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11Aug

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Politics

Duale Wins Garissa Township MP Race

Garissa Township Member of Parliament Aden Duale has secured his seat for the third time after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared him as the winner of the constituency's 2022 race. Duale retained his seat after securing a total of 9,905 votes, trouncing his closest competitor Abdulahi Mohamoud who garnered 5,509 votes. The legislator, addressing the press after being declared MP-elect lauded Kenyans for keeping calm and called on leaders to band together to serve the people of the Kenyan republic. Kenyans have chosen to be democratic and have refused to be coerced by other leaders and even yesterday Kenya Kwanza leaders and Azimio leaders were sitting together and we should work together and serve the nation," he said. Duale was contesting ...

Elon Musk Sells Nearly $7 Billion Worth Of Tesla Shares

10Aug

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Business

Elon Musk Sells Nearly $7 Billion Worth Of Tesla Shares

Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to legal filings published Tuesday, amid a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal. The Tesla boss sold some 7.9 million shares between August 5 and 9, according to filings published on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website. "In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close and some equity partners don't come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock," Musk, the world's richest man wrote on Twitter late Tuesday. Twitter is locked in a legal battle with the mercurial Tesla boss over his effort to walk away from the April agreement to buy the company, and a judge has ordered that a trial will begin in October. Musk has...

Naomi Shaban: 20-Year Taita Taveta MP Concedes Defeat

10Aug

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Naomi Shaban: 20-Year Taita Taveta MP Concedes Defeat

Veteran legislator Naomi Shaban has conceded defeat in the Taita Taveta MP race. Ms. Shaban, who has been at the helm of the coastal constituency for 20 years and was seeking to retain her seat on a Jubilee Party ticket, conceded to defeat from her main rival, Wiper Party’s John Bwire Okano. As of Wednesday morning, Okano was leading based on provisional results and Shaban sent an early congratulatory message to him. The 58-year-old long-running MP said in a social media message that she had come into terms with Taita Taveta people wanting a new leadership and commended Okano and his team. “Good people, there is time for everything. Well done team Bwire,” Shaban told her supporters in a message shared on a WhatsApp forum. The veteran politician added: “T...

CS Magoha Moves School Re-Opening To Monday, Next Week

10Aug

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CS Magoha Moves School Re-Opening To Monday, Next Week

The Ministry of Education has changed the nationwide school re-opening dates from Thursday, August, 11 to August Monday, 15 2022. In a press statement on Wednesday, Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha said that the changes have been occasioned by an expected delay in the vote tallying process. “On 1st August 2022, I ordered the early closure of all Basic Education Institutions to allow for adequate preparation and conduct of the General Elections. We indicated that reopening would be on the 11th of August 2022,” Magoha’s statement read in part. “We have however been informed that the process of tallying of ballots may still be ongoing on the aforementioned date. Therefore, following further consultations, I hereby convey the Government’s decision that ...

Cops arrested for ferrying marked ballots in Kilgoris

9Aug

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Cops arrested for ferrying marked ballots in Kilgoris

Two police officers were on Monday evening arrested for allegedly ferrying marked election materials in Kilgoris, Narok county. The officers were in the company of another occupant ferrying the election materials to an unknown destination in a Toyota Sienta registration number KDG 910 B. The three are said to have been stopped by suspicious members of the public who quickly informed security team. Confirming the incident, Narok county police commander Kizito Mutoro said that at around 6.30pm police received a distress call from members of the public that they had intercepted marked ballot papers at Kilgoris Shell petrol station. "When police moved to the scene, they found Frederick Mwaniki Ng’ang’a, the driver of the vehicle, carrying election materials under the escort of...

Mvita UDA candidate,Omar Shallo arrested after chaos erupt at polling station

9Aug

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Mvita UDA candidate,Omar Shallo arrested after chaos erupt at polling station

Mvita UDA candidate Omar Shallo is among three people who have been arrested after chaos erupted at Tudor Primary School during a voting exercise on Tuesday. The chaos began after ODM and UDA supporters engaged in a physical confrontation at the station in Mombasa County. The MP candidate is being held at Makupa Police Station. Voting was halted temporarily at the centre following a scuffle between UDA and ODM supporters. More follows...

Song And Dance As Raila Odinga Votes In Kibra

9Aug

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Song And Dance As Raila Odinga Votes In Kibra

Raila Odinga, the Azimio la Umoja - One Kenya presidential flagbearer, has cast his vote at Old Kibra Primary School in Kibra constituency. While making his entry to the polling station, Raila was surrounded with a mammoth of crowd, who blew vuvuzelas and whistles as his motorcade made entry to the premise. The ODM boss walked into the polling station at around 10:30 am alongside his wife Mama Ida Odinga and part of his security team. Polling clerks and officials guided him throughout the voting process and left immediately. His wife Ida voted in a different stream but in the same polling station.

9Aug

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International news

Trump Florida Home Raided By FBI

Former US president Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida was being "raided" by FBI agents in what he called an act of "prosecutorial misconduct." The FBI declined to comment on whether the search was happening or what it might be for, nor did Trump give any indication of why federal agents were at his home -- a situation that adds to the legal pressures on the ex-president. Multiple US media outlets cited sources close to the investigation as saying that agents were conducting a court-authorized search related to the potential mishandling of classified documents that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago. In a statement posted on his Truth Social network, Trump said his "beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, an...

9Aug

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International news

Floods In Seoul Kill Seven

Subway stations and major roads were underwater in the South Korean capital Seoul after record-breaking rains caused severe flooding, with at least seven people dead and seven more missing, officials said Tuesday. Authorities warned there was more rain to come even as emergency workers struggled to clear the hulks of flooded cars, which AFP reporters saw strewn across major intersections throughout the city. Dramatic images shared on social media late Monday showed people wading through waist-deep water, metro stations overflowing, and cars half-submerged in Seoul's posh Gangnam district, which was particularly hard-hit when torrential rain battered the city. The downpour that began Monday is the heaviest rainfall in South Korea in 80 years, according to Seoul's Yonhap News A...

Four Detained In Kibra Over Alleged Voter Bribery

9Aug

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Four Detained In Kibra Over Alleged Voter Bribery

Police in Kibra are detaining four women for allegedly bribing voters. The first three were arrested at Toi primary polling station after they were cornered by local leaders while trying to influence the ongoing voting exercise. The fourth one was arrested at Kenyatta market station for committing the same offence. Upon interrogation by the authorities, the suspects claimed they were agents allied to t UDA candidate in the Kibra parliamentary contest MacDonald Mariga. Kibra deputy county commissioner Gideon Ombogi has confirmed the arrests, saying the three are in police custody at Kibra police station. The administrator said they have launched a further investigation to establish the person behind the vice. Local leaders monitoring the exercise in Kibra have raised ...