Former Garsen MP Danson Mungatana has lost his wife, Violet Mungatana. Mrs Violet died while undergoing dialysis at Coptic hospital . Born in 1970, Mungatana who is a renowned lawyer was first elected to Parliament as a MP to Garsen Constituency in 2002 on a Narc-Kenya ticket as one of the four directly elected MPs. … Read more
A 2018 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, candidate has been arrested after his English paper one on functional skills was based on a heinous plot to kill President Uhuru Kenyatta and Garissa Township Member of Parliament, Honorable Aden Duale. The said student from the Elimu Bora Secondary School in Mandera East was arrested and charged … Read more
The Kenya Films Classification Board, Kfcb, licensed nearly 700 and rated over 1000 films in 2018. This is the highest number of films to be licensed in Kenya and it’s more than thrice the number of films shot in Kenya before the Board took over the film licensing function two years ago. Here is the … Read more
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mining in collaboration with the National Oil Corporation (NOCK) has rolled out a project dubbed ‘Mwananchi LPG project’ to benefit 60,000 low income households with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in Nairobi County. The beneficiaries who will be drawn from households across the 11 national government administrative units will receive … Read more
In recognition of distinguished and outstanding services rendered to the nation in various capacities and responsibilities, I, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, confer awards and honours to the following persons: The Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (a) The Second Class: Elder of … Read more
A section of Ugandans have been irked by the tough Visa requirements that they must fulfill for them to visit the United Kingdom. They now feel that same stringent requirements should be imposed on foreigners visiting Uganda. “We need to address this visa injustice. It’s time we talked about visa reciprocity. If you apply these … Read more
The government of eSwatini has come out to strongly term the story on all men being forced into polygamy as fake and an insult to the country. The story that the Polygamous King Mswati III ordered men to have at least two wives or face jail has been trending online for some time now; since … Read more
The Kenyan government has come out to reassure foreigners of their security within the country. This comes days after Starehe Member of Parliament, Hon Jaguar, negatively commented about Tanzanian business community in Kenya; whom he wanted deported. This elicited debate in the Tanzanian National Assembly. Here is the response by Col Cyrus Oguna who is … Read more
Ms Jane Marriott OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya. This announcement was made today by the United Kingdom government on its official website; https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-kenya-summer-2019 Ms Jane Marriott OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya in succession to Mr Nic Hailey. Ms Marriott will take … Read more
Kenya’s bid for one of the non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council got a boost today after several new envoys assured President Uhuru Kenyatta of their countries’ support. The pledges to support Kenya’s candidature for the UNSC seat during the election scheduled for June next year were made at State House, Nairobi, when … Read more
The United States of America, USA, government has revoked the entry visa for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda. The decision is thought to be the US Government’s response to Ms Bensouda for carrying out investigations on possible war crimes by American forces and their allies in Afghanistan. Ms Bensouda’s office … Read more
Somalia’s Health ministry has called on international partners to relocate it’s functions from Nairobi Kenya to Somalia citing recent detention of top Somalia officials at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, JKIA, in Nairobi. The move comes on the backdrop of the maritime dispute between Somalia and Kenya. Somalia now says it will not participate in … Read more
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on Thursday September 12, 2019 witnessed the signing of an agreement aimed at promoting sustainable peace and development among Turkana, Pokot and Karamojong communities. The programme dubbed Cross-Border Sustainable Peace and Development seeks to end hostilities among the three neighboring communities and enhance development in the … Read more
President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence and comfort to the families of the victims of the fuel taker fire tragedy in Morogoro town, in the neighbouring country of Tanzania. In his message, President Kenyatta said it was unfortunate for the country to lose citizens in such an unfortunate accident. The President assured … Read more