News Tracker

Wed, 17 July 2024

  • 11:00 am Council of Legal Education admits to mixing up November 2023 and April 2024 examination results
  • 10:27 am Veteran journalist Macharia Gaitho released after abduction, with the National Police Service(NPS) confirming it was a case of mistaken identity. Francis Gaitho, the political commentator on social media was the intended target.
  • 10:00 am IPOA states it is pushing the Judiciary to issue warrants of arrest against senior police bosses over excessive use of force against peaceful protestors.
  • 9:17 am Aldai MP Marianne Kitany dismisses argument that President William Ruto has not been proactive in addressing the problems facing Kenya at the moment.  
  • 9:00 am Veteran journalist Macharia Gaitho abducted at Karen Police Station.
  • 8:31 am UNICEF Country Representative for Kenya Shaheen Nilofer condemns the teargassing of Kenyan children after police stormed Mwiyala Primary School in Kakamega on Tuesday. 
  • 8:00 am Counties set for a Ksh20 billion equitable share slash as President William Ruto restrategises following withdrawal of the Finance Bill, 2024.  
  • 7:15 am DP Rigathi Gachagua to attend the burial of Bishop Allan Kiuna at JCC Paradise in Thindigua, Kiambu County today.
  • 7:00 am President William Ruto condemns the attempted assassination of US presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Tue, 16 July 2024

  • 6:44 pm Human Rights Watch mounts pressure on IMF to revise Kenya’s debt repayment tenors
  • 6:22 pm Youthful protesters storm Baringo Governor Benjamin Cheboi’s office demanding an audience with him to discuss the state of governance in the devolved unit.
  • 5:33 pm Ministry of Interior urges President William Ruto to establish Coroner General's Office to investigate deaths reported from the ongoing protests
  • 5:16 pm Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) demands the arrest of police officer who shot K24 journalist Catherine Wanjeri in Nakuru. 
  • 4:42 pm Mukuru Kwa Njenga suspect denies murders confession; says he was tortured.
  • 4:00 pm Nyamira residents demonstrate against Governor Amos Nyaribo's governance.
  • 3:33 pm Nyandarua health promoters take to the streets over 8-month salary delay.  
  • 3:11 pm Athletics Integrity Unit bans Kenyan athletes Daniel Muindi & Judith Jerubet for alleged doping. 
  • 2:25 pm Chief Justice Martha Koome has lauded Small Claims Courts for bridging the justice system gap by resolving more than a third of the cases filed in a bid to reduce the backlog of cases witnessed in the past three years.
  • 1:50 pm A section of journalists accredited to report on parliamentary proceedings from the media precincts allege a plot to block them from accessing the precincts.
  • 1:36 pm The lawyer representing Collins Jomaisi Khalisia, the man accused of killing 42 women since 2022, has fiercely criticised the ongoing legal proceedings, calling them a ‘sham’ and demanding transparency for the Kenyan public.
  • 12:15 pm The Senate calls on the government to waive hospital bills for people who have been injured and defray funeral expenses for those who lost their lives, during the anti-government demonstrations that rocked most parts of the country.
  • 11:50 am Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah discloses that security officers prevented them from meeting with protesters before the dramatic break-in at Parliament. 
  • 11:28 am Susan Mang'eni, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperatives, announces that the Center for Entrepreneurship (C4E) project will kick off this financial year.
  • 10:25 am The United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland issue stern travel advisories to their citizens ahead of planned protests.  
  • 10:05 am Government Pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor commences postmortem examinations on some of the mutilated bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Nairobi.  
  • 9:56 am Ford Foundation dismisses allegations of funding the ongoing anti-government protests in the country which have turned chaotic.  
  • 9:18 am Former Police Spokesperson Charles Owino elaborates on the conditions under which police officers can justify using lethal force during protests.  
  • 8:54 am A Nairobi court withdraws a Ksh520 million case involving the owners of a popular Nairobi restaurant after an application by the DPP.  
  • 8:24 am S&P Global warns that Kenya’s credit score would be downgraded should political unrest persist.  

Mon, 15 July 2024

  • 6:55 pm US Embassy issues new demonstrations alert ahead of planned protests tomorrow.