Fri, 08 August 2025

• 12:01 pm President Ruto appoints Makua Mutua, his senior advisor on Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights, to lead the framework for coordinating the compensation of victims of protests and riots.
• 11:39 am Several students and teachers injured in Friday morning road accident involving their bus; they were on the way to the Kenya National Music Festival in Meru.
• 11:08 am Intimate partner violence is the most prevalent form of violence, affecting at least 3 out of 10 young women in partnerships in Nairobi, this is according to a survey conducted by Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) Agile.
• 10:38 am Health CS Aden Duale suspends 40 hospitals from the Social Health Authority (SHA) programme for engaging in fraudulent practices; names of the suspended facilities to be published later.
• 10:10 am HELB has released an update for continuing university and college students who have applied for subsequent loans, stating that the scholarship component will now be processed separately from upkeep funds.