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Autopsy shows businesswoman Caroline Wanjiku Maina, whose body was found in Kajiado five days ago, died of head injuries inflicted with a blunt object. Investigations into the murder of the 38-year-old have now fanned out to Embu County Government where one of the suspects in her murder works. Officials from the county government will be required to help investigators to find out whether Wanjiku did...

A Form Four student of Kaputir Mixed Secondary School in Turkana South has died, whereas five others have gone blind after drinking hand sanitizer. The six male learners, aged between 16 and 17, consumed the substance rich in alcohol on Saturday, February 20. The five, who are now visually challenged, say they regret taking the harmful substance.     One of them, who aspires to...

Storeyed buildings, churches, boutiques, groceries and roadside market sheds were not spared during the mid-morning demolitions that left the county headquarter a shell of a town, leaving the residents dismayed.  While criticising the demolitions that were hurried, County Women Representative Faith Gitau called on the government to compensate those affected as they had leased out the land from the KRC...

The government has asked trespassers on Kenya Railway land in Busia County to vacate voluntarily or face forceful eviction. Busia County Commissioner John Korir issued the warning on Monday in Teso North constituency during the commissioning of the Kenya Medical Training College Teso campus presided over by KMTC Board of Directors chairman Philip Kaloki. He told individuals owning structures erected...

The ruling by the Environment and Lands Court stops the corporation from further enforcing the directive that its managing director, Mr Phillip Mainga issued last year. The evictions have left a trail of destruction amid an unfolding humanitarian crisis affecting thousands of families in Kisumu Town East and Muhoroni sub-counties. Thursday’s ruling, however, came more than four days after the...

Thousands of Residents in Kisumu were on Friday, February 5, left homeless in a night demolition exercise by the Kenya Railways (KR). The demolitions which were conducted from 8 pm when the darkness had set in, caught the residents of Kibos area unawares. Bulldozers descended on the houses with the heavy police presence in the area. The families were left homeless and were forced to sleep in...

Demolitions like those witnessed in Nakuru, Eldoret and Kitale are currently going in in Bungoma. Business owners suffered loses as buildings and other structures were brought down to clear the way for the railway line rehabilitation.     Kenya Railway Corporation is reclaiming all it's land for the purpose of railroad building. Occupiers of these lands have received notices to vacate...

Three MPs are stuck in Kapendo awaiting security reinforcement following the killing of a General Service Unit (GSU) operation commander Emadadu Abakol on Sunday by bandits. Among those who are stranded are Turkana East MP Mohammed Lokiru, Turkana South MP James Lomenen, and Turkana Central MP John Lodebe who were at Kapedo on a peace mission. The Turkana East MP Lokiru narrated the events that led...

It is a dark start of year 2021 for families in Githurai village of Ruiru, Kiambu County after an abandoned shrub where five children were playing caved in resulting in their death. The children, all aged between three and seven years, were playing within the compound of an abandoned construction site when the tragedy occurred. Two of them succumbed to breathing complications while being rushed to...

A tree that has graced a neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, for nearly a century is slated to be taken down to make way for a highway through the city intended to reduce traffic jams. The fig tree, four stories high and almost a century old, its arched branches forming a giant canopy, has served as a landmark for generations of Kenyans in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Westlands in the capital,...

The widow of a Mombasa businessman has moved to court to stop the distribution of her husband’s Sh600 million estate. Katharina Walele, the widow of Gasper Walele Mwanguwa, wants the High Court to nullify a decision by a lower court that allowed the property to be distributed to her daughter Veronica Kalamba, son Julius Mndwariga and stepson John Ighacho. Katharina is only entitled to a Sh10,000...

A huge fire has been reported at the lower side of Ngara Market in Nairobi.    According to photos and videos shot at the scene, billows of smoke could be seen invading the sky from more than a kilometre away.    The smoke filled the air as residents tried to put out the flames before the emergency services arrived.      At the time of this reporting, the cause of the inferno...

A 36-year-old pregnant woman is shivering inside a hollow baobab tree trunk on a cold morning. It is drizzling and she is surrounded by her four children. What started as a normal disagreement between Juliet Samba and her inlaws has now culminated in her expulsion from the family, prompting her to seek refuge in the forest alongside her husband and four children.     The woman from Kirutai...

The gold trading community in Osiri-Matada mines in Nyatike is counting losses after Saturday afternoon fire razed the mines. Property of unknown value was reduced to ashes, including more than 50 mabati structures used as houses and business premises.     Osiri-Matanda goldmine chairman Kephas Ojuka said the fire started in the afternoon at the informal centre, which is home to about 2,000...

The High Court has barred former Gatundu North MP Kariuki Muiruri from accessing a 17-acre parcel of land in Thika which is the subject of a protracted legal battle. Thika Environment and Land Court Judge L. Gacheru issued an injunction restraining Muiruri, his agents, and workers from developing, leasing, transferring or dealing in any way with the property LR No. 4953/2414, located at Kiganjo in...

Property worth millions of shillings was destroyed early Sunday morning in Nakuru County as the Kenya Railways Corporation evicted its tenants. The evictions saw businesses stretching about 500 metres along the busy Geoffrey Kamau Road demolished. The move is meant to pave way for the rehabilitation of the Nakuru-Kisumu medium meter gauge Railway and the Sh160 Billion expansion of the Limuru-Nakuru road...

The 'Proposed Nairobi River Pollution Control Action Plan' is set to act on or demolish several factories, estates and malls that have encroached on riparian land or have been discharging effluents into the river.   NEMA currently is recruiting 100 environmental inspectors, 50 police officers and crime scene officers to implement its laws.   Two tanneries in Industrial Area have been ordered...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1065875346942296065 A road accident involving a Kenya Prisons bus. The bus rammed into a handcart otherwise known as mkokoteni near the Bunyala Road junction, flipping the handcart upside down and leaving two casualties lying on the road. Both the bus and the handcart pushers were heading towards the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD). The two handcart...

DusitD2 Nairobi is re-opening today in an elaborate ceremony that marks a new beginning after the January 15 terror attack that left 21 people dead. Events lined up in a programme released by the establishment shows that a flag was set to arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the morning to be received by General Manager Michael Metaxas representatives from the Tourism ministry. It...

More than 200 home buyers in Athi River’s Sunset Boulevard Estate are facing eviction from their houses, following a dispute between the developer and I&M Bank. Auctioneers Monday advertised for auction 204 houses whose value is estimated at about Sh2 billion, putting the home buyers at risk of losing their investment over a loan that they were not party to. The hammer is set to...