Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Armed men shot dead six members of a neighbourhood watch programme in a crime-ravaged informal settlement north of South Africa’s capital Pretoria, police said Tuesday. The weekend attack was widely condemned in crime-weary South Africa and the police minister visited the Soshanguve township Tuesday to meet members of the affected community. The attackers — allegedly linked to murders and house robberies in the area — opened fire on an unarmed patrol of about a dozen members of the community watch in the early hours of Saturday, police said. Four died on the spot and two others later, one of them…

Controversial second-hand car dealer Joseph Kairo Wambui, better known as “Khalif Kairo,” was Tuesday arrested again—this time over fresh allegations of fraud. He is accused of taking full payment from a client for a BMW but failing to deliver the vehicle. Kairo was arrested at the Milimani Law Courts, shortly after the mention of three other ongoing cases where he is accused of conning clients in similar car deals. He is expected to be arraigned in court Wednesday March 26. Kairo, was in January granted a personal bond of Sh3 million after multiple days in police custody. His lawyer, Davinson…

Two senior police officers were transferred after notorious Panga Boys attacked and injured residents in Diani, Kwale County. The two transferred officers are Msambweni Sub-County Police boss Ahmed Hillow and Diani Officer Commanding Station (OCS), officials said. Police headquarters said Tigania West Sub-County Police Commander Robinson Langat was named the new Msambweni commander replacing Hillow. Langat was ordered to report to the new station immediately by March 25. This came as multi agency teams embarked on a major operation to address the gang behind attacks in the region. About 25 youths have so far been arrested in operations launched as…

Gunmen engaged in a gunfight with police as they attacked a group of Samburu leaders while in a convoy in the area. The group led by Samburu senator Steve Lelegwe, woman representative Pauline Lenguris, CEO of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referal Hospital Richard Lesiampe and the area Member of County Assembly Felix Lenamparasio was in a convoy from a funeral event in the area when they came under attack on Sunday March 23 morning. They had visited Pura, Ikeek Sapuki and Kutari areas within the Malaso division to condole with the bereaved families following recent banditry attacks when they…

Police are investigating an incident where a body of a woman was found in her house in Uhuru Estate, Jogoo Road, Nairobi. Police said the body of Emma Njambi Mwangi, 52 was found in her house long after she had died on Monday March 24. The body was found on the sofa set in a sitting position. Police who visited the scene sand she had no visible injuries at that time. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations. In Suneka, Kisii County, a decomposing body of a man was found hanging on a tree after…

A National Police Reservist (NPR) officer was fatally shot following an attack by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Iresuki village, Mandera County, early Monday March 24 morning. Officials said approximately 30 armed militants raided the village at around 5:00 AM, engaging NPR officers in heavy gunfire. The attackers, armed with AK-47 rifles and PKM machine guns, targeted the NPR post, leading to the fatal shooting of officer Abdikher Ibrahim. A multi-agency security team has since been deployed to the area to pursue the attackers. Investigations are currently being led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit…

There are few US presidential actions more sensitive, more fraught with peril, than when and where to use American military force. If such information were obtained by American adversaries in advance, it could put lives – and national foreign policy objectives – at risk. Fortunately for the Trump administration, a group chat with information about an impending US strike in Yemen among senior national security officials on the encrypted chat app Signal did not fall into the wrong hands. Unfortunately for the Trump administration, the message thread was observed by an influential political journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg. The Atlantic Magazine editor-in-chief,…

Mia Love, the first US black Republican congresswoman, has died aged 49 in Utah, her family has announced. “She passed away peacefully” on Sunday, surrounded by family at her home in the town of Saratoga Springs, a statement said. Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had represented the state of Utah in the House of Representatives. Her daughter Abigale said earlier this month that Love had no longer been responding to treatment for brain cancer. “In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and, as her…

Authorities in Diani, Kwale County arrested 22 Panga welding youth aged 19-23 years old for attacking and injuring locals. Diani is well known and has been a tourist haven for both foreign and locals. In the past few months the town has been turned to be a war zone between the youth and locals. The gang’s brutality knows no bounds. They strike at random, sparing neither the young nor the old, according to locals. On Saturday, panga-wielding youths terrorized locals in broad daylight, leaving behind a trail of blood and losses as victims were robbed of their valuables. Several businesses…

Elfyn Evans just made history in Naivasha on Sunday. The Toyota Gazoo Racing driver clinched his first-ever WRC Safari Rally title, becoming the first Brit to win the grueling Kenyan rally since Colin McRae back in 2002. Evans, driving a GR Yaris Rally1 with co-driver Scott Martin, kept things under control from Friday’s penultimate stage all the way through Sunday. He turned it up in the final Power Stage at Hell’s Gate to lock in the win with style and grab five bonus WRC points while he was at it. “It’s hard to find conditions like this anywhere else. It’s a…

Police are investigating an incident where a police officer shot and killed a man in an argument over a pool game in Kawangware, Nairobi. The said assailant is attached to State House spokesman Hussein Mohamed. Witnesses said he shot one Amos Lagat, 35 seven times in the argument. He was shot in the chest at close range. But the said officer later reported to Muthangari police station he had been attacked by three unknown people and was forced to shoot to the air as he escaped. He claimed the attackers wanted to rob him of his gun, a claim that…

South Korea’s constitutional court has dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting president. Han took over as acting leader last December when President Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from duties and impeached by parliament after he attempted to declare martial law. However, Han only lasted two weeks in power before lawmakers voted to impeach him as well. Since then, South Korea has been led by deputy prime minister Choi Sang-mok. South Korea has been roiled by political chaos since Yoon’s botched attempt to impose martial law. Shortly after assuming the role of acting…

At least six AK47 rifles cannot be accounted for after al Shabaab terrorists overran a camp in Fafi, Garissa County. The gang also escaped with three AK47 magazines and a Rocket Propelled Grenade in the Sunday March 23 morning raid on a National Police Reserve camp. Officials said there were 16 NPR officers at the camp at the time of the attack. Six are unaccounted for so far amid fears they were abducted by the attackers. The attackers killed six NPR and injured four others in the raid in Biyamadhow area, police said. During the attack, two al Shabaab militants…

Tiger Woods took the unusual step of confirming his romance with Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law on Sunday in a brief post on social media. Golf superstar Woods — renowned for jealously guarding his private life over the years — confirmed in a post on X that he is dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. “Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side,” Woods wrote in a caption above two photos of himself relaxing with Vanessa Trump. “At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts.” The…

Uganda’s army chief claimed on Sunday that his troops or the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group would enter the key Congolese city of Kisangani in the coming days. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, said either the Ugandan army or M23 would be in the city in “one week”. The Rwanda-backed M23, a Congolese armed group, has seized control of large swathes of eastern Congo in recent months. But it has not indicated plans to advance on Kisangani, a strategic city in the centre of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The M23’s closest position is the…