Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A man wanted for the murder of family members – a mother, daughter and 12-year-old niece – had called the family of the victims to demand a ransom for their release. The suspect forced the victims to call the relative for the money in vain. Detectives say investigations show Hashim Dagane Muhumed is from Ethiopia’s Somalia region and had illegally obtained a Kenyan identification card. He also served as a regional police officer in Ethiopia before he was arrested and jailed over claims of murder of his wife. He later fled to Kenya where he set up a base and…

Lando Norris cut Max Verstappen’s lead to 47 points and labelled his rival “dangerous” as the championship battle reached boiling point at the Mexico City Grand Prix. Verstappen was given two 10-second penalties for his driving against Norris for two incidents in the same lap but still managed to finish sixth. Norris took second place, catching and passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for second with nine laps to go, while Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz took a dominant victory. Verstappen was given one penalty for forcing Norris off the track in an incident at Turn Four on lap 10 and another for leaving…

Arsenal have been looking for every vital sign that this is the season when they will finally make the leap from pretenders to Premier League champions – but the indications are already ominous. Mikel Arteta’s side showed plenty of guts in defensively reduced circumstances in the 2-2 draw with Liverpool at Emirates Stadium, but there will be deep frustration at getting one point rather than three. Arsenal had victory in their sights as they led through Bukayo Saka and Mikel Merino’s goals with only nine minutes left, only to fall victim to a sweeping Liverpool counter attack and Mohamed Salah’s…

Ousted Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has had part of his security reinstated.  He also got back two official cars returned to him. He used them on Sunday. Gachagua who was impeached two weeks has been without security after they were withdrawn. He now has two of his official bodyguards. The officers are drawn from the elite General Service Unit (GSU), usually assigned to senior state officers. He also has two official vehicles for his use. Police officers have also been deployed to his private residence in Karen. He had been using a private security firm to provide security at the…

India has warned social media platforms of “consequential action” after hundreds of hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines this month triggered travel chaos and terror it said threatened national security. Some threats led to planes being diverted to Canada and Germany, and fighter jets scrambled to escort aircraft in the skies above Britain and Singapore. The government called the spread of the threats “dangerously unrestrained”. It warned social media platforms of “consequential action as provided under any law” if they do not comply with the “prompt removal of misinformation”. “The instances of malicious acts, in the form of hoax bomb…

King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis will not prevent him flying abroad next year for foreign visits, a Buckingham Palace official said, as the monarch wrapped up a tour of Australia and Samoa. “We’re now working on a pretty normal looking full overseas tour programme for next year, which is a high for us to end on, to know that we can be thinking in those terms,” the official said late Saturday. Charles was diagnosed with an undisclosed cancer earlier this year but doctors agreed he could pause his treatment to allow him to travel to Australia and Samoa. The palace…

Former Education Principal Secretary, Professor Karega Mutahi, has passed away. Expressing her condolences, former Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor, Professor Olive Mugenda, remembered him as a dedicated and impactful public servant in the education sector. She said: “So sad to lose my good friend and former boss, Prof. Karega Mutahi, former PS MoE. He was the pragmatic PS who got the assignments right and got the work done. When the construction of the Kenyatta University Hospital was almost complete and we were preparing to operationalize it, Prof. Mutahi graciously accepted to chair (as a consultant) the operationalization committee that I appointed…

Activist Boniface Mwangi was Sunday traced to a police station hours after he was picked by police from his Machakos home. He was traced to Kamukunji police station in Nairobi where he had been detained. This was almost 50 kilometers from where he had been picked up by six men. His family and friends had been worried about his whereabouts for hours before they found him at the police station. His wife Njeri Mwangi who traced the activist to the station said police had accused him of inciting the public to cause violence. “They are holding him over claims of…

Homicide detectives who are pursuing the gruesome murders of three family members – a mother, daughter and 12-year-old niece – have identified the prime suspect in the monstrous killings. The detectives say Hashim Dagane Muhumed is wanted for grilling over the murder. He comes from Garissa and is on the run. He abandoned his car in Nairobi and escaped and has been traced to Ijara, Garissa County. He could also be in Nairobi or any other part of the country, police said. Investigations conducted so far have established that Hashim Dagane, 24, was driving the Nissan Note (Reg No. KDQ…

Activist Boniface Mwangi was Sunday abducted by unknown persons from his Machakos home. This came ahead of his planned protests at the Standard Chartered marathon, taking place on Sunday October 27. “Will you show up to cheer friends at the Standard Chartered marathon? You are a crucial part of the race, your cheering will motivate and energise the athletes and help reform our country in the process.” “This is how; adorn the national flag as part of your sports gear, wear hats with the national colours, wear a bandana with the message RutoMustGo, record protest chants and share online and…

In her first appearance on the campaign trail alongside Vice-President Kamala Harris, former First Lady Michelle Obama urged Americans to cast their votes to protect the country from the “dangers” of Donald Trump. In a fiery speech in Michigan – a key battleground state – Obama said the election was “too close” for her liking. At another event in Michigan, Donald Trump vowed to breathe fresh life into the state’s automotive industry and met with Arab-Americans he said could “turn the election”. Polls show the two locked in a tight race in Michigan, with Harris holding an extremely narrow lead…

A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church, but not a call for women to be ordained as priests, as some progressives had hoped at the start of the process. The synod was the end of a four-year consultation aimed at gauging the views of every church-going Catholic globally, and Pope Francis opened up what is usually a bishops conference to some lay people, including nearly 60 women of 368 voting delegates. All of the synod members voted on each of 151 proposals. Although all proposals were passed…

Title rivals Max Verstappen and Lando Norris start Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix from second and third on the grid behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. Verstappen heads into the race 57 points clear of Norris, who needs to gain on the Red Bull driver by an average of just under 12 points a race to overtake him in the remaining five grands prix. Norris qualified his McLaren just 0.089 seconds slower than Verstappen, but Sainz was in a league of his own, on pole by 0.225secs from the Dutchman to underline Ferrari’s surge in form over the last few races. The…

Robert Lewandowski scored twice in three minutes as La Liga leaders Barcelona thrashed Real Madrid in El Clasico to move six points clear of their rivals. Real were looking to extend their run of unbeaten games to 43 in the league, which would have equalled the record set by Barcelona between April 2017 and May 2018. But their hopes of doing that were quashed by a devastating second-half display by their opponents at the Bernabeu. “It’s a hard moment, a tough moment when you lose a game, [especially after] so many unbeaten,” said Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti. After a goalless…

President William Ruto appointed former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru as the chairperson of the Nairobi Rivers Commission. The president also appointed former nominated senator Millicent Omanga a member of the commission even as he moved the commission from the office of the president to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. Both Omanga and Wanjiru were initially appointed Chief Administrative Secretaries in the miniseries of Interior and Cooperatives respectively before the course declared the CAS positions null and void. President Ruto made the appointments through a Gazette Notice dated October 25, 2024. Consequently, Ruto fired Pamela Olet who has been…