Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

South African border officials say they have intercepted a group of more than 440 unaccompanied children who had travelled from Zimbabwe. The Border Management Authority (BMA) said the children, all aged under eight, travelled on dozens of buses on Saturday. It added that they were without parents, guardians and the permission letters required by law. Reports say the children were visiting parents who work in South Africa. On social media platform X, the BMA said officials “stopped and searched 42 buses at the Beitbridge border post and found about 443 children under the age of eight who were travelling without…

Detectives have arrested four linked to a carjacking and abduction of two car dealers in Juja, Kiambu county. The suspects were positively identified at the Juja Police Station. They had earlier fled the scene of the incident after the vehicle in question was involved in an accident in Kahawa Wendani. Witnesses said the men opened fire on Sunday night after the Prado veered off the road and crashed into a rail guard. The car had earlier on, while speeding on the highway hit a taxi that had been parked on the roadside in Juja. The driver then sped off before…

Police Tuesday arrested Controller of Budget Dr Margaret Nyakango to face various charges in court. This is in connection to a complaint made against her and 10 other people in 2016. This was way before she became the CoB. She and the ten are supposed to face charges including conspiracy to defraud contrary to Section 317 of the Penal Code, operating a Sacco without a Licence Contrary to Section 24 as read with Section 66 of the Sacco Societies Act, 2008, forgery and uttering a false document c/s 353 of the Penal Code. She was arrested in Mombasa and was…

Two wild buffalos that had been terrorising locals in Mashuru, Kajiado County were Saturday shot and killed. A stray bullet aimed at one of the angry buffalo hit and injured a man who was hiding in a thicket in the drama. This was during a dramatic hunt on two male buffalos that had been terrorizing locals on Saturday, police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials said. The buffalos had strayed from the nearby Amboseli National park and started to terrorize locals. KWS officials and police arrived at the scene and tried to drive them out of Eselenkei area in vain. The…

At least 154 people have died out of flooding occasioned by El nino rains experienced in the country. The number of households displaced increased to 100,432 comprising of 462,160 persons. The Kenya Coast Guard Service KCGS have deployed personnel for the mass evacuation of residents marooned off Wema in Tana River due to extensive torrential flooding. Major roads in the area have been declared impassable. Monday morning, River Voi burst its banks the rising waters left at least five thousand families in Msambweni, Tanzania and Kaloleni areas in Voi, Taita Taveta County stranded and displaced after submerging their homes and…

A High Court has temporarily suspended the sale of 11 parastatals. Those set to be privatized include the Kenya International Convention Centre (KICC) and Kenya Pipeline Company, Rivatex, Kenya Seed Company, among others. ODM through Advocate Jackson Awele argued that the public was not allowed to give its views on the Privatization Act which made it easier to sell the state entities to private companies. “A conservatory order is hereby issued suspending the implementation of section 21 (1) of the Privatization Act 2023 or any decisions made pursuant to that section, until 6th February 2024,” said Justice Chacha Mwita. The…

State House has clarified the number of government officials that attended the COP28 summit in Dubai following conflicting details on social media. State House spokesperson Hussein Mohamed on Monday said only 51 State officials attended the event. According to Hussein, the number of Kenyans in attendance was because many were sponsored by non-state actors. “Non-government entities are facilitating several Kenyans to participate in this COP28. The list of the people that were cleared by the national government is 51,” he said. Earlier reports indicated that Kenya had at least 763 participants. Kenya came in 12th place with the most number…

A car dealer was injured after a four wheel drive car he was delivering to a client for viewing was carjacked on Thika Road, Nairobi. The gunmen behind the incident dumped the Toyota Prado at Kahawa Wendani along Thika Road after they were accosted by an online taxi driver who wanted to be compensated for a hit and run. Witnesses said the men opened fire on Sunday night after the Prado veered off the road and crashed into a rail guard. The car had earlier on, while speeding on the highway hit a taxi that had been parked on the…

At least five people were killed Sunday evening after a trailer lost control at Kikopey on the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway, ramming into pedestrians before ramming onto a building where several people were playing a game of pool. Six other people sustained serious injuries and are receiving medical care at Gilgil sub-county hospital, police said. Gilgil sub-county police boss Francis Tumbo confirmed the incident, saying the two pedestrians were hit as they walked along the highway at around 9 p.m. Preliminary reports suggest that the driver who was heading towards Nakuru direction lost control and hit two male adult pedestrians killing them…

A suspect was saved from a mob after he allegedly hit and killed a 53 year old woman with a stone in a village in Msambweni, Kwale County. The deceased Mwana Kombo died on the spot on Saturday after being hit in the head by the suspect. An alarm was raised alerting a mob which caught up with the suspect. Police arrived at the scene on time and saved him from being lynched. He was taken to Tiwi hospital for treatment while under arrest. Police said they are yet to establish the motive behind the quarrel that turned fatal. The…

President William Ruto departed Dubai for India on Sunday for a series of meeting. Ruto embarked on the two-day State visit to India today following successful advocacy for Kenya and Africa’s climate agenda at the UN Climate Conference (COP 28) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Bilateral discussions with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will span crucial areas such as agriculture, trade, and investment promotion, forging healthcare partnerships, particularly in pharmaceutical production and capacity building. State House said they will also discuss collaboration in education, ICT, maritime affairs, and renewable energy. The talks will lead to the signing of several…

Extra police patrolled one of South Africa’s most violent townships Sunday after a “mob” tied up and burned to death seven men accused of a crime wave, police and residents said. South Africa is afflicted by a steadily increasing murder rate, but community leaders say Diepsloot, a town of more than 350,000 people north of Johannesburg with high rates of killings and rape, has been abandoned by authorities. Police said they had started a murder investigation after the charred bodies of the seven young men were found. An alert over two “burned bodies” was raised late Friday night, police spokesman…

Guinea-Bissau’s president says heavy gunfire that broke out in the capital on Friday was an attempted coup. He had been out of the country at the time, attending the UN’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai. Speaking on Saturday, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló promised “serious consequences” for the perpetrators. This is the second foiled coup against his leadership in under two years. The unrest began late on Thursday evening into Friday mid-morning. A man described as the leader of a group of soldiers who tried to free a detained minister and a senior state official in Guinea-Bissau has been caught, the…

Two Members of Parliament and 16 others who went missing in Tana River floods were Sunday morning found alive and rescued, officials said.  Garsen Member of Parliament Ali Wario and his Galole counterpart Said Buya Hiribae were among the 18 people who had been missing for hours in the flooded water. The two were among 16 others who went missing during a rescue mission in the Tana River on Saturday. Tana River County Commissioner Mohammed Noor said the team was tracked down in the middle of Tana delta by skilled personnel. “They were somewhere in Mlima Abo, the GPRS showed…

The East African Community Regional Force (EAC-RF) began its withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday morning, officials said. This is after DRC authorities refused to renew its mandate. A first group of around 100 Kenyan soldiers from the force – which also includes Ugandan, Burundian and South Sudanese soldiers – left the region from Goma airport bound for Nairobi. An official in Nairobi said Kenyan troops did exceptionally well and they were the first to deploy in Goma when it was near take over by M23 rebels. “Preparations to leave underway. The summit decision was non extension…