The government will process a title deed for Nairobi’s Gikomba Market in 90 days, President William Ruto has announced. Ruto said the market is on public land and the provision of a title deed in the name of Nairobi County will settle the ownership status once and for all. The President directed Lands Cabinet Secretary Alice Wahome and Principal Secretary Nixon Korir to work with the National Land Commission to issue a title deed to the county. “This will once and for all address speculation by land grabbers,” he said. The President also announced the construction of phase three of…
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The European Parliament is planning to suspend approval of the US tariffs deal agreed in July, according to sources close to its international trade committee. The suspension is set to be announced in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday. The move would mark another escalation in tensions between the US and Europe, as Donald Trump ratchets up his efforts to acquire Greenland, threatening new tariffs over the issue on the weekend. The stand-off has rattled financial markets, reviving talk of a trade war and the possibility of retaliation against the US for its trade measures. Shares on both sides of the Atlantic…
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja on Monday moved to stop ongoing demolitions in Mukuru kwa Njenga, terming the exercise illegal, inhumane, and carried out without due process. Speaking on the ground in Mukuru kwa Njenga, Sakaja faulted the agencies behind the demolitions, saying they acted without notice, consultation, or coordination with the county government. He said residents were forced to flee their homes as bulldozers moved in, leaving families terrified and uncertain about their future. “It is very unfortunate that we wake up to several agencies coming together to demolish houses without any notice or proper communication,” Sakaja said. “People are…
Kitutu Chache South MP Anthony Kibagendi was Tuesday arrested in Nairobi over assault claims and moved to Kisii ahead of planned arraignment. He will on Wednesday January 21 face assault and malicious damage charges in Kisii court, police said. He is accused of assaulting a reveler in Kisii Town last year. Kibagendi was stopped at a traffic jam along Uhuru Highway and forced out of his car by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. He was driven and booked at Muthaiga police station pending his transfer to Kisii for plea taking on Wednesday. He driven in a police car…
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen Tuesday rallied leaders across the country to join hands in ensuring 100 per cent transition of learners from Junior to Senior Secondary School. Speaking in Kasige, Marakwet East Constituency, Elgeyo Marakwet County, during the burial ceremony of the late Endo Ward Member of the County Assembly, Jeremiah Kibiwott Toryebee, the CS stressed on the collective responsibility of all leaders in keeping children in school. “Let all of us work together to ensure full transition from junior to senior secondary school,” he said. “The County Commissioner and the NGAO team have clear instructions…
Beijing demanded the Taliban government protect its citizens after an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least seven people. Six Afghans and one Chinese national were killed, and several more injured, in the blast at a Chinese restaurant in a heavily-guarded part of the city centre on Monday, officials told the media. The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack – although police in Kabul said the “nature of the explosion is unknown so far and is being investigated”. China has urged its citizens not to travel to Afghanistan, where…
Australia’s parliament has voted for sweeping gun law reforms and a crackdown on hate speech, a month after two attackers shot 15 people dead at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach. Both bills passed the House of Representatives and Senate at a special sitting late on Tuesday. The gun reform measures include a national gun buyback scheme and new checks on firearm licence applications. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the Bondi gunmen would not legally have had access to firearms if such a law had been in place prior to the attack, the country’s worst mass shooting in decades.…
Heavy machinery is being used to assist in the recovery following a two-train crash in southern Spain which killed at least 41 people. Rescuers worked through a second night and said the death toll included three bodies still trapped in a wrecked carriage. More than 120 people were injured when carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, hitting an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening. Sabotage has been ruled out, the interior minister has said, and the initial focus of investigators is on a broken rail on the high-speed line. Prime Minister Pedro…
At least seven people were Monday killed and 11 injured after a truck rammed two matatus at Kikopey, Gilgil, Nakuru County. Police said the truck was heading towards the Nakuru general direction when the driver lost control of the vehicle before crashing into the matatus heading in the opposite direction, police said. Gilgil sub county police commander Wilstone Mwakio confirmed that five people died on the spot, while two others succumbed at St. Mary’s hospital in Gilgil. “The trailer heading to Nakuru veered off its lane and hit two matatus heading towards Gilgil. It then collided with a third matatu…
The Government is keen to ensure that the ongoing construction of the 740-km Isiolo-Mandera road is completed on schedule, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has said. He said the Regional Road Corridor, being implemented under the Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project, will open up northern Kenya, enhance regional trade, strengthen connectivity, and improve security. He spoke when he met fellow CSs Davis Chirchir (Roads and Transport) and Soipan Tuya (Defence) during a high-level multi-agency consultation to review the security arrangements in place to ensure that construction across all sections of the over 740-kilometre corridor proceeds concurrently and without disruption.…
China’s birth rates sunk to a record low in 2025, despite the government rolling out a spate of incentives to boost it, as the country’s population fell for the fourth straight year. Government data on Monday showed that the country’s birth rate fell to 5.63 per 1,000 people – a record low since the Communist Party took power in 1949 – while its death rate rose to 8.04 per 1,000 people, the highest since 1968. Its population fell 3.39 million to reach 1.4 billion by the end of 2025, marking a quicker decline than the previous year. Faced with an…
Thirteen school pupils have died in South Africa after the minibus they were travelling in collided with a lorry south of the city of Johannesburg. The crash happened on Monday morning at around 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) in Vanderbijlpark, the local education authority said. Eleven students died at the scene, while two succumbed to their injuries later on. Two other pupils remains in critical condition. The minibus driver crashed into the lorry after attempting to overtake two vehicles, police spokesperson Mavela Masondo said. Masondo added that a case of culpable homicide would be opened. The minibus driver was “reportedly”…
South Africa has sent a team to help with rescue efforts after a local politician was swept away by floodwaters while visiting neighbouring Mozambique. Andile Mngwevu, a councillor in the Ekurhuleni municipality, east of Johannesburg, and four others were in Mozambique’s Gaza province when their car was caught in a flood, officials say. Only one of the passengers has been accounted for – the “status and whereabouts of the other occupants remain unconfirmed”, the municipality said in a statement. Flooding has devastated parts of both countries and resulted in Mozambican President Daniel Chapo cancelling his trip to the World Economic…
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will dissolve parliament on Friday, paving the way for an early election on 8 February that she hopes will translate her strong public polling into a big majority in the lower house. It was an “extremely weighty decision” that would “determine Japan’s course together with the people”, Takaichi told a news conference in Tokyo. The country’s first female leader and her cabinet have enjoyed high public support since taking office last October. But her party lags behind in polls and the move is risky. It’s Japan’s second general election in as many years and will…
Ghana’s security forces have arrested nine Nigerians suspected of co-ordinating a host of cyber-crime activities from makeshift offices in and around the capital, Accra. Forty-four others, believed to be victims brought to Ghana from Nigeria under false pretences, have also been detained and handed over to the immigration authority. During the two-day intelligence-led operation, raids uncovered 62 laptops, 52 mobile phones and two pump-action guns, the authorities have said. There is a growing trend of foreigners being lured to Ghana under the pretext of lucrative work. They are then put in gated compounds, have their documents confiscated and are compelled…