News Tracker

Fri, 31 March 2023

  • 5:34 pm Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga accused US Ambassador of Undermining Kenyan democracy by declaring that the August General Election was free and fair
  • 4:55 pm Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko offers to clear hospital bills for youths injured during Azimio's weekly protest. 
  • 3:25 pm Supreme Court ruling bars President William Ruto from appointing elected members of the Judicial Service Commission and prevents Parliament from vetting them.
  • 2:24 pm President William Ruto promises that the Public Service Commission will absorb 20,000  interns in its sixth cohort.
  • 1:12 pm Defence CS Aden Duale Revealed that former President Uhuru Kenyatta's family sent emissaries to his successor William Ruto in search of a truce.
  • 12:58 pm Supreme Court rules that JSC and the PSC nominee are not to be vetted by Parliament or appointed by the President.
  • 11:34 am KRA announces temporary maintenance of its digital platforms that would affect services for 38 hours. 
  • 10:56 am US ambassador, Meg Whitman, warns that attacks on journalists threaten democracy. 
  • 10:04 am DCI exhume Jeff Mwathi's body for autopsy and other analysis. 
  • 8:58 am Journalists join politicians in criticising Nyali MP, Mohammed Ali, who castigated journalists attacked by police in protests. 
  • 7:36 am DP Rigathi Gachagua says the government rejected foreign powers' call for a Raila-Ruto truce. 
  • 6:48 am Former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, claims his car was shot at 7 times.

Thu, 30 March 2023

  • 5:51 pm President William Ruto announces the construction of a Ksh 66 billion Moderna vaccine facility in Nairobi.
  • 5:08 pm Azimio protesters loot Jamia Supermarket in Kisumu.
  • 4:04 pm Police officers lob teargas as opposition leader Raila Odinga’s entourage snakes through Pipeline Estate, Embakasi, Nairobi. 
  • 3:33 pm DP Rigathi Gachagua arrives in Mombasa ahead of the flagging off of the Kenyan Seafarers.
  • 3:16 pm Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei condemns the torching of UDA offices in Siaya County. 
  • 2:56 pm Azimio protesters burn UDA offices in Siaya County.
  • 2:10 pm Azimio leader Raila Odinga says demonstrations will go on until the government lowers the cost of living.
  • 1:59 pm 14 people dead after Pwani University bus collided head-on with a matatu along Nairobi Naivasha Highway
  • 1:35 pm Raila Odinga's motorcade on Mombasa Road, heading to Embakasi.
  • 1:10 pm Several students feared dead after accident involving Pwani University bus along the Nairobi-Naivasha Highway.
  • 12:55 pm Police lob teargas to disperse protesters in Mathare, Nairobi County.
  • 12:40 pm Rarieda Member of Parliament, Otiende Amollo says no one including President William Ruto, can ban ongoing Azimio protests.
  • 12:01 pm Azimio Demonstrators engage police in running battles in Mathare, Nairobi County.
  • 11:46 am Police arrest three protesters in Jacaranda, Embakasi East.
  • 11:30 am Transport paralyzed in Migori County as Azimio protests start.
  • 11:24 am Pressure mounts on DP Rigathi Gachagua to apologise to Mama Ngina over invasion of the Kenyatta farm.
  • 10:51 am Seme Member of Parliament Dr James Nyikal joins protests in Kisumu.
  • 10:41 am Court releases rally driver Maxine Wahome on Ksh2 million bond.