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Court issues arrest warrant against Ndichu brothers

31Mar

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Court issues arrest warrant against Ndichu brothers

Nairobi court has issued an arrest warrant against two brothers- Paul Ndichu and Edward Ndichu after they once again failed to appear in court for their assault case. Kibera chief magistrate Ann Mwangi ordered the police to arrest the duo. "Since the accused person is not in court despite a court order I, therefore, issue a warrant of arrest against them," Mwangi ruled. The lawyer holding brief in the matter had told the court that the accused persons lawyer was in another matter at the high court. "I am holding brief in the matter and I have instructions to ask for another date since their lawyer is in another matter at the high court," he said. Lawyer Phillip Murgor had told the court in the previous session that the accused person was taking the court for granted aft...

31Mar

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Kenya announces ban on feeding bottles

The Ministry of Health has announced the ban on feeding bottles from May 28. This comes after Parliament recently passed into law the Breast Milk Supplements (BMS) Regulation and Control Act of 2012 that listed the bottles used for feeding infants as designated products, to mean items that are within the scope of regulation by the law. While addressing delegates at the country’s first ever National Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Symposium, organised by the ministry, Ms Esther Mogusu, the principal nutrition and dietetics officer at Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), praised the government’s position and maintained that feeding bottles do more harm than good. The reason they are regulated is whatever content is fed (to a baby) using bottles is not breast milk, bu...

Matatus To Stop Accesing Nairobi CBD Starting April

29Mar

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Matatus To Stop Accesing Nairobi CBD Starting April

Matatus are set to be barred from operating in Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD) starting April. The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) says that the Green Park, Desai and Park Road bus termini will start operations by the end of April. Matatus plying the Ngong, Lang'ata, and Argwings Kodhek roads will be the first to be affected, according to NMS transport and Public Works Director Engineer Michael Ochieng. Currently, the Green Park terminal is 98% complete and will accommodate between 300 and 350 vehicles at go, and up to 20,000 in a day. The terminal will serve Ngong, Karen, Rongai, Kikuyu, Dagoretti, Kawangware, Kibra, Highrise, Ngumo, Langata, Nairobi West, Makadara, Kaberia, Satellite and Kiserian-bound commuters. “The change we are making in terms o...

Expect heavy rains in several parts of the country, says MET

29Mar

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Expect heavy rains in several parts of the country, says MET

Several parts of the country are expected to receive rainfall in the next two months, the Met department has said. Isolated storms are likely to occur over some parts of the Highlands West of the Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Basin, the Central and South Rift Valley, the Highlands East of the Rift Valley, the Coast and the Southeastern lowlands. The forecast shows high chances of a strong rainy season up to May in many parts of the country However, rainfall intensities are expected to reduce during the second half of the forecast period. Mombasa, Eldoret, Nakuru, will experience sunny intervals while Nyeri, Marsabit, Kisumu, Nairobi will experience sunny and rainy intervals this week. Both daytime temperatures and nighttime temperatures are lik...

28Mar

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KCPE to be released today

KCPE results are to be released today at 11 am, Education CS George Magoha has said. Magoha is currently briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta before he makes the results public. The candidates can get the results by sending their index numbers to code 20076. Some 1.2 million candidates sat their 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams this year. This year the council registered 1,225,507 candidates in 28,316 KCPE examination centres as compared to 1,191,752 candidates in 28,467 centres in 2020. This reflects an increase of 33,755 representing 2.75 per cent. This comes even as the marking of KCSE exams begins across the country. The exam enters the third and final week. A number of teachers who will be marking English and Mathematics will be settled at their...

Suspected Fraudster Arrested For Allegedly defrauding Investors Millions of shillings.

23Mar

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Suspected Fraudster Arrested For Allegedly defrauding Investors Millions of shillings.

serial fraudster has been apprehended for allegedly defrauding Kenyans and foreigners out of tens of millions of shillings while posing as a senior procurement officer in various government ministries. The suspect, identified as David Ambuku alias General, is accused of fabricating fake tender documents and local purchase orders in order to persuade bidders and potential suppliers that they will be awarded lucrative contracts. Ambuku was apprehended on Tuesday morning, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), after attempting to flee by plunging into a water tank at his home in Kimathi estate along Jogoo road. Detectives were following leads to a fraud case in which two salespeople were allegedly duped out of Ksh.47 million by Ambuku, which led them to h...

KCAA issues new Covid regulations for travelers

23Mar

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KCAA issues new Covid regulations for travelers

All travelers arriving into Kenya through any point of entry must have a certificate of Covid-19 vaccination, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority has said. In a statement, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said these regulations apply to all with an exemption of travelers with medical conditions precluding vaccination. The Authority said such persons shall be required to provide a letter from a recognized medical practitioner detailing the medical reason precluding vaccination. KCAA has also exempted returning unvaccinated Kenyans who have difficulty accessing vaccines in their current country of residence. The body said such persons must be prepared to be vaccinated immediately upon arrival and must register for vaccination on the Chanjo-Ke platform be...

HRW Urges Uganda To Shut Illegal Detention Sites Used For Torture

22Mar

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HRW Urges Uganda To Shut Illegal Detention Sites Used For Torture

Uganda's government must stop using illegal detention centres as a weapon against dissidents and close the facilities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday in a report documenting the prevalence of torture at the clandestine sites. The report featured interviews with 51 people, including 34 former detainees and eyewitnesses to abductions, who described a litany of abuses at the hands of police, army officials and Uganda's domestic intelligence agency, the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), between April 2019 and November 2021. The crackdown reached fever pitch during the two months leading up to and following Uganda's January 2021 general elections, which saw government critics, opposition politicians and protesters unlawfully detained and forcibly disappeared. In many ca...

Kenya ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report.

21Mar

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Kenya ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report.

Kenya has been ranked the 27th unhappiest country in a new global happiness report. Kenya ranks 119th out of 146 countries in the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network's 2022 World Happiness Report. Kenyan respondents cited perceived government corruption as the main source of their dissatisfaction, according to the report. This is a slight decrease from last year's happiness index, which ranked the country 121st out of 149 countries. Kenya was ranked 23rd in Africa, behind Uganda, which led the East African Community (EAC) and was ranked 117th worldwide. Tanzania is ranked 139th out of 146 countries, while Ethiopia is ranked 131st. Rwanda is the most unhappy country in the EAC, according to the study, coming at the bottom 4 on the global index, just before Zi...

Two Al-Shabaab militants killed in On going operation in Lamu

21Mar

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Two Al-Shabaab militants killed in On going operation in Lamu

Two suspected Al-Shabaab militants were Sunday killed in an ongoing operation in Boni Forest, Lamu County. The two were killed in the Sarira area within the expansive forest and guns found on them. Kenya army troops that clashed with the two said they were in a group of four and that two others escaped. The area has been under operation for years as Kenya seeks to remove the terrorists and their remnants from the region. Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said the hunt for the others who escaped is ongoing. Two weeks ago, two other suspects were killed in the Baure area. The gang killed five workers at a construction site in Bodhei area on March 11. They also burnt down two lorries involved in the construction of the Lapset project in the area. The terrorist...