News Tracker

Mon, 13 January 2025

  • 4:51 pm Tanzanian activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai has shared details of her abduction in Nairobi's Kilimani area and how her abductors demanded her phone PIN.
  • 4:30 pm President William Ruto will this evening depart for UAE to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), a forum that convenes world leaders to advance the global sustainability agenda.
  • 3:59 pm Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura has rubbished claims that the government hired two PR firms to repair Kenya's global image.
  • 3:15 pm Malindi residents on Monday, January 13, demanded the expansion of the Malindi International Airport following a fatal aircraft accident that claimed three lives.
  • 2:55 pm Former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Nelson Havi filed a petition to the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) calling for the removal of all seven Supreme Court judges.
  • 2:24 pm Newly appointed Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Abdi Ahmed Mohamud has been sworn into office. 
  • 1:53 pm Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja on January 13 officially opened the United Nations Police Commanders Course at the International Peace Support Training Centre in Karen, Nairobi.
  • 1:20 pm Head of the Government Delivery Services, Dr. Peter Mbae, resigns citing unresolved issues raised to Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service Felix Koskei.
  • 12:57 pm Police IG Douglas Kanja and DCI boss Mohammed Amin skip High Court summons again over the missing Mlolongo 4 who were allegedly abducted by suspected police officers.
  • 12:00 pm President William Ruto receives credentials from the newly-appointed Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo Haiyan at State House in Nairobi.
  • 11:31 am President William Ruto meets former Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi at State House in Nairobi
  • 11:11 am New EACC CEO Abdi Mohamud to be sworn into office this morning before Chief Justice Martha Koome. He replaces Twalib Mbarak who exited the Commission upon expiry of his 6-year term.
  • 10:54 am Residents protesting against an elephant attack that claimed the life of a villager block the Nyahururu-Kinamba and Rumuruti roads in Central Kenya.
  • 10:08 am Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to hold a press conference in Nairobi to give an update on the situation in the country. 
  • 9:59 am Former DP Rigathi Gachagua calls out the Kenya Kwanza Government arguing that there is no need to kill youth for sharing images of politicians in coffins.
  • 9:24 am Deputy President Kithure Kindiki reveals that the construction of four SEZs/EPZs in Kirinyaga, Murang'a, Eldoret, and Busia is at 50% to be completed by June 30, 2025.
  • 8:35 am PCS and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi departs for Abu Dhabi in UAE for bilateral meetings and signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) deal with the Middle East country.
  • 8:18 am Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen insists that the government is not in the business of abducting people noting, "We are, therefore, working within the law to track, apprehend and charge all those misusing social media."
  • 7:39 am Lydia Tokesi, a Moi University graduate who went missing on January 4, was found dead at Gataka Forest with her boyfriend of eight years believed to be behind her murder.
  • 7:15 am Tanzanian media editor and activist Maria Tsehai Sarungi was released on Sunday evening after reports emerged that she had been abducted by unknown individuals while in Kilimani, Nairobi.

Sun, 12 January 2025

  • 5:32 pm Maria Sarungi Tsehai, a Tanzanian media personality and human rights defender, was reportedly been abducted while in Kilimani, Nairobi.
  • 4:51 pm Technical University of Kenya (TUK) lecturers issued a strike notice on Tuesday, January 14, should the government fail to address their grievances.
  • 4:19 pm Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen says that his Ministry is committed to fully implementing police reforms, including a salary increase, enhanced medical coverage, and better housing. 
  • 3:47 pm Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua claims that there is an ulterior motive behind Governor Johnson Sakaja's latest directive towards hawkers in the Nairobi CBD.
  • 3:26 pm Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi launched an attack on the government over the recent wave of abductions targeting Kenyan youth while lamenting that since his son's abduction at the height of the 2024 anti-government protests, no one has dared explain to him the reason for the abduction.
  • 2:58 pm DCI detectives escaped by a whisker after a mob threatened to lynch them after mistaking them for abductors during a patrol.
  • 2:21 pm Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga says that he will continue working with the community as he has if he loses his AUC chairmanship bid.
  • 1:46 pm Three people lost their lives in Embu on Sunday after the vehicle they were travelling in burst into flames after crashing into a workshop.
  • 1:29 pm President William Ruto launches the construction of a dormitory and classes at Nairobi Schools in Westlands.
  • 12:56 pm President William Ruto reveals that he has constructed a special field at State House in Nairobi meant for evangelism and hosting of religious leaders.