Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Search teams in Mombasa retrieved one body from a 120-foot deep septic tank after two people died therein on Sunday. The body of Abdallah Aziz Abadallah, 54 was retrieved on Tuesday at about 12.49 am. The team said they will continue with the mission to retrieve a second body believed to be in the septic tank. Mombasa County executive committee member for transport and infrastructure Dan Manyala confirmed retrieval of one body from the septic tank. “Retrieval of the first body from the tragic site has been safely concluded. Excavation is on for the second victim,” Manyala said. The body…

WrestleMania came to a close with John Cena making history winning the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Championship for a record-breaking 17th time. The win over Cody Rhodes, which came following a surprise interference from rapper Travis Scott, means Cena has overtaken Ric Flair by winning more world titles than anyone in the history of the company. Cena previously announced he would retire at the end of 2025, meaning this was the final WrestleMania ever for the most decorated wrestler to ever set foot in a WWE ring (though most know never to say never in wrestling). Other new champions were…

Two bodies have been confirmed to be in a septic tank that collapsed in Nyali, Mombasa. Mombasa County chief fire officer Ibrahim Basafar said they had confirmed there are only two bodies in the septic tank that caved in Sunday evening at Bamburi’s Mwisho area of Kadzandani ward, Nyali subcounty. Preliminary reports Sunday evening had indicated that there were about four people who fell into the 120 feet septic tank. The tank was old, built more than 40 years ago. “We have since confirmed that the bodies in the septic tank are two after one of those thought to have…

The four Serie A matches scheduled to take place on Monday have been postponed to a later date following the death of Pope Francis, the Italian top flight said in a statement. Udinese’s game at Torino, Fiorentina’s visit to Cagliari, Genoa’s match against Lazio and Juventus’ trip to Parma will be rescheduled. The games will have to fit into a congested finish to the season, potentially clashing with the Champions League semi-finals. The Vatican said Pope Francis, a keen football fan, died aged 88 on Monday. By AFP

The late Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He was also the head of the Vatican City State. He died on April 21, 2025. He became pope on March 13, 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, becoming the first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit pope. Born in 1936, Francis was the first pope from South America. His papacy was marked by his championing of those escaping war and hunger, as well as those in poverty, earning him the…

Villagers where five members of the same family were attacked and killed by angry villagers Thursday night over claims of murder in Metembe village, Masimba Ward in Kisii County claim the assailants were hired. Detectives handling the April 17, 2025 incident say the villagers are uncooperative and blaming outsiders for the deaths and destruction. Even local administrators are afraid of being attacked by the villagers, police handling the case said. Teams have been combing the area for information on the murder in vain. No arrest has been made. An autopsy is planned on the bodies of the five to determine…

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information about US air strikes on Yemen in a second private group on the Signal app, the BBC’s US partner CBS has confirmed with sources familiar with the messages. The messages, sent on 15 March, included flight schedules for American F/A-18 Hornets carrying out strikes on Houthi targets. The group included Hegseth’s wife, brother and personal lawyer. The developments come a month after the existence of a separate Signal group discussing sensitive information about US military operations was revealed. In a statement to the New York Times, which first reported the second group, the…

At least three Haitian soldiers were killed in an apparent gang ambush Sunday in a town on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian authorities confirmed. The area of Kenscoff has been under heavy fire in recent days as Haitian law enforcement have warred with the gang coalition known as Viv Ansanm. It’s just the latest explosion of violence as Haitian authorities and foreign forces scramble to rein in gang warfare in the Caribbean nation. Haiti’s government in a post on the social media platform X wrote that the soldiers died “on the front line … weapons in hand.”…

Ukraine’s military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour “Easter truce” declared by Moscow. Ukraine’s air force issued raid alerts for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said “explosions were heard”. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties. Russia’s military has not commented on the reported attacks. The truce declared by President Vladimir Putin expired at midnight Sunday Moscow time (21:00 GMT). Both sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire. Early…

A fisherman was killed on Sunday in a fight among Lake Victoria fishermen near Misori beach in Gembe, Homa-Bay County. Witnesses and police said the groups fought over the ownership of fishing grounds. Fredrick Ooko, 39, of Gode Ariyo beach, is reported to have drowned during the confrontation between fishermen from his beach and their colleagues from Misori Beach Management Unit (BMU). They were fighting over a fish breeding area, police said. Gode Ariyo BMU chairperson Daniel Ombuor said a group of Misori fishermen accused their colleagues of fishing in an area they had preserved for breeding of fingerlings. Ombuor said…

America’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, the US space agency Nasa said. For Pettit – who has now spent a total of 590 days in space – it was his fourth mission. Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit – that…

The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it has suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila, days after his properties were raided by security services. “This decision follows the overt activism” of Kabila, who was president for 18 years up to 2019 and who remains head of his People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the interior ministry said in a statement dated Saturday. PPRD activities “are suspended across all the national territory,” the statement said. There was no immediate reaction from the party. Current leader President Felix Tshisekedi has accused Kabila of preparing “an insurrection” and backing…

Russia and Ukraine blamed each other on Sunday for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire announced by President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of carrying out hundreds of attacks. Putin, who ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ordered Russian forces to “stop all military activity” along the front line in the three-year-old war until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was pretending to observe the Easter ceasefire, but had in fact continued hundreds of artillery attacks on Saturday night, with more assaults on Sunday. Zelenskiy wrote on…

A 14-year-old girl was at the Easter weekend mauled to death by a lioness in a horrifying human-wildlife conflict incident near Nairobi National Park. She is among two people killed at the weekend in human-wildlife conflict incidents. The girl was killed at a ranch in Machakos County near the Nairobi National Park, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) confirmed. According to KWS, the tragic encounter occurred on a ranch bordering the southern edge of the park. The girl was reportedly attacked by the lioness while within the vicinity of the ranch. In a separate incident, a 54-year-old man lost his life after…

Two people were electrocuted during a disco session in a village in Oyugis, Homabay County. Officials said the incident happened during an Easter Friday disco night, which turned into a tragedy. Police said one person sustained injuries and is admitted in hospital. According to the police the two died on the spot during a disco event at a nightclub within Ragama estate in Oyugis Town, Homa Bay County. Authorities have been trying to regulate the discos in vain. The young men, including a minor died on the spot in a 2 am incident when they were dancing in an open…