Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

An assortment of weapons were recovered from gang members in Port-au-Prince, Haiti who were mowed down by bullets on Monday when specialized units of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) and the Haitian National Police (PNH) launched a coordinated night operation that successfully recaptured the Télcos Station from the grip of gangs. Officials said the gangs are led by “Izo2” and the station was among those that have been under the control of the gangs amid resistance on the MSS team’s operations in the area. Images from the scene showed a number of bodies sprawled following the clash that took…

A 24-year-old man was Sunday arrested after he hit and killed his mother in an argument over money in Mtaro village, Samburu County. Police were informed the man had asked money from his deceased mother Alice Munesi Leparuiya, 50 when an argument broke out. Witnesses said this was after the woman told the son she did not have the money he wanted. Witnesses narrated that the suspect, the fifth child of the deceased, arrived home appearing drunk and demanded money from the deceased to which she responded that she did not have. The son became violent and started assaulting his…

A police officer on a courier escort mission was killed in an accident in Makuyu area, Muranga County. The accident happened on Saturday August 23 at night in the Kairigoine area along the Kenol-Muranga Road. Corporal Erick Ogutu of the Rapid Deployment Unit headquarters in Nairobi and who was on escort duties for the Wells Fargo Courier had stepped out of his vehicle as the crew attended to a courier being delivered on the roadside. It was then that a speeding lorry hit him. The lorry veered off the main road as it raced towards Muranga Town after the driver…

A 39-year-old man was stabbed and killed by his step son in a domestic dispute in a village in Nyatike, Migori County. Bernard Odinga was stabbed in the chest and died as he was being taken to the hospital following the Saturday August 23 incident in Obolo A village. The man had married the mother to the assailant as his second wife and the father and step son had been quarreling for some time, locals said. On Saturday, the two quarreled before the step son aged 25 stabbed the man and left his body on the roadside near their house.…

A 65-year-old man was found strangled and his body abandoned on the roadside in Kirima area, Gachoka, Embu County. The motive of the murder of Samuel Njiru whose body was found on the Nganduri-Kiritiri road is yet to be established, police said of the Sunday August 24 incident. The man was strangled as there were marks on his neck, police said. His body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and investigations. Elsewhere in Ekwanda, Luanda, Vihiga County, one Bernard Chiyoi was found dead in his bed after a suspected murder. The man had deep cuts in the head…

Detectives are investigating the murder of a tout whose body was found on the roadside in Kolwa, Migosi, Kisumu County. The man is believed to have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped at the scene, police said. The man’s pockets had coins amounting to Sh200 when the body was discovered on Saturday night. The body had multiple deep cuts on the right hand and slit throat. There was no struggle at the scene where the body was found, police said as they moved the body to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy. The motive of the murder is yet…

A woman is fighting for her life in hospital after she ingested a poison in a suicide mission in Mitaboni, Kathiani, Machakos County. This was after she had fed the same poison to her three-year-old daughter who died. The two were on Sunday rushed to a chemist in the area where the girl died while being attended to. The mother, a 31-year-old woman was found wreathing in pain and wanted assistance in Ngelani village. She told her relatives they had consumed a poisonous chemical prompting them to rush both of them to the chemist where the minor died. Witnesses said…

France said it will summon the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, over what it says are unacceptable allegations of failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism. Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron in the Wall Street Journal. Echoing Israel’s criticism of France days earlier, Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began. “France firmly refutes these latest allegations” which are “unacceptable”, said a foreign ministry statement,…

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy troops to Baltimore, escalating a clash with Maryland Governor Wes Moore after the Democrat invited him to join a “safety walk” in the city. “If Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” Trump wrote on social media. The remarks mark the latest flashpoint in the president’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities as part of what he calls a crackdown on crime. The use of military personnel for…

Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Real Madrid continued their perfect start to the season in La Liga with victory at Oviedo. Mbappe – who scored the only goal against Osasuna – made it three from two games as he first struck eight minutes before half time with a finish from the edge of the box, before side footing home a second late on. Trent Alexander-Arnold, meanwhile, was among the substitutes for this game after starting in the previous fixture, with boss Xabi Alonso instead picking Dani Carvajal at right back. The England international came on for the final three minutes…

The High Court in Eldoret handed transgender Kenyans a historic victory, directing the state to enact a Transgender Protection Rights Act, after ruling that prisons do not provide protections for their dignity and privacy. In the alternative, Justice Reuben Nyakundi ordered the amendment of the Intersex Persons Bill, 2024, to plug the glaring gaps in the law. The court’s decision came on August 12, 2025, following a petition from SC, a transgender Kenyan who fought for recognition after invasive and nonconsensual medical procedures were carried out during her incarceration. SC was born male but identified and lived as a female…

Former Laikipia North MP Mathew Lempurkel Lekidime died in hospital after being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Kenyatta National Hospital. He had been hospitalised following a road accident at the Exciting area in Ongata Rongai while heading home earlier last week, his family said. He died Sunday morning. Lempurkel, who once represented Laikipia North in the National Assembly, had been battling for his life since the crash, which left him with critical injuries, six days ago. In 2021, Lempurkel was sentenced to one year in prison for assault in a case that drew widespread public attention.…

A 35-year-old man died after falling from a palm tree in Konjora village, Kilifi County. The incident happened on Saturday August 23 at about noon as Farisa Fahan Fondo climbed a palm tree to tap palm wine. He slid and fell to the ground dying instantly, police said. His body was found lying under the tree long after the accident. Police said they found a jerrican and a knife he was using in the mission next to the body. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and investigations. Elsewhere in Pipeline area, Nairobi, a man was fatally hit…

Police are investigating the murder of a 78-year-old woman whose body was found on bed in Mayanja Vitunguu area, Bungoma County. The body Mary Nekesa Muricho was found on her bed after suspected murder. Police who visited the scene said the body had visible bruises on both legs, hands and cut above the eye. There were also bloodstained clothes in the house when police arrived at the scene on Saturday August 23. A house help who lived with the woman was arrested as a prime suspect in the murder. Police believe the woman was murdered outside her house and the…

A 21-year-old man was stabbed and killed in a robbery incident in Githurai Kimbo area, Kiambu County. Police said Harrison Njoroge was attacked as he walked to a shop in the area to buy a soda for a customer at a bar he worked at. The bar had run out of the soft drinks when the deceased who worked there dashed to a nearby shop for the same in the Saturday dawn incident. While on the way, he was confronted by five people who seriously stabbed him in the head. He was robbed of an unknown amount of money and…