Diabetes prevalence overtakes Diarrhoea in Lamu county – Medics
Health officials in Lamu County have been startled by a sweeping change of disease patterns amongst the residents, a situation, they say is occasioned by poverty and change of lifestyle. According to the medics, the new trend is as a result of the tendency by mostly Island residents to prefer regular consumption of rice and […]
Police officer who went missing for 17 days in Boni Forest resurfaces with gunshot wounds
A police officer who disappeared for 17 days without a trace in Lamu County has resurfaced albeit with gunshot wounds. Norman Mwongera Kiunga is said to have gone missing in the Boni enclave a fortnight ago but reappeared on Tuesday morning at Basuba GSU camp. The officer had suffered gunshot wounds; a bullet lodged in […]
Flamboyant MCA gets 66 months jail for his role in botched ‘prison break’
Lamu MCA Yahya Ahmed Shee has been sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment for attempting to aid the escape of three convicts in 2017. Senior Resident Magistrate Themba Sitati sentenced the Mkomani Ward MCA to four years for each of the three counts relating to the attempted rescue of the convicts and directed […]
Italian aid worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018 returns home
She was freed from suspected Islamist group al-Shabab near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, reports say.
Police summon man over death of Keroche CEO’s daughter Tecra
Detectives also plan to interview other people, besides the boyfriend, who were with the deceased before and when the accident happened
Three Americans were killed in Sunday’s Al-Shabaab attack in Lamu
The names of those who were killed and wounded durint the thwarted Al-Shabaab attack have not been released.
How hero driver saved 30 plus passengers from Shabaab
Raymond Juma kept driving even under hail of bullets from suspected terrorists who killed three passengers in Lamu on Thursday.