Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Pumwani Maternity and Referral Hospital, East Africa’s largest maternity facility, is setting new standards in maternal and neonatal care, thanks to a combination of modern equipment, improved oversight, and innovative programs like Kenya’s only Human Milk Bank. According to CEO Christine Kiteshuo, the County has positively impacted service delivery through deployment of Medical officers nurses and consultants which has increased ratio of practitioner to patient for round the clock supervision. This enhanced oversight ensures that mothers and newborns receive timely, high-quality care, especially during emergencies. “The acquisition of modern equipment for both the theatre and labour ward, coupled with the…

Ryan Routh has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in September last year. A jury found Routh, 59, guilty of all charges, including the attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate and a range of firearm offences. The incident happened on 15 September 2024 as Trump, then a presidential candidate, was playing golf on a course he owns in West Palm Beach, about 15 minutes from his Mar-a-Lago residence. A US Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking out of the bushes and fired on the man holding it -…

Jimmy Kimmel has criticised “anti-American” threats to free speech during an emotional return to late-night US television – following a brief suspension after his comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Through tears, the comedian said during Tuesday’s comeback show that “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man”. Kimmel accused the head of the organisation that regulates American TV of “mob tactics”, and poked fun at President Donald Trump’s appearance at the UN – including an escalator mishap. But Tuesday’s episode was not available to viewers in all markets, due…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday his country is in talks with a U.S. trade representative to reduce tariffs levied by U.S. President Donald Trump after telling world leaders that “trade is now being used as a weapon.” The U.S. is South Africa’s partner. Trump in August imposed a on imports from South Africa after Ramaphosa’s government made several unsuccessful attempts to secure a trade agreement. “We want tariffs that President Trump is seeking to levy on us and has already started, to be reduced,” Ramaphosa told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Ramaphosa likened trade…

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), through its Western Regional Office on Tuesday arrested the Busia Land Registrar Collins Aiela Liyayi, who demanded and received a bribe of Sh10,000 from a complainant. This was to release a title deed he had processed but withheld pending payment of the bribe as “release fees.” The money he received had been treated, officials said. He was arrested in an operation mounted by the EACC officials following investigations into multiple complaints from Busia residents that the Land Registrar has made it a routine to withhold titles processed for members of the public seeking services…

The body of a child who had been missing was found on a farm with napier grass after his murder in Sokomoko area, Saboti, Trans Nzoia County. The child had been missing for three days before his body was discovered on September 23, 2025 by locals. Police said the body had multiple physical injuries including the chopping of the male genital organ, and the head had been hit with a blunt object. The body also had bruises when it was discovered before being moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy. The motive of the murder is yet to be established,…

There was drama at the Kangari police station, Murang’a County, when a taxi driver drove there with a female body that had been wrapped in a paper bag and disguised as a parcel. The woman had been killed at an unknown place and her body tightly wrapped in blankets and a paper bag, police said. The driver told police he was on Tuesday September 23, 2025, ferrying passengers from Makomboki center to Kangari township when he was stopped by an unknown man. The person was dressed in black jeans and a black hoodie. He, according to the taxi driver, asked…

A total of 205 weapons have been surrendered to authorities in a week of a drive to recover illegal guns in Elgeyo Marakwet. Also recovered, according to police, are 1,413 bullets and a Federal Riot Gun (FRG) weapon. The latest drive on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 saw 15 guns surrendered. Most of them were AK47 rifles. Police said the surrendered weapons were all illegal. The local officials said there are more guns in the wrong hands in the area and want locals to surrender them under a special program. To the government, this is a show of trust from locals…

Two handlers were arrested after 11 horses and two camels were detained over claims of abuse at the Mama Ngina Waterfront in Mombasa. The Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA) and the police staged an operation in the area on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, and rescued the animals. The officials said they had been petitioned over claims of animal abuse, hence the operation. Other handlers present escaped as the officials arrived for the operation. Police said they are, with the KSPCA investigating the claims of abuse to arraign the two and others at large. The animals…

Police are looking for a gang that shot and injured a rider in an attack in Migori Town. The motive of the shooting was not immediately established, police said of the Tuesday September 23, 2025 night incident. The rider said he was headed home at about 11 pm when he was trailed by the gunmen on a motorcycle. As he approached his gate, he heard gunshots and later felt pain on his back before he fell on the roadside, he told police. It was then he realized he had been shot and wounded as the assailants escaped the scene. He…

Detectives are investigating an incident where an electrician died after an airbag that he was fixing on a lorry exploded on him at a garage in Embakasi area, Nairobi. The incident happened on September 23, 2025 and affected one Mathew Muli Wambua, 37. He was fixing an airbag system on a lorry when the rear cross member diff airbag pushed him to the chassis of the trail cross front member killing him, witnesses and his colleagues said. Police were called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary for autopsy and other procedures. Meanwhile, police in Chepkube, Bungoma…

A boy aged 11 died after a rock collapsed on him in a cave he was sheltering in Kapsokwony, Mt Elgon, Bungoma County. The boy was a grade six pupil at Kimkung Primary School in the area. He had taken food to his father who was working at a quarry in the area on September 22, 2025 when it started to rain. The boy decided to take shelter under a cave when it suddenly collapsed and trapped him fatally, police and witnesses said. The incident happened as his father also took shelter a few meters away in another cave. He…

Australia’s national broadcaster was ordered to pay A$150,000 in penalties for unfairly sacking a presenter over a social media post about the war in Gaza. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) removed fill-in radio host Antoinette Lattouf from the air in December 2023 due to her political views and after lobbying from pro-Israel groups, the Federal Court found earlier this year. Lattouf has already been awarded $70,000 in damages, but on Wednesday Justice Darryl Rangiah said the “substantial” extra sum was needed to ensure the ABC learned its lesson. The broadcaster has publicly apologised to Lattouf, saying that it also “let…

Kylian Mbappe scored twice as La Liga leaders Real Madrid continued their impressive start to the season with a comfortable victory at Levante. With his side 2-1 ahead, the Frenchman’s double in the space of two minutes sealed a sixth win from their opening six games and move five points clear of Barcelona. Mbappe got his first from the penalty spot in the 64th minute, chipping a ‘Panenka’ over Levante goalkeeper Mathew Ryan. He then took his tally to seven league goals this term with a deft finish after being slipped in by Arda Guler. Earlier, Vinicius Jr had put…

Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, his ideology in its rawest form. To his supporters, it will be seen as Trumpism unplugged; to his critics, Trumpism unhinged. Over almost an hour, he took aim at his opponents and their ideas, picking them off one by one as he toured the world. He began at home, praising the United States and himself. He said the US was living through a golden age and repeated his much-disputed claim that he had personally ended seven wars, something he argued…