Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

When Cyclone Alfred barrelled over Australia’s east coast earlier this month, it also blew the government’s election plans off course. Hoping to capitalise on some rare good news on interest rates, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on the cusp of announcing an April polling date. Instead he had to pivot and focus on responding to the natural disaster. It was, one Labor Minister told me, a decision taken from him by “an act of God”. You might say that’s been a theme of his government: big plans often derailed by unpleasant surprises – trying global economic conditions and a cost-of-living…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada’s old relationship with the United States, “based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over”. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa after a cabinet meeting, Carney said Canadians must “fundamentally reimagine our economy” in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. He said Canada would respond with retaliatory tariffs that will have “maximum impact” on the US. Trump announced on Wednesday he would target imported vehicles and vehicle parts with a 25% tax, stating: “This is permanent.” Carney, the Liberal Party leader, called the original Canada-US…

The Presidential Transitional Council (PTC) of Haiti identified the Kenyan police officer who was killed by the Caribbean gang as Benedict Kabiru Kuria. The Haitian government disclosed that Kabiru was shot dead on, March 25, 2025, in Savien, while carrying out an anti-gang operation. According to the transitional council, the officer, who was part of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti, was killed during the operation carried out jointly with the Haitian forces. Haiti’s President, Fritz Alphonse Jean, termed Kabiru a valiant police officer who made the ultimate sacrifice for a better future for the Caribbean country. “The…

South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar, the long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, was arrested on Wednesday — a move described by the UN as leaving the country on the brink of widespread conflict. A convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles entered Machar’s residence in the capital Juba and arrested him, according to a statement issued by a member of his party, in a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has been building for weeks in the world’s youngest country. A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar has been gradually unravelling, threatening a return of the five-year civil war…

A court in Japan ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church, which came under scrutiny after the shock killing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. The alleged assassin had confessed that he held a grievance against Abe because of the ex-leader’s ties with the church – he blamed the church for bankrupting his family. Japan’s education and culture ministry sought the church’s dissolution and accused it of manipulating followers into making huge donations and other financial sacrifices. But the church, more popularly known as the “Moonies”, argued that the donations were part of legitimate religious activities. It…

Detectives are hunting for a man who killed his wife in a domestic fight in Koibatek, Eldama Ravine, Baringo County. The body of Mercy Cheposkony Chirchir was found in her house in Tolmo village after the murder. Police said the body had head injuries caused by a sharp object and was moved to Eldama Ravine Sub-County Hospital, awaiting autopsy after the March 25 incident. In Narok’s Nyamutambe village, one Mosambi Rioba, 56, was attacked by a man known to him. The assailant also strangled the deceased before escaping the scene. The body of the deceased was found on his farm…

Seven people were found dead separately after suspected suicide incidents. The incidents were reported to police on March 25, 2025. Police said the trend has been on the rise, which they termed worrying. The first incident was reported in Tena area, Nairobi where one Benson Mwangi, 42, was found hanging from the roof truss with a piece of cloth tied around his neck. The motive of the incident was not immediately established. In Rabai, Kilifi County, one Ramadhani Mkuzi Idi, 26, died by suicide by hanging himself using a piece of cloth tied around his neck from one of the…

A section of students at the University of Nairobi went on the rampage following claims of frequent attacks by suspected thieves near their hostels at the main campus. The students attacked and burnt a motorcycle they said belonged to some of the suspected thugs following a failed robbery. Two men on a motorcycle had attempted to rob a group of students along Arboretum-State House Road on Thursday March 27 at about 1 am of their mobile phones. The victims raised an alarm prompting the rider and his pillion passenger to abandon their mission and the motorcycle they had and escape…

Member of County Assembly (MCA) for Burat Ward in Isiolo County Nicholas Lorot sustained gunshot wounds after an attack by unknown assailants on Wednesday March 26 evening. Police and his family said he is in stable condition in the hospital after the gun attack. The motive of the attack is yet to be established, police said. The MCA was reportedly shot in Isiolo town before being rushed to St. Theresa Mission Hospital in Kiirua, Meru County for medical attention. His colleagues later visited him at the facility. Lorot, an outspoken figure in Isiolo’s political landscape, is known to be frequently…

The son to Dagoretti North MP Beatrice Elachi will be buried at their family home on March 29 in Nalepo Village, Kajiado County. Elvis Murakana Namenya died at a city hospital after a road accident along Thika Road. This is after a salon car he was driving veered off the road and hit a pole near Roasters area on Tuesday. The family said he was slated to graduate from Africa Nazarene University in June 2025 after completing his Business Studies. A memorial service in his honour will be held at Holy Trinity Church, Kileleshwa, on March 28, 2025, starting at…

The military wing of South Sudan’s opposition said Wednesday that two training bases on the outskirts of the capital Juba were attacked by forces allied to the president, stoking fears of renewed conflict. The attacks are the latest in a series of clashes in the world’s youngest nation, where fighting between forces allied to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar threaten a fragile 2018 power-sharing agreement. The peace deal ended a five-year civil war that killed around 400,000 people, but South Sudan — which declared independence in 2011 — has remained plagued by poverty and insecurity. Machar’s…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday’s dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say, amid growing fears of a possible coup by former allies. Mnangagwa, who took charge after a military coup that ousted longtime ruler Robert Mugabe in 2017, is facing growing dissent within his ZANU-PF party, which has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980. Some veterans of the Southern African country’s war of independence have called for countrywide protests on March 31 to force Mnangagwa to step down. They accuse him of deepening the country’s economic crisis and plotting…

US President Donald Trump has announced new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts coming into the US in a move that threatens to widen the global trade war. Trump said the latest tariffs would come into effect on 2 April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles starting the next day. Charges on parts are set to start in May or later. The president claimed the measure would lead to “tremendous growth” for the car industry, promising it would spur jobs and investment in the US. But analysts have said the move is likely to lead to the…

Sudan’s military leader, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has visited the presidential palace in Khartoum, after landing at the city’s international airport, just hours after it was recaptured by the army. Surrounded by cheering soldiers at the venue – a significant symbol of absolute power and sovereignty – Burhan declared the capital “free” of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. “Khartoum is free, it’s done,” he said. This is believed to be the first time Burhan has set foot in the presidential palace since the start of the war almost two years ago. The military-led government was forced to move to Port…

The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety. President Donald Trump called the reporting “all a witch hunt” and declared the publication a “failed magazine”. Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders, shared texts in which US defence secretary Pete Hegseth provided sensitive information such as detailed timetables and unit information ahead of a US strike in Yemen. Goldberg said he decided to publish the information after the Trump administration accused him of lying that…