Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A woman was questioned after she told police she stabbed and killed an intruder in her house in Kerwa Town, Kiambu County. The body of the deceased man identified as Peter Gachunga was found sprawled in the woman’s house with stab wounds in the chest. The incident happened Sunday January 5 morning, police said. The woman told police the slain man forcefully entered her house without her permission prompting her to grab a kitchen knife to fight him off. The blood stained kitchen knife was recovered and kept as murder weapon, police said. Police said they moved the body to…

Police recovered National and Kenya Police Service flags that were stolen when irate members of public invaded the Chemase Police Post, Nandi County. The attack took place on January 2, 2025 leaving a murder suspect Victor Kimtai lynched. Kimtai was in police custody pending arraignment for murder. The gang also burnt a police Ford Ranger motor vehicle from Potopoto Police Station. The police said they had been tipped off the flags were hidden under the mudguard of the tractor. They checked and recovered them, police said. It is not clear if there was any arrest over the recovery of the…

Two more youths who had been abducted in December were Monday released. This increased to four, the number of those so far released. The families of Billy Mwangi, Peter Muteti, Bernard Kavuli and Rony Kiplangat said their kin had reached out to them. Mwangi and Muteti had met their families physically. Rony was found in Machakos County, and Bernard Kavuli, who was abducted in Ngong found in Kitale. They were struggling to reach their families. Peter Muteti was found in Nairobi CBD and witnesses said he was disoriented and now recovering from home. All the individuals had their hair shaved.…

The body of an Indian journalist who had reported on alleged corruption in the country has been found in a septic tank in Chhattisgarh state. Mukesh Chandrakar, 32, went missing on New Year’s Day and his family registered a complaint with the police. His body was found on Friday in the compound of a road construction contractor in the Bijapur town area after officers tracked his mobile phone. Three people have been arrested in connection with his death, reportedly including two of his relatives. A media watchdog has demanded a thorough investigation. Police in the Bijapur district did not find…

US actors Demi Moore and Sebastian Stan are among the big winners at the Golden Globe Awards, which are taking place in Los Angeles.  Moore was named best actress in a musical or comedy for her performance in body horror The Substance, which has revitalised her career and could see her score an Oscar nomination. “I’m just in shock right now… I really wasn’t expecting that,” Moore said as she took to the stage. “I’ve been doing this a long time, over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor.” Other winners have…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is increasingly likely to announce he intends to step down, though he has not made a final decision, a source familiar with Trudeau’s thinking said on Sunday. The Globe and Mail reported that Trudeau was expected to announce as early as Monday that he would quit as leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office. Trudeau’s departure would leave the party without a permanent head at a time when polls show the Liberals will badly lose to the official opposition Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October. Sources…

Rebel forces backed by Rwanda have captured the town of Masisi in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to various reports.  This is the second town seized by the M23 group in as many days in the mineral-rich North Kivu province. The group has taken control of vast swathes of eastern DR Congo since 2021, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Angola has been attempting to mediate talks between President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame. But these broke down last month. “It is with dismay that we learn of the…

Lionel Messi was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Joe Biden on Saturday but did not attend the ceremony at the White House. The Argentine World Cup winner and eight times Ballon d’Or winner, now plays in the United States for Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami. Messi is the first Argentine to receive the honor and the first male soccer player. But while other recipients of the award, including U2 singer and activist Bono, former basketball star Earvin “Magic” Johnson and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attended the ceremony…

A powerful winter storm hammered the United States on Sunday, with meteorologists warning millions in the east faced blizzard conditions and some areas would see the heaviest snowfall in a decade. More than 60 million people are in the path of the dangerous storm, set to plunge the eastern half of the United States into a deep freeze of Arctic air through Monday resulting in severe travel disruptions. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of ice, snow and gale-force winds in states from the central plains to the Mid-Atlantic. Winter storm warnings have been issued from western Kansas clear across…

Sudan’s army chief has welcomed a Turkish offer to resolve the brutal 20-month conflict between his forces and their paramilitary rivals, the Sudanese foreign minister said. In early December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a phone call with Sudan’s Abdel Fattah al-Burhan that Ankara could help establish “peace and stability” in the war-torn African state. At a meeting in Port Sudan on Saturday, Burhan asked Turkey’s deputy foreign minister Burhanettin Duran to “deliver the Sudanese leadership’s welcoming of the initiative” to Erdogan, Sudanese foreign minister Ali Youssef said in a briefing after the meeting. “Sudan needs brothers and…

Police are investigating an incident in which senior official with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official was Sunday killed in her house in a robbery in Utange, Mombasa County.  Officials said the deceased Aisha Akinyi Abubakar, 48 was a senior IEBC official based in Kilifi County. IEBC is yet to issue a statement over the incident. She and her son Khasim Hassan, 18 were attacked at about 3 am Sunday January 5 at their compound by two suspects, police said. The son was also seriously injured and admitted in a local hospital, police said. The gang stole electronic…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a cartoon satirical of the paper’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos. Ann Telnaes, a long-time Washington Post cartoonist, created a cartoon of Mr Bezos and other tycoons kneeling before a statue of President-elect Donald Trump. Ms Telnaes announced her resignation in a Substack post Friday: “In all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” David Shipley, the editorial page editor at the paper, said he decided not to run the…

The family of a 27-year-old man whose body was found in a river in Mwiki area, Nairobi, says he died by drowning. Ian Singoei went missing on December 31 in the area before his body was discovered five days later on January 4. He is a son to Elgeyo Marakwet County Commissioner Dr John Korir. Korir said his son was not an activist as claimed. He said his son was in the company of his friends on New Year’s Eve in Mwiki area in Kasarani, whereupon he went missing and could not be reached on the phone triggering an extensive…

Nigel Farage has defended Elon Musk after the billionaire attacked the UK government’s response to grooming gangs on X, the social media platform he owns. In a series of posts over several days, Musk suggested Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute gangs and said Home Office minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison”. It came as the Home Office defended its decision to reject a request for it to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham. The Conservatives and Reform UK have called for a wider national inquiry. Asked about Musk’s comments on Sunday with Laura…

Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he will resign in the coming days, both as chancellor and party leader, after talks about forming a coalition government collapsed.  The chancellor said his party – the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) – and the Social Democrats had failed to agree on key issues. The liberal Neos, another party involved in the talks, also pulled out on Friday. In September the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) won an unprecedented victory in Austria’s general election, but the other parties ruled out forming a coalition with the FPÖ’s leader Herbert Kickl. The collapse of the talks could lead…