Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

President William Ruto on Thursday met United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at State House, Nairobi, during the senior American official’s two-day visit to Kenya, with discussions focusing on bilateral relations and key regional security issues. The two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening Kenya–US ties, which President Ruto described as being anchored on mutual respect and shared strategic interests. President Ruto highlighted the Sh208 billion Kenya–US Health Cooperation Framework signed last year, noting that it is the first agreement of its kind globally under the America First Global Health Strategy. He said the government-to-government arrangement is a…

Nairobi County Government has rolled out its biggest rabies sensitisation and mass vaccination campaign in history, targeting more than 10,000 dogs and cats in a major push to eliminate the deadly disease and protect public health. The countywide exercise, being conducted in partnership with the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA), will run from January 31 to February 15, 2026, starting in Kasarani Sub-County before expanding to other parts of the capital. Naiorbi Governor Johnson Sakaja says vaccination will be offered free of charge across designated centres. Green Nairobi CECM Maureen Njeri confirmed the initiative underscores…

A 19-year-old man was electrocuted in a tragic incident in a house as he washed his clothes in Kogony, Kisumu County. Police and Kenya Power officials said Brian Omollo was washing his clothes when he touched a live naked wire. He died on the spot. Police said they suspect the power had been illegally connected to the area. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures following the January 28 incident. And two people drowned in two separate incidents. The first incident was reported in the Mbumbuni area, Makueni County where one Mumo Mbithi, 21…

A 35-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a robbery incident in Kamulu area, Nairobi County. The victim was identified as Geoffrey Gicheru. Before his death, he had left his house in the area and was headed for work in the city centre, his wife said. The wife was on January 28 morning alerted that her husband was lying on the Josnah Road with a stab wound. She rushed to the scene and confirmed the man had died and was lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds in the chest. His cash and valuables were missing following the robbery.…

Police are investigating an incident where a worker died after being struck by a machine used to make cabros at the Devki Steel Mill Company in Kwale County. Police said Kitsao Charo, 38 was at the Cabro processing unit at the firm when the incident happened on January 28, 2026. He was hit in the head while cleaning the pressing surface area and rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police and his colleagues said. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations. In Oyugis area, Homa Bay County, a suspect was…

Laikipia Governor Joshua Irungu ignited debate in the Senate after publicly rejecting a directive by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) requiring counties to construct official residences for governors. Irungu raised the objection on Wednesday while appearing before the Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) at Parliament Buildings to defend Laikipia County’s revenue and expenditure accounts for the 2024/25 financial year. He argued that the directive was economically impractical and morally indefensible, particularly for rural counties grappling with basic service delivery challenges. The SRC circular sets a ceiling of Sh50 million for the construction of a governor’s residence. However, Irungu…

Three suspected poachers were arrested with 42 kilos of elephant tusks valued at Sh4.2 million in Lokichar, Turkana County. The joint operation by police and the Kenya Wildlife Service also recovered three leopard and three python skins. Police said they also recovered a motorcycle that was used to transport the trophies. KWS said a live animal is worth far more than any trophy and wildlife sustains ecosystems, tourism and livelihoods for generations. “Poaching destroys that future for short-term gain,” KWS said, adding their operations to contain the trend are ongoing. The elephant tusks were valued at about Sh4.2 million, officials…

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg plans to ramp up spending on artificial intelligence (AI) projects this year, even as other executives warn of a potential bubble in the industry. During a call with financial analysts on Wednesday to discuss the Facebook-owner’s 2025 financial results, the company said it expects to spend up to $135bn (£97bn) this year, mostly on infrastructure related to AI. That is nearly twice the $72bn Meta spent last year on AI projects and infrastructure. In the last three years, the technology giant has spent roughly $140bn in an attempt to get ahead of the AI boom. Zuckerberg…

Parcel delivery giant UPS says it will cut up to 30,000 jobs this year as it further reduces shipments for its biggest customer, Amazon. The world’s largest package delivery company has been scaling back deliveries for the online retail giant, which it says are “extraordinarily dilutive” to its profit margins. UPS says the job cuts would be made through buyout offers to full-time drivers and by not replacing staff who leave the company voluntarily. At the same time, it reported earnings of $24.5bn (£17.7bn) for the final three months of last year. It also forecast a surprise increase in revenue…

The US Federal Reserve has voted to hold interest rates as its chair, Jerome Powell, defended the importance of central bank independence. The Fed said it will keep its key lending rate between 3.5% to 3.75%, stating that economic activity in the US “has been expanding at a solid pace”. US President Donald Trump has frequently criticised Powell for not cutting rates quickly enough. Federal prosecutors recently opened a criminal investigation over testimony Powell gave to the Senate about renovations to Fed buildings. On Wednesday, Powell declined to comment on the probe but he said that if a central bank…

The FBI raided a Georgia election office on Wednesday as it examined allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 US election. In a statement to Reuters, the FBI said it was conducting a “court-authorised law enforcement activity” at the Fulton County Election Hub. Fulton County officials said that the government’s warrant “sought a number of records related to 2020 elections”. Donald Trump lost the state and the county – the most populated in Georgia – to Joe Biden in the 2020 election and has long said his loss was due to fraud, a claim that is unsubstantiated. The Department of…

Google unveiled an artificial intelligence tool Wednesday that its scientists said would help unravel the mysteries of the human genome — and could one day lead to new treatments for diseases. The deep learning model AlphaGenome was hailed by outside researchers as a “breakthrough” that would let scientists study and even simulate the roots of difficult-to-treat genetic diseases. While the first complete map of the human genome in 2003 “gave us the book of life, reading it remained a challenge”, Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research at Google DeepMind, told journalists. “We have the text,” he said, which is a…

Protesters clashed with state troopers on Wednesday outside a Texas detention centre where a pre-schooler and his father are being held after immigration officers took them into custody in Minnesota last week. ICE officers first detained 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, in Minneapolis on 20 January before the two were relocated to the Dilley, Texas, facility. Several lawmakers also visited the facility on Wednesday, speaking out against the father and son’s detention, and urging the Trump administration to release them. The Department of Homeland Security has said the pair entered the US illegally, while a…

Three young brothers have died in Bonham, north Texas, after falling through ice on a private pond on Monday. Cheyenne Hangaman, the boys’ mother, said she tried to rescue them by lifting them out of the water and placing them on the ice, but it kept breaking. “There was three of them and only one of me… that’s why I couldn’t save them,” she told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. She described her sons, aged six, eight and nine, as full of personality and urged families to “make sure that you hold your kids tight, always tell them that…

Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state, has been killed in a plane crash along with four other people. The plane he was on from the state capital, Mumbai, crash-landed in a field at the airport in Pawar’s constituency of Baramati, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said. Images from the site show wreckage of the Learjet engulfed in flames and plumes of smoke. The cause of the crash is yet to be confirmed and is being investigated. Two members of his staff and two crew were killed along with Pawar, officials said. He was one of…