Tag: Kenya News Updates

Covid-19 Update: 1,085 people test positive as positivity rate stands at 15.4%

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that 1,085 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. In an update to newsrooms on Tuesday, August 3, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the 1,085 were tested from a sample size of 7,067 as the positivity rate stands at 15.4%. “From the cases 1,049 […]

Drama at LSK offices after police storm, disrupt Nelson Havi’s meeting

President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) Nelson Havi has accused the National Police Service (NPS) of interfering with the management of LSK. On Monday, August 2, Havi took to his twitter handle where he shared a video of himself confronting two armed police officers whom he claimed stormed the LSK headquarters in Nairobi […]

Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa freed on Ksh150,000 cash bail

Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa has been freed by a Bungoma court on Kshs 150,000 cash bail. Barasa was arrested by police in Bungoma in the early morning of Monday, August 2 for the crime of causing grievous body harm to musician and contractor Steve Kay on Friday, July 30, at Baptist Lurare Primary School in […]

Alarm as man hangs himself using bedsheet in West Pokot

A 29-year-old man has committed suicide at Sunflower area of Makutano township within West Pokot county. The man whose body was found in his house on Monday morning hanged himself on the roof of his rental house using a bedsheet. Confirming the incident, West Pokot County Police Commander Jackson Tumwet said the body of Felix […]

Shock in Garisa after police retrieve body of man from Tana River whose hands, legs together with a huge stone were tied to his back

Residents of a village in Garisa County are in shock after one Barisa Abubakar, a dairy village elder, reported to the police at around 1130hrs that he saw a dead body floating in Tana River within Young Muslim area. “Officers from Iftin police station headed by the OCS proceeded to the scene and the following […]

Covid-19 Update: 1,259 test positive as positivity rate stands at 15.6%

The Ministry of Health has said that Kenya recorded a high number of new Covid-19 infections after 1,259 people tested positive for the disease. According to MoH, the 1,259 tested positive from a sample size of 8,081 tested in the last 24 hours. The Covid-19 positivity rate, MoH announced, now stands at 15.6%. From the […]

Drama in Kiambaa after woman beats up secret admirer

Drama erupted at Raini Village, Kiambu County after a middle aged man was beaten up by a woman in a dramatic incident that attracted a huge crowd of people. According to eye witnesses, the woman had gone to fetch water at a public tap at Raini when the man approached him with intentions of winning […]