Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

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…

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has reached the end of his national security trial, with a verdict due on Monday for his charges of sedition and conspiring to collude with foreign forces. Hailed by some as a hero and scorned by others as a traitor, the 78-year-old is the most prominent person charged under the controversial national security law which China introduced in 2020, in response to massive protests which erupted in Hong Kong the year before. The law criminalises anything Beijing deems to be subversive or secessionist, from chanting slogans to participating in pro-democracy protests. Beijing says…

Chile elected the far-right wing José Antonio Kast to be its next president, after an election campaign that was dominated by themes of security, immigration and crime. Kast won decisively with more than 58% of the vote in his third attempt at running for president. It marks the biggest shift to the right since the end of Chile’s military dictatorship in 1990. Kast has openly praised Chile’s former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet. He beat the governing left-wing coalition’s candidate, Jeannette Jara, from the Communist Party. At a gathering of his supporters in the capital Santiago, many draped in Chilean flags,…

The Cabinet will meet Monday to consider and approve the architecture of the Infrastructure Fund and consequently begin Kenya’s journey of lifting the economy from third world to first-world status, President William Ruto announced. He explained that the fund will be the instrument used to mobilise Sh5 trillion required to fund the country’s transformation and take it to the next level. He pointed out that the funds will be used in upgrading and expanding high-quality infrastructure, including the dualling of 2,500km of highways, tarmacking 28,000km of roads, expansion of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Mombasa and Lamu port, and the extension…

Twelve people have died – including one gunman – following a shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach which targeted the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah. According to police, 29 others were taken to hospital and two officers were shot during the incident, which has since been declared a terror attack by officials. The surviving gunman is in a critical condition. More than 1,000 people were attending an event on the beach celebrating Hanukkah. Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, said: “Our heart bleeds for Australia’s Jewish community tonight. “I can only imagine the pain that they’re…

The attack targeting the Jewish community at a Hanukkah event in Australia is “sickening”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. At least 11 people were killed in the shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday and a further 29 taken to hospital, according to police. In a statement on X, the UK prime minister said: “The United Kingdom will always stand with Australia and the Jewish community.” He added that the government was working with Community Security Trust, a Jewish security organisation, on the policing of Hanukkah events in the UK. The Metropolitan Police said it was increasing its “police presence, carrying…

A person of interest was Sunday detained in connection with a US shooting at Brown University that left two people dead, police said. Nine others were injured when a gunman opened fire at the university in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday. Police confirmed on Sunday a person had been detained, and an earlier order for people on the Brown campus and surrounding areas to shelter had been lifted. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said seven people remained in stable condition, one of them was in critical but stable condition, and another was discharged. The gunman opened fire in a classroom at…

At least eight people including a minor were on Saturday night killed in a road accident at Bw’arani area near Ekerenyo along Kericho-Nyamira road. Police said the accident a shuttle and a trailer. The shuttle was ferrying passengers from Nairobi when the incident happened Saturday, police said. Five passengers died on the spot while the others succumbed to the injuries in hospital. Police said the victims’ bodies were moved to the mortuary pending other procedures. Governor Amos Nyaribo visited passengers who survived the accident that claimed the lives of the eight. Eight other victims are currently receiving treatment at the…

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fight against corruption. The MoU was signed by EACC Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Abdi A. Mohamud and SIU head Andy Mothibi on the sidelines of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) Annual Conference 2025 and the 15th General Meeting held in Doha, Qatar. The agreement establishes a structured framework for collaboration between the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit, focusing on mutual technical assistance, information and intelligence sharing,…