Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

McDonald’s reported a drop in profits Monday behind broad-based sales declines as the fast food giant redoubles efforts to win over inflation-weary consumers. All three of the chain’s operating regions experienced comparable sales decline, a significant weakening next to the year-ago results when global comparable sales jumped nearly nine percent. Profits for the quarter ending June 30 were $2.0 billion, down 12 percent. Revenues were essentially flat at $6.5 billion. In the home market of the United States, McDonald’s experienced a drop in guest counts, although results were bolstered somewhat by digital and delivery growth. The company’s press release cited…

At least eight people, some of them children, were injured in stabbings in northwest England on Monday, emergency services said.  Police said they had detained a man and seized a knife. Merseyside Police said officers were called at about noon to an address in Southport, near Liverpool. It called it a “major incident” but said there was no wider threat to the public. It asked people to avoid the area. Photos showed several police cars, ambulances and a fire engine behind cordon tape on a street lined with houses. The North West Ambulance Service said said medics treated eight people…

Lady Gaga has taken to the streets of Paris to give fans a preview of her forthcoming seventh album. The singer is currently in France for the 2024 Olympics, where she performed the cabaret song Mon Truc en Plumes during Friday’s opening ceremony. After watching swimming events and women’s gymnastics (and apparently confirming her engagement to entrepreneur Michael Polansky) over the weekend, she decided to share some new music. “I’m so deeply touched by French fans this week outside the hotel, I’m gonna come out and say goodbye tonight – with a few seconds of #LG7,” she wrote on Instagram…

Israel’s security cabinet has authorised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister to decide when and how to retaliate for a deadly rocket attack Israel and the US say was carried out by the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. Ministers met in emergency session in the wake of the strike on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday evening, which killed 12 children and teenagers from the Druze community. Hezbollah has denied responsibility. It was the deadliest cross-border incident in months of exchanges of fire between the two sides. The attack has heightened fears that what has been relatively contained…

Former Isiolo South Constituency Member of Parliament Abdi Tepo was on Monday charged with five counts including possessing fake USD currencies.  He was also accused of having unregistered firearm. According to the charge sheet, Abdi Koropu Tepo was on July 25, 2024 at Donholm Estate with 34,200 forged USD currency notes for 100 denomination. The prosecution told the court that he was found with 300 pieces of papers intended to resemble and pass as special paper used in making Euro currency notes. He further, faced another charge of possessing one Pistol make Ceska CZ 75 and 80 rounds of 9mm…

Alternative Justice Systems (AJS) County Action Plans and Suites have been launched in Trans Nzoia County to address the substantial justice gap of about 17 percent consisting of mainly people who do not seek justice at all. Supreme Court Judge and Director Kenya Judiciary Academy (KJA) Dr Smokin Wanjala noted that three Alternative Justice Systems Suites (Ukumbi) had been launched in Kitale, Kiminini and Cherangany to expand access to justice for all Kenyans. He observed the AJS Ukumbi will not only serve as a physical seat but also as a symbol of hope, autonomy and empowerment for the Trans Nzoia…

The Last Mile Connectivity Project (LMCP) has been boosted with Sh1.85 billion grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Consequently, more than nine thousand households will be connected to the grid under Phase V of the project. The households are located within four counties which include Nakuru, Kilifi, Kwale and Nyandarua were JICA is financing other key energy projects. “We expect to connect all the targeted households across the four counties by January 2025.” “The Company is committed to fast-tracking electricity connection across the country to achieve universal access to electricity. We thank JICA for the grant which will…

President William Ruto Monday urged politicians to stop popularity contests and focus on addressing issues affecting Kenyans. Ruto told leaders to embrace unity and teamwork to push forward the country’s development agenda. He emphasised that despite coming from different political formations, leaders need to put the interests of the country ahead of their own. “We must always put the unity of the country and the interests of Kenyans first and not our own as leaders,” he said. He spoke during the opening of Pwani School for the Mentally Challenged tuition block and the laying of the foundation stone for Nyali…

Laikipia East Member of Parliament Mwangi Kiunjuri has publicly denied reports linking his daughter to the 2017 fire at Moi Girls High School that resulted in the deaths of 10 students. These denials come in response to online rumors suggesting that the convicted individual has been free after receiving a five-year sentence in February 2022. In a swift rebuttal, Kiunjuri labelled the reports as false and disingenuous. He added that his political rivals maliciously fabricated the narrative to attack him. “Let it be known to all the perpetrators of this reckless, insensitive and inhumane falsehood that I have NEVER had…

President William Ruto Sunday brushed off reports that the government intends to sell the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to a private investor.  Ruto argued Kenya is only working on a Public-private Partnership (PPP) to upgrade the facility to give the airport a new look. “The airport we have in Nairobi is made of canvas in the arrivals. This is a temporary structure we put up almost seven years ago. Ethiopia, Rwanda have a brand-new airport. It is the reason why we need to work with investors to give us a new airport,” Ruto said. He argued that a PPP…

President Nicolás Maduro has won Venezuela’s presidential election, according to partial results published by the electoral council. The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, who is a close ally of Mr Maduro, said that with 80% of votes counted, President Maduro had 51.20% of the vote, compared to 44.02% for his main rival. The Venezuelan opposition has alleged widespread fraud in the counting of votes, and has vowed to challenge the result. It had united behind candidate Edmundo González in order to unseat Mr Maduro after 11 years in power. Speaking to cheering supporters in Caracas, Mr…

Police are investigating an incident in which a university student was found dead after a suspected suicide in Mwibale village in Bungoma County. The student was identified as Benson Wafula, a third-year student at Lakeside University. His body was discovered Saturday evening hours after he had died by suicide. The body was hanging on a truss at his parents’ house with a rope tied around his neck. The motive of the incident is yet to be known, police said. The body was removed to Bungoma County Referral Hospital Morgue for postmortem examination. Elsewhere in Ngarua, Laikipia County, one Jane Mulavi…

Three people including a member of the National Police Reserve were on Sunday morning arrested at a roadblock while in possession of two rifles and 93 bullets. The incident happened along Murera Kina Road in Muringene, Igembe North, Meru County. The group was headed for Malaeni Cattle Boma to transfer their livestock from Kathelwa following the cases of cattle rustling, police said. They were in a salon car when they were flagged down at about 1 am by multi-agency team at the roadblock. According to police, the NPR had a G3 rifle with 38 rounds 7.62mm of ammunition, and two…

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has vowed to “relaunch” relations with China as she began her first visit to Beijing since taking office. Ms Meloni met Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the beginning of her five-day trip and signed a three-year plan to strengthen economic cooperation between the two nations. It comes after Ms Meloni last year removed her country from President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). At the time, Rome said the massive Chinese investment scheme had failed to bring any benefits to Italy. Ms Meloni described her trip as a “demonstration of the will to…

Seven people died in a stampede at a stadium in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital Kinshasa, local authorities said. The incident happened at the Stade de Martyrs stadium in the north of the city during a concert by Congolese gospel singer Mike Kalambayi on Saturday. State broadcasters RTNC said on X that there had been “seven deaths and several people admitted to intensive care”. “Overflows and crowd movements” at the stadium “resulted in the death of men”, the cabinet of Kinshasa governor Daniel Bumba said in a statement late on Saturday. The stadium has a capacity for 80,000 people.…