News Tracker

Thu, 13 November 2025

  • 5:21 pm National Police Service denies any bias in executing its mandate ahead of the upcoming by-elections; acknowledges some unfortunate events occurring during campaign trails.   
  • 4:27 pm Interior CS Murkomen has established three new Nairobi sub-regions and reassigned county commissioners in a service delivery overhaul, citing the city’s surging population and public security concerns.
  • 3:58 pm Kenya Railways will run an extra Madaraka Express SGR train on Friday and Saturday to manage increased coastal travel demand.
  • 3:19 pm Police have summoned four Embu bloggers for questioning over alleged online threats against Rigathi Gachagua ahead of his planned campaign visit.
  • 2:56 pm Kenya has received Ksh1 trillion from its citizens in the diaspora, achieving a historic milestone in the country’s fiscal space.
  • 2:30 pm Kiambu Senator Karungo wa Thang’wa has vowed to take action in the Senate after discovering the plight of homeless Kenyans stranded in Saudi Arabia.
  • 1:52 pm The Kenya Bankers Association has urged the government to reconsider the planned overhaul of PAYE tax bands, warning that declining real wages could hurt economic stability.
  • 1:08 pm SGR management announced that all premium class passenger trains are fully booked until February 2026.
  • 12:46 pm Siaya County has ordered striking nurses to resume their duties immediately after a court halted the strike, or the county will halt salaries and allowances.
  • 12:33 pm One person is said to have died, while several others are nursing injuries after a Tahmeed bus they were travelling in overturned in the McKinnon area in Kinango, Kwale County.
  • 11:53 am Machakos County has demanded media personality Oga Obinna provide proof of comedian Sammy Kioko’s payment claims, threatening action over allegedly false statements made during a recent interview.
  • 11:20 am Ugandan military officials visited Kenya for a welfare benchmarking exercise, amid debate over President Museveni’s warning of potential conflict if Uganda remains without access to the Indian Ocean.
  • 10:49 am UDA refutes Rigathi Gachagua’s claims of a plot on his life, calling them politically motivated and lacking evidence ahead of his planned Mbeere North campaign.
  • 10:24 am The Kithimani court sentences a man to death for the violent robbery of ex-Yatta MP Charles Kilonzo’s mother, finding him guilty of attacking and stealing from her in December 2023.
  • 9:50 am The Foreign Ministry has dismissed Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s threats of ‘war’ over Indian Ocean access, saying his remarks were metaphorical and not a literal challenge to bilateral ties.
  • 9:10 am Three Nigerians were arrested in Mwea, Kirinyaga, after detectives uncovered a suspected cyber fraud syndicate operating from a rented flat, authorities reported Wednesday.
  • 8:57 am Kenyan legal scholar and Professor Phoebe Okowa has been elected as a judge in the International Court of Justice, an organ of the United Nations.
  • 8:13 am Three DCI officers sustained serious injuries on Wednesday following a violent confrontation with armed assailants in Kasipul Constituency, Homa Bay County.
  • 7:55 am Ugandan People’s Defence Forces confessed to being deployed to Kenya during the 2024 Gen Z protests, according to activist Bob Njagi, who was held at a UPDF camp in Kampala for over 30 days.
  • 7:12 am Isiolo South MP Mohamed Tubi Bidu dies while receiving treatment at Nairobi Hospital on Wednesday.

Wed, 12 November 2025

  • 7:31 pm Government reveals two Kenyans, including a murdered teacher, remain unaccounted for in the wake of the election chaos that rocked Tanzania during and after 2025 general elections. 
  • 6:48 pm Court approves allocation of Kenyatta University land to WHO for building of medical research facilities. 
  • 6:19 pm Court rules there is sufficient evidence to bring murder charges against three GSU officers accused of fatally shooting four protesters along Nairobi-Mombasa Highway in June 2022.   
  • 5:47 pm Education CS Julius Ogamba refutes claims the government disbursed Ksh1.1 billion to hundreds of ghost schools across the country. 
  • 5:21 pm   Police in Migori County arrest woman, 31, purporting to be an advocate and offering illegally legal services along the Kisii-Migori border; recover fake seals and stamps. 
  • 4:39 pm In a letter to IG Kanja, DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua urges police to arrest group of individuals whose video threatening the former DP had gone viral on social media. 
  • 4:11 pm At least 400 workers take to the streets, block Kitale-Kapenguria highway to protest against poor working conditions on the Kitale-Morpus Road project in Trans Nzoia County. 
  • 3:42 pm Raila Odinga's sister Ruth Odinga says she has all it takes to run for presidency under ODM party ticket in the 2027 general elections. 
  • 2:34 pm Activist Bob Njagi, who was detained alongside Nicholas Oyoo in Uganda for 38 days, explains that the 'fridge', which President Museveni confirmed, is a Special Forces Command Centre where hundreds of Ugandans are being held without charge or trial. 
  • 2:09 pm   Gulf Energy, who took over after the exit of British-based firm Tullow Oil, has revealed that the first batch of produced oil from Turkana will be out in December 2026.