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Nine British soldiers are being investigated in connection with the killing of a Kenyan woman in Nanyuki in 2012. The lifeless body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was discovered inside a septic tank at Lions Court Inn Hotel in Nanyuki two months after her disappearance. On the night she went...

Nine British soldiers are being investigated in connection with the ****** of a Kenyan woman in Nanyuki in 2012. The lifeless body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was discovered inside a septic tank at Lions Court Inn Hotel in Nanyuki two months after her disappearance. On the night she went...

A team of Kenyan law students has beaten their counterparts from 38 universities in Africa to emerge the winners of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, the biggest of its kind on the continent. Sidney Tambasi and Martin Kioko from Kenyatta University trounced a combined team of...

Pregnant women who get an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 pass high levels of protective antibodies on to their babies, new research shows. Doctors analyzed umbilical cord blood from 36 newborns whose mothers had received at least one dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech or Moderna...

Detectives have arrested a woman who faked her own kidnapping and demanded Sh200,000 ransom from her husband. Jane Wairimu Ndung’u disappeared last Friday, leaving her husband Brian Mutuku worried about her whereabouts. Hours after she went missing, Mutuku received a phone call from his wife...

The Kenya Film Classification Board has banned a 52-minute film, I am Samuel, citing a homosexuality theme. In a statement released on Thursday, the Board stated that the film violates Article 165 of the Penal Code that outlaws homosexuality as well as the provisions of the Films and Stage...

Eighty nine Kenyans, majority of them domestic workers, have died in the past two years in Saudi Arabia where authorities reported the cause of death as “cardiac arrest”. A report submitted to the National Assembly by Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Kamau Macharia adds a new dimension to...

Safaricom will increase its fifth-generation (5G) sites to 200 by the end of the year and commercialise the super-fast services in 2022. The leading telco, which in March launched the 5G technology with 15 sites, says it wants to take high-speed Internet to additional towns. Safaricom chief...

Public service vehicles (PSVs) plying their trade in Nairobi will from Saturday pay between Sh1,630 and Sh5,000 more for seasonal parking, following the easing of Covid-19 protocols to allow them to carry passengers at full capacity. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has ended the discounted...

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is set to launch a mass voter registration drive ahead of next year’s elections. The exercise, which targets between six to seven million new voters, will be carried out in the country and the diaspora. A 30-day nationwide voter...

The family of Felix Orinda, alias DJ Evolve, has been thrown into mourning after the death of their mother Mary Hongo. The entertainer's mother passed away on the evening of Wednesday, September 22. She reportedly got breathless, collapsed, and was rushed to a hospital where she breathed her...

Elizabeth Wakesho Marami, who made history by becoming Kenya’s first female marine pilot, has earned a promotion at her workplace. Wakesho works for Celebrity Cruises, a leading American cruise ship company based in Miami, Florida. She was recently promoted from 2nd Officer to 1st Officer of...

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia’s parliament on Tuesday, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to atone for its 1904-1908 genocide against the Herero and Nama people. Namibian authorities announced on May 28 that Germany had agreed to...

Men are more likely to get their hand on business loans in comparison to women, putting the gender at a disadvantage in entrepreneurship. This is according to data from a new paper by the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA), tabled at the 10th Annual KBA Banking Research Conference on Wednesday...

Investors on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) Wednesday lost about Sh54 billion in paper wealth, the biggest single-day decline in four months, hit by a slump in the share price of market driver Safaricom . Data showed that the NSE’s market capitalisation fell by Sh53.8 billion to stand at...