Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police are investigating an incident where an employee at the Government Printers collapsed and died in office in Nairobi. Witnesses said Emmah Nyaaga was at her place of work on Tuesday March 11 afternoon when she collapsed. She was rushed to a nearby Rhodes chest clinic where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Police visited the hospital and found the body lying on the waiting bay area. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and probe. The family of the woman said she had no known medical history. In Kisasi, Kitui County, one Serah Musembi collapsed at her…

A Dutch national who was waiting extradition from Kenya to his country over claims of sexual abuse on children is dead. The fugitive identified as Jan Jacobus Brouwer, 66 died at Aster Healthcare Hospital in Nairobi, officials said. He died on Tuesday March 11 at the hospital from esophagus cancer, which was in stage four. He had been admitted to the facility on January 20, days after his arrest following an international warrant issued by his country. Police said he had been remanded at the Parklands police station pending extradition proceedings, which were ongoing at the Milimani Law Courts. His…

A man died after jumping off the fourth floor of a building on Tom Mboya Street, Nairobi. The man landed on the balcony of the building and died on the spot in the Wednesday March 12, morning incident. The motive of the incident is yet to be established. Police said the incident happened at about 5.30 am and that the man leapt through a window. The building houses offices and other commercial shops. The body was moved from the scene and moved to the mortuary, pending identification and autopsy. It came hours after the Chief Executive Officer of Sedgwick Kenya…

Just short of his 80th birthday, Rodrigo Duterte, a man who once vowed to purge his country through a bloody anti-drugs and crime campaign, found himself outmanoeuvred and in custody. The former president was met by Philippines police as he arrived in Manila on a flight from Hong Kong, where he had been rallying support for his candidates for the upcoming mid-term election among the large Filipino diaspora there. The much-talked-about warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was, it turned out, already in the hands of the Philippines government, which moved swiftly to execute it. A…

The US Department of Education is planning to cut about half of its workforce, as the Trump Administration works to slash the size of the federal government. The mass layoffs will impact nearly 2,100 people who are set to be placed on leave from 21 March. Trump has long sought to eliminate the department, a long-cherished goal of some conservatives, but such an action would require approval by Congress. The department, which has an annual budget of around $238bn (£188bn), employs more than 4,000 people. Established in 1979, the department oversees funding for public schools, administers student loans and runs…

Armed militants in Pakistan’s Balochistan region have attacked a train carrying more than 400 passengers and taken a number of them hostage, military sources told the BBC on Tuesday. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) fired at the Jaffar Express Train as it travelled from Quetta to Peshawar. The separatist group said it had bombed the track before storming the train in the remote Sibi district, claiming the train was under its control. At least 16 militants have been killed and 104 passengers rescued as of Wednesday morning, local media reported. Among those rescued are 17 injured passengers, who have been…

Liverpool’s Champions League ambitions were ended after they lost on penalties to an outstanding Paris St-Germain side after a night of drama at Anfield. PSG, needing to claw back a 1-0 deficit from the first leg at home, demonstrated how they have matured under coach Luis Enrique as they knocked out a Liverpool side touted as favourites to win the tournament. Ousmane Dembele’s early goal provided the platform for the turnaround, with Liverpool unable to break the French visitors down, while PSG were a constant threat. PSG’s victory over two legs was thoroughly deserved, with keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma emerging as…

US President Donald Trump has said he will “buy a brand new Tesla” after shares in the electric car firm fell more than 15%. Trump blamed “radical left lunatics” boycotting the firm to “attack and do harm” to Tesla owner Elon Musk. However, stock analysts said the main reason for the poor performance of the shares was fear about Tesla meeting production targets and a drop in sales over the past year. Trump’s own economic policies on tariffs are also making investors nervous, analysts said. US markets slumped on Monday as investors concerned about the economic effects of Trump tariffs…

The government is determined to do away with the indignity and squalor in slums through the Affordable Housing Programme in towns and cities, President William Ruto has said. Despite opposition from some politicians to the Affordable Housing Programme, the President said, the programme will go on uninterrupted. He said the programme is creating employment opportunities and will provide decent housing to Kenyans living in informal settlements. “Sometimes you fail to understand why some leaders are opposed to a project that has employed many young people and also enables them to own decent homes,” he pointed out. Addressing wananchi at Mabatini…

Donald Trump has halted a plan to double US tariffs on Canadian steel and metal imports to 50%, just hours after first threatening them. Tariffs of 25% are still going ahead and will take effect from the 12 March. The move by the president comes after the Canadian province of Ontario suspended new charges of 25% on electricity that it sends to some northern states in the US, hours after Trump threatened to sharply increase his tariffs on the country. It marked the latest skirmish in a trade war that risks economic damage to the two North American neighbours. “Cooler…

Ugandan special forces have been deployed to South Sudan’s capital, the Ugandan army chief said Tuesday, after rising tensions that have threatened a fragile peace agreement. Impoverished South Sudan has long been plagued by political instability and insecurity, but concerns have risen sharply in the past week after clashes between forces allied to the country’s leaders in the northeast. “As of 2 days ago, our Special Forces units entered Juba to secure it,” Ugandan army chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba said on X. “We shall protect the entire territory of South Sudan like it was our own,” the son of Ugandan leader…

The Cabinet Tuesday directed the finalisation of the construction framework and the groundbreaking of the 170km four-lane Rironi-Mau Summit Road by June 1, 2025. The project will upgrade the road from a two-way single carriageway to a four-lane dual carriageway, significantly improving traffic flow. This road development is expected to ease transport and travel from Nairobi through Nakuru to Western Kenya, a route that has long suffered from serious traffic congestion on weekends and during national holidays. The project, which is set for completion within 24 months, with a target date of June 2027, is part of Kenya’s broader infrastructure…

There was drama when a man set himself on fire outside the Supreme Court in Nairobi on Tuesday morning. Documents found on him identified him as Kennedy Kipira and said he took the steps over delay justice. He sustained burns in his buttocks, face, hand and back following the morning incident. Medics said the burns were not serious. He was rescued and rushed to the hospital by an ambulance from the Nairobi County government. Witnesses and police said Kipira arrived at the precincts in the morning and pretended to talk to security officials there before he embarked on his mission…

Elon Musk said X was hit by a major cyberattack on Monday as outages plagued users of the platform once known as Twitter. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk said in a post on the platform. Musk blamed a cyberattack, providing no evidence, for crashing the site last year when an interview with Donald Trump was to be streamed. In his post Monday, Musk included an X post from a DogeDesigner account that some on Reddit speculated could be a puppet of the tycoon himself. The post noted protests against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…

Fires are still burning on an oil tanker carrying jet fuel and a cargo ship carrying highly toxic chemicals that collided in the North Sea on Monday morning. One crew member is still unaccounted for and the search has been called off, HM Coastguard said. The collision involved the US-registered Stena Immaculate – which was transporting fuel on behalf of the US military – and the Portuguese-flagged Solong. Coastguard Divisional Commander Matthew Atkinson said 36 people had been rescued, with one person taken to hospital. The missing crew member had been onboard the Solong, he said. One of the men…