A court in Tanzania charged opposition party leader Tundu Lissu with treason on Thursday for comments he made last week calling on the public to obstruct elections due later this year. Lissu, the chairman of the main opposition party CHADEMA and runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, was arrested on Wednesday after a rally in the southwestern region of Ruvuma. At a court appearance in the commercial Dar es Salaam, Lissu was not allowed to enter a plea on the treason charge. He pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of publishing false information. The charge will bring fresh scrutiny…
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission detectives recovered Sh6.5 million from the car belonging to the Turkana County Executive Committee Member for Finance in a Sh600 million fraud probe. This happened during a raid on Michael Eregae Ekidor’s house and office in the ongoing probe. The team raised premises and offices of nine other officers at the county. The commission Chief Executive Officer Abdi Mohamud revealed they had earlier on obtained Court Orders dated March 3, 2025, freezing Sh180,000,000 in bank accounts belonging to Abenyo Amathwel Etiir, a Security Warden at the County Government and his associated companies. On Thursday April…
Kenya is opening up to new partnerships in the private sector globally to broaden its investment opportunities and attract business. Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said the partnerships are aimed at improving the ease of doing business in Kenya and laying the requisite policy and infrastructural framework for investment. Mudavadi said the government has put in place structures to ensure that Nairobi commands its stature as the regions business and financial hub, thus serving as a gateway to Africa. “Looking at the new global order, Kenya is open and ready to seize every opportunity that will deepen our bilateral cooperation…
Police arrested lovers who eloped home and faked abduction in Nairobi’s South C area. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations expressed concern regarding the alarming rise in false missing persons reports filed at various police stations across the country. Some of these reports, upon thorough investigation, have been revealed to be fabricated claims rather than genuine cases of missing persons, indicating a concerning trend of conspiracy, the police said Thursday. In a case filed at Akila Police Station, Nairobi, Zain Tarip claimed that his nephew, Idd Mubarak Rashid, went missing on the night of April 3, 2025. Rashid reappeared on April…
All students from Butere Girls High School who had been reported missing following a standoff over the controversial ‘Echoes of War’ school play have been accounted for. Officials said the 15 students had scampered for their safety after police tried to disperse them in Nakuru moments after they had declined to stage their play. At the same time, Chief Justice Martha Koome condemned the developments at the event. “It is particularly disturbing that these events occurred against the backdrop of clear and binding court orders issued by the High Court sitting in Kisii, in Anifa Mango v Principal, Butere Girls…
A man was Thursday April 10 charged with impersonating President William Ruto’s daughter, June Ruto. Samwel Mogwasi Mainga was arrested on Wednesday in Mombasa on allegations of identity theft and impersonation contrary to Section 29 of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act 2018. He was on Thursday arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, where the police sought seven more days to detain him pending completion of investigations. Directorate and Criminal Investigations (DCI) officer Peter Mwangi, in an affidavit sworn in court, said; “due to the nature and the complexity of this matter it requires more days to obtain…
Best-selling author Jillian Lauren has been shot by police and charged with attempted murder, after getting caught up in a search for hit-and-run suspects. The shooting occurred amidst a chase through the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday, as officers tried to find three suspects who were alleged to have fled the scene of a car accident. Lauren became involved when one of the alleged suspects ended up on the street where she lives with her husband, Weezer bassist Scott Shriner. The 51-year-old emerged from her house with a weapon and refused to drop it despite “numerous” demands, according to…
A woman in Australia has unknowingly given birth to a stranger’s baby, after her fertility clinic accidentally implanted another woman’s embryos into her. The mix-up at Monash IVF in Brisbane, Queensland has been blamed on human error, Australian media reports. “On behalf of Monash IVF, I want to say how truly sorry I am for what has happened,” CEO Michael Knaap said, adding that everyone at the fertility clinic was “devastated” at the mistake. Last year, the same clinic paid a A$56m (£26.8m) settlement to hundreds of patients whose embryos were destroyed despite them being viable. According to a spokesperson…
Australia has swiftly turned down China’s offer to “join hands” against Donald Trump’s tariffs, as Washington escalates its trade war with Beijing. The White House recently imposed an import tax of 10% on Australian goods, but for China – Australia’s biggest trading partner – raised tariffs to 125%. China’s ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian argued joint resistance is “the only way” to stop the “hegemonic and bullying behaviour of the US”, appealing for Canberra’s cooperation in an opinion piece on Thursday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, however, said Australians would “speak for ourselves”, while the country’s defence minister said the nation…
US stocks rocketed higher on Wednesday as President Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for most countries, yet at the same time upped increasingly ballooning levies on China. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) roared up nearly 8% at last check, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rallied a whopping 10%, aiming for its biggest gain since 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was up over 7%, or over 2,500 points. All three of the major averages had previously been lower at some point in the session. “I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal…
The United States flagged rampant bribe requests and extortion of American investors by Kenyan government officials in a latest report to secure tenders. Washington pointed out the issue among is top trade barriers with Nairobi. The report says U.S. firms had had very limited success bidding on Kenyan government tenders, with corruption being a significant concern. Now, the United States Trade Representative’s office, in its 2025 National Trade Estimate (NTE), says corruption persists and often influences the outcome of Kenya’s public tenders. “Tenders are often not announced in a timely and transparent manner. Foreign firms, some without proven track records,…
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen Wednesday revealed at least 62 elders have been killed by their children and relatives over land inheritances in Kilifi. While raising alarm over insecurity caused by land disputes in the Coastal region, Murkomen put on notice the land registry officials, judicial officers and government administrators behind land fraud in Kilifi County. Speaking while on his third day of Coastal tour, he warned the land cartels in Kilifi County that their time was up. “You see dubious and suspect court orders that lead to land theft. Administrators and corrupt officials from the land registry also facilitate…
The governor of Nigeria’s Borno state has warned that jihadist group Boko Haram is making a comeback after its fighters staged a series of attacks and seized control of some parts of the north-eastern state. Babagana Zulum called for more military assistance for soldiers fighting the insurgency. The Nigerian government has downplayed the governor’s fears, saying security in the country has improved in the last 18 months. Borno state has been at the centre of a 15-year insurgency by Boko Haram, which has forced more than two million people to flee their homes and killed more than 40,000. At the…
Hundreds of rescue workers in the Dominican Republic continue to search for survivors of a roof collapse at a nightclub in the capital, Santo Domingo. At least 124 people died and more than 150 were injured in the incident, which happened just before 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday at the Jet Set club, officials said. Head of Emergency Operations Juan Manuel Méndez estimated that his team had “24 to 36 hours left” to try to find survivors under the rubble. Hundreds of guests were inside the popular venue attending a concert by merengue singer Rubby Pérez . Pérez,…
The Trump administration has reversed sweeping cuts in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries, officials said Wednesday. The United States had initially cut funding for projects in more than a dozen countries, part of a dramatic reduction of foreign aid led by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Aid officials warned the cuts would deny food to millions of people and end health programs for women and children. The administration informed the World Food Program of its reversal on Tuesday, according to two…