Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

America’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, the US space agency Nasa said. For Pettit – who has now spent a total of 590 days in space – it was his fourth mission. Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit – that…

The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it has suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila, days after his properties were raided by security services. “This decision follows the overt activism” of Kabila, who was president for 18 years up to 2019 and who remains head of his People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the interior ministry said in a statement dated Saturday. PPRD activities “are suspended across all the national territory,” the statement said. There was no immediate reaction from the party. Current leader President Felix Tshisekedi has accused Kabila of preparing “an insurrection” and backing…

Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Sunday for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire announced by President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of carrying out hundreds of attacks. Putin, who ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ordered Russian forces to “stop all military activity” along the front line in the three-year-old war until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was pretending to observe the Easter ceasefire, but had in fact continued hundreds of artillery attacks on Saturday night, with more assaults on Sunday. Zelenskiy wrote on…

A 14-year-old girl was at the Easter weekend mauled to death by a lioness in a horrifying human-wildlife conflict incident near Nairobi National Park. She is among two people killed at the weekend in human-wildlife conflict incidents. The girl was killed at a ranch in Machakos County near the Nairobi National Park, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) confirmed. According to KWS, the tragic encounter occurred on a ranch bordering the southern edge of the park. The girl was reportedly attacked by the lioness while within the vicinity of the ranch. In a separate incident, a 54-year-old man lost his life after…

Two people were electrocuted during a disco session in a village in Oyugis, Homabay County. Officials said the incident happened during an Easter Friday disco night, which turned into a tragedy. Police said one person sustained injuries and is admitted in hospital. According to the police the two died on the spot during a disco event at a nightclub within Ragama estate in Oyugis Town, Homa Bay County. Authorities have been trying to regulate the discos in vain. The young men, including a minor died on the spot in a 2 am incident when they were dancing in an open…

A three-year-old boy was found dead in Wich-Lum area, Siaya County on Saturday evening after a suspected murder by his father. The toddler is suspected to have been murdered by his father following a domestic squabble. The body of the child was found in the thickets at Pap-Kado area after his 42-year-old father allegedly disappeared with him after a domestic wrangle with his wife on Friday night. Police said preliminary findings show the father, who is a fisherman at Wich-Lum beach had a difference with his wife and a fight ensued before he disappeared with the child. The body of…

Former head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Murang’a Daniel Kandie was named the new Coast Regional Criminal Investigations Officer (RCIO) in changes announced. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, announced the changes, including the designation of a new RCIO for Nyanza. Kandie will replace Adan Guyo who was promoted and moved to DCI headquarters and named the director of, inspection unit. The changes were announced on April 16. The new Nyanza RCIO will be George Mutonya who had been in West Pokot as the County Criminal Investigations Officer, officials said. Mutonya replaced George Kisaka who was promoted…

Thousands took to the streets across the US on Saturday to protest recent actions by President Donald Trump. Known as “50501”, for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement”, the demonstrations were intended to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War. From outside the White House and Tesla dealerships and at the centres of many cities, protesters expressed a variety of grievances. Many called for the return of Kilmar Ábrego García, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Political protests are becoming more common in the US – the “Hands Off” demonstrations in early April…

The Miami Heat became the first 10th-seeded team to reach the NBA play-offs through the play-in tournament as they scored an overtime success against the Atlanta Hawks. The Heat began the four-team Eastern Conference qualification tournament needing to win consecutive road games to advance. After beating the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday, they followed up with a 123-114 overtime success over the Hawks to set up a first-round meeting with conference top seeds the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the Western Conference, the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Dallas Mavericks 120-106 and will face the Oklahoma City Thunder in round one, with play-off games…

U.S. strikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa fuel terminal on the Red Sea coast have killed at least 74 people in the deadliest attack since the U.S. started its bombing campaign against the Houthis last year, according to the Houthi-run health ministry. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the intensification of strikes last month in the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since he took office in January. Washington has vowed to keep attacking the Iran-aligned Houthis until the group halts attacks on Red Sea shipping. Health ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi said 171 people were injured in Thursday’s strikes, according to preliminary figures, with…

At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday. Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke out, according to Josephine-Pacifique Lokumu, head of a delegation of national deputies from the region. The disaster occurred near Mbandaka, capital of Equateur Province, at the confluence of the Ruki and the vast Congo river — the world’s deepest. “A first group of 131 bodies were found on Wednesday, with…

Police n Kisumu East are hunting down a man who viciously attacked his 24-year-old ex-girlfriend, inflicting on her life-threatening injuries for leaving him for another man. The suspect, Sebi Obonyo, is reported to have accosted the lady at her current boyfriend’s house within Nyakbong’ village of Kamjulu at around 4.45pm Friday, stabbing her twice on the left ear and chest with a sharp object. Thanks to the quick response of neighbours who heard her scream and rushed to the scene, forcing the assailant to flee before confirming the worst. However, a profuse bleeding was fast sucking her life away, and…

The US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members under a 18th-century wartime law. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sued the Trump administration over planned deportations of Venezuelans held in a detention centre in north Texas. On Saturday, the Supreme Court ordered the government to “not remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court”. Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissented. US President Donald Trump had invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and accused Venezuelan gang Tren de…

For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken into custody in a string of high-profile student detentions captured on video have not faced any criminal charges and instead appear to have been targeted for involvement in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. The Trump administration has said repeatedly that visas are a “privilege” and can be revoked at any time for a wide variety of reasons.…

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney faced sustained attacks from his Conservative rival at an election debate Thursday, but the Liberal leader sought to focus attention on what he calls Canada’s top threat, President Donald Trump. Most opinion polls show Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trailing Carney’s Liberals ahead of the April 28 vote. But the race remains tight and Poilievre worked hard at the debate to stem Liberal momentum that has picked up since Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as prime minister on March 14. Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have caused broad outrage across Canada and the Tory leader…