aims” and said they opened fire first. A third person was on a US K-1 visa – for fiancées of American citizens – the US official said. The boat’s owner alleged the vessel had been stolen by an employee. US Secretary of State Marco…

Netflix has backed away from its proposal to buy Warner Bros Discovery, clearing the way for Paramount Skydance to win a months-long battle for one of Hollywood’s most storied studios. Warner Bros, which put itself up for sale last year, on Thursday said Paramount’s latest bid was “superior” to the one from Netflix, which in turn refused to raise its offer. Netflix executives said they have declined to match Paramount Skydance’s bid as “the deal is no longer financially attractive” at that price. The winner of the bidding war would gain control of the iconic studio along with its films…

Hillary Clinton told a congressional panel she “had no idea” about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, as she called for lawmakers to question President Donald Trump under oath about his past association with the late sex offender. “I want to see the truth come out,” the ex-US secretary of state said after testifying behind closed doors for hours to a congressional committee investigating Epstein. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will testify on Friday. The couple resisted the panel’s subpoena, dismissing it as politically motivated, before agreeing to testify as potential contempt-of-Congress proceedings loomed against them. The Clintons and Trump deny wrongdoing…

President William Ruto Thursday, directed the State Department for Housing and Urban Development to construct 28,000 institutional housing units for prison officers, with Phase One already underway in selected facilities. In a major morale boost, President Ruto also highlighted the ongoing implementation of salary increments for Kenya Prisons Service officers, following the recommendations of the Maraga Taskforce. He said entry-level pay for a prison constable has risen by 36 per cent, while the maximum salary scale has increased by 24 per cent after Phase I and II of the review. Phase III of the salary adjustment will take effect on…

Kenya’s deportation of Zimbabwean constitutional lawyer Brian Bright Kagoro has triggered a sharp confrontation between the country’s security establishment and regional human rights advocates, exposing widening fault lines between foreign-funded activism and national security policy. Kagoro, 51, was detained on arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Sunday night and declared persona non grata before being placed on the next available outbound flight.
He had travelled aboard Kenya Airways from South Africa, reportedly to attend a family engagement and speak at a forum on critical minerals and artificial intelligence. Security officials say the visit masked what they describe as a coordinated…

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested four members of the Gatundu North Constituency NG-CDF Committee over allegations of extorting Sh300,000 from a contractor in exchange for approving a pending payment of Sh9.1 million. Those arrested are Annah Mugure Njoroge, Susan Wanjiru Muchiri, Stephen Waititu Mungai and James Kibe Ngige. According to the Commission, it received a complaint that the officials had demanded a bribe to facilitate payment for completed works at Karure Primary School in Gatundu North. Preliminary investigations indicate that the contractor had undertaken three projects at the school: construction of a modern kitchen, levelling and landscaping works,…

A man was fatally stabbed in a domestic fight in Tassia, Nairobi. Police said Kennedy Juma had been engaged in a fight with his wife in their house before it turned tragic. He was stabbed in the chest and later rushed to a local hospital where he died on February 25 night. The woman was attacked by a mob following the incident before police rushed to her rescue to the hospital. She was treated and discharged before being detained for murder. The body of the man was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations. Such cases have been…

A matatu crew was chased and arrested after a passenger fell to his death from their vehicle along Nairobi- Namanga highway in Athi River. The Super Metro matatu drove off after Joseph Mureithi fell and died on the spot. It was intercepted in the Mlolongo area by police and boda boda riders who had joined the chase. Witnesses and the family of Mureithi claimed he was thrown out of the bus on Tuesday February 25 night moments after he had boarded. He was a petrol station attendant in the area. The family alleged that moments after he was ejected, the…

Detectives are investigating an incident where the decomposed body of a man was found in a thicket after a suspected murder in Qate area, Moyale, Marsabit County. The body lay in a thicket where it was probably dumped almost a week ago, police and locals said. The body was discovered on February 25 by locals who alerted police. The police said they were yet to identify the man and establish the motive. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. Police said on Thursday no arrest had been made so far. Elsewhere in Tarassa, Tana…

Police are investigating an incident where a police officer attached to a team that guards the official president’s residence collapsed and died at the Mombasa State House. The police constable was found unconscious where he had been assigned at the premise and rushed to hospital. Doctors at the Jocham Referral Hospital declared him dead on arrival on February 25, 2026 morning. It is not clear what caused the death. His colleagues revealed he had complained of abdominal pain before he collapsed. He sustained an injury in the chin on falling, officials who attended the scene said. The body was moved…

A woman was found dead in a house following an altercation in Njathaini, Nairobi County. The body of Vallery Atieno Okumu, 28 was found lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds in the chest, face, head, stomach, eye, breast and leg. She had earlier gone to a house belonging to a couple where an altercation broke out. The husband in the house told police the woman attacked him and his wife prompting them to respond for self defence. Police said the husband is a Tanzanian. It was during the altercation that the said woman was stabbed multiple times.…

Detectives based at Moyale Police Station arrested a 33-year-old man believed to be a key player in a human trafficking syndicate operating across borders. The suspect, Festus Arasa Omwamba, had reportedly been on the police radar for his alleged involvement in trafficking vulnerable individuals under the pretense of securing them legitimate employment opportunities in European countries. He had also been mentioned as the key trafficker of Kenyans to Russia where some of them were lured to join the war against Ukraine. He is believed to have been planning to leave the country through the porous Kenya-Ethiopia border when he was…

Pope Leo XIV will begin a 10-day visit to four African countries on 13 April, marking his first pastoral trip to the continent, the Vatican has announced. He will travel to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. In Cameroon, the Pope will visit the capital Yaoundé, the economic hub Douala, and the Anglophone city of Bamenda in the restive Northwest region, where an armed conflict has been raging for nearly 10 years. This is the first time that a pope will visit Algeria, whose population is mostly Muslim. In December, he expressed his desire to visit the continent, citing Algeria,…