Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

A suspected thug was Sunday shot and killed in a botched robbery in Sunton area, Kasarani, Nairobi. The incident happened in Chieko area when police officers on patrol confronted two suspected thugs who were armed with crude weapons. Police said a home made gun was found on the slain suspect. According to police, the two were headed for a robbery mission when they were stopped. They instead tried to escape the scene prompting the shooting that left one suspect dead. His accomplice managed to escape on foot. The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy, police said.…

Police are holding a 25-year-old woman after she claimed her husband had killed himself through stab wounds in the chest in Machakos Town. The body of Brian Makau, 26 was found on a sofa set long after he had died. The woman told police the deceased succumbed to stab wounds he inflicted on his chest using a kitchen knife. The incident happened on Sunday March 10. Police who visited the scene found the body seated on a sofa set in a pool of blood with a stab wound on the right-hand side of his neck. The suspected murder weapon- a…

Rwanda’s ruling party on Saturday picked President Paul Kagame as its candidate for the July election, teeing up a contest widely expected to return the longtime leader to office for a fourth seven-year term. The 66-year-old has ruled over the landlocked African nation with an iron fist for decades and won the presidency in elections in 2003, 2010 and 2017 — with more than 90 per cent of the vote. Kagame’s candidacy was unopposed during the Rwandan Patriotic Front congress that ended Saturday, the party said. Kagame’s only known challenger in the July polls is opposition Green Party leader Frank…

As heavily armed gangs continue to challenge Haiti’s weak government and turn the country’s capital into a battlefield, the State Department on Sunday March 10 flew in U.S. Marines to reinforce its embassy and evacuate non-essential personnel. The middle-of-the-night operation was conducted via helicopter by the U.S. military at the request of the State Department, the U.S. Southern Command said in a statement. “This airlift of personnel into and out of the embassy is consistent with our standard practice for embassy security augmentation worldwide, and no Haitians were on board the military aircraft,” the statement said. The airlift comes amid…

A Form 3 student at Shimbo secondary school in Wundanyi on Saturday drowned while taking a swim at the Kishenyi dam in Taita Taveta. Police said the 17-year-old student had gone to swim in the dam in the company of his fellow students when he drowned. The students had just finished attending their afternoon classes when they decided to go to the dam. The body of the student had not been retrieved from the dam yet by Sunday. Local divers and police officers from Wundanyi station camped at the dam mapping the area of the incident before beginning the search.…

Detectives are investigating an incident in which a businessman shot and killed himself in his car in a suspected suicide mission in Sunvalley estate, Lang’ata, Nairobi. Abraham Meli had locked himself in his four-wheel drive car- a Toyota Prado – and shot himself in the head on Friday March 8 morning. The motive of the incident is yet to be known, police said. Meli is a former military personnel and was a licensed gun holder, his family and police said. Police said they were called and informed the man had shot himself in the car. He was later rushed to…

Officials are investigating the source of a live bomb that was found on a farm where farmers were tilling in Sipili area, Laikipia County. The discovery was made on March 9 at Wangwachi area, police said. Farmers at a farm reported that there was an explosive device at their land. Police rushed to the scene and established that it was a 60 mm live bomb. Due to the security nature of the place police managed to move it to Sipili Police Station awaiting detonation. Bomb disposal experts visited the station and managed to detonate it. The bomb is believed to…

The US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken Saturday night spoke with President William Ruto to discuss the ongoing political and security crisis in Haiti.  They underscored unwavering commitment to the deployment of a Multinational Security Support mission to support the Haitian National Police in creating the security conditions necessary to conduct free and fair elections. “Blinken spoke with President Ruto of Kenya on accelerating the deployment of a Multinational Security Support mission to Haiti,” a statement on X said. Spokesman Matthew Miller said Blinken also offered his appreciation for Kenya’s diplomatic work to support peace and security in the…

In what appears to be a grand return of ‘Pishori babes’ now rocking night activities in Kiambu’s Thika town, two damsels suspected to have stupefied a male clubber at a club were Friday arrested.  The two women were spotted by the club supervisor who was concerned after seeing the two forcefully dragging a seemingly too drunk frequent customer to his Toyota Crown, before putting him on the driver’s seat in that drunken state. The incident happened at VSpot Nightlife, police said. But even before the supervisor could intervene to stop the man from drink-driving, he was caught agape by a…

Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) board chair Caleb Kositany on Saturday survived a plane crash. The duo escaped unhurt after a private chopper they were travelling in crashed as it attempted to take off in Mwachon, Baringo County. Officials advised the victims to seek medical attention. The pilot too escaped unhurt. The chopper registration number 5Y-PKI is privately owned but the two had hired it. They were visiting several places in the area when the incident happened. Police were later called to guard the badly damaged chopper as the officials were transported to their intended…

A grade eight pupil died after he allegedly jumped off from the roof top of a building in Umoja area, Nairobi.  Police said the boy’s body was found on the first floor of the building after the fall. The school is on a seven-storey building and the incident happened on Friday March 8 evening at the Joy Gardens Primary School in Tena-Umoja, police said. The circumstances under which the incident happened are not clear. Police said they are investigating murder in the incident. This is after the injuries they found on the body of the boy showed the impact of…

Briton Anthony Joshua delivered the most powerful statement to the heavyweight division with a destructive second-round knockout win over Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia. Joshua, 34, floored the UFC champion in the first round and early in the second. A dazed Ngannou rose to his feet in Riyadh but was stunned by an explosive and formidable right moments later as the referee halted the contest. The 37-year-old appeared to be out before he even hit the canvas and required medical treatment. “I’m going back to my cage and when they let me out, I’ll fight again,” Joshua said, as WBC…

Sporadic gunfire rang out in Port-au-Prince Friday night, an AFP correspondent there heard, as residents desperately sought shelter amid the recent explosion of gang violence in the Haitian capital. Humanitarian conditions continued to deteriorate, and aid groups and NGOs have warned of a shortage of medical resources and food supplies after armed groups unleashed widespread chaos on the long-troubled Caribbean nation last week. According to an AFP journalist on the scene, gunshots were heard throughout the capital late Friday, especially concentrated in the southwestern districts of Turgeau, Pacot, Lalue and Canape-Vert. Fearful residents scrambled to take shelter, with witnesses telling…

The Duchess of Sussex has criticised the “seemingly endless toxicity” of social media, revealing she was targeted with “bullying and abuse” while pregnant with Archie and Lilibet. Meghan was the keynote speaker on a high-profile panel marking International Women’s Day at the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. She said she now keeps her distance from such comments for her wellbeing. Prince Harry was in the front row of the audience watching the event. Meghan said people have “forgotten our humanity” in certain parts of the media and digital sphere. “The bulk of the bullying and abuse that I was…

Police from Operations Support Unit of Directorate of Criminal Investigations Friday seized 67 bales of bhang and arrested two traffickers at Kimbimbi area of Mwea in Kirinyaga County.  This came after a painstaking intelligence-led pursuit of two vehicles from Moyale at the border of Kenya and Ethiopia, police said. According to police, getting wind that a syndicate notorious for trafficking the hard drug from Moyale was changing tactics from transporting the ‘cargo’ in false lorry compartments to using less suspicious saloon cars, surveillance teams of OSU hawkshaws were deployed along routes used by the felons to evade roadblocks. At 2pm…