Sat, 30 August 2025

• 6:03 pm A tanker has overturned and exploded on the Nairobi-Nyeri highway near Marua in Nyeri County as footage shows the tanker engulfed in flames; details of the cause of the explosion and any casualties are yet to be confirmed.
• 5:33 pm Business owners in Kenya are set to be affected by the decision of the United States President Donald Trump to scrap a special tariff exemption, 'de minimis', for small packages entering the country worth less than $800 (Ksh103,600).
• 4:25 pm Hundreds made redundant as the government announces closure of 54 firms after they were dissolved and their names removed from the Register of Companies with effect from 29 August.
• 3:41 pm Two times 800m World Championship gold medallist Billy Komintai Konchellah has been appointed to be a Member of the Board of the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya following fresh appointments by Cabinet Secretaries in the various Ministries.
• 3:09 pm The governments of Kenya and Uganda have reached an agreement to remove all existing tariff and non-tariff barriers that previously hindered trade between the two countries.