News Tracker

Thu, 11 September 2025

  • 8:07 am A long-distance driver died on Wednesday evening following a grisly accident at Chimoi along the Webuye-Eldoret highway involving a PSV matatu and two trucks. 
  • 7:48 am Heavy afternoon rains caused flooding across Eldoret City on Wednesday, submerging most streets and disrupting residents and businesses.
  • 7:16 am Health CS Aden Duale has directed a contractor at the Ziwa Level Five Hospital to return to work and complete construction works started in 2015.

Wed, 10 September 2025

  • 6:45 pm Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Shariff has threatened to spearhead efforts to blacklist all contractors in Mombasa County who fail to deliver on government projects.
  • 5:57 pm University academic staff have issued a seven-day strike notice, threatening to paralyse learning in all public universities and colleges across the country if the government fails to heed their demands.
  • 5:03 pm Treasury CS John Mbadi expects to raise Ksh149 billion from privatisation of State companies to fund the next budget, according to revelations made in the Annual Borrowing Plan for the 2025-2026 Financial Year.
  • 4:38 pm DCI embroiled in a spyware scandal following allegations that it had installed spyware on the devices of activist Bryan Adagala.
  • 4:13 pm Gachagua’s DCP bows out of three upcoming by-elections including Mbeere North parliamentary race, instead choosing to support aspirants from allied opposition parties.
  • 3:49 pm Hustler Fund loan defaulters risk being blocked from borrowing from banks, the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has announced.
  • 3:19 pm Protests paralysed the Marsabit–Isiolo highway after boda boda riders took to the streets to demand justice for a colleague who was found murdered.
  • 2:54 pm The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) now says that it has commenced investigations into the gruesome murder of Nairobi city lawyer Kyalo Mbobu, who was shot dead on Tuesday evening by unknown people along Magadi Road.
  • 2:22 pm Teachers aligned to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) have rejected the move by the government to onboard teachers to the Social Health Authority (SHA) medical insurance scheme.
  • 1:55 pm Kenyans who applied for driving licences, identification cards and birth certificates have been directed to collect their documents from Huduma Centres across the country.
  • 1:23 pm Kenyans are throwing away billions in food annually, with maize and fruits topping the list of foods most wasted by Kenyans, according to a new report. 
  • 12:55 pm The Law Society of Kenya has filed a petition that seeks to compel several government agencies to strictly enforce consequences for corrupt public officials, as enshrined in the Constitution.
  • 12:22 pm Kenyans living in various parts of the country have been warned to brace for a dire food shortage, with the crisis expected to worsen between October and December this year.
  • 11:55 am President William Ruto has appointed Sitati Olando as the new acting head of the Government Delivery Unit (GDU), effective immediately.
  • 11:28 am The Judiciary has dismissed allegations by former President Uhuru Kenyatta's cousin, Captain (Rtd.) Kung’u Muigai, that judges were bribed in a decades-long commercial dispute, terming the claims malicious and baseless.
  • 10:55 am The Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph have addressed a widely circulated video showing a regrettable incident in which a nun assaulted another nun at their convent in Asumbi, Homa Bay County.
  • 10:26 am The coalition of small political parties has filed a petition to Parliament to amend the Political Parties Act 2011 to secure their funding ahead of the 2027 general elections.
  • 9:55 am Several Nairobi estates are set to undergo significant changes through the Nairobi Urban Renewal Project, as the county government warns that the current state of affairs cannot sustain the ballooning population in the city.
  • 9:24 am A parliamentary watchdog has put the State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunications under scrutiny over the expenditure of more than Ksh500 million on advertising, printing, and distributing the MyGov pullout.
  • 9:00 am The Senate has formally invited Kenyans to participate in public hearings on the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2025, following hours of heated debate and uproar on social media over alleged changes to presidential term limits.
  • 8:56 am Former Jubilee Secretary-General Raphael Tuju has said he would turn down a job offer from President William Ruto, stating that he is satisfied with his current status.
  • 8:10 am A Nairobi lawyer was on Tuesday evening shot dead in a drive-by attack in the Galleria Brookside area along Magadi Road in Nairobi, sparking outrage from the legal fraternity.
  • 7:45 am The World Bank has issued a warning to African nations, cautioning them against their debt management practices following Kenya's buyback of the Ksh254 billion Eurobond last year.

Tue, 09 September 2025

  • 5:55 pm At least one person died, while several others are nursing serious injuries after a bus they were travelling in got involved in an accident along Jogoo Road in Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon.
  • 5:27 pm Central Bank of Kenya has received ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certification for its information technology service management systems - this confirms that its internal IT operations meet the globally recognised standards for managing and delivering secure and reliable services.
  • 4:47 pm Ministry of Environment has flagged as fake a gazette notice claiming that the government is in the process of fencing the 30,000-hectare Kaptagat forest in the Rift Valley.
  • 4:11 pm Renson Ingonga, Director of Public Prosecutions, elected Supernumerary Member of the International Association of Prosecutors' (IAP) Executive Committee during the organisation's annual general meeting in Singapore on Tuesday, September 9.