News Tracker

Sun, 13 April 2025

  • 2:45 pm The Kenya National Civil Society Centre has praised Katwa Kigen’s exit from the IEBC race and urged Charles Nyachae and Joy Masinde-Mdivo to follow suit over alleged government ties.
  • 2:17 pm DCI has arrested a 44-year-old man accused of defrauding a woman of Ksh12 million in a fake land deal involving property already owned in the Garissa municipality.
  • 1:55 pm Defying doctors’ advice, Pope Francis thrilled crowds with a surprise Palm Sunday tour of St Peter’s Square, handing out sweets and greeting worshippers despite recovering from pneumonia.
  • 1:16 pm The family of the missing Kenyan police officer who was in a peacekeeping mission in Haiti is now faulting the government for allegedly sidelining them.
  • 12:43 pm Sudan has called for the international community to condemn Kenya over plans to host Sudan's militia, RSF, for a second conference in Nairobi.
  • 12:22 pm Kenyan athlete Bernard Biwott has won the Paris Marathon, clocking a personal best time of 2:05:24 to claim a Ksh7.3 million payout.
  • 11:56 am A 19-year-old student set to join university this year died after being hit by a police vehicle at Kanga along the Migori-Rongo road.
  • 11:08 am President Ruto could run on an ODM ticket in 2027, according to ODM insider Robert Alai, amid growing political ties with Raila Odinga.
  • 10:47 am Mumias East MP Peter Salasya has urged Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna to resign from his position as the Secretary General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) hours after a tiff with President Ruto.
  • 10:14 am The body of the man who was trapped in the collapsed building in Mombasa has been retrieved from the rubble this morning.
  • 9:41 am The government has deployed a team of medical officers to Kakamega County following the outbreak of another unexplained disease that has left one person dead and several others affected.
  • 9:12 am The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by the Speaker of the National Assembly seeking to stay the High Court decision that declared the Privatisation Act 2023 unconstitutional.
  • 8:48 am Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi has dismissed claims of orchestrating the abduction of Dela Ward MCA Yussuf Hussein. 
  • 8:24 am Kenya will not lift the ban on the export of raw macadamia to other countries, despite threats from China.
  • 7:46 am Cuba is still in talks with the US to determine what happened to two of its doctors kidnapped in Madera in 2019 and suspected to have been in an area bombed by the US African Command (AFRICOM) last year.
  • 7:16 am Former Harambee Stars Coach Christian Chukwu is dead; the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed that Chukwu died in his native city of Enugu on Saturday.

Sat, 12 April 2025

  • 6:45 pm Pastor James Ng'ang'a of Neno Evangelism Centre has once again come under criticism after a video of him slapping a congregant went viral on social media platforms.
  • 6:27 pm The Judiciary has announced a 99 per cent reduction in the backlog of cases through the use of modern technology.
  • 5:55 pm A viral job poster inviting Kenyans to apply for 5,000 positions as police constables is fake, the National Police Service (NPS), has warned.
  • 5:24 pm Senior Counsel Paul Muite has poked holes in the government's report that attributed former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Francis Ogolla's chopper crash to an engine malfunction.
  • 4:55 pm President William Ruto has downplayed the use of the 'Must Go' slogan by a section of Kenyans, stating that he is unbothered as long as the country is headed in the right direction.
  • 4:25 pm Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi on Saturday, April 12, revealed that he was once locked up in Kamiti Maximum Prison during his campus days.
  • 3:55 pm Roots Party Leader George Wajackoyah has requested President William Ruto to tame his aide, Farouk Kibet, and advise him to settle down.
  • 3:25 pm Chemundu Ward MCA Julius Kipruto Keter is dead.
  • 2:57 pm A section of Narok leaders have protested against the government's decision to construct an international airport on land allegedly linked to former President Uhuru Kenyatta.
  • 2:25 pm President William Ruto has appointed CSs Mudavadi, Mbadi, Lee Kinyanjui, Mutahi Kagwe and Deborah Barasa to serve as members in the powerful Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Council between Kenya, a member of the East African Community, and the European Union. 
  • 1:54 pm Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General (SG) Francis Atwoli has revealed that he will likely retire after President William Ruto's tenure.
  • 1:33 pm Two High School students from Limuru Girls have invented an anti-abduction system by the name of Femicide Abduction System Alert (FASA), a behavioral science-based safety intervention designed to reduce femicide-related abductions.
  • 12:55 pm Several Cabinet Secretaries have announced a series of appointments across various ministries as part of the broader scheme to enhance government operations.
  • 12:32 pm A 35-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly beheading his two children, aged 2 and 7, in the Tach Asis area in Konoin, Bomet County.