Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A police officer accidentally shot and injured himself in an incident in Garissa Town. The victim was among a team of police that had responded to a scene where suspects were attacking and robbing locals when the incident happened on June 21. He accidentally discharged a bullet from his AK-47 rifle, which entered his right leg’s calf and exited on the toe. He was rushed to the hospital and admitted in stable condition pending a surgery as the suspects who were robbing locals near the Premier area escaped. Elsewhere in Habaswein, Wajir County, a man surrendered a Carbine rifle with…

Police are investigating murder in an incident where the body of a man was found on Friday night on the roadside along Jogoo Road, Nairobi. The man seemed to have been hit by a stone at the scene and left to die. Police said they were called to the scene opposite Citam church, where they found the body lying with blood oozing from the nose, ears and mouth. Bloodstained stones were found next to the body and the motive of the murder is yet to be known, police said. It is not clear if he was a victim of mob…

A passenger died airborne while flying from Amsterdam to Nairobi. Officials said Bibi Alima, 20 died aboard a Kenya Airways flight an hour before it could land at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on June 20. The woman was accompanied by her husband when the incident happened. A Kenya Airways pilot called for help from the Port Health officials at the airport on landing who confirmed the woman had died. The cause of the death was not immediately established. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures. Meanwhile, a German national collapsed and died while playing…

US President Donald Trump said American warplanes bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and Israel. “Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight was the most difficult of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal,” the president said in a brief televised address to the American people. “But if peace doesn’t come quickly we will go to those other targets with precision, speed and skill.” One of the targets was Fordo, a uranium enrichment plant hidden in a remote mountainside that is vital to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. We do…

Hundreds of journalists for Voice of America (VOA) – most of its remaining staff – have been fired by President Donald Trump’s administration, effectively shutting down the US-funded news outlet. The administration said the layoffs were because the agency was “riddled with dysfunction, bias and waste”. Steve Herman, VOA’s chief national correspondent, called the dismantling of the outlet, which was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda, a “historic act of self-sabotage”. Among those axed were Persian-language reporters who had been on administrative leave, but were called back to work last week after Israel attacked Iran. According…

The United States struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel ’s war aimed at destroying the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe despite fears of a wider regional conflict. Addressing the nation from the White House, President Donald Trump asserted that Iran’s key nuclear were “completely and fully obliterated.” There was no independent damage assessment. It was not clear whether the U.S. would continue attacking Iran alongside its ally Israel, which has been engaged in a nine-day war with Iran. Trump acted without congressional authorization, and he warned that there…

An accountant at the Nyatike sub county office lost Sh950,000 after suspected thieves broke into his car outside his office in Nyatike, Migori County. The official said he had driven to the KCB Migori branch and withdrew the cash before driving back to the Nyatike Treasury office and parked it there with the money on June 19. He came back and found the car’s window broken and the cash missing. The thieves behind the incident seem to have trailed him from the bank to the parking yard where the robbery took place. Police were called to the scene and announced…

The High Court declared Section 29(c) of the Law of Succession Act unconstitutional, citing gender-based discrimination against widowers. High Court judge Justice Lawrence Mugambi ruled that the provision—which requires a husband to prove he was dependent on his deceased wife in order to qualify as a beneficiary of her estate—violates the Constitution’s guarantees of equality and non-discrimination. The ruling sets a critical precedent in aligning Kenya’s succession laws with constitutional standards on gender equality and may trigger broader reforms in inheritance law. This is after a case was filed by a man identified as the husband of the late Caroline…

The Los Angeles Dodgers say they blocked federal agents from entering their stadium on Thursday, as immigration enforcement continues in the city. In a post on social media, the baseball team said “ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots”, and were subsequently turned away. Los Angeles is among the cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have ramped up raids to find undocumented migrants, which has caused protests in the region and across the US. ICE denied that its agents were at the stadium. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees…

A man who allegedly threatened a US congressman with his vehicle in Ohio has turned himself in to the authorities, police have said. The driver was identified by the Rocky River Police Department on Friday as 36-year-old Feras Hamdan. He has pleaded not guilty to charges in relation the incident. In a video shared on social media, Max Miller, a Republican house representative, said a man honked his horn and forced him “off the road” in an attempt to get his attention. He alleged the man tried to show him a Palestinian flag, said “death to Israel” and that “he…

The founder of instant messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says the more than 100 children he has fathered will share his estimated $13.9bn (£10.3bn) fortune. “They are all my children and will all have the same rights! I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death,” Mr Durov told French political magazine Le Point. Mr Durov said he was the “official father” of six children by three different partners, but the clinic “where I started donating sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend, told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived this way in…

A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society officials said on Friday. The sources said that dozens more escaped from the artisanal mine when it collapsed on Thursday. The reasons for the collapse were not immediately clear. Small, artisanal mines around the town of Rubaya produce around one-sixth of the world’s supply of coltan, a metallic ore crucial to the production of smartphones and other electronic devices. The M23 rebels have controlled the area since mid-2024 and charge a tax of…

M-PESA, Safaricom’s flagship mobile money platform, has witnessed a fourfold increase in usage over the last five years, a growth largely attributed to strategic pricing changes introduced during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Reflecting on his five-year tenure at the helm of Safaricom, CEO Dr Peter Ndegwa highlighted how the zero-rating of select transactions during the pandemic played a pivotal role in transforming user behavior and expanding the platform’s reach. In response to a directive by the Central Bank of Kenya at the height of the pandemic, Safaricom scrapped charges on transactions below Sh1,000 and transfers between bank accounts and…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a woman aged 18 whose body was found in their house in Mwiki area, Nairobi. Police said the deceased identified as Abigael Winner Wanjiku was brutally murdered by unknown people in her mother’s house on Thursday June 19. The body was found lying naked in a pool of blood after the murder. Her skull was broken on the forehead, police said. The body had five stab wounds in the stomach, a cut in the neck, and ear. Police recovered a knife that is believed to have been used in the murder. The motive of…

The High Court dismissed a petition by Athanas Wafula Wamunyinyi challenging the leasing of Nzoia Sugar Company. This clears the way for West Kenya Sugar Company—a subsidiary of the Rai Group—to proceed with its Sh5.76 billion investment in the struggling miller. In a judgment delivered virtually by Justice Lawrence Mugambi, the court upheld preliminary objections filed by the State and other parties, ruling that Wamunyinyi’s petition was res judicata (already adjudicated). This was a relief to the government officials pushing for the leasing of the factories in the country. The court found that the issues raised—particularly the alleged lack of…