Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Six Australian universities have quietly closed Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes (CI) on their campuses. The Australian government has ramped up scrutiny on the education centres in recent years over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students. China says its Confucius Institutes, which offer Chinese language and cultural classes overseas, are a “bridge reinforcing friendship” with the world. There have been growing global concerns about the Chinese government’s reach overseas through such education centres, with universities in America and Europe also choosing to close some of their branches. These closures mean nearly half…

A man who murdered a 15-year-old girl after she rejected her sexual advances has been slapped with a 25-year jail term. Justice Grace Nzioki, sitting at the Naivasha Law Courts convicted Fredrick Mwonjoria for this crime committed six years ago when he was a student at Nanyuki High School, aged 17. Prosecution, led by Counsel Shirley Chepkonga, presented 12 witnesses and established the accused and deceased were neighbours, with the deceased frequently seeking academic assistance from him. On the material day, she went to his home for help with school assignments but never returned, prompting her parents to search for…

The High Court on Tuesday ruled that a directive requiring parents to pay school fees through the e-Citizen platform is unconstitutional. The court also declined to stay its orders for 90 days to allow respondents to file an appeal. In January 2024, then Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang, through a circular directed all payments of school fees to be done on the eCitizen platform. This was meant to consolidate all payments to one platform even as the school administrators complained the move had inconvenienced them. Justice Chacha Mwita prohibited the government from enforcing the directive, stating that there was no…

Webuye West Member of Parliament Daniel Sitati Wanyama, appeared before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Tuesday, April 1, 2024 for grilling in connection with an ongoing investigation into corruption allegations. Wanyama spent hours at Integrity Centre, where he is recording a statement regarding the case. The investigation centers on accusations of theft of public funds within the Bungoma County Government. The allegations relate to the irregular award of tenders for road construction worth Sh70,205,882 to companies linked to both Wanyama and the former Bungoma County Governor Wycliffe Wangamati. The tenders were reportedly awarded during the 2017/18-2021/22 financial years. Wangamati,…

Police officers based at Voi Police Station arrested three notorious highway robbers who have been evading capture for quite some time. The suspects, Joseph Macharia Mwangi, 40, Peter Muchemi Maina, 36, and Agnes Malemba Mshenga, 32, were taken into custody after a meticulous surveillance operation along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway on Monday March 31. The trio was intercepted at Vacani Resort while traveling in a white Subaru Legacy. Upon conducting a thorough search of the vehicle, officers uncovered three sets of reflective number plates KCR 879U, KCA 583L, and KAZ 946L. Additionally, the officers recovered a range of suspicious items, including…

Gunmen struck a village and killed a herder in Suguta Marmar area, Samburu County. The gang also shot and injured two herders in the confrontation, police said. The victims were taking care of a herd of livestock when the gang struck in Nonyo Mpoya village. Jumberia Lesaigor, 35 succumbed to bullet injuries, police said adding two other herders are admitted in the hospital following the attack. The gang stole an unknown number of livestock in the attack on Friday, police said. It came as Internal and National Administration Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen declared a full-scale security operation at Mukokodo…

The proprietors of a beauty clinic that caused the death of a woman in a botched operation in Lavington, Nairobi are set to face manslaughter charges. Police said the proprietors run Body by Design Kenya running under Omnicare Medical. They are Robert Maweu Mutula, George Wakaria Njoroge, Lilian Edna Wanjiru Mwariri and Omnicare Medical Limited alias Body by Design Kenya. They were expected in court on April 1 to face the charges after the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions consented to the same. Wambui died on October 26, 2024 after an operation at the facility. They, however moved to…

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, said she is in hospital following a serious accident. Ms Giuffre posted on Instagram that she had suffered kidney failure after her car collided with a school bus, stating doctors had given her “four days to live” and were transferring her to a specialist hospital. In a statement shared with the BBC, her spokesperson Dini von Mueffling said: “Virginia has been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.” Ms Giuffre said this year had “been…

Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for public office for five years, meaning she cannot run in the 2027 French presidential election. She was found guilty of embezzling European funds to finance her French far-right National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen left the courtroom as the judge handed down details of the sentence. She has also been given a four-year prison sentence – but two years are suspended, and two years will likely be spent with a tag, rather than in custody. She has also been given a four-year prison sentence, of which two will be suspended. The…

Seven family members were Sunday night killed in an accident along Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road. The victims were returning from a memorial service when their car rammed onto a lorry, police said. The accident happened on Sunday night, killing four children and three adults. The bodies of the seven family members taken to Naivasha mortuary, police said. Police said they are investigating the incident. In Mahiu-Mahiu, a lorry carrying crates of beer overturned causing a major traffic jam. This is after a section of locals started to loot the alcoholic drinks. Police presence did not deter the looting. Some consumed the…

There was drama when a swarm of bees on Sunday March 30 disrupted rescue efforts by Good Samaritans and firefighters at an accident scene along the Kathiani-Machakos road. Witnesses said the bees ran riot indiscriminately attacking residents who had rushed to the scene to rescue passengers after a 14-seater van overturned at the Kwa Kakonzi corner, near Iveti hills, in Machakos. Firefighters from Machakos County called to the scene had to use hose pipe water to spray and scatter the insects — and allow rescuers to access the wreckage. Witnesses said rescue efforts were temporarily hampered by the bees, but…

Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ruled out any reconciliation with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a video statement on Saturday in which he vowed to crush the group. “We will neither forgive, nor compromise, nor negotiate,” he said, reaffirming the military’s commitment to restoring national unity and stability. Burhan also said fighters who “repent to the truth” could still be amnestied if they lay down their arms, particularly those who are in rebel-held areas. Earlier on Saturday, the army said it had taken control of a major market in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, which had previously been…

Multi agency teams are still searching for the body of a Kenyan police officer who was killed in an ambush in Haiti, Inspector General of police Douglas Kanja has revealed. Kanja said the body of constable Benedict Kabiru Kuria is yet to be found after the March 25 incident. “The search is ongoing and we hope to find him. We have teams on the ground for that mission,” he said. He added a fund that was created to manage the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti is functioning. “The fund is in existence and many countries including USA and…

A police officer believed to have been radicalized was buried at a church compound in Kamagambo, Migori County prompting police investigations. Police have blamed occultism for the incident and declared the teachings at the St Joseph Missions of Messiah in Africa church in Opapo village in Kamagambo are misleading. Constable Dan Ayoo Obura died on March 27 following sickness before his body was interred at the church the following day. Obura was a police officer based at the General Service Unit headquarters in Nairobi. His wife told police he fell sick as they were at home and decided to take…

A family in Kenya is mourning after a Kenyan military officer was Friday killed while on a peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic. Maj Paul Ndungu Njoroge of Kenya Army was the only person killed in the ambush. Maj Ndungu was in the troubled country since February 2025 as a military observer. A statement from the UN Spokesperson’s office on behalf of António Guterres said the peacekeeper had been killed on Friday March 28 by so-far unknown assailants when his unit was on a long-range patrol near the village of Tabane in the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, in the southeast of the…