Kenyan police said Friday that they had exhumed three bodies, presumed members of a religious cult believed to have starved themselves to death, in the east of the country as they widened an inquiry. “The exhumation process is still ongoing and so far we have three bodies,” said Charles Kamau, criminal investigations chief of the […]

Kenya’s opposition Azimio coalition has demanded for review of the country’s 13-year-old constitution to be part of discussions in its proposed dialogue with the government to end protests in the country.

Kenya’s First Lady Rachel Ruto has declared national prayers against homosexuality in the country, lamenting the family unit was under attack.

By Biodun Busari A 99-year-old woman Priscilla Sitienei, believed to be the world’s oldest primary school pupil, has died at her residence in Kenya. According to Sammy Chepsiror, her grandson, Sitienei began to develop health difficulties after attending class on Wednesday and died afterwards. Read also: Kenya’s first Olympic medalist Wilson Kiprugut dies at 84 […]

By Steve Oko The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Kenyan Government for his ” abduction and extra-ordinary rendition to Nigeria”. Special Counsel to Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor who disclosed this to Vanguard in a telephone chat, said Kanu’s suit had been properly filed at the […]

Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage, has said his home government was not involved in the extradition of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

Kenya’s economy is expected to grow by 7.0 per cent in 2021 on account of the resumption of international trade and strategic investments in the country’s development priority areas, according to an official. Ukur Yatani, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury disclosed this in a statement issued in Nairobi on Wednesday. The statement comes Yatani […]

Kenya on Saturday announced mandatory quarantine for passengers from Britain, in response to being placed on the country’s so-called red list, which Nairobi rejected as “discriminatory”. The UK government on Friday banned visitors from Kenya due to concerns over the circulation of a variant of the coronavirus which originated in South Africa. In a lengthy […]

Sarah Obama, the grandmother of former US President Barack Obama, has died aged 99 in western Kenya, her daughter told AFP Monday. “It is true she has gone to be with the Lord, she passed on this morning,” said an emotional Marsat Onyango, her daughter. Sarah Obama, popularly known as Mama Sarah, had been admitted […]

Kenya’s public debt rose by 1.3 trillion shillings ($11.8 billion) in 2020. This is as the east African nation stepped up borrowing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented various infrastructure projects. The Central Bank, in its weekly update of the financial markets on Friday, noted that the debt rose to $66.1 billion, up […]