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The Environment and Land Court in Nairobi certified as urgent an application filed by Mahadi Energy Limited, a Mombasa-based energy firm, and its director Ibrahim Hussein Mahadi in the ongoing property dispute with Shabeel Project Services Limited. Justice Mohamed Kullow on Monday directed that the application be served on the respondent within seven days. In the case, Mahadi Energy is seeking to lift orders that had barred it from occupying several prime properties in Nairobi and Mombasa, which it claims were sold in illegal and fraudulent auctions. The court directed that the respondents file and serve their replying affidavit within…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a five-year-old girl after her body was found dumped in a pit latrine in Navokholo, Kakamega County. Police said the deceased girl was a PP2 pupil at Nderema Comprehensive School in the area. The child had been playing with other children at the compound where the body was found before she went missing, police and locals said. It is suspected she was killed and dumped in the latrine. The police removed the body and moved the body to the mortuary. Moments later, a mob cornered a man they claimed was behind the murder and…

A police officer attached to the General Service Unit’s elite Recce unit was electrocuted as he washed his bicycle at their camp in Mugutha, Juja, Kiambu County. Constable Benedict Oduori was busy washing his bicycle using an electric machine within their Kimbo camp when he was electrocuted on Saturday October 25, 2025. Police said other colleagues saw him fall as he was busy with the washing chores and rushed to his rescue in vain. He died while being attended to, police said. The body was moved to the mortuary where an autopsy confirmed he had sustained serious burns out of…

A man was attacked and killed by a mob moments after he had slashed his alleged former girlfriend in a love triangle saga in Kitumbutu area, Machakos County. The deceased was identified as Susan Nyaboke, 22. Her body was found lying in a pool of blood with a deep cut on the neck and jaw. Police said the woman was an employee of Inspire Credit in Machakos. She and a colleague had been called by a client to the area for negotiations on a loan when the incident happened on Monday afternoon, police said. After concluding the said talks and…

A 17-year-old girl was found murdered and her body dumped in a thicket in Kivi area, Kangundo, Machakos County. The motive of the murder of the girl is yet to be established, police said. The body was found Sunday evening in the area by locals who called police. Police said the body was naked and had visible head injuries when it was found. The deceased was a student at Imilini Secondary School in the area. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures, police said adding no arrest had been made over the murder. Elsewhere…

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara secured a fourth term following an election in which two of his biggest challengers were barred from running, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second with only 3.09%. The landslide victory is not a huge surprise, as after being banned from the presidential race, former President Laurent Gbagbo and Credit Suisse ex-CEO Tidjane Thiam had urged their supporters to boycott the vote. Voter turnout reached just 50.1%, according to the electoral commission. Gbagbo’s ex-wife Simone Gbagbo, who was…

The man accused of killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk will be allowed to wear civilian clothes during pre-trial hearings to avoid prejudicing potential jurors, a Utah judge has said. Judge Tony Graf said Tyler Robinson will be required to wear restraints during hearings, but photo or video of him in restraints will be barred. Robinson, 22, was arrested on aggravated murder charges on 12 September, more than a day after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. During a Monday court hearing, Judge Graf acknowledged massive interest in the case and urged that Robinson’s “presumption of innocence…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has stood firm behind his decision to run an anti-tariff advertisement in the US that featured Ronald Reagan and angered Donald Trump, saying “we have achieved our goal”. Ford added the TV spot had “one billion views”, and has garnered attention from as far as the UK and India. His comments on Monday come after President Trump suspended trade talks with Canada over the advert and said that he would hike tariffs on Canada 10% “over and above” current levies. Both Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney are in Asia this week for the ASEAN summit,…

OpenAI has released new estimates of the number of ChatGPT users who exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies, including mania, psychosis or suicidal thoughts. The company said that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a given week exhibited such signs, adding that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot recognizes and responds to these sensitive conversations. While OpenAI maintains these cases are “extremely rare,” critics said even a small percentage may amount to hundreds of thousands of people, as ChatGPT recently reached 800 million weekly active users, per boss Sam Altman. As scrutiny mounts, the company said it built a…

Kenya confirmed that it is actively engaging the Russian Federation to secure the safe release and repatriation of Kenyan citizens caught up in the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict. Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi said the government said it had been pursuing the matter for several months through diplomatic channels. According to a statement, officials from Kenya and Russia held a crucial meeting last month to discuss the plight of Kenyans detained in various military camps across the Russian Federation. The discussions centered on facilitating their movement to Kenya’s embassy in Moscow to ease…

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 92, was re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7 percent of the vote, according to official results announced by the Constitutional Council Monday. Rival candidate and former government minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary came second with 35.2 percent, the council said. Chiroma had claimed victory against the incumbent two days after the October 12 election, and called for demonstrations. Four people were killed on Sunday in clashes between security forces and supporters of the opposition in the economic capital Douala, according to the region’s governor. Security forces initially used tear gas before firing “live ammunition,” according to…

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) named Oburu Oginga as its acting party leader following the passing of Raila Amolo Odinga. This marked the beginning of a new chapter for Kenya’s most influential opposition movement. In a statement read by Secretary General Edwin Sifuna after a meeting of the ODM Central Committee, the party paid glowing tribute to Raila Odinga, describing him as “a peacemaker and a bridge-builder par excellence” whose fingerprints were on every major milestone in Kenya’s democratic journey over the past four decades. “No one will be able to fill the massive shoes left by Raila, but together,…

A Navy helicopter and a fighter jet, both conducting routine operations from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, went down in the South China Sea about 30 minutes apart Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Fleet said in a statement. The U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter went down at about 2:45 p.m. local time. All three crew members were safely recovered, the Navy said. “Following the incident, separately, at 3:15 p.m., an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter assigned to the ‘Fighting Redcocks’ of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22 also went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations…

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has led his party to a landslide victory in Sunday’s midterm elections, after defining the first two years of his presidency with radical spending cuts and free-market reforms. His party, La Libertad Avanza, won nearly 41% of the vote, taking 13 of 24 Senate seats and 64 of the 127 lower-house seats that were contested. His gains will make it easier for Milei to push ahead with his programme to slash state spending and deregulate the economy. President Donald Trump congratulated Milei on social media, saying: “He’s making us all look good.” Before the vote, Trump…

Six Iranian nationals accused of trafficking narcotic drugs valued at approximately Sh8 billion were presented in a court on Monday. The six, Jasem Darzadeh Nia, Nadeem Jadgal, Imran Baloch, Hassan Baloch, Rahim Baksh, and Imtiyaz Daryayi, were arraigned before the Shanzu Law Courts. The suspects were arrested on October 24, 2025 at Kilindini Port, following a multi-agency operation that led to the seizure of 769 packages of crystalline substances suspected to be synthetic narcotic drugs, weighing 1,035.986 kilograms. The operation followed intelligence shared by the Kenya Navy on a suspicious “dark vessel” operating in the Indian Ocean without proper identification.…