Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

South African billionaire Johann Rupert has overtaken Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote as Africa’s richest person, according to the latest data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.  Mr Rupert controls Richemont, one of the world’s largest luxury goods firms, which owns brands like Cartier and Montblanc. His net worth has surged by $1.9bn to $14.3bn, placing him at 147th position globally, 12 places ahead of Mr Dangote. The Nigerian’s fortune has fallen by $1.7bn (£1.3bn) this year, giving him a net worth of $13.4bn, Bloomberg reports. The downturn in Mr Dangote’s wealth underscores Nigeria’s challenging economic environment, where his conglomerate primarily operates.…

A soldier with the Kenya Defence Forces is nursing bullet wound after he was shot in a scuffle with police in Kware area, Embakasi, Nairobi.  The drama happened on Wednesday August 28 morning, police said. The injured soldier and his two other colleagues were arrested in the incident that happened at about 2 am. Police said they were on patrol in Pipeline area when they arrested the three for questioning over suspicion of being criminals. The soldiers deny claims of them being criminals and circumstances leading to the drama. The team of police officers who included a female officer bundled…

A special team is hunting down a gang that has been targeting cars at parking lots in Narok Town. The gang breaks and steal cash and other valuables from the cars. Police say the latest trend has been targeting tourists on transit to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. On Monday August 26, a group of Chinese tourists lost cash and valuables to the gang at a parking lot in the town. The group told police they had parked their car at a mall and walked into a shop before proceeding with their trip to the reserve. When they came back,…

There was gun drama, which left at least three Haiti police officers injured in an operation targeting gangs in Bel-Air district and Solino, Port-au-Prince. The Multi-National Security Support Mission to Haiti said in a statement the Haitian victims were slightly injured during the joint operation with the Kenyan counterparts and are still receiving treatment. The operation came days after the arrival and reception of more MaxxPros from the USA meant for MSSM prompting a joint special operation that involved MSSM Kenya contingent Special Forces and Haitian National Police (HNP). The joint operations, directed by HNP Director General Normil Rameau and…

Police have arrested a former senior General Service Unit (GSU) Tuesday after he dramatically shot and seriously injured his wife at their home in Ketete area, Narok County. Stephen Kiptanui Soi, 68 is also a former senior official at the National Olympic Committee. He is a licensed gun holder, police said. He is said to have shot and wounded his wife who is an advocate of the High Court at their home on Tuesday August 27 morning following an altercation. The lawyer was injured in the left thigh and admitted at a local private hospital in stable condition, police said.…

Two Delta Air Lines workers have been killed and one has been seriously injured after an accident at an airline maintenance facility in Atlanta. The workers were servicing a Delta plane at the airline’s wheel and brake shop at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after 05:00 local time Tuesday. It’s not clear how the incident occurred. Local medical authorities identified the dead men as Mirko Marweg, 58, and Luis Aldarondo, 37. The name of the injured person was not released. In a statement, the airline said: “The Delta family is heartbroken at the loss of two team members and the…

US Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former president Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election following his loss to Joe Biden. The new charging document tailors the allegations against Trump to the recent US Supreme Court ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution for certain in-office acts. The re-tooled indictment maintains four criminal counts against Trump, but it carves out some of the descriptions of his alleged conduct. Trump has denied the election interference allegations, though he has maintained his claim – without evidence – that there was…

Vice-President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – the Democratic ticket for US president – have agreed to their first joint interview. The two politicians will sit-down with CNN in Georgia for an interview that airs Thursday at 21:00 EDT (02:00 BST). It will be the candidates’ first in-depth on-the-record conversation with a reporter since President Joe Biden exited the race and endorsed Ms Harris as his replacement more than five weeks ago. Since the vice-president moved to the top of the ticket, Republicans have criticised her for appearing to avoid the press and accused her of leaving voters…

The first rioter to enter the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 in an attempt to stop the official certification of the US presidential election has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Michael Sparks, 47, was convicted of civil disorder, disorderly conduct and other related charges at trial in March. On Tuesday, US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced him to 53 months in prison and a $2,000 (£1,500) fine. At his sentencing hearing, Sparks told the judge he still believes in false theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. “I am an American citizen…

The Israeli military said Tuesday it rescued a Bedouin Arab hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas gunmen during the 7 October attack on Israel and taken back to Gaza. Kaid Farhan Elkadi, 52, was rescued in a “complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip” by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet domestic security service, according to a statement. No further details could be published “due to considerations of the safety of our hostages, the security of our forces, and national security”, it said. Mr Elkadi is in a stable condition and has been transferred to a hospital for…

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to “censor” content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter sent to a US House committee chair, he said some material – including humour and satire – was taken down in 2021 under pressure from senior officials. The White House has defended its actions, saying it encouraged “responsible actions to protect public health and safety”. Mr Zuckerberg also said his firm briefly “demoted” content relating to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, ahead of the 2020 election, after the FBI warned…

More than 470,000 National ID cards are lying uncollected at registration offices and Huduma Centres across the country. Immigration Principal Secretary Julius Bitok announced Tuesday that as of August 26, 2024, there were 476,167 uncollected IDs. He urged those who have made applications to visit the registration centers where they initially submitted their applications to collect their cards promptly. The PS said the National Registration Bureau (NRB) has cleared the backlog of National ID card applications He said the National Registration Bureau has ramped up its production capacity to 32,000 cards per day and introduced 24-hour services to expedite the…

Police have revealed details of an accident that involved a new Range Rover and an Isuzu canter along Mombasa highway at Mariakani area, Kilifi County.  At least two people were killed on Tuesday morning when the wheel drive car collided head on with the canter. Three others were injured in the accident that left both the Range Rover and the FRR Isuzu canter. Police said the driver identified as Jamal Mubarak, 37 died alongside a female passenger. The accident happened at Maji Ya Chumvi area at about 7 am. The driver was speeding from Mombasa to Nairobi direction when he…

Elon Musk’s Starlink is terminating the packages of users who had been accessing the company’s high-speed-internet services illegally, including in South Africa. Many people who had been using Starlink in South Africa took to local Starlink Facebook groups over the weekend, complaining that their services had been terminated. This after SpaceX, which owns Starlink, sent emails to customers accessing services in countries where the satellite internet provider didn’t have regulatory approval earlier this month. The company said their services would be off after 21 August. SpaceX issued a similar threat in April this year but seemingly didn’t follow through with…

Pavel Durov is a lot of things to a lot of people. Programming prodigy. Billionaire entrepreneur. Kremlin stooge. Free-speech fighter. Biological father to at least 100 kids. Durov, the elusive founder of Telegram who was detained in France over the weekend, cuts the figure of a mysterious, globe-trotting tech bro with Mark Zuckerberg’s prodigiousness, Jack Dorsey’s bizarre lifestyle habits and Elon Musk’s libertarian streak – plus a similar obsession with pronatalism and fathering children. Durov saidin July that he had fathered more than 100 children thanks to sperm donations he had made over the past 15 years. Worth an estimated…