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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,…

Two minors were killed in a fire incident in Karia village, Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County. Police said a third child escaped unhurt after the fire broke out burning down a house. The female children were aged eight years and four. They had been left sleeping in the house when the fire broke out on December 12 morning. The fire brigade personnel from Nyeri County Government assisted in putting off the said fire but the house was completely reduced to ashes. The remains were moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy, police said. Meanwhile, police in Isebania, Migori County are investigating a…

A truck driver was found dead in his cabin long after the incident along the Kisumu-Kericho highway in Kapsoit area. The driver was later identified as Kimanzi Mulonzya, 44. He had delivered raw cooking oil to Uganda and was driving back to Nairobi on December 12, 2025 when he parked the trailer near Medhill Health Centre, police said. Witnesses said the lorry arrived there at about 9 am. It was until the following day on Saturday when curious locals got concerned. They told police they did not see him get out of the lorry. Police visited the scene and found…

A 16-year-old boy died after being trampled by an elephant within the Kalama Community Conservancy, Samburu County. The boy was grazing their livestock when the elephant attacked him fatally, police and rangers at the conservancy said. The incident happened Friday afternoon. The animal escaped into the forest soon after the incident. The rangers and police visited the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending other procedures. Such incidents of human-wildlife conflict have been on the rise amid efforts to address the same. This is the latest incident of human-wildlife conflict amid efforts to solve the growing crisis. In…

A move by a father to discipline his daughter for allegedly spending two nights away from home turned tragic when the girl collapsed and died in Mathare slums, Nairobi. The girl was a form two student at Athlete Senior Secondary School in Mathare North area. She died on Friday night hours after she had been assaulted by her father on claims she spent two nights away without the knowledge of the parents. Neighbours said the father and his two sons were upset by the girl’s move and joined in the disciplining mission. She escaped to a house belonging to her…

Peter Greene, a character actor best known for his role as the iconic villain Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” has died. He was 60. He died in his home in New York City, his manager Gregg Edwards confirmed on Friday. His cause of death was not immediately released. “He was just a terrific guy,” said Edwards. “Arguably one of the greatest character actors on the planet; Has worked with everybody.” Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Greene landed some of his first leading roles in “Laws of Gravity” in 1992 and “Clean, Shaven” in 1993, according to IMDb. In 1994, he played…

The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the night through rough waters. “Overwhelmingly, this is the hardest, most high profile, most delicate operation we’ve conducted,” Grey Bull Rescue Foundation founder Bryan Stern told CNN on Friday. Stern told a virtual press conference earlier that Machado had boarded a boat that set sail from the Venezuelan coast to a rendezvous point at sea.…

President Donald Trump said Saturday that there will be “very serious retaliation” after two US soldiers and one civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in Syria on Saturday. Three others were wounded in the attack, which was carried out by a single ISIS gunman, US Central Command and the Department of Defense said in statements Saturday. “We will retaliate,” Trump told reporters at the White House. He said the country is mourning “the loss of the three great American patriots” and praying for the three wounded, who “seem to be doing pretty well.” The president noted the US’ cooperation…

A gunman killed two people and injured nine others after opening fire at Brown University’s engineering and physics building in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday, officials said. The unidentified gunman left after the shooting at the Barus & Holley building, on the eastern edge of the campus, Commander Timothy O’Hara, deputy chief of Providence police, said Saturday night. People in the area were advised to shelter in place amid an active manhunt. A spokesperson Brown University Health, which operates Rhode Island Hospital, where the injured were being treated, said seven people remained in critical condition and one had been stabilized.…

Prosecutors must return evidence seized from a key figure in the dismissed criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, but the U.S. Department of Justice can seek a new warrant for the information, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling is at least a temporary setback for prosecutors mulling another attempt to charge Comey, one of President Donald Trump’s critics whom the DOJ has sought to prosecute. A lawyer for Richman declined to comment on Saturday. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that while prosecutors must return files seized from Daniel Richman, a law professor and former…