News Tracker

Tue, 14 May 2024

  • 2:48 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki announces Ksh37 Billion 5-year police equipment modernisation program to allow law enforcement to adequately combat  terror, banditry and organised crime. 
  • 2:03 pm Azimio leader Raila Odinga hosts Algerian Ambasador to Kenya Mahi Boumediene at his Karen home. 
  • 1:21 pm Ambassador Martin Kimani concludes his tenure as Kenya's Permanent Representative to the UN after 3 years.  
  • 1:00 pm President William Ruto commits to continue supporting the Judiciary to allow the arm of govt to serve Kenyans better.
  • 12:45 pm Busia Woman Rep Catherine Omanyo alleges she was approached with an offer to sway her decision during CS Linturi's impeachment proceedings. 
  • 12:20 pm KeNHA warns motorists of falling rock debris along the Machakos- Kangundo Road
  • 11:30 am President William Ruto witnesses the swearing-in of High Court judges at State House, Nairobi. 
  • 11:00 am Makueni Senator Dan Maanzo claims that President William Ruto must take political responsibility over Parliament's decision to save Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi from impeachment.
  • 10:19 am US Pentagon expresses concern over the capacity of Kenyan police to handle the Haiti mission in letter to Congress and insists on them being trained by American special forces
  • 10:08 am Indian government donates medical supplies and medicine to the Kenyan government towards the country's floods response
  • 9:20 am Report published by Netblocks shows Kenya was the least affected country in East Africa by the recent internet downtime that rocked the region.
  • 9:00 am Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi arrives in Uganda for the 2nd Session of the joint Uganda-Kenya Ministerial Commission.
  • 8:30 am The govt proposes a new tax for foreign investors seeking to loan the country through subscription of crucial government securities.
  • 8:14 am The US Department of State, through its African Bureau, hails President William Ruto for enacting the 2013 Public Benefits Organization Act.  
  • 7:28 am UoN becomes the only Kenyan university to sign a deal with the Qatar Univerity to enhance business education in Africa.  
  • 7:14 am Public Service CS Moses Kuria resurrects his fallout with DP Rigathi Gachagua following the latter's support for the one-man one-vote one-shilling policy.  

Mon, 13 May 2024

  • 7:30 pm The government has said the devastating floods that hit the country in the recent past have caused more than Ksh 80 billion in infrastructure damage
  • 7:00 pm Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura has said  56 cases of Cholera have been reported following heavy rains that have caused flooding across the country.
  • 6:30 pm Husband brutally kills his wife in Naivasha by stabbing her over 10 times in their home. He later tried to kill himself but was rescued by neighbours.
  • 6:00 pm The government says a total of 44 primary schools and 27 secondary schools in six counties across the country are yet to reopen due to the effects of flooding.
  • 5:30 pm The Ministry of Interior and National Coordination says the death toll from floods has so far reached 277 and approximately 290,000 households have been affected by the floods tragedy.
  • 5:00 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki says all 724,000 passports that were part of the historical backlog that had accumulated between June 2021 and March 2024 have now been printed.
  • 4:30 pm National Assembly rejects Division of Revenue Bill, proposing Ksh415B equitable share for counties as proposed by the Senate
  • 4:00 pm Council of Governors insists that doctors must spend most of their time in public hospitals after deal was struck between KMPDU and both levels of govt. 
  • 3:49 pm Passengers including students rushed to hospital after a matatu they were travelling in rolled over  along the Kikima - Machakos Road. 
  • 3:14 pm President William Ruto meets Treasury and Central Bank teams at State House, Nairobi.
  • 2:32 pm Saudi Arabia postpones Stephen Munyakho's execution after diplomatic intervention from the Kenyan govt.
  • 2:00 pm Kenya Railways cites excessive demand for passenger train services as reason why some students were pictured travelling while seated on train floors, images which subsequently triggered uproar from Kenyans.
  • 1:27 pm Trade CS Rebecca Miano reveals that the national govt has released Ksh1.12 billion to construct  industrial parks across 17 counties. 
  • 1:00 pm Health CS Susan Nakhumicha flags off NHIF asset verification, as the country gears up for the transition to the Social Health Authority.