News Tracker

Tue, 25 April 2023

  • 2:28 pm Police Spokesperson Resila Anyango clarified that police officers captured on video in Parklands were undertaking a security drill. 
  • 1:53 pm High Court orders former Interior CS Fred Matiang'i, DCI and ODPP to file an agreement for the withdrawal of charges over an alleged raid at Matiang'i's Karen home. 
  • 1:05 pm DPP Noordin Haji says Pastor Paul Mackenzie will be charged with radicalisation and terrorism. 
  • 12:21 pm Public Petition Committee recommends resumption of stalled Kibera Housing project and Mukuru kwa Njenga stalls after a fact-finding mission.
  • 11:33 am KNEC confirms that the administration of Competency-Based Assessments (CBA) for Grades 3, 4, 5, and 7 will be in October 2023.
  • 10:11 am NTSA suspends the expansion of PSV's in Nairobi. 
  • 9:15 am Defence CS, Aden Duale, receives the first set of Kenyans evacuated from Sudan. 
  • 8:49 am President William Ruto pledges to support Kristina Pratt's projects empowering PWDs. 
  • 7:22 am Power brokers warn that the high electricity cost may not drop anytime soon.
  • 6:40 am US agrees to five deals with the government, pledges to strengthen ties with President Ruto administration

Mon, 24 April 2023

  • 7:12 pm NTSA board sends its Director General George Njao on a 30-day compulsory leave to conduct thorough investigations on increasing road accidents.
  • 6:03 pm 26 more bodies recovered from six graves at Shakahola Forest in Kilifi raising the toll to 73.
  • 5:31 pm The Council of Governors headed by Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru threaten to shut down counties over delay in the disbursement of funds from the National Treasury.
  • 4:33 pm President William Ruto donates several acres of land in Nairobi and Mombasa for the construction of the World Health Organisation's regional emergency hub and training centre.
  • 4:12 pm Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome confirms that Good News International Pastor was once arrested in 2017.
  • 3:04 pm Health CS Susan Nakhumicha signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish a WHO Regional Emergency Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa in Nairobi.
  • 2:23 pm President William Ruto Commissions CyberKnife at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital.
  • 1:39 pm "This is a colossal failure of the State," National Assembly Leader of Minority Opiyo Wandayi terms the Shakahola massacre as an unforgivable failure of security intelligence.
  • 12:31 pm Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome confirms 11 more bodies were exhumed on Monday at Shakahola Forest rising the total to 58.
  • 11:35 am President William Ruto terms Pastor Paul Mackenzie of Good News International as a terrorist and orders security agencies to mount a probe.
  • 10:51 am Foreign Affairs CS Alfred Mutua confirms planes deployed to aid Kenyans stranded in South Sudan.
  • 10:22 am President William Ruto attends the prison officers' pass-out parade in Ruiru, Kiambu County.
  • 9:57 am Kenyan housemaid Fayzz Fayzul stranded in Khartoum, Sudan, estimates that citizens left behind during evacuation surpass 100.
  • 9:18 am Junior Secondary School teachers expose a 3-month salary delay as Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation woes deepen.
  • 8:32 am Nyeri Archbishop Anthony Muheria condemns Shakahola massacre arguing that religion should not be the cause of people losing lives through radical extremism.
  • 7:52 am President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded for his contribution to the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the northern part of Ethiopia at an event in Addis Ababa.
  • 7:23 am The Government of Kenya evacuates 100 students from the war-torn Khartoum in Sudan through Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

Sun, 23 April 2023

  • 6:23 pm President Uhuru Kenyatta flies to Ethiopia to attend a Peace Accord ceremony. 
  • 5:46 pm Police recover 18 more bodies linked to Paul Mackenzie's cult in Shakahola village in Kilifi. 
  • 4:53 pm Interior CS Kithure Kindiki to tour Shakahola village in Kilifi, on Tuesday, April 25.