Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Detectives are investigating an incident where the body of a man was found in a pit latrine after a murder incident in Kinungi area, Naivasha, Nakuru County. The body of Samuel Njoroge Meja, 40 was found in the uncovered latrine long after the murder had happened on Monday December 15, 2025. The fire brigade from Naivasha arrived at the scene and helped to retrieve the body. Police said the body had visible injuries in the head, face and neck. Police said they are investigating murder in the incident. The body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other…

Tens of thousands of people gathered across Brazil’s main cities on Sunday to protest against a bill that – if passed – would reduce the time former President Jair Bolsonaro will spend in jail. The former president is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup d’etat after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. One of the lawmakers backing the bill told AFP news agency it could lead to Bolsonaro’s sentence being shortened to two years and four months in prison. Last week, chaos erupted as conservative lawmakers pushed it through the…

US President Donald Trump said he had asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “consider” releasing Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon who was earlier this week found guilty under the city’s controversial national security law. “I feel so badly,” Trump told reporters. “I spoke to President Xi about it and I asked to consider his release.” The UK similarly called for the 78-year-old to be “immediately released”, with UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemning the ruling, calling it a “politically motivated persecution”. Lai, who is a British citizen, has been in jail since December 2020 and is due to…

US President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Trump has requested billions of dollars in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida. The BBC apologised to Trump in November, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was any “basis for a defamation claim”. Trump’s legal team accused the BBC of defaming him by “intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech”. The BBC has not yet responded to the lawsuit being filed. According to the filing, Trump sued the broadcaster for…

A son of film director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner has been arrested and booked on suspicion of murder after the couple were found dead in their Los Angeles home. The Los Angeles Police Department said on Monday that Nick Reiner, 32, had been arrested and that he was in custody with no bail. The deceased couple’s 28-year-old daughter, Romy, found her parents in their home with multiple stab wounds on Sunday, sources told the BBC’s US partner CBS News. Rob Reiner is known for directing several iconic films in a variety of genres, including When Harry Met Sally,…

Legendary Hollywood film-maker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have been found dead in their Los Angeles home. Authorities are investigating the incident as an apparent homicide after police and firefighters were called to the couple’s house on Sunday afternoon in an upmarket neighbourhood of LA. Reiner is known for directing classic films in a variety of genres, including When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Misery and A Few Good Men. A family spokesperson confirmed the couple’s death in a statement to US media. Tributes have arrived from major figures in both Hollywood…

Saying the “evidence now points in a different direction,” law enforcement officials late Sunday released a man they had detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, which left two dead and nine injured. “This is what these investigations look like,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha at a news conference. “Sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another and that’s exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours or so.” Neronha said “there was a quantum of evidence which justified detaining this person as a person of interest.” “That…

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire Lai, 78, is one of the highest-profile critics of Beijing who has been charged under a sweeping security law imposed on the semi-autonomous city in 2020, following months of huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests. He founded Apple Daily, a fiercely pro-democracy tabloid newspaper known for its blistering broadsides against the Chinese Communist Party until its forced closure in…

Nairobi’s South C Ward Member of County Assembly (MCA) Abass Khalif, at the weekend, officially declared his intention to contest the Lang’ata parliamentary seat in the 2027 General Election. He also called for continued registration of locals as voters ahead of the polls. Khalif is positioning himself as a challenger to the incumbent MP, Felix Odiwuor (Jalang’o), particularly within the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party structures. Khalif hosted more than 4,000 registered voters at Technical University of Kenya parking on Sunday where he told the group who were majorly from the Kalenjin community of his intentions to vie for the…

A charity group announced plans to construct a Grade nine classroom at a school in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums at a cost of Sh500,000 as part of the efforts to support vulnerable children in Nairobi. The move aims at addressing infrastructure gaps facing community schools under Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The announcement was made on December 8 during a tree lighting event hosted by Lazizi Welfare Foundation in Nairobi, which was attended by pupils from Nifikie Christian School. Under the CBC system, learners are required to transition to junior secondary after Grade 8. However, many schools in informal settlements lack…

Police are investigating an incident where the body of an unidentified man was dumped at the compound of a dispensary in Kikuyu, Kiambu County. The body was taken to the James Gichuru Dispensary in Nderi area on Sunday morning and left there by unknown people, police, and the facility management said. The body of the man had visible injuries on the head when it was abandoned in the compound. Police said they moved the body to the mortuary pending other procedures, including identification and autopsy. Elsewhere in Kahuro, Muranga County, a body was found lying on a piece of land…

A police officer shot and killed a 29-year-old man before he turned the gun on himself in a love triangle saga in Ndurumo, Rumuruti, Laikipia County. The bodies of Constable Peter Macharia Mwangi and the civilian identified as Benson Kipkemboi Chirchir were found lying 150 meters apart after the Sunday, December 14, 2025, afternoon drama. Mwangi was on duty at the Ndurumo patrol base and had excused himself to go to the nearby shop to buy food while armed with his G3 rifle. It was then that he went to a shop where Chirchir was playing pool and shot him…

A move by a herder to throw a piece of wood while controlling his cows turned tragic when he fatally hit a 16-year-old girl who was near there in Chwele area, Bungoma County. Police said the form two girl died in hospital where she had been admitted following the incident in Musese village on December 12, 2025. The herdsman was arrested over the death and police said they are investigating murder. He told police he was controlling his cows that had strayed into a maize plantation when he picked up a piece of wood and directed it towards one of…

At least 10 people were Sunday night killed in a road accident near Chabera Trading center in Rachuonyo East, Homa Bay County. Police said six others sustained serious injuries in the accident that occurred at about 8 pm on Sunday. The accident happened when the Nissan matatu they were travelling in collided head-on with a lorry that was moving from Oyugis towards Katito. The fatalities are six women and four men, including the matatu driver, police said. Police said the accident occurred after the lorry driver lost control and veered into the matatu’s lane, leading to the head-on collision. The…

Detectives are pursuing a gang that attacked and robbed a businesswoman of Sh600,000 in Rangwe, Homa Bay County. The woman was also stabbed and injured in the Thursday incident, police said. Her rider was also stabbed and seriously wounded in the incident before she and the boda boda rider were rushed to the hospital, police said. The woman has been operating banking services in the town. She had on Thursday December 11 closed her business and took a motorcycle to her nearby house. While waiting for the gate to her house to be opened, an unknown number of suspects who…