Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Ten people were found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by a Paris court. The defendants were accused of spreading false claims about her gender and sexuality, as well as making “malicious remarks” about the 24-year age gap between the couple. The defendants were handed suspended prison sentences of up to eight months. The full ruling is yet to be published. A conspiracy theory claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman has circulated since her husband was first elected in 2017. Monday’s ruling in France comes as the Macrons pursue a defamation lawsuit…

The Cuban government said 32 of its nationals were killed during the US operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. It said the dead were members of its armed forces and intelligence agencies, with two days of national mourning declared. A short statement did not elaborate on the role of the Cubans in Venezuela, but the two governments are long-standing allies, with Cuba providing security support in exchange for oil. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said they had been providing protection to Maduro and his wife “at the request” of Venezuela. An official government statement read: “Our compatriots fulfilled their duty…

Villagers rescued three minors from a suicidal man who later died by suicide in a village in Olkalou, Nyandarua County. The man set ablaze his private car that he used to kill himself therein on Sunday morning, police said. The motive of the incident was not known. Locals and police said the man identified as John Chege, 41 had threatened to die by suicide together with his three children aged 14, 12 and ten. He then placed the three children in his Probox car and set it on fire. Locals responded and rescued the three children leaving the man to…

A hippopotamus attacked and killed a man in a village in Nkoilale, Narok County. The body of Salash Oloishuro, 47, was found on the roadside in a pool of water on Sunday, January 4 morning. The animal was missing. Police said the man was slashed to death and body dismembered by the hippo. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy were not revealed. Police and Kenya Wildlife Service personnel visited the scene and moved the body to the mortuary. The family of the deceased was advised to seek compensation for the killing. In May 2025, Kenya introduced the third phase of its…

A 23-year-old man was stabbed and killed in a confrontation with another man over a woman in Soko Mjinga area, Kawangware, Nairobi. Police said Silus Nyongesa Wanjala was stabbed in the stomach in the confrontation over a woman who is a bar attendant at a bar in the area. Police were called to the scene after the incident and found the deceased lying in a pool of blood. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures. The assailant escaped the scene and efforts to trace him continued on Monday, police said. Meanwhile, police are investigating…

Two men were attacked and killed in a love triangle saga in a village in Kipkelion, Kericho County. The assailant was angry after he found a man with his girlfriend in Kapkwen village on Sunday, January 4, 2026. Police said the suspected assailant was armed with a knife and a club when he first attacked and killed Zachariah Bii, 40 and later Pius Chepkwony, 20. The assailant is said to have first met Bii in a house belonging to his girlfriend. This, according to the police, angered him and confronted the man killing on the spot. A neighbour who heard…

Police in Lang’ata sub-county, Nairobi are investigating an incident in which a 20-year-old man allegedly stabbed his father to death following a dispute over the preparation of ugali. Police said Joseph Okello, 70, met his untimely death in Mugumoini location after a bitter confrontation with his son, Peter Olwenye, over the cooking process of the staple meal on Saturday night. Witnesses said the deceased questioned his son’s decision to begin preparing ugali using water that had not sufficiently boiled. The disagreement reportedly escalated after the father challenged the logic behind his son’s cooking method, leading to a deadly altercation. The…

At least nine people were killed on Monday morning in a road accident involving a bus and a matatu at Karai area in Naivasha along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway. The victims were passengers. Police said the accident happened on Monday, January 5, at around 2 am after a Greenline bus collided with a 14-seater matatu belonging to Nanyuki Cabs Sacco. The deceased included two minors. Survivors said the bus was overtaking at the time of the accident when it collided head on with an oncoming van. Seven people including two minors died on the spot while two others succumbed to the…

The bodies of the 40 victims of a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve have been identified by police. The victims range in age from 14 to 39 years old, with 15 aged under 18. The youngest were a Swiss girl and a French boy, both 14. The group includes people of Swiss, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese, French, and Belgian nationalities, as well as a citizen of the UK, France and Israel. In addition to the 40 killed, 119 others were injured. Most have severe burns – six of them so severe that…

Denmark’s prime minister has told Donald Trump to “stop the threats” about taking over Greenland. Mette Frederiksen said “it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland”, adding: “The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom.” Her remarks come after Katie Miller – the wife of one of Trump’s aides, Stephen Miller – tweeted a map of Greenland in the colours of the American flag alongside the word “SOON”. Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of Greenland becoming an annexed part of the…

Enzo Fernandez dealt a massive blow to Manchester City’s Premier League title hopes with a 94th-minute equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw for managerless Chelsea at the Etihad. Tijjani Reijnders had blasted City into a deserved half-time lead, but they lost central defenders Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias to injury in the second half and then blew two points in the dying seconds when Fernandez prodded in at the back post. A point is only good enough to edge City back above Aston Villa in second on goal difference and leaves them six points adrift of leaders Arsenal. Chelsea were…

South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he seeks to reset frayed ties with his country’s biggest trading partner. Regional security and Beijing’s unofficial ban on Korean pop culture are also on the agenda for Monday’s meeting, which is their second summit since November, when Xi visited South Korea. Given what a vital economic partner China is, experts say Lee is looking for assurances that it would not weaponise that relationship in the face of political tensions in the region. For weeks, China and Japan have been engaged in a diplomatic row over the…

Armed men violently stormed a village in Nigeria’s Niger state, killing at least 30 people and looting shops, state authorities have said. The attackers emerged from a forest near the village of Kasuwan-Daji on Saturday and set fire to the local market, looted shops and kidnapped an unspecified number of people, police said. “The gunmen entered the town on motorcycles carrying weapons, rounded up people and then proceeded to slaughter them, while others were shot dead,” a local journalist told the BBC’s Hausa service. Attacks and kidnappings by armed criminal gangs, known as bandits, have been a problem in Nigeria…

Donald Trump has warned Venezuela’s new leader Delcy Rodríguez she could “pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro” if she “doesn’t do what’s right”. His comments to US magazine The Atlantic came as the country’s deposed president Nicolás Maduro was set to appear in a New York court on Monday. The US accuses Maduro, who is charged with drug trafficking and weapons offences, of running a “narco-terrorist” regime, a claim he denies. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted the US is not at war with Venezuela, after air strikes in Caracas on Saturday led to Maduro…

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Sunday ordered immediate investigations into the collapse of a 16-storey building in South C, Nairobi. DPP Mulele Ingonga described the incident as tragic and raising serious concerns over possible lapses in construction and regulatory oversight. The building collapsed on January 2, 2026, leaving two people trapped under the rubble and sparking a multi-agency rescue operation. One body was retrieved from the debris on Sunday. In a statement issued through the Public Affairs and Corporate Communication Division, the DPP expressed deep sympathy with the families of those affected by the disaster, particularly those whose loved…