News Tracker

Wed, 11 December 2024

  • 9:20 am The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has rolled out a new technology meant to curb the rise of sub-standard drugs in the Kenyan market.
  • 8:55 am Kenyans could have been exposed to yet another poisonous commodity after the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) flagged a 2-million-kilogram rice consignment.
  • 8:10 am The High Court has dealt a blow to President William Ruto after issuing orders suspending his directive to 34 parastatal chiefs over onboarding their services on the e-Citizen platform.
  • 7:50 am The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it will begin to investigate how corruption is sapping Kenya’s public finances from early next year.
  • 7:22 am The latest survey by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has revealed that prices of key household products are set to increase as the country breaks for the festive season.

Tue, 10 December 2024

  • 5:47 pm President William Ruto attends the 20th anniversary of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance at KICC in Nairobi.
  • 5:23 pm Kibera High Court hands a man a 30-year jail time for killing his ex-wife for refusing to return his gifts before deciding to marry another boyfriend.
  • 4:39 pm State House Senior Advisor Moses Kuria urges President William Ruto, Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta to revive the Building Bridges Initiative that was nullified by the Supreme Court in 2023.
  • 4:09 pm Sports CS Kipchumba Murkomen inaugurates the Local Organizing Committee for CHAN 2024 and AFCON 2027.
  • 3:52 pm State House Senior Advisor Moses Kuria announces plans to return to the Jubilee Party following the successive meeting between President William Ruto and his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta.
  • 3:21 pm Deputy Chief of Staff Eliud Owalo and Lands CS Alice Wahome lead the performance evaluation process held at the Ministry of Lands.
  • 2:38 pm The State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs launched the Kenya Social Protection Policy 2023 aimed at giving all Kenyans a chance to live with dignity.
  • 2:06 pm The Law Society of Kenya threatens to stop Ugandan lawyers from practicing in Kenya after Uganda rejected Martha Karua's application to represent opposition leader Kizza Besigye.
  • 1:48 pm Amnesty Kenya Executive Director Houghton Irungu among individuals arrested by police officers while participating in the ongoing End Femicide protests in Nairobi's Central Business District (CBD).
  • 1:24 pm Interior PS Raymond Omollo attends the opening session of the inaugural 2024 Annual High Court Human Rights Summit hosted by the High Court of Kenya to boost collaboration between the judiciary and administrative arms of government.
  • 12:53 pm NACADA officials dismantled an illegal industrial-scale brewery equipped with distilling apparatus to produce illegal liquor in Majengo during a crackdown.
  • 12:26 pm Chief Justice Martha Koome reveals that the court has not hesitated to issue orders compelling law enforcement agencies to produce individuals unlawfully detained during enforced disappearances.
  • 11:50 am JKUAT has confirmed the hospitalisation of at least seven students after an early morning fire that destroyed a section of the male hostels.
  • 11:15 am Nairobi Hospital staff have issued a 7-day strike notice over mismanagement of the facility.
  • 10:55 am Kenya was ranked among the top ten countries with the highest number of people who faced severe to moderate starvation between 2021 and 2023.
  • 10:20 am Protestors who gathered in Nairobi on Tuesday morning to protest the heightened cases of femicide in the country were teargassed by police officers in the city’s CBD.
  • 9:55 am Martha Karua is at the General Court Martial at Makindye, Uganda and says she has been allowed into the compound but not the court ahead of Kizza Besigye's trial. 
  • 9:20 am The World Bank has downgraded Kenya's economic growth estimate for this year to 4.7% from 5.0%, citing floods, anti-government protests and flailing fiscal consolidation efforts.
  • 8:55 am The Uganda Law Society has urged Martha Karua to re-apply for a practising license in her quest to be part of Kizza Besigye's legal team, promising full support.
  • 8:20 am Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and SHA were the most searched-for topics on Google by Kenyans in 2024.
  • 7:50 am At least seven people are nursing critical injuries following a road accident that occurred at the Kinungi blackspot along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway.
  • 7:15 am President William Ruto has announced that the government has removed seven million Kenyans who were blacklisted at the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB), in a bid to encourage Kenyans to borrow.

Mon, 09 December 2024

  • 6:50 pm COTU Secretary-General Francis Atwoli has claimed Nairobi is the dirtiest city in East Africa and needs work in traffic management, drainage systems and upgrade of roads.
  • 6:30 pm President William Ruto announced updated lending terms of Hustler Fund by introducing a facility targeting 'good borrowers' who will access enhanced credit limits.
  • 5:45 pm The owners of a gas plant in Embakasi that claimed the lives of ten people after a fatal explosion in Nairobi have been charged with manslaughter.