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Cops to undergo mandatory mental fitness test.

27Aug

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local news

Cops to undergo mandatory mental fitness test.

The National Police Service Commission has embarked on a countrywide mental assessment of police officers. This comes when the country is witnessing a shocking surge in cases of suicide and murders within the service. The exercise which started in Nairobi in May is meant to ascertain the mental fitness of officers to continue carrying out their police work. NPSC chairman Eliud Kinuthia on Thursday told National Assembly’s Committee on Administration and National Security that the commission has set up a medical board that is carrying out assessments on all officers. “The commission has established a special medical board to conduct the degree of mental illnesses affecting members of the National Police Service. "This will inform cases that need referral for specialised ...

Aviation sector showing gradual revival post-Covid — KCAA

11Aug

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Business

Aviation sector showing gradual revival post-Covid — KCAA

Kenya’s aviation sector is gradually rising from the damaging blow inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has said. KCAA Director General Capt. Gilbert Kibe has revealed that the average daily Aircraft movement is currently about 550 from 1,045 before the pandemic. Current daily international aircraft movement is at 110 while domestic traffic is 440. With the setting in of the Coronavirus pandemic, Kenya and the global aviation sector was largely affected, with passenger traffic in July 2020 recording a decline of 94 per cent in comparison to the same period in 2019 due to the pandemic. According to the data released by KCAA, aircraft traffic movements was lowest in July 2020, standing at 9,185, which decreased by 68 per cent belo...

KHLOE KARDASHIANIT’S OVER WITH TRISTAN THOMPSON… Again.

22Jun

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Entertainment

KHLOE KARDASHIANIT’S OVER WITH TRISTAN THOMPSON… Again.

Khloe and Tristan Thompson have broken up, and TMZ's learned the split happened shortly after allegations spread last month that he cheated on her again. Sources close to the ex-couple tell us ... they called things off a few weeks ago, not long after a woman named Sydney Chase claimed she and Tristan had sex after he had reunited with Khloe. As we told you ... Tristan shot down the claims and threatened to sue Chase, but he didn't go through with it. However, we're told he maintains her allegations were untrue ... but acknowledges the breakup with Khloe occurred after the claims went public. Our sources say Khloe and Tristan are still communicating, however, they are committed to co-parenting their 3-year-old daughter, True. We're...

At least 41 dead as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia.

17Apr

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Life Style

At least 41 dead as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia.

At least 41 people, including a child, have died after a boat carrying African migrants to Europe sank off Tunisia, the UN refugee agency and International Organization for Migration said on Friday. "According to reports from local UNHCR and IOM teams, three survivors were rescued by the Tunisian National Coast Guard" following Thursday's sinking, they said in a joint statement. "The bodies of 41 people, including at least one child, have so far been retrieved," the statement said. Earlier, Ali Ayari, spokesman for the Tunisian coast guard in the eastern city of Sfax, had put the death toll at 20. He said the bodies of 11 men, eight women and a child were retrieved. Seventeen other people were missing. Search operations, halted due to bad weather, would...

President Suluhu new path on Covid, media

7Apr

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Politics

President Suluhu new path on Covid, media

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu is taking a drastically different path from the one charted by her predecessor John Magufuli, rolling back some of his controversial decisions such as on Covid-19 and curtailing media freedom. Yesterday President Suluhu announced plans to form an advisory committee to devise a new Covid-19 response framework for cooperation with the international community on how to fight the pandemic. She also unbanned media that had been shut down due to controversial laws. Her decision on Covid-19 was a dramatic about-turn on Dr Magufuli’s rigid stance, who stubbornly refused to acknowledge the disease. “We cannot continue to bury our heads in the sand. I shall form a committee of experts to look at it professionally and then advise the gover...

Kenyan designer apologises over Jay-Z T-shirt image.

7Apr

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Entertainment

Kenyan designer apologises over Jay-Z T-shirt image.

The Kenyan designer,Zedekiah Lukoye has apologized over an image of Lamu’s Riyadha Mosque. The move follows uproar from the mosque's management after American rapper and business mogul Jay Z was recently spotted wearing one of the designers T-shirts. Zedekiah Lukoye, popularly known as Zeddie Loky, the chief executive officer of Blkkburd Genes, a firm based in Los Angeles, California that printed the T-shirt, said he was sorry for using the famous Riyadha Mosque portrait for the firms collection. In the letter sent to Riyadha Mosque and Islamic Centre Secretary General Abubakar Badawy and privy to nation.africa, the designer confessed that he was unaware, during research and design stage, that the portrayal of the mosque on their T-shirts would end ...

Matiang’i bodyguard kills his wife and himself.

7Apr

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Life Style

Matiang’i bodyguard kills his wife and himself.

A bodyguard attached to Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi’s killed his wife,who was a traffic officer and himself in their home. Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai said preliminary investigations showed the General Service Unit (GSU) officer, Hudson Wakise, shot and killed his wife, Pauline Wakasa, before turning the gun on himself. Officers who visited the scene found the bodies in the sitting room. Mutyambai who mourned the incident said the couple may have had a domestic quarrel before the shooting incident. Wakise, who had been off duty since April 1, reported back to work on April 6 but left at 3 pm and went home outside the GSU camp in Ruaraka where the incident happened. They had argued over the move by Pauline to move out of the GSU camp. Sh...

Cops kill five armed robbers in shootout in Nyali.

27Mar

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Life Style

Cops kill five armed robbers in shootout in Nyali.

Police have gunned down five suspected criminals in Nyali, Mombasa county. In a report police said they raided a house in Mbungoni where the five were hiding. The suspects were fatally shot as they enganged the police officers. Police recovered an AK 47 rifle,33 bullets,panga,two knives,seven mobile phones and a wallet. A motorcycle registration No.KMEJ 275W believed to have been used to ferry the criminals was also recovered. The bodies were moved to coast general mortuary. The incident comes after months of peace in Kisauni and Nyali were criminal gangs have terrorized residents for years.

Kenya to lose Lamu if Somalia wins case.

17Mar

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Politics

Kenya to lose Lamu if Somalia wins case.

Mombasa and Lamu residents will lose their fishing rights if the international court of justice (ICJ) agrees with Somalia argument on the maritime boundary case against Kenya. Documents and maps field by Kenya before the ICJ as the new evidence show that the equidistant line suggested by Somali digs into Kenya’s territory. The documents highlight that is a main source of income contributing 80 percent of their household income. According to kenya the line suggested by Somalia locks in Kenya’s waters including the continental shelf which would limit shipping activities. At the same time the coast will not have recreational fishing which will affect tourism a vital sector to the country’s economy. Kenya also argues that it will be drastic for the court to rule in favor of Som...

BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.

17Mar

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Politics

BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.

The IEBC has termed as unconstitutional the proposal in the BBI to allocate 70 constituencies to some 28 counties. Chairman wafula chebukati said while BBI promoters are right to create the constituencies they errared in allocating constituencies specific counties. The chairman said this before the Joint Justice and legal Affairs committees of parliament on the constitution of Kenya (Ammendment) Bill 2020. The bill has created additional 70 constituencies to push the number to 360. The constituencies are distributed among 28 of the 47 counties. He further said his team was never consulted by the BBI promoters on the additional constituencies. The IEBC boss at the same time defended the commission for the delays in the beginning the process of delimitation of the boundari...