Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A 27-year-old woman was found murdered in a forest after a domestic fight in Kapsowar, Elgeyo Marakwet County. Police said Purity Kiplagat was stabbed in the neck and died in the house after a fight with her husband. The murder weapon, a knife, was recovered at the scene after the Thursday November 20 incident, police said. The husband who is a member of the National Police Reserve confessed to the murder after he called the area chief to inform him of the same. The chief called the police who visited the scene. He was later arrested. He told police he…

A 14-year-old boy was found dead in a house where he was nursing a wound after a successful circumcision event in a village in Ngarariga, Limuru, Kiambu County. Police said the body of the boy was discovered on November 20, 2025, long after he had died. The boy had undergone the rite on November 14 and was taken to their house, where he was being taken care of by three villagers. The three were missing when the body was found on Thursday, police said. His grandmother, who had been feeding him, was concerned the boy was not getting out with…

Two people were killed in a fire incident in Fuata Nyayo area, Mariguini, Nairobi. Their bodies were discovered on Thursday, long after the fire had broken out and swept through structures. The cause of the fire was not immediately established. Police said more than 150 structures were destroyed in the incident. Locals were joined by fire engines to contain the fire. It was then that they found the bodies of the two people believed to be men, burnt beyond recognition. Police said the remains were moved to the mortuary pending an identification and autopsy. Meanwhile, two soldiers with the Kenya…

Nearly two decades before M-PESA became a global case study in mobile money innovation, a chance conversation at a fuel station helped shape one of its most defining features — the agent aggregator model. In 2005, while Safaricom’s product team was still refining the concept that would later launch as M-PESA, they approached Caltex (then under Chevron Kenya Limited) seeking partners who could serve as cash-in and cash-out points. The contact person was Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, then Business Advisor and Merchandising Manager at Caltex. “A lady named Susie Lonie reached out. She wanted to use Caltex service stations as agent points,”…

A 35-year-old woman was found murdered in her house following a domestic dispute in a village in Kehancha, Kuria, Migori County. Police said Lucy Mogesi Nokwe died after an assault by her husband on Thursday in Kurutyange village. The husband had arrived home late and demanded money from his wife, claiming she had obtained it from mining businesses. She told him she did not have the money, prompting a physical fight where the woman was stabbed and kicked by the man. Witnesses said the man also hit her with a stone in the head before he escaped the home. The…

Safaricom PLC has secured approval from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to establish a Sh40 billion Medium Term Note (MTN) Programme, positioning the telco for long-term, diversified fundraising as it deepens investment in network expansion, digital services, and sustainability-linked initiatives. The approval, granted on November 7, 2025, allows Safaricom to issue various notes—including green, social, and sustainability bonds—in several tranches. This marks the company’s most significant move into the domestic bond market since its landmark Sh12 billion corporate bond in 2009, which was heavily oversubscribed and remains one of the most successful issuances in Kenya’s capital markets history. Since then,…

A seven-year-old girl died after she fell into an open septic tank in Garissa Town. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon in Qorahey Market area, police said. The girl is said to have wandered to the place where the septic tank is out of curiosity when she slipped into the same. The tank had been left uncovered over an ongoing repair there, neighbours and police said. Other tenants rushed to the scene after learning she had drowned there and removed her. By the time they had removed the girl, she had died, police said. Police were called to the scene…

President Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behaviour, punishable by death”, after they released a video urging US service members to refuse unlawful commands. “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???,” Trump wrote on social media. The six lawmakers, all of whom have served in the military or intelligence community, called Trump’s remarks dangerous and said they amounted to threats against elected officials. “No threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from that sacred obligation,” they said in a joint…

Twitch, a streaming platform popular with gamers, has been added to Australia’s teen social media ban which starts next month. It joins other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Snapchat that must ensure under-16s cannot open accounts and existing ones are closed from 10 December. Australia’s internet regulator overseeing the ban said Twitch – owned by Amazon -has been included as its main purpose was “online social interaction” where users were encouraged to chat to each other about posted content. A Twitch spokesperson said Australians under 16 will not be able to open a Twitch account from 10…

Relentless rains and floods have killed at least 41 people in central Vietnam since the weekend, while a search continues for nine still missing, state media reported. The deluge has submerged more than 52,000 homes and left half a million households and businesses without power, according to reports. Rainfall exceeded 1.5m (5ft) in several areas over the past three days, even rising beyond the 1993 flood peak of 5.2m in some parts. The worst-hit areas include the coastal cities of Hoi An and Nha Trang, as well as a key coffee production belt in the central highlands – where farmers…

South African women’s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become commonplace. The campaign began with a viral social media movement and will culminate in a nationwide “shutdown” on Friday, ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. Celebrities, citizens and nations have shown their solidarity by changing their social media profile pictures to purple – a colour often linked to GBV awareness. South Africa experiences some of the world’s highest levels of GBV, with the rate at which women are killed…

The US has approved two arms sales to India worth $92.8m (£71m), including Javelin anti-tank missiles and Excalibur precision artillery projectiles, the US state department says. It comes nine months after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Donald Trump in Washington, where both leaders committed to “advance defence ties”. In October, it led to the signing of a framework agreement to expand defence co-operation over the next 10 years. The move comes as India seeks to diversify arms supplies away from Russia, amid reports that Trump urged it to buy more US-made weapons. While Russia remains India’s top source for…

The first official data in weeks on the US job market is out, and it shows that hiring picked up after a lacklustre summer. Employers added a better-than-expected 119,000 jobs in September, but the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.3% to 4.4%, the Labor Department said. The US government shutdown, which ended last week after more than a month, had delayed publication of the figures for nearly seven weeks, leaving policymakers guessing about the state of the job market at a delicate moment. Job growth has still barely budged since April, raising pressure on the central bank to cut interest…

A court in Nigeria has found separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu guilty of terrorism 10 years after he was first arrested. The court said it was satisfied that Kanu had made series of broadcasts to incite violence and killings, as part of his campaign for a separate state in south-east Nigeria, known as Biafra. A relatively obscure figure, Kanu’s popularity surged in 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people broadcast to Nigeria from London. Though he grew up in south-eastern Nigeria, where he attended the University of Nsukka, Kanu moved…

Police in Mexico have arrested a man they accuse of being the mastermind behind the murder of a popular mayor. The mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, was shot dead on 1 November at a public event marking the Day of the Dead. Manzo was an outspoken critic of cartel violence in his home state of Michoacán and his assassination triggered mass protests. Mexico’s security minister said the man suspected of ordering his murder had links to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). “This arrest represents a key step in dismantling the criminal structure responsible for this attack,” Security Minister…