Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Chaos erupted in Nakuru after police lobbed teargas canisters to disperse a group of students and the public who were celebrating the exit of Butere Girls from the National Drama Festivals. The actors declined to perform the play and instead sang the National Anthem and exited. The play was disqualified during the Western Region Drama Festivals under unclear circumstances. A subsequent High Court ruling overturned that decision, reinstating the play and ordering its inclusion in the national lineup. Following the court order, students who had already left for the April holidays were recalled to resume rehearsals. On Thursday, the students…

Kanu chairman Gideon Moi joined the condemnation of the arrest and detention of former Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala over a controversial play by a school in Nakuru. Malala was arrested and detained overnight on Wednesday as he sought to attend a rehearsal of a play titled “Echoes of War” by Butere Girls High School. He had arrived at the venue of the rehearsals when he was blocked and later arrested. He spent his night at the Eldama Ravine police cells. Moi released a statement over the incident saying it was a disturbing display of state repression where security agencies attempted…

For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said the president was considering a 90-day pause – news that triggered a brief stock market surge. But now that pause on higher tariff rates, with a few notable exceptions, is a reality. The reordering of the global economic order is on hold, and Trump’s promise of a golden age of American manufacturing will have to wait. The White House has said that going big…

The Trump administration has revoked visas of hundreds of international students and detained roughly a dozen others on college campuses across the US, often without any warning or recourse for appeals. Videos of some of the arrests, showing plain-clothes officers handcuff and arrest students near their homes, have gone viral and sent shockwaves through the international student community. Over 80 universities have reported revoked visas, according to a tracker by Inside Higher Ed, hitting students and faculty from coast-to-coast. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed last month that at least 300 visas have been revoked, adding that the department…

A Meta whistleblower told US senators on Wednesday that the company undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China. At a congressional hearing, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Facebook, said she watched as executives decided to provide the Chinese Communist Party‬ with access to the data of Meta users, including that of Americans. Meta has disputed Ms Wynn-Williams’s statements. “Sarah Wynn-Williams’ testimony is divorced from reality and riddled with false claims,” said Meta spokesman Ryan Daniels. Mr Daniels said CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been public about the company’s interest in offering…

Former Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala has been detained in police custody ahead of the staging of a play he is linked to in Nakuru. He was first taken to Nakuru Central Police Station where he was briefly held before being moved to Eldama Ravine police cells for an overnight stay on Wednesday. One of his advocates Ndegwa Njiru rallied other lawyers in the region to visit the station to seek Malala release. “Advocates from Nakuru Cleophas Malala one of the Gitungatis from western and a strong pillar of our struggle is being held at Edama Ravine police station. Kindly and…

A fight between two groups over a prime piece of land in Kileleshwa area, Nairobi turned bloody after two men were left with deep panga cuts. The groups had been ferried to the site off Likoni Lane to take over ownership of a piece of land that has been hosting a garage. One group started to fence off the land in the drama before the other joined to chase them, prompting a fight using pangas and other crude weapons, police and witnesses said. Police said the groups numbering more than 30 from both sides had come on motorcycles. Those coming…

A suspect in a Brazilian sugar fraud case where four businesspeople lost over Sh100 million to his criminal syndicate was arraigned after a probe. Abdirizak Kassim Bare, 46 is a prime suspect in the case. He was arrested and subsequently arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts, following completion of a meticulous investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on the ring of fraudsters who swindled the funds meant for the importation of 15,000 bags of the said food commodity. The investigation established how between May and October 2023, the unsuspecting victims were lured into a business deal to import…

A 47-year-old man was found dead in his house in Huruma area, Nairobi. The man is a caretaker of an apartment in the Daniel Comboni area in the sprawling Huruma. Police said the body of Joshua Irungu was found in his rented house long after he had died on April 9 at dawn. He had failed to respond to calls, prompting his employer to go and check on him. It was then that the body was found lying on the bed, police said. The door was closed from inside which prompted Irungu’s boss to seek help to break in. It…

A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press’s access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term “Gulf of America”. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration’s restriction on AP journalists was “contrary to the First Amendment”, which guarantees freedom of speech. The dispute arose when the AP refused to adopt the administration’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” in its coverage, following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The ban has meant that the AP has been…

At least 79 people have been killed and more than 150 injured after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo, officials have said. A provincial governor and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel were among the victims. Dotel, 51, died on the way to hospital after being pulled from the debris. The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday at a concert by popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez at the Jet Set nightclub. He was reported among those trapped in the rubble. Hundreds of people were inside the venue and some 400…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced-off with his election rival Peter Dutton in their first debate before the 3 May federal election vote. Cost of living issues dominated Tuesday night’s debate, organised by Sky News Australia and The Daily Telegraph, and the two leaders were also asked about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Opinion polls have predicted a slim margin between Albanese’s Labor Party and Dutton’s Liberal-National coalition, and the possibility that either will need to form the next government with independent MPs or minor parties. Albanese was declared the night’s winner by Sky News after a vote by…

The man who is suspected of killing Multimedia University (MMU) student Sylvia Kemunto confiscated her mobile phone and offered it to a church in Nairobi as an offering. Detectives pursuing the matter visited and recovered the mobile phone from Jesus is Alive Ministry church in the city. This is after the suspect Philip Eric Mutinda told police he had offered the mobile phone to the church on Monday March 31 after the murder of the fellow student at college near Ongata Rongai. He narrated to police saying he and the slain woman had been in a relationship but they had…

After 338 games in his professional career Declan Rice had never scored a free-kick. After 339 he’d scored two. He’d only taken 12 free-kicks across his entire career prior to Tuesday’s sensational 3-0 win for Arsenal over Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Emirates. With the Gunners on top but level at 0-0, the England midfielder stood up and curled round the Madrid wall and past Thibaut Courtois to put his side deservedly ahead after 58 minutes. Then 12 minutes later the 26-year-old stepped up and did it again, making him the first player to…

South Korea will hold a presidential election on 3 June, its acting leader has said, after the country’s constitutional court removed Yoon Suk Yeol from the presidency. Yoon was impeached by parliament in December for his shock martial law declaration. The court upheld his impeachment on 4 April, paving the way for a snap election within 60 days. Acting president Han Duck-soo announced the election date on Tuesday, saying the country needs to “quickly heal from the wounds” and go “upward and forward”. Yoon’s martial law declaration plunged South Korea deep into political uncertainty and highlighted deep divisions in its…