Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana endured a night to forget as two costly mistakes allowed Lyon to snatch a 2-2 draw in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday. The Cameroon international allowed Thiago Almada’s soft free-kick to skip past him the day after being called “one of the worst goalkeepers” in United’s history in a pre-match spat involving the club’s former midfielder Nemanja Matic, now with Lyon. Teenage defender Leny Yoro equalised just before half-time and Joshua Zirkzee’s header in the 88th minute looked to have won the game for United at Groupama Stadium. But Onana…

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen Thursday called out politicians using innocent students to settle their political scores. He said children have rights which need to be protected and respected. He said children have a right to be informed and question some of the issues they are being taught. “Let us have a thick line between politics and education. Let us spare our innocent school kids in this,” he said. “Let us not allow political competition to come into play in the education arena. I assure parents and the nation that we will not allow interference with education.”…

Andrew Tate pointed a gun in a woman’s face and said “you’re going to do as I say or there’ll be hell to pay”, according to one of four UK women suing the influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist. The allegation is described in court documents, seen by the BBC, which also contain detailed accounts of rape, assault and coercive control. One woman claims Tate threatened to kill her, another says he made clear he would kill anyone who spoke to her, and a third claims Tate convinced her he had killed other people. Tate has denied the claims in a written…

A Kenyan delegation is in Tanzania to defend the country’s progress in addressing strategic deficiencies identified in its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation. The engagement is part of the ongoing follow-up process aimed at securing Kenya’s exit from the FATF grey list. With Tanzania hosting its final on-site review ahead of expected delisting from the grey list, Kenya remains the only East African country under increased monitoring with Uganda having exited last year. FATF sets international standards that aim to prevent these illegal activities and the harm they cause to society. The grey listing of Kenya continues to…

Chaos erupted in Nakuru after police lobbed teargas canisters to disperse a group of students and the public who were celebrating the exit of Butere Girls from the National Drama Festivals. The actors declined to perform the play and instead sang the National Anthem and exited. The play was disqualified during the Western Region Drama Festivals under unclear circumstances. A subsequent High Court ruling overturned that decision, reinstating the play and ordering its inclusion in the national lineup. Following the court order, students who had already left for the April holidays were recalled to resume rehearsals. On Thursday, the students…

Kanu chairman Gideon Moi joined the condemnation of the arrest and detention of former Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala over a controversial play by a school in Nakuru. Malala was arrested and detained overnight on Wednesday as he sought to attend a rehearsal of a play titled “Echoes of War” by Butere Girls High School. He had arrived at the venue of the rehearsals when he was blocked and later arrested. He spent his night at the Eldama Ravine police cells. Moi released a statement over the incident saying it was a disturbing display of state repression where security agencies attempted…

For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said the president was considering a 90-day pause – news that triggered a brief stock market surge. But now that pause on higher tariff rates, with a few notable exceptions, is a reality. The reordering of the global economic order is on hold, and Trump’s promise of a golden age of American manufacturing will have to wait. The White House has said that going big…

The Trump administration has revoked visas of hundreds of international students and detained roughly a dozen others on college campuses across the US, often without any warning or recourse for appeals. Videos of some of the arrests, showing plain-clothes officers handcuff and arrest students near their homes, have gone viral and sent shockwaves through the international student community. Over 80 universities have reported revoked visas, according to a tracker by Inside Higher Ed, hitting students and faculty from coast-to-coast. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed last month that at least 300 visas have been revoked, adding that the department…

A Meta whistleblower told US senators on Wednesday that the company undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China. At a congressional hearing, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Facebook, said she watched as executives decided to provide the Chinese Communist Party‬ with access to the data of Meta users, including that of Americans. Meta has disputed Ms Wynn-Williams’s statements. “Sarah Wynn-Williams’ testimony is divorced from reality and riddled with false claims,” said Meta spokesman Ryan Daniels. Mr Daniels said CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been public about the company’s interest in offering…

Former Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala has been detained in police custody ahead of the staging of a play he is linked to in Nakuru. He was first taken to Nakuru Central Police Station where he was briefly held before being moved to Eldama Ravine police cells for an overnight stay on Wednesday. One of his advocates Ndegwa Njiru rallied other lawyers in the region to visit the station to seek Malala release. “Advocates from Nakuru Cleophas Malala one of the Gitungatis from western and a strong pillar of our struggle is being held at Edama Ravine police station. Kindly and…

A fight between two groups over a prime piece of land in Kileleshwa area, Nairobi turned bloody after two men were left with deep panga cuts. The groups had been ferried to the site off Likoni Lane to take over ownership of a piece of land that has been hosting a garage. One group started to fence off the land in the drama before the other joined to chase them, prompting a fight using pangas and other crude weapons, police and witnesses said. Police said the groups numbering more than 30 from both sides had come on motorcycles. Those coming…

A suspect in a Brazilian sugar fraud case where four businesspeople lost over Sh100 million to his criminal syndicate was arraigned after a probe. Abdirizak Kassim Bare, 46 is a prime suspect in the case. He was arrested and subsequently arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts, following completion of a meticulous investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on the ring of fraudsters who swindled the funds meant for the importation of 15,000 bags of the said food commodity. The investigation established how between May and October 2023, the unsuspecting victims were lured into a business deal to import…

A 47-year-old man was found dead in his house in Huruma area, Nairobi. The man is a caretaker of an apartment in the Daniel Comboni area in the sprawling Huruma. Police said the body of Joshua Irungu was found in his rented house long after he had died on April 9 at dawn. He had failed to respond to calls, prompting his employer to go and check on him. It was then that the body was found lying on the bed, police said. The door was closed from inside which prompted Irungu’s boss to seek help to break in. It…

A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press’s access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term “Gulf of America”. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration’s restriction on AP journalists was “contrary to the First Amendment”, which guarantees freedom of speech. The dispute arose when the AP refused to adopt the administration’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” in its coverage, following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The ban has meant that the AP has been…

At least 79 people have been killed and more than 150 injured after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo, officials have said. A provincial governor and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel were among the victims. Dotel, 51, died on the way to hospital after being pulled from the debris. The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday at a concert by popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez at the Jet Set nightclub. He was reported among those trapped in the rubble. Hundreds of people were inside the venue and some 400…