Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country. The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so his visa could be cancelled in person as new unspecified information had come to light. Soyinka called the invitation a “rather curious love letter from an embassy” in a news conference held on Tuesday and told organisations hoping to invite him to the US “not to waste their time”. The US embassy in Nigeria has said it cannot…

A Dutch national who was caught on camera hurling insults and spitting on police officers at Diani Police Station was arraigned at the Kwale Court. Police said there was a diplomatic push to deport the suspect, identified as Elwin Ter Horst. This is also followed by his remorsefulness and move to apologize. The Dutch national said that he was suffering from stress that caused him to lose his mental composure on the day of the incident. “I had a psychosis; I need my medicine… I did not have water and food for a long time,” Horst further stated, identifying himself…

Panic gripped some of Nyamira County officials after Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) staged a search operation in offices and residences of Governor Amos Nyaribo and several senior officials in a Sh382 million graft probe. The raid caught many off guard as the anti graft officers struck early on Wednesday in relation to allegations of corruption and economic crimes. This followed the execution of search warrants, officials said. The searches targeted the residences and offices of several county officials identified as persons of interest in the matter. The raids were conducted in Nairobi and rural homes and offices of the…

A 70-year-old man was found dead in his house after a suspected murder in Sirisia, Bungoma County. Police said the body of Juma Wanjekeche had decomposed when it was discovered. The body had its throat slit and lay in a pool of blood in his semi-permanent house. Locals said he was seen alive on October 26 while the body was discovered two days later. Police said no arrest has been made over the murder. The motive was not immediately known and the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. Elsewhere in Kapkerer, Nandi County, a middle aged man…

Detectives are investigating an incident in which a tractor driver was found murdered and his head severed in Koru, Kisumu County. His head and torso were found separately on Tuesday after his murder, police said. The motive behind the murder of Patrick Akelo Amemo, 41, was not immediately established. A bodaboda rider told police they found the man’s head at Kona Mbaya area about Achego-Muhoroni Road, wrapped in a paper bag. A few minutes later, the torso was found near Amemo’s residential house, police said. Police said his manhood had also been severed. The body was moved to the mortuary…

US President Donald Trump has filed an appeal to overturn his May 2024 criminal conviction in the hush-money payment case, arguing he is shielded by presidential immunity. Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by a unanimous jury in New York. In December, citing Trump’s imminent return to the White House, a New York judge sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, meaning he would not serve time or pay a fine. “This case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction,” Trump’s lawyers said in the latest filing. They…

Half of US states have sued the Trump administration over its plans to halt funding for food aid used by more than 40 million low-income Americans. The states hope to force the administration to use a roughly $6bn (£4.5bn) emergency contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), also known as food stamps. The US Department of Agriculture (Usda), which oversees Snap, has said it would not use it and allow funds to run dry in November, arguing the money may be needed for emergencies, such as natural disasters. Republicans and Democrats have traded blame for the ongoing federal…

A year after the death of Ratan Tata, the Tata Group – a gigantic Indian salt-to-steel conglomerate which he steered into a global, modern, technologically advanced enterprise – finds itself facing a plethora of crises. The business empire, which owns iconic British brands such as Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Tetley Tea and makes the iPhone for Apple in India, is, yet again, a divided house. For months, a boardroom power battle between trustees has exposed internal rifts that forced the government to step in and prevent a repeat of the very public legal tangle that engulfed the Tata empire…

PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through the leading consumer AI tool, the company told CNBC exclusively. Shares of the company jumped as much as 14% in premarket trading on the news. The agreement, sealed over the weekend, means that starting next year, both sides of PayPal’s ecosystem can plug into ChatGPT: PayPal users can purchase items through the AI platform, and its merchants can sell on it, with their inventory listed there, according to PayPal CEO Alex Chriss. “We’ve got hundreds of millions…

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has secured a major victory in the fight against illegal land grabbing after the Environment and Land Court in Nairobi ordered the cancellation of a title deed for 7.11 hectares of public land valued at Sh2.8 billion within Karura Forest. The judgment, delivered on October 23, 2025 by Justice David Mwangi, nullified the lease issued to Gigiri Court Limited, declaring that the property—known as Nairobi Block 91/386—was unlawfully excised from forest and institutional land reserved for the Kenya Technical Teachers College (KTTC). The case, filed in 2007 by the defunct Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC),…

Regional human rights groups and East African citizens have condemned what they describe as a “wave of repression” in Tanzania ahead of a scheduled national vote, alleging widespread human rights violations, suppression of dissent, and the elimination of opposition voices. In a strongly worded statement issued in Nairobi, members of the East African Citizens Coalition said the situation in Tanzania “goes against the very principles that underpin the East African Community (EAC)” and called on regional leaders and international bodies to intervene. “We stand here as East African citizens, mandated by the fact that Jumuiya ni yetu (the community is…

The victims of a plane that crashed in Tsimba area, Kwale County, were identified as tourists from Hungary and German. This follows a tragedy that struck on Tuesday morning when a light aircraft operated by Mombasa Air Safari Limited crashed in the coastal county of Kwale, killing all 11 people on board. According to a statement from the airline, the aircraft, registration number 5Y-CCA, was on a scheduled flight from Diani Airport to Kichwa Tembo in the Maasai Mara when the accident occurred. Preliminary reports indicate that the plane was carrying 10 passengers, including eight Hungarian nationals and two Germans,…

The Shanzu Magistrate’s Court okayed an application by the prosecutors to detain six Iranian nationals arrested at the Kilindini Port in connection with the trafficking of narcotic drugs valued at over Sh8 billion for 30 days. Chief Magistrate Antony Muchigi allowed the prosecution’s request and ordered that the suspects remain in custody at the Port Police Station pending further directions. The court also authorized investigators to forward the seized substances to the Government Chemist for analysis to confirm their composition and to submit the suspects’ mobile phones for forensic examination at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters. In his…

Detectives in Kikuyu, Kiambu County are holding a 34-year-old suspect following the gruesome murder of Jane Atila Quedeya, a University of Nairobi, Kikuyu Campus student. The decomposed body of Atila, whose missing report was registered at Kikuyu Police Station on October 13, 2026 was found dumped in a thicket at Kefri Muguga Forest on October 17, 2025, police said. Forensic fingerprint identification analysis conducted in liaison with the National Registration Bureau positively identified the body. This led to the arrest of the prime suspect, identified as Nicholas Mutua Mutia. Preliminary investigations point that moments before her disappearance, Atila was in…

At least 12 people were Tuesday morning killed after a light aircraft crashed in Tsimba Golini area, Kwale County. Witnesses and police said all on board died out of the crash. The victims are thought to be tourists, police said. The caravan plane operated by Mombasa Air Services had taken off from Diani airport and was headed for Kichwa Tembo when it crashed. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Police and other emergency service providers were at the scene soon after the crash. The airline operates between Mombasa and other tourist destinations in the country. Experts are…