Wed, 17 December 2025

• 4:10 pm Oburu Odinga has been crowned Luo community leader during the Luo Piny Festival in Migori, succeeding his late brother Raila Odinga in a ceremony attended by President Ruto.
• 3:58 pm Kenya has begun formal steps to develop a commercial spaceport near Malindi under a public–private partnership, seeking to launch satellites locally from 2026.
• 3:10 pm Over 30 houses torched, and several people injured following renewed land-related violence in the Angata Barikoi area in Trans Mara along the Migori-Narok border.
• 2:55 pm A pathology report confirms that former Cabinet Minister Cyrus Jirongo died from severe chest crush injuries in a Naivasha road crash, with multiple fractures and heart perforation
• 2:18 pm Doctors have rejected the government’s plan to impose 8am-5pm restrictions on insurance claims pre-authorisation, citing staff shortages, heavy workloads, and lack of consultation as major obstacles.