Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police are hunting down on suspected thieves who broke into a factory in Kahuro, Muranga County and stole 46 bags of coffee. The unknown number of thugs went to Guthera Coffee Factory while armed with crude weapons and gained entry to the facility by cutting the padlock of the main gate and then managed to tie the legs and hands of the two watchmen with nylon materials. According to police, they broke the coffee store and the office where they stole 46 bags of coffee, printer, and laptop. The suspects then escaped using an unknown motor vehicle to an unknown…

Protests have erupted in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the country’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.  Netanyahu said a “crisis of trust” between the two leaders led to his decision, adding that his trust in Gallant had “eroded” in recent months and Foreign Minister Israel Katz would step in to replace him. Following the news, Gallant posted on social media that the “security of the state of Israel was and will always remain the mission of my life”. Netanyahu and Gallant have long had a divisive working relationship, and over the past year there have been reports of shouting…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is to spend election night with Donald Trump in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort, he said on X/Twitter.  Mr Musk, the owner of Tesla and X, has aggressively campaigned for the Republican candidate in swing states across the country. Trump’s campaign is hosting watch parties including at his Mar-a-Lago home and also Palm Beach Convention Center for thousands of supporters. The tech billionaire has emerged as one of the most important backers of Trump and donated more than $119m (£91.6m) this election cycle to America PAC – a political action committee he created to…

Early vote results show the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to become the next president is too close to call. As expected, Trump has won his home state of Florida and other conservative strongholds across the map, while Kamala Harris is sweeping liberal bastions on the east coast, the BBC’s US partner, CBS, is projecting. But there is no clear leader in the seven swing states that will decide who ultimately wins the White House. Exit polls suggest voters rated the state of democracy and the economy as their most important issues. Whichever way it goes the result…

Republicans have struck an early victory in the race to control Congress, with a formerly Democratic-aligned seat in West Virginia won by the state’s current governor, Jim Justice.  In addition to the presidency, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 seats in the Senate are up for grabs on election day. Republicans currently hold a majority in the House. The projected win by Justice takes the Senate to a 50-50 split. Results in other seats are pending, however. The party that wins a majority on either side of Capitol Hill will have greater leverage to enact its…

At least 31 suspects linked to a fake gold scam syndicate were Tuesday arrested in a crackdown by detectives from the Operations Support Unit in Runda, Ridgeways and Industrial Area parts of Nairobi. During the operation, investigators seized key evidence, including counterfeit gold, spray paint, and padlocks used to create the fake gold. The arrests followed a scam in which two foreign nationals were duped into purchasing 35 kilograms of fake gold, losing over Sh5 million in the process. Some of the suspects are known repeat offenders who face multiple fraud charges in court and are expected to face additional…

Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will be the next chief of Interpol, the global police organization announced Tuesday. Urquiza was elected secretary-general by a vote of Interpol’s general assembly at its meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, and will take up the post when the gathering ends on Thursday. Currently Interpol’s vice president for the Americas, Urquiza is the first chief of the Lyon, France-based organization not to come from Europe or the United States. The Interpol secretary-general essentially runs the organization on a daily basis. Juergen Stock of Germany, who has held the post since 2014, is not allowed under its…

Civil servants caught having sex in their offices will face “severe measures”, the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea has warned after hundreds of allegedly pornographic videos were leaked to the public. The videos reportedly involve high-ranking civil servant Baltasar Ebang Engonga having sex with various women – including the wives of prominent officials – in his office. Mr Engonga is head of the country’s National Financial Investigation Agency and also a relative of the country’s president. On his Facebook page, Mr Engonga has posted that he is feeling sad, along with a photo of him with a woman and children captioned:…

The Nigerian authorities have dropped treason and other charges against dozens of protesters, including more than 30 children, who were arrested in August after taking part in anti-government demonstrations. President Bola Tinubu had already called for the release of all the minors – some as young as 14 – after footage of four of them collapsing in court on Friday, apparently due to malnourishment, sparked outrage. He also said the police and other officials involved in the arrests and subsequent legal processes should be investigated. The viral videos of the young people writhing in pain led to a renewed debate…

A warrant of arrest was Tuesday issued against two women for skipping a court case where alongside others they are charged with an alleged offense of robbery with violence. They are also facing another charge of sexual assault on the accused person who is a woman and a Norwegian. The orders were issued by Kibera court magistrate Margret Wanjala against Fahima Yusuf Abdulahi and Rayan Abubakar Ali on Monday after they disappeared from the courts precincts to an unknown destination when their case file was placed aside after it was mentioned for further directions. The court had earlier on been…

Slain Wells Fargo Human Resource manager Willis Ayieko is set to be buried on Saturday November 9.  He will be buried at his Ong’iende village (Bob’s ranch) at Central Alego location in Siaya County A funeral service, according to the family, has been scheduled for Thursday November 7 at All Saints’ Cathedral in Nairobi before the body is moved to his home. Ayieko’s body was discovered at Mungowere stream on the border of Siaya and Kakamega Counties on October 23 at 2 pm. This is after he went missing for some days after attending a funeral in Gem. His vehicle…

Police are holding the owner of a garage in Ruai area, Nairobi for leading in lynching two of his employees over claims of siphoning fuel. The two were employees at the facility and were Monday afternoon accused of siphoning fuel from cars parked there for selling, police said. This prompted some of the workers there to raise an alarm, which led to the attack on the two. They died at the scene. The owner of the Telco Auto garage within St. Joseph area was among those detained. This after the two were attacked and killed over claims of siphoning fuel…

A bodaboda rider who was arrested the ongoing investigation into the murder of Willis Ayieko Onyango, a former Human Resource Manager at Wells Fargo claims he was paid Sh9,000 for his work. The suspect, Fredrick Otieno Omondi, was apprehended in Kisumu and is believed to have played a significant role in the events preceding this tragic incident, police said. Omondi, a motorcycle rider, is alleged to have provided transport for Victor Ouma, also known as Sisco, to the location where Ayieko was abducted, investigations have shown. Victor Ouma Okoth is currently in police custody and has been linked to the…

Elon Musk’s political group can keep awarding $1m (£722,000) to voters in swing states, a judge has ruled. The giveaway by Mr Musk’s America PAC is set to end on Tuesday, and the final recipient has already been determined, a lawyer for the billionaire said in a court hearing on Monday. In a surprising turn, the lawyer revealed that people receiving the money have not been chosen randomly in a lottery-style contest, as many believed, but were selected by the group. Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner had sued to stop what he called an “an illegal lottery” after Musk announced…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised the “cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats” in a deepening diplomatic row with Canada. Both countries expelled each other’s top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of being involved in violent acts targeting Indian dissidents on Canadian soil, something the country denies. Modi’s comments came after violence broke out at a Hindu temple in the Canadian city of Brampton on Sunday, which he has called a “deliberate attack”. “Such acts of violence will never weaken India’s resolve. We expect the Canadian government to ensure justice and uphold the rule of law,”…