Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The Government is considering proposals to include student leaders, deans of students, and campus chief security officers in county and sub-county security and intelligence committees. This is to ensure that the concerns of students are heard and addressed at the earliest opportunity. The move, according to the Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration, Dr. Raymond Omollo, is part of the government’s broader plan to strengthen student participation in security structures and ensure that learning institutions remain safe spaces for all. “We must embrace our student leaders in these structures so that we are able to pick up information…

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting. Lissu, who came second in the last presidential poll in 2020, was arrested in April and charged with treason over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on the public to rebel and disrupt the elections later this month. Lissu had vowed to boycott the vote unless significant reforms were made to an electoral process which he said favours the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President Samia Suluhu Hassan,…

France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned, less than a day after his cabinet was unveiled. “The conditions were not fulfilled for me to carry on as prime minister,” Lecornu said on Monday morning, and criticised the unwillingness by political parties to reach compromises. The Elysée palace announced after Lecornu met President Emmanuel Macron for an hour on Monday morning. The shock move comes only 26 days after Lecornu was appointed prime minister following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou. Parties across the board in the National Assembly had fiercely criticised the composition of Lecornu’s cabinet, which…

US pharmacy chain Rite Aid announced that it would close all remaining stores. The company’s website was replaced on Saturday with a message announcing the closure: “All Rite Aid stores have now closed. We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support.” The site included a link to allow customers to request their pharmacy records. Founded in 1962, the company was once one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country. At its peak, Rite Aid counted 5,000 stores. But in recent years, the chain faced financial struggles and a Justice Department investigation. By Friday, data showed fewer…

Police are investigating an incident where a driver was attacked and stabbed at least 11 times in a robbery incident near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. The driver had dropped his boss at the airport to fly out of the country on October 4, 2025 and was driving out of the airport when he was confronted by suspected thieves. It is not clear how they managed to stop him and get hold of him. He was found abandoned on the roadside with stab wounds in the chest and upper arm. Police said he had been stabbed at least 11…

A police reservist was stoned and seriously injured as he tried to stop a fight between two clans over a married woman in Eymoly area, Mandera County. The groups were fighting after one of them accused a man from a different clan of seducing a married woman on Sunday October 5, 2025 in the afternoon. This got physical with the parties throwing stones and twigs at each other. It was then that a member of the National Police Reserve tried to intervene and was hit in the head by a flying stone. More security personnel were sent to the area…

Three people were killed in an attack at Angata Barikoi area at the border of Ntimaru and Transmara sub-counties in Migori County. The men were shot and killed, and also slashed by their attackers, police and witnesses said. A group of raiders had invaded the Gairoro area with an unknown motive when an alarm was raised. When John Marwa Babere, 25, Sibora Mirumbe, 24, and Joseph Mwisari, 23, responded, they were met with fire. They were all shot and slashed to death by the assailants. Police said the assailants escaped the scene soon after the fatal shooting. This raised tension…

A group of farmers is counting losses after a herd of elephants invaded their farm and destroyed food crops worth thousands of shillings in Merti, Isiolo County. Police and Kenya Wildlife Service personnel visited the scene in the Shauriyako area and announced it was one of the rising cases of human-wildlife conflict. The animals destroyed kales on half an acre, spinach on an acre, tomatoes on two acres, and watermelon on half an acre. The land belonged to two local self-help groups. The animals also damaged a main water pipe before leaving the scene. Cases of human-wildlife conflict have been…

Two suspected poachers were arrested while in possession of seven pieces of elephant tusks in Maralal, Samburu County. The two were trailed to a lodging where they were hiding and waiting to meet a potential buyer. They had the tusks stuck in a bag weighing 11 kilos and valued at Sh1.1 million. Police and the Kenya Wildlife Service said they recovered a motorcycle the men had used in ferrying the ivory to the scene on Sunday, October 5, 2025. Police said the suspects will be charged with the offence of being in Possession of Wildlife Trophies of Endangered Species Contrary…

A woman was slashed to death as she tried to separate her husband and son who were fighting in a village in Ntimaru, Migori County. Police said Christine Mokami, 40 died on the spot after being hacked in the head by her husband. The husband is said to have returned home late on Saturday October 4, 2025 and picked up a quarrel with his son. This went physical and when the mother of the son tried to intervene, she was hit in the head multiple times. The son escaped with a cut on the left hand and was treated and…

A game between a father and his daughter turned tragic when she fell and died in Muungano area, Utawala, Machakos County. The man was arrested for murder after the two and nine-month-old girl died, police said. The incident happened on Saturday October 4, 2025 at the man’s home. He told police he was tossing the girl up and down when she accidentally slipped off and landed on the ground. The girl was rushed to a private hospital in the area where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Police were called to the scene and found the distraught father standing next…

President Donald Trump has sent federalised troops from California to Oregon after a court denied his attempt to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The deployment circumvents a judge’s order that blocked deploying troops in Portland by instead using National Guard members who were already serving in Los Angeles after summer protests there. California Gov Gavin Newsom vowed to file a lawsuit over the manoeuvre, which he called a “breathtaking abuse of the law and power”. Portland is the latest US city – many of which are Democrat-led – targeted as part of the president’s crime crackdown. He has argued…

Democratic and Republican leaders remain far apart on how to end the partial shutdown of the US government as another day of voting approaches on Monday. In separate Sunday interviews with NBC’s Meet the Press, the House’s top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries and its Republican leader Mike Johnson each blamed the other’s party for the continued standoff, which will head to day five on Monday. The key dividing issue has been healthcare. Democrats want to ensure health insurance subsidies for those with low-income do not expire and aim to reverse cuts to the Medicaid health programme. A bill to fund the…

President William Ruto has announced that Meru town will be elevated to city status, as the government allocates Sh7 billion to redesign the Nithi Bridge, which has long been considered a safety hazard. Ruto said Meru’s elevation to city status, which would make it Kenya’s sixth city, means the county must meet key infrastructure benchmarks, including modern roads, markets, and a state lodge. The government, in collaboration with the World Bank, has allocated Sh5 billion for a 10-kilometre road and bypass to support the transition, he added. Speaking on Sunday at St. Mary’s AIPCA Church, Kathelwa, in Meru County, Ruto…

The government plans to employ 24,000 new teachers by January 2026 as part of ongoing efforts to address teacher shortages in public schools, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos said on Sunday. Migos said the new recruitment will push the number of teachers hired over the past three years to 100,000, marking a major milestone in the government’s education reforms. He spoke during World Teachers’ Day celebrations at the Moi International Sports Centre. “More than 76,000 teachers have already been employed, and 24,000 more will be employed by January 2026,” he said. “An additional 16,000 will follow later in the year,…