Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

The White House is set to a host an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event next year as part of 4 July celebrations in the US to mark the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding. The octagon cage fight event was announced by UFC boss Dana White, whose friendship with the president dates back to the early 2000s when Trump hosted some of the first ever UFC events at his business properties. “It is definitely going to happen,” White told CBS Mornings. White said he planned to meet with the president and his daughter Ivanka at the end of the month…

US federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against Jimmy Cherizier, the Haitian gang leader known as “Barbecue” who leads an alliance of gangs that control much of the capitol of Port-au-Prince. The indictment alleges that Mr Cherizier, as well as US citizen Bazile Richardson, 48, solicited funds from Haitian diaspora community in the US to help pay gang members and buy firearms in violation of US sanctions. Mr Cherizier, a former police officer who is at large in Haiti, leads the group Viv Ansanm (Live Together). The US is offering $5m (£3.7m) for information leading to his arrest. The group has…

The wife of South Korea’s jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery. Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul on Tuesday. But the court issued a detention warrant, citing the risk that she may destroy evidence. South Korea has a history of former presidents being indicted and imprisoned. However, this is the first time both the former president and former first lady have been jailed. Yoon was detained in January to face trial over a failed martial law bid last…

A South Korean former tech executive accused of helping to spark a cryptocurrency crisis that cost investors more than $40bn (£31.8bn) pleaded guilty to two criminal counts of fraud. Do Kwon was the boss of Singapore-based Terraform Labs, which operated two cryptocurrencies – TerraUSD and Luna – both of which collapsed in 2022, triggering a wider sell-off in the crypto market. The US says he was responsible for the failure of the two digital currencies, accusing him of “orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud”. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors have agreed to refrain from seeking a…

Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Perplexity has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover offer for Google’s Chrome internet browser. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety would benefit the public, Perplexity said in a letter to Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google’s owner Alphabet. Google’s dominance of the search engine and online advertising market has come under intense scrutiny, with the technology giant facing a years-long antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. The BBC has contacted Google for comment. The firm has not announced any plans to sell Chrome – the world’s most popular web…

A Mombasa Court Tuesday closed the inquest into the death of British national Harry Roy Veevers, ending an 11-year legal process that failed to determine the cause of death. Delivering his ruling, Senior Resident Magistrate David O. Odhiambo said the court could not establish how Veevers died due to conflicting forensic reports and the advanced decomposition of the body. “Due to the level of decomposition and the conflicting reports by pathologists, the government chemist and other experts, the cause of death remains unknown, and as such nobody can be called to answer to any charge,” ruled Odhiambo. Veevers was buried…

City lawyer Cecil Miller has threatened to sue social media user Nelson Amenya over a post he claims is defamatory and injurious to his reputation. In a demand letter issued through his lawyer Peter Wena, Miller accuses Amenya, who uses the handle @umenya_nelson on X (formerly twitter), of publishing a post on August 12, 2025, alleging Miller & company advocates firm had “siphoned more than sh 30 million” from the Kenya Union of Savings and Credit Co-operatives (KUSCCO) and was set to charge Sh20 million for advising on a PWC report. The post described the fees as “a financial comedy.”…

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen downplayed the alleged standoff between the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) and the National Police Service (NPS) over the multi billion payroll and HR functions in the draft regulations. He added he had summoned a meeting between the parties involved for talks on the way forward. During a press conference at the start of the 28th Jukwaa la Usalama security engagement in Nakuru County, the CS dismissed fears of a rift, saying he will be the one to present the regulations to Parliament for consideration and was optimistic that the two entities…

Rongo Magistrate Court allowed the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP)’s application seeking to have the body of a General Service Unit officer, who was mysteriously buried on March 28, 2025 within the compound of St. Joseph’s Missions of Messiah in Africa church, in Rongo Sub-County, Migori County, exhumed for necessary investigations. It is alleged that the officer, Police Constable Adan Ayoo, died under unclear circumstances on March 27, 2025 and was buried without the knowledge or consent of his parents or employer. The directors of St. Joseph’s Missions of Messiah in Africa church, Michael Kus Onyango, Luka…

The High Court in Kakamega barred the police from arresting, charging, or harassing former Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala over the alleged illegal landing of a helicopter at Mumias Complex Stadium on August 2. Lady Justice Alice Chepngetich Bett on Tuesday certified Malala’s application as urgent and directed it to be heard interparties on August 20, 2025. She directed that the petition and supporting application be served on the Inspector General of Police, the Director of Criminal Investigations, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Attorney General, and the Western Region Police Commander by close of business on August 13. The respondents…

A man who robbed and assaulted a female comedian during the Kutit Cultural Festival at Nairobi’s Carnivore Gardens held on August 9, 2025 was Tuesday charged in court. Bernard Kipkosgei Koyumi, alias Pavillion Motiryot, was charged at the Kibera Law Court with charges of robbery with violence and assault causing actual bodily harm. He was arrested and detained ahead of his arraignment on Tuesday. The court heard that the accused person robbed Carren Chepchumba, alias Bella Comedy, of Sh30,000 in cash and a Redmi 14 Pro mobile phone valued at Sh26,000 during the Kutit Festival at Carnivore Gardens on August…

A tribunal of the government institutions has surcharged a former Permanent Secretary in the former President Mwai Kibaki’s administration Sh150,000 bonus he awarded himself illegally while in office. A ruling by the State Corporations Appeal Tribunal last month found that former Permanent Secretary Eng. Carey Orege, who once served on the Board of the Coast Development Authority (CDA), was awarded Sh150,000 bonus by the board in November 2012. In 2020, a report by the National Assembly’s Public Investment Committee (PIC) flagged this and similar payments as irregular, citing the CDA’s underperformance at the time. The Inspector-General of the State Corporations…

Golden, the breakout song from animated film KPop Demon Hunters, has clinched the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 – bagging yet another record for the Netflix summer flick. The film, about K-pop girl band Huntr/x who uses music to protect humans from demons, has become Netflix’s most-watched animated film since its release in June. It is the ninth song associated with K-pop to take the top spot on the Hot 100 – and the first by female singers. The upbeat hit clocked nearly 32 million official streams in the first week of August, according to Billboard. “Unlike…

Taylor Swift has announced her twelfth studio album The Life of a Showgirl, after an intense 24 hours of speculation from fans. Rumours began on Monday morning, when the singer’s marketing team posted a carousel of 12 photos with the caption “Thinking about when she said ‘See you next era…” In the hours that followed, her boyfriend Travis Kelce confirmed that she would be a guest on his podcast New Heights and Swift’s official website began a countdown to 00:12 ET (05:12 BST). The pop star’s eleventh album The Tortured Poets Department, released last year, broke the Spotify record for…

Detectives are investigating an incident where a minor aged three died after she swallowed a poison in Muili, Tigania, Meru County. The girl was under the care of her elder sister when she stumbled on a bottle containing an ant’s pesticide and swallowed it. Police said the pesticide called Sulban prompted her to start vomiting. This forced the family members to rush her to hospital where she died while being attended to. Police said they are investigating the incident. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures. In Mayoni, Kakamega County, the body of a boy…