Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A football fan collapsed and died as he watched a match at a field in Nairobi’s Mwiki area. Police said the incident happened on Saturday May 17 evening at Mwiki Maisha Grounds. Locals said the man was only known as Jeff and was a barber in the area. He had come to watch a football match when he collapsed and died. The cause of the death is yet to be established. Police who visited the scene said blood was oozing from his nose. The deceased lived alone in the area. The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and…

People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua said she was denied entry to Tanzania on Sunday, May 18, 2025. In a social media post on Sunday morning, Karua said she, alongside human rights defenders Gloria Kimani and Lynn Ngugi were detained at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Tanzania. The three were headed to Tanzania on the invitation of the East Africa Law Society. According to Karua, she arrived in Tanzania at 9.00 am, and an immigration official at the airport referred her passport to the supervisor. The said supervisor kept her waiting for an hour as she “consulted her…

Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah visited detained Mumias East Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Salasya in custody and condemned the move to deny him bail. Salasya who was on Friday arrested in Nanyuki and brought to Nairobi for questioning spent his weekend at Nairobi’s Central Station. He is under probe over claims of false publication among others. He was violently arrested by a team of police who had trailed him. Police said he defied their orders to stop in Kisima area as he raced from Isiolo to Nanyuki. He had been involved in a series of rallies in the region. Speaking…

Interior Cabinet Secretary Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen officially designated parts of Masalani in Garissa and Tana River counties as protected areas, restricting access. In an official notice dated May 16, the CS announced that the Masalani National Intelligence Service Campus in Masalani and Jamhuri areas in Garissa County and the Masalani National Intelligence Service Campus, Tana River County, have been placed under heightened security. According to Murkomen, entry to the restricted areas will be strict and regulated by the Director General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Noordin Haji. ”In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 (1) of the…

Two people have been killed and at least 19 others injured after a tall Mexican Navy training sailboat crashed into New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge, the city mayor has said. Eric Adams said the Cuauhtémoc lost power before the collision on Saturday evening. US officials said 277 people were on board the vessel, which was on a goodwill visit. Footage shows the Cuauhtémoc’s towering masts clipping the bridge as the ship was passing under the famous structure on Saturday evening. Crew members were standing on the masts at the time of collision, authorities said, parts of which reportedly fell on…

A bomb explosion outside a California fertility clinic that killed one person and injured four others was an “intentional act of terrorism”, FBI officials have said. The blast happened just before 11:00 local time (19:00 BST) less than a mile from downtown Palm Springs, near several businesses including the American Reproductive Centers (ARC). The clinic said no-one from the facility was harmed. The FBI later said it had “a person of interest” in its investigation, but officers were “not actively searching” for the suspect. Rhino Williams, who was at his restaurant nearby, told the BBC he heard the blast, initially…

Traders at Gikomba Market are reeling from yet another devastating fire that broke out early Sunday May 18 morning, causing significant losses and reigniting concerns over the market’s fire safety. Witnesses said the blaze began around 3:00 a.m. and quickly spread through the footwear section of the popular second-hand market, adjacent to Lamu Road in Pumwani, Majengo. Videos circulating on social media show fierce flames engulfing stalls, sending thick yellow smoke into the air as goods worth millions went up in flames. Kamukunji Member of Parliament Yusuf Hassan confirmed the incident, stating that county firefighters and local volunteers responded swiftly…

Mumias East MP Peter Salasya who was on Friday arrested in Nanyuki and brought to Nairobi for questioning spent his night at Nairobi’s Central Police Station. He is under probe over claims of false publication among others. He was violently arrested by a team of police who had trailed him. Police said he defied their orders to stop in Kisima area as he raced from Isiolo to Nanyuki. He had been involved in a series of rallies in the region. Central Police boss Stephen Okal and Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer George Momanyi confirmed Salasya was at the station for…

The US has lost its last perfect credit rating, as influential ratings firm Moody’s expressed concern over the government’s ability to pay back its debt. In lowering the US rating from ‘AAA’ to ‘Aa1’, Moody’s noted that successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs. A triple-A rating signifies a country’s highest possible credit reliability, and indicates it is considered to be in very good financial health with a strong capacity to repay its debts. Moody’s warned in 2023 the US triple-A rating was at risk. Fitch Ratings downgraded the US in 2023 and S&P Global…

Former FBI director James Comey has been interviewed by the US Secret Service after he shared then deleted a social media post that Republicans alleged was an incitement to violence against US President Donald Trump. Comey voluntarily participated in the questioning for about an hour at the law enforcement agency’s Washington DC headquarters and was not held in custody. It comes a day after he posted on Instagram a photo of seashells that spelled the numbers “8647”. The number 86 is a slang term whose definitions include “to reject” or “to get rid of”, however, it has more recently been…

In a trial that is undoing the legacy of one of music’s biggest moguls of the 2000s, the focus of the opening week of proceedings was not Sean “Diddy” Combs himself – but his ex-girlfriend. R&B singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura took the witness stand for four days, describing in emotion details the years of beatings and drug-fuelled sex encounters with prostitutes that she alleges she endured at the hands of the rap superstar, who she dated for more than a decade. But while her story clearly left an impression on those in the courtroom, which one onlooker described as an…

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed the release on bail of a suspect in the murder of Kaspul MP Ongondo Were. This follows the release of businessman Philip Aroko on Sh300,000 cash bail by a Jomo Kenyatta International Airport magistrate court. JKIA Law Courts Principal Magistrate Irene Gichobi imposed several conditions on Aroko’s release. He was ordered to surrender his passport to the court and is prohibited from travelling to Homa Bay, the home county of the late MP. Additionally, the court restricted him from contacting family members, other suspects, or any individuals associated with the…

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has stepped down temporarily as an investigation by United Nations investigators into alleged sexual misconduct by him nears its end, court sources told Reuters on Friday. A statement was expected later on Friday announcing that Khan was going on administrative leave, sources in the prosecutor’s office said. The office of the prosecutor was not immediately available for comment. Khan has denied allegations of misconduct that were reported to the court’s governing body in October last year. When the allegations against Khan emerged, several NGOs and ICC staff members called for the…

The number of UK billionaires has fallen while King Charles’ personal wealth has jumped to equal former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List. The annual list of the UK’s 350 richest people revealed the biggest decline in billionaires in the paper’s history. Meanwhile in the past year, the King’s wealth has grown by £30m to £640m, increasing his rank 20 places to 238 with Sunak and Murty. Topping the list for the fourth consecutive year is the Hinduja family behind the Indian corporation Hinduja Group, which, despite a decline…

The government Friday issued an immediate voluntary evacuation directive to all communities living downstream of the multipurpose Kiambere Dam. This is due to the prolonged and intense rainfall over the Mt. Kenya and Aberdare catchment areas. Interior Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo said the inflows into the Seven Forks hydropower cascade have increased sharply in the recent few weeks. “As a result, Kiambere Dam, the last reservoir in the cascade system, has exceeded its full supply level, and the potential of widespread flooding is both real and imminent.” “Under the prevailing circumstances, we hereby issue an immediate voluntary evacuation directive to…