Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The families of the 11 victims of the Kwale plane crash will have to submit their DNA samples to help in identifying them. A multi agency team finished the recovery exercise of the bodies from the Tsimba area, Kwale County on Thursday October 30, 2025 and moved the remains to the Coast General Hospital Mortuary pending the procedures. The accident happened on October 28, 2025 moments after the light aircraft had taken off from the Diani airport headed for Maasai Mara with the 11 on board. All the 11 died in the crash. A team of investigators from the air…

A 52-year-old woman was found murdered and her body abandoned outside her house in Kimangu village, Rongai, Nakuru County. A shamba boy who was at the compound is missing after the body of Joyce Waithera was found on October 27, police said. The woman lived with the shamba boy and her son at the compound. The son, who is a teacher in the area, told police he left for work and left the mother but she was unreachable hours later when he tried to call her. On returning back home at around 6 pm he went straight to the kitchen…

A police officer was shot and killed by his colleagues in what police termed as a case of mistaken identity in Mai Mahiu, Nakuru County. Constable Hassan Lolkidid was shot and killed at a scene he and five other officers had responded to on Wednesday dawn. He was in the company of five other colleagues and had responded to a scene they claimed a suspicious group was offloading tyres. This was at about 1 am, police said. The route is common with stealing of transit goods, police said. While at the scene, the said off loaders escaped prompting the police…

A gang waylaid and robbed a man of Sh1 million in an attack along Bondo-Siaya Road in Siaya County. The victim was with his wife in a salon car headed home when four men armed with an AK47 rifle struck, police said. The victim deals in gold business in the Kogelo area in Alego. The assailants had concealed the registration numbers of their car when they struck. They had blocked the road about 100 meters from the residence of the man. The victim said the men had their car’s bonnet open pretending it had mechanical problems. It was that one…

Fourteen current and former law-enforcement officers are among 20 defendants charged in Mississippi and Tennessee with accepting bribes from drug traffickers for police protection in what officials called “a monumental betrayal of public trust”. The arrests follow a years-long investigation by federal agents who posed as narcotics dealers. Two of the defendants were Mississippi sheriffs. Federal officials set up the sting after hearing complaints from real drug traffickers about having to pay bribes to officers. The bribery network allegedly extended beyond the Mississippi Delta region into Memphis, Tennessee, and Miami, Florida. “The original complaints that began the investigation were from…

Five people have been charged in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson and two other 19 year olds. New York authorities accuse the suspects, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, Grant McIver, John Nicolas, and Roy Nicolas, of running a fentanyl distribution network that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media to teenagers and young adults in the city. Authorities link the network to the overdose deaths of Leandro De Niro-Rodriguez, Akira Stein – daughter of Blondie co-founder Chris Stein – and a third unnamed victim. The five are each charged with conspiracy to distribute and…

The latest iPhones have seen “a tremendous response” across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the tech giant released its latest financial results. The firm unveiled its thinnest iPhone, the Air, in September, along with upgraded iPhone 17 models, proving a bumper crop for the firm. It said it expects the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s period to be a blockbuster, forecasting overall revenue to be up to 12% higher than the same period last year. But Apple narrowly missed estimates for iPhone sales in its fourth quarter that ended in September, which boss Tim Cook blamed on…

The High Court dealt former Kenya Sevens rugby player Alex Olaba a blow after dismissing his appeal, upholding his six-year prison sentence for attempting to kill a witness in a gang-rape case. The court ruled that the conviction was properly founded, noting that the conspiracy to commit murder was proven through recorded conversations and a down payment of Sh10,000, with a promise to pay Sh100,000 upon completion of the act. “I found from the evidence that PW2 met PW3 and discussed the commission of the offence, which had been previously discussed with the appellant. PW3 was a police officer disguised…

A Kwale court granted a 14-day custodial order for a Dutch national arrested in Diani over allegations of assault, disturbance, and suspected involvement in drug trafficking. The suspect, Elwin Ter Horst, aged 47, was arrested at Boma Banda Cottage in Diani following reports of violent conduct, including assaulting police officers, spitting on one of them, and damaging property at Diani Police Station. He is also accused of assaulting his Kenyan girlfriend, Angela Atieno, in a separate incident. Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions (SADPP) Rosemary Nandi, successfully argued that the suspect’s continued detention was necessary to enable completion of investigations.…

Five people, including senior officials of a private clinic in Oyugis and staff from the Social Health Authority (SHA), were arraigned in court over allegations of conspiring to defraud the Authority more than Sh17.5 million through falsified medical claims. All the accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and have been granted a cash bail of Sh500,000 each. The accused persons, Arthur Otula, Rosemary Daraja, Peter Abuna, Robert Ingasira, and Archprime Medical Clinic Oyugis Ltd appeared before a Nairobi court where they denied ten counts ranging from conspiracy to defraud, falsification of health information, acquisition and use of proceeds of…

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja outlined a plan before the Senate Education Committee to ensure learners in informal schools benefit from the county’s flagship feeding programme, Dishi na County. Appearing before the committee at Bunge Tower, Sakaja said the county government is mapping out public schools located near informal learning institutions as a short-term measure to enable children from informal areas to access meals during lunchtime. “In the 230 public schools we have in Nairobi, we operate 17 central kitchens that currently feed 316,000 learners, to include all informal schools, we would need 69 more kitchens. It’s a budget issue. As…

Safaricom, through the M-PESA Foundation, has launched a Sh30 billion education programme dubbed Citizens of the Future, aimed at improving learning outcomes and strengthening education and training systems across Kenya over the next five years. The initiative, launched in partnership with the Ministry of Education and county governments, will focus on upgrading school infrastructure, enhancing teacher training in ICT, and providing scholarships to over 10,000 students in senior secondary and tertiary institutions. “We have developed education interventions that seek to bridge the gap through innovation and material support,” said Peter Ndegwa, Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom. “Under the Citizens of the…

A roads company engineer based in Kisumu died by suicide at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) offices in Kisumu. Police said the incident happened Thursday October 30, 2025 morning. He was identified as Juma Guya, the CEO of Gogni Rajope, a renowned construction company in the region. The deceased, is reported to have jumped from the second floor of the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA) mall, where KRA has its offices. Reports indicate that the deceased had been slapped with a Sh300 million tax demand by KRA. He went there for a discussion over the tax matters, witnesses said. According…

President Samia Suluhu Hassan had sought to solidify her position and silence criticism within her party in the virtually uncontested polls, with the main challengers either jailed or disqualified. In the run-up, rights groups condemned a “wave of terror” in the east African nation, which has seen a string of high-profile abductions that ramped up in the final days. A heavy security presence on Wednesday failed to deter hundreds protesting in economic hub Dar es Salaam and elsewhere, some singing: “We want our country back”. Unverified images on social media showed initially small protests escalated during the day with reports…

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday issued a travel advisory warning its citizens against travelling to Tanzania. This follows violent protests that erupted after the country’s October 29, 2025 general elections. In a statement released on Thursday, through the embassy in Nairobi, the ministry said widespread riots had broken out across several parts of Tanzania, prompting authorities to impose a curfew and restrict internet access. “In light of the riots that broke out in Tanzania following the elections held on October 29, 2025, during which a curfew was imposed and access to the internet was disrupted, the Ministry of Foreign…