Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Former CNN star presenter Don Lemon has sued multi-billionaire Elon Musk and his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, over the cancellation of a content deal. The lawsuit alleges that Mr Musk and his company unfairly terminated a partnership with Mr Lemon and refused to pay him after using his name to promote the social media platform with advertisers. BBC News has contacted X for comment about the lawsuit. Earlier this year, X reached deals with Mr Lemon, former US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and sports radio presenter Jim Rome, as it tries to bring advertisers back to the…

A police officer who is among those in Haiti mission was shot and wounded in a confrontation with gangs in Port-au-Prince.  Officials said the team forming part of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission was on July 30 on patrol along the National Hospital-APN Sea Port road when they noticed a lorry that was being attacked and looted by suspected gangsters. Commander of the mission Godfrey Otunge said the team noticed that the gang had shot dead the driver as they looted the track that was loaded with bags of rice. “The patrol team immediately engaged the gangs after they…

Three US citizens imprisoned in Russia, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, are expected to be released on Thursday under a prisoner exchange deal. Gershkovich, US Marine veteran Paul Whelan, and Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva will be released under the deal agreed by the Biden administration, a senior US official confirmed. In total, the exchange will involve 24 prisoners held in Russia, the US, Germany and three other Western countries. The swap has not happened yet but is expected later on Thursday. Eight Russian nationals are expected to be returned to Russia, including several with suspected ties to…

Israel’s military says it has confirmed that Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip last month. Deif was targeted in the strike on a compound in the Khan Younis area on 13 July. Hamas is yet to confirm his death. Israel says Deif was one of the figures responsible for planning the 7 October attacks in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. On Wednesday, Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh was killed during a visit to Iran. Israel has not commented on his death directly. In…

Undercover detectives from the Anti-Narcotics Unit at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA)  intercepted a drug trafficker disguising herself as a normal passenger and recovered 1080 grams of cocaine. The drugs were valued at Sh6 million, police said. The suspect, Bioma Alice Gbassay from Sierra Leone, thought she could slip through security checks but our vigilant team of detectives caught her right in the act, police said. Upon arrival in Kenya en route to Mumbai, Bioma was escorted to the immigration offices where her luggage was picked up from the baggage hall and was taken to the anti-narcotics office. After…

Interior Cabinet Secretary nominee Kithure Kindiki has said his net worth has increased by Sh150 million since his initial appointment as CS in October 2022. Kindiki, who previously served in the Interior docket until President William Ruto dissolved his Cabinet on July 11, informed Parliament during his vetting that his wealth has risen from Sh544 million to Sh694 million. He credited this growth to his law firm. “I said at that time, which I still do now, that I run a business which today even if I do not practice law, is working and much of that revenue has come…

A 19-year-old man was shot and killed during a new clash in an attempt to invade a gold mine site in Hilo, Moyale, Marsabit County. Police said they arrested 35 other illegal miners in the operation on July 30. A group of about 1,000 forcefully entered Walkiti Gold mining site prompting an operation to repulse them. Police responded by repulsing them as they turned rowdy and started pelting stones at the officers. According to police, others invaded the operation camp intending to overrun it The officers reacted and managed to repulse them leaving one Ethiopian identified as Salisa Korma Abduba,…

A group of Ethiopians who had been arrested for being in the country illegally and while being smuggled to South Africa staged a hunger strike at the Buruburu police station, Nairobi demanding their immediate repatriation. The 47 Ethiopian aliens were arrested in Donholm area on July 23, 2024. They have been detained at the station since then as authorities seek ways of repatriating them. They had been arrested from a house where they were waiting to be picked up by their smuggler for Tanzania and later to Mozambique and South Africa. Police say the group has on various occasions since…

Police are investigating the murder of a 49 year old woman whose body was found in a bush in Kahawa West area, Nairobi. The woman was identified as Rose Njoki, police said. Her half naked body was found at the scene on Wednesday July 31 evening by pedestrians and seemed to have been killed elsewhere and body dumped there. Police said the body had visible head injuries with blood stains and signs of strangulation with both hands and mouth tied with a piece of cloth. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations, police said. The…

Tension is boiling between two groups on one side and police following the forceful take over of a mosque in Faza village, Lamu County. The drama happened on July 30 and has been boiling over with a group of youth taking over leadership of Jamia Mosque. Police said this happened despite there being a court order barring the group from taking over and entering the premise. According to police, the group calling themselves Gen Z of Faza said they were tired with the leadership of the facility hence the move. They stayed put in the mosque chanting some some saying…

Two Members of Parliament allied to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua want anyone with evidence linking them to violence experienced in the anti-government protests to table the same. The two were on Wednesday evening released from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters on Kiambu Road after being questioned over their alleged involvement in anti-government protests. Embakasi North MP James Gakuya and his Embakasi Central counterpart Mejja Donk denied any involvement in the violence and looting experienced in some parts of the country during the protests. They were on Wednesday evening arrested outside CJ Restaurant along Koinange Street and taken to…

Meta shares jumped about 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company beat Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit and issued a better-than-expected forecast for the current period. Meta provided revenue guidance for the third quarter of $38.5 billion to $41 billion, or $39.75 billion at the middle of the range. Analysts were expecting a forecast of of $39.1 billion. The Facebook parent reported second-quarter revenue growth of 22% from $32 billion a year earlier, marking a fourth straight quarter of growth in excess of 20%. Net income jumped 73% to $13.47 billion from $7.79 billion, or $2.98…

At the 2024 Paris Games there might not have been an event with a more obvious favorite than Katie Ledecky and the women’s 1500m freestyle. The long-distance specialist owns the 19 fastest times in the event’s history and won the 1500m in its debut in Tokyo. In a race that often goes viral for photos of Ledecky being so far in front of her competitors that they’re out of frame, it wasn’t a question of if she’d win the race but by how much. Ledecky finished with a time of 15:30.02, an Olympic record and ten seconds better than the…

Three of the men accused of plotting the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks have entered into a pre-trial agreement, the US Department of Defence says.  Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi have been held at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for years without going to trial. According to US news outlets, the men will plead guilty in exchange for the prosecution agreeing not to seek the death penalty. The terms of the plea deal have not yet been released. Nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania were killed…

Donald Trump has questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity during a heated exchange at a convention for black journalists.  Trump falsely claimed the vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee had only emphasised her Asian-American heritage until recently when, he claimed, “she became a black person”. “I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black,” he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday. “So I don’t know – Is she Indian? Or is she black?” Ms Harris said Trump’s…