•Late Benjamin Kiplagat A Kenyan court today sentenced two men to 35 years in prison for murdering Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat last year. After a nine-month trial, the High Court in the northwestern city of Eldoret last week found Peter Ushuru Khalumi, 30, and David Ekai Lokere, 25, guilty of stabbing the 34-year-old steeplechase...
•Late Uganda’s Benjamin Kiplagat Two Kenyan men were found guilty today of murdering Ugandan Olympic distance runner Benjamin Kiplagat, found stabbed to death in the East African country’s north-west on New Year’s Eve. Peter Ushuru Khalumi and David Ekai Lokere were convicted of murdering the 34-year-old Olympian by Eldoret High Court, after a...
•Collapsed building A residential building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi yesterday, leaving several people feared trapped. Cases of buildings caving in are not uncommon in the country, often a result of shoddy construction and flouted regulations, reports AFP. The eight-storey building in Kahawa West, a densely-populated neighbourhoo...
The Kenyan Senate voted yesterday to oust Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a historic impeachment vote. The upper house has so far voted to impeach the 59-year-old on five charges out of a total of 11 against him, after two days of hearings, reports AFP. The Senate only had to find him guilty of one […]
•Deputy President of Kenya, Rigathi Gachagua Kenya’s Senate today began debating the impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua after the embattled politician lost yet another court bid to stop the process. In a historic move last week, the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, voted overwhelmingly to impeach Gachagua on 11 c...
•Deputy President of Kenya, Rigathi Gachagua A bid by Kenyan lawmakers to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua moved swiftly to the Senate today after he was impeached by the lower house of parliament in an unprecedented political drama that has gripped the nation. The National Assembly voted overwhelmingly last night night to impeach Gac...
Kenya’s High Court has put a stop to a contentious deal involving India’s Adani Group, which was set to take over Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The decision, celebrated by critics, is being called “a victory for the Kenyan people,” reports AFP. The Adani Group had been in discussions with the Kenyan government to invest […...
•Rebecca Cheptegei A Ugandan Olympian is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, officials said today, the latest horrific incident of gender-based violence in the East African country. Long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was assaulted after her Kenyan partner Dick...
Examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing to Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their countries. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board made this known in a document for the 2024 policy meeting, reports The PUNCH. JAMB noted in the document that it woul...
•Self-proclaimed pastor, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (L) The leader of a Kenyan starvation sect went on trial for manslaughter today over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in one of the world’s worst cult-related tragedies. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and dozens of other suspects pleaded not guilty in January to multipl...
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