Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Police in Kiambu County are investigating the murder of an 80-year-old woman whose house was set ablaze in Itukarwa Village, Kiganjo Location, Gatundu South Sub-County. The deceased, identified as Milkah Nduta Njuguna, was allegedly strangled before her three-room semi-permanent house was burnt down in an incident reported on Sunday, November 1, 2026. According to police, locals alerted police about the fire at around 4:30am. Police visited the scene and established that the elderly woman had been murdered. Preliminary investigations indicate that Njuguna, who lived alone, had been served supper by her daughter at around 7pm on Saturday, October 31, as…

Security officers in Moyale, Marsabit County,safely detonated three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) that reportedly landed in the area after being discharged from neighbouring Ethiopia. The explosives were discovered on Sunday, November 1, 2026, following a report about unexploded explosive materials that had landed near Sessi Primary School. According to police, the explosives were found at two locations- one at Sessi Primary School and two others at the Meteorological Department offices. Police and a team of bomb disposal experts from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) based at Odha rushed to the scene. The security team established that the materials were three RPGs,…

There was panic when a total of 156 tenants were evacuated from a ten-storey building in Kwa Maji, Kabiria area of Dagoretti Sub-County, Nairobi. This was after engineers declared the premises dangerous following the discovery of cracks. The evacuation took place on Saturday, October 31, 2026, after authorities were alerted to the potentially unsafe structure. According to police, the incident was reported at around 3:45 pm by an assistant director at the Nairobi County Fire Engine Department who had been informed of the same. The incident comes a week after a building under construction collapsed in Eastleigh, Nairobi and left…

An explosive device believed to have been fired by fighting militia groups in neighbouring Ethiopia landed near Sessi Primary School in Moyale, Marsabit County, on Saturday night. The rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) reportedly landed near the school on October 31, 2026, following clashes involving militia groups in Moyale, Ethiopia. According to police, no injuries were reported following the incident. Police officers from Moyale Police Station secured the scene following the discovery of the explosive device. Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers were also notified of the incident. This is the second such incident to happen in the area since the fighting started.…

A Kenya Defense Forces soldier was shot dead during a confrontation with police officers in Ruiru, Kiambu County, after allegedly opening fire on officers during a night patrol. The victim, identified as Munene Antony, approximately 33, succumbed to gunshot injuries while receiving treatment at Ruiru Level 4 Hospital. His alleged accomplice, was arrested during the Sunday, November 1, 2026, incident at Covo area near Magunas in Kahawa Sukari. According to police, officers from Kahawa Sukari Police Station were conducting routine patrols at around 1 am when they received information from a member of the public that two armed men were…

The body of a police officer who went missing nearly two weeks ago has been discovered floating along the banks of River Yala in Siaya County. The deceased, identified as Police Constable Mannaseh Olambwe Ndakala, 46, was attached to Emusire Police Station in Emuhaya Sub-County, Vihiga County. The body was discovered on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at around 5:30 pm in Omindo Village, Gem Sub-County, after a resident grazing livestock near the river spotted it floating along the riverbank. According to police, the resident alerted the village elder, who subsequently informed the area assistant chief. Officers from Yala Police Station,…

Police in Embakasi, Nairobi are investigating the suspected murder of a 26-year-old woman found dead inside her friend’s house. The deceased, identified as Damaris Nalo, was discovered lying lifeless on the floor when her host returned home from work on October 29. According to police, the woman had left home at around 7.30am, leaving Nalo behind after she sought accommodation following an alleged disagreement with her husband. At around 11.10am, the host received a telephone call from a man identified only as Cornel, said to be Nalo’s former husband. During the call, the man allegedly questioned her decision to accommodate…

A 26-year-old bodaboda rider who went missing for three days was identified as the man whose badly mauled body was discovered near Modika area in Garissa County. The deceased, identified as Jackson Muteti Wambua, was positively identified by relatives and fellow bodaboda operators at the Garissa Referral Hospital mortuary on October 31, 2026. According to police, Wambua, a resident of Madogo Township, had been reported missing at Madogo Police Station after his disappearance three days earlier. His colleagues launched a search for him before contacting the Garissa Referral Hospital mortuary, where they discovered a body recovered near Modika on Friday.…

Rioters looted shops in central Frankfurt late on Saturday and clashes erupted with police there and in other German cities after largely peaceful mass protests over the cost of living. Besides Frankfurt – Germany’s financial hub – there were incidents of violence in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg, with police saying they used water cannon to disperse protesters who targeted emergency workers with fireworks, stones and bottles. Thousands earlier joined the demonstrations organised by the campaign group Gen Z regelt – meaning “Gen Z takes charge” – to protest against underfunding in schools, the high cost of living, public spending cuts…

A US judge has thrown out President Donald Trump’s $10bn dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, ruling the suit was “grasping at straws”. Trump had sued the media outlet’s parent company Dow Jones and its leader Rupert Murdoch last year after it reported on a letter allegedly written by Trump to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of a birthday book in 2003, before Epstein was charged with sex crimes. Trump has denied writing or signing the letter, which included suggestive language and a drawing of the outline of a woman’s body. Judge Darrin Gayles threw…

A federal judge has ordered the federal government to stop threatening local and state election officials with criminal charges over their role in processing election ballots.  The California judge ruled that the Department of Justice (DoJ) must stop demanding that local and state election officials set aside or not process certain ballots that the Trump administration alleges may come from non-citizens. The ruling comes days before the midterm elections, which will determine which political party controls the US Congress for the last two years of Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump criticised the ruling on Saturday, writing,”Why would they reject fixing Election…

At least six people, including a matatu driver, were killed in a grisly road accident involving three vehicles along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway in Koriomat area, Uasin Gishu County. Police said the accident occurred at around midnight on Saturday, October 31, 2026, involving a Mercedes-Benz Actros truck, a Toyota Hiace matatu belonging to North Rift Sacco and a Toyota Succeed. Police sand the truck was travelling from Nakuru towards Eldoret when its driver reportedly swerved to the right while attempting to avoid another vehicle ahead of him. The truck subsequently rammed into a Toyota Succeed before crashing into the North Rift…

The United States has approved the sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, a critically-needed munition for defence against escalating Russian aerial attacks. However Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned it could take “several years” for the deliveries to arrive. The US State Department said the advanced PAC-3 interceptor missiles would cost $2.1bn (£1.6bn) and would be “funded entirely” by Kyiv’s allies in Europe and Canada. On Friday night Zelensky repeated his calls for the US to speed up the release of its Patriots – the only effective weapon in downing Russia’s deadly ballistic missiles. The latest move comes after…

Joseph Kabila was a commander in the rebel alliance that brought his father to power in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997, went on to succeed him as president and now, at the age of 55, he is a rebel leader once again. In an even stranger twist, the man he has sworn to topple is the very man he handed power to after 18 years at the helm, and with whom he had formed a coalition government after stepping down. While one of the rebel groups he had fought against as president is part of his new alliance.…

Riot police were deployed at Poland’s Constitutional Court amid an escalating stand-off between the government and the court’s top judges. The row pits the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk against his predecessors from the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS). The police intervention came after Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said he had requested stripping the court’s President Bogdan Święczkowski and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański of their immunity from prosecution to bring criminal charges against them. Tusk has vowed to depoliticise the judiciary, and on Friday defended the move as PiS supporters gathered outside the court premises in Warsaw in protest. President…