Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Two men were killed by a hippopotamus in an incident at Bumbe beach, Busia County. Only one body was recovered after the incident, police said. The man was on a boat in the area with a colleague when the animal struck, forcing it to capsize on Monday, December 8, 2025. The beach is part of Lake Victoria. The body of one Harry Bwire was retrieved hours later by a team of officials from the Kenya Coast Guard. Police said the second body was yet to be found and efforts to retrieve it were ongoing. The recovered body was handed over…

Detectives are investigating a murder in an incident where the body of a woman was found wrapped in a sack and dumped in a river in Navakholo area, Kakamega County. The body was in a green sack and was floating on river Sasala when it was spotted by locals in Makunga, police said. It was decomposed when it was found, police added saying it was of a woman. Police suspect she was killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the river. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an identification and autopsy. And a three-year-old boy died in a…

Police are investigating an incident where four juvenile remandees escaped from the Kisumu Children Remand Home. This was after they used the home’s to escape on Monday. They were yet to be rearrested on Tuesday December 9, 2025, police said. Three of them were aged 17 while the fourth one was aged 13. One had been charged with offence of possession of ammunition without firearms certificate, stealing, burglary and sexual offences respectively. They escaped through the roof of the store. Efforts to rearrest them were ongoing on Tuesday, police said. In Muhuru Bay, Migori County, a man was arrested after…

Representatives from over 40 African states are meeting in Nairobi for a high-level defence forum for Special Operations Forces’ commanders in search of a united-front towards mitigating against evolving security challenges such as cyber threats and violent extremism Other participants include US Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAF), policy makers, industry players and related professionals. The forum dubbed Silent Warriors 2025, is organized by the Kenya Defence Force (KDF)’s Special Operations Forces Command in conjunction with the SOCAF under the theme “Evolving threats in Africa: SOF and the future of African security”. It comes at a time when the region is…

US President Donald Trump unveiled a $12bn (£9bn) farm aid package aimed at helping farmers impacted by low crop prices and the administration’s ongoing trade wars. Most of the money – $11bn – is earmarked for one-time payments to farmers for row crops as part of the agriculture department’s Farmer Bridge Assistance programme, with another billion reserved for crops not covered by the programme. While farmers have broadly supported Trump, the agriculture sector has been disrupted by trade disputes during his second term, particularly with China. Also on Monday, Trump threatened to hit Mexico with an additional 5% tariff in…

Alina Habba, US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, has resigned as New Jersey’s top prosecutor after a court battle over her eligibility to serve as US attorney for the state. US Attorney General Pam Bondi accepted Habba’s resignation on Monday, saying the court’s “flawed” ruling made it “untenable for her to effectively run her office”. Habba’s exit comes a week after a US appeals court found that she had been unlawfully serving as US attorney – a ruling likely to affect scores of criminal cases in the Garden State. Bondi said Habba will remain at the justice department as…

US President Donald Trump announced that he will allow AI chip giant Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to “approved customers” in China. “We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI,” Trump said on social media on Monday. The decision will apply to other US chip companies like AMD and comes after extensive lobbying by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, who visited Washington last week to drum up support. Nvidia – both the world’s leading chip firm and most valuable company – has found itself at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the…

The Tanzanian government Monday urged its citizens to celebrate Independence Day at home. Only those offering essential services should report to their work stations. In a statement by Government spokesperson Mussa Azzan Zungu, President Suluhu wished Tanzanians a happy Independence Day on December 9, 2025. Azzan went on to urge citizens who will not have emergencies on Independence Day to celebrate it at home, resting. “The government urges all citizens who will have no emergency to spend the day resting. They should celebrate the day at home, apart from those whose work responsibilities need them to be at their work…

Kenya deployed a fifth contingent of police officers to Haiti, reinforcing the multinational Gang Suppression Force (GSF) as it intensifies operations against armed gangs in the country’s most volatile regions. The 230-member team arrived Monday at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, where they were received by GSF Force Commander Otunge, Haitian officials, diplomats, and international partners. The new group brings the number of Kenyan officers serving in Haiti to more than 700, making Kenya the largest contributor to the GSF. In his remarks, Commander Godfrey Otunge said the deployment comes at a critical moment following the expanded GSF mandate issued on…

Paramount has gone straight to Warner Bros. Discovery’s shareholders with an all-cash offer for the company that it says is more valuable than Netflix’s deal announced Friday. Paramount was widely expected to be the frontrunner for Warner Bros. But WBD opted for Netflix, which it said offered a more lucrative deal. The proposed marriage with Netflix caught Hollywood insiders by surprise — including Paramount CEO David Ellison, who still contends that his deal was the better offer. “We’re sitting on Wall Street, where cash is still king,” Ellison told CNBC in an interview Monday. “We are offering shareholders $17.6 billion…

Residents on both sides of Thailand’s and Cambodia’s border evacuated in droves on Monday as fresh clashes erupted, killing at least five people. Both sides have each accused the other of starting the violence, which is the most serious confrontation between the two countries since they agreed to a ceasefire in July. Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says his country “never wanted violence” but will “use necessary means to preserve its sovereignty”, while Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen accused Thai “invaders” of provoking retaliation. Since May, escalating tensions between the neighbours have led to more than 40 deaths, as well…

About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been freed, authorities say. Niger state’s police chief, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, and Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, who is in charge of the school as the local leader of the Catholic community, both told the BBC that they had received confirmation of the students’ release. They said the news had been confirmed by the president’s national security advisor, but Bishop Yohanna said it was not clear when the children would be reunited with their parents. More than 250 students and 12 staff were kidnapped from…

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has described an attack on a kindergarten and hospital in Sudan, which he said killed 114 people, as “senseless”. Drones were used to attack the facilities on Thursday in the town of Kalogi, in the South Kordofan region, with 63 children said by the UN to be among the dead. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the sides in the country’s raging civil war, was accused by both its enemy, the army, and a medical organisation, the Sudan Doctors’ Network, of mounting the attack. In another development, the RSF…

Two senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday’s attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told the BBC. It remains unclear how they were released or if other hostages are still being held. Security forces are continuing a manhunt for those involved in the plot, who remain at large. A group of soldiers appeared on state TV early in the morning to announce they had taken over in the West African country, and gunfire was heard near the presidential residence. However, President Patrice Talon later announced that the situation was “totally under control” in the West…

The prosecution tightened its case in the ongoing Shakahola massacre trial after three witnesses shared harrowing accounts that painted a grim picture of the events linked to Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s Good News Church. Appearing virtually before Justice Diana Kavedza at the Mombasa High Court, the prosecution presented the day’s first witness, Abel Kaire Oyalo, whose deeply emotional testimony momentarily brought proceedings to a standstill. Speaking from Kisii, Oyalo recounted how his once stable family life crumbled after his wife abandoned their Kenya Assemblies of God (KAG) church in Gachie, Kiambu County, and embraced Mackenzie’s teachings. “Suddenly, my wife’s lifestyle changed,”…