Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

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…

The US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the UN agency without one of its biggest donors. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order signalling the withdrawal a year ago, having criticised the organisation for being too “China-centric” during the Covid pandemic. The US Department of Health and Human Services said it took the decision due to the WHO’s alleged “mishandling” of the pandemic, an inability to reform and political influence from member states. The WHO has rejected these claims and its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the withdrawal was as a loss for the…

TikTok has closed a deal that will allow the hugely popular short-video app to continue operating in the US, it announced on Thursday. The deal comes after a years-long tussle between Washington and Beijing that began in Trump’s first term in the White House when he tried unsuccessfully to ban the app over national security concerns. The platform was due to be banned in the US in January 2025 if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, failed to sell its US operations to American investors. But US President Donald Trump repeatedly postponed the enforcement of legislation to take down the app. The…

The High Court ordered the release and cremation of the body of a foreign national after uncertainty over who could legally act as her next of kin caused her remains to be held at a mortuary for more than 37 days. In directions issued on January 22, 2026, Lady Justice Mugure Thande ordered Star Hospital in Malindi to release the remains of Bashforth Margaret Christine to the applicant and an interested party by January 27, 2026, to facilitate cremation. The court further directed that the ashes be kept at the deceased’s house at Woburn residence. The judge also allowed Staron…

The Environment and Land Court in Nairobi struck out a constitutional petition filed by TotalEnergies Marketing Kenya PLC and Gapco Kenya Limited in a land dispute. The court ruled that the dispute should have been brought as an ordinary civil suit rather than a constitutional petition. In a ruling, Justice Grace Kemei upheld a preliminary objection raised by businessman Samuel Kazungu Kambi and Riva Oils Limited, finding that the petition improperly invoked the court’s constitutional jurisdiction. The petitioners had accused land authorities, including the National Land Commission, the Chief Land Registrar and the Director of Survey, of unlawfully allocating and…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a two-year-old boy whose body was found at a dump site in Mlolongo, Machakos County. The boy is believed to have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the site behind Mlolongo Primary School on January 22, 2026. Police said the body had healed scars and blood was oozing from the left ear. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. No arrest had been made by Friday morning and the child was yet to be identified, police said. Elsewhere in Koru, Kisumu County, a man was killed…

A section of Northern Kenya media practitioners collectively withdrew from a planned roundtable interview with former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The interview was originally scheduled for Thursday, January 22, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. It went on as scheduled, with some attending the session. In a statement released on Wednesday, the umbrella body representing local radio stations and digital media outlets cited concerns over responsible journalism, national unity, and constructive public discourse as reasons for the decision. “It is with deep regret that we inform our esteemed audience of our decision to terminate the planned roundtable interview,” the statement…