Human rights activist Collins Otieno has been found alive and is receiving treatment after reportedly disappearing while trying to establish the whereabouts of fellow activist Boniface Mulinge Muteti. Otieno was discovered along Thika Road at about 4:30 am on Saturday, September 26, according to Vocal Africa CEO Hussein Khalid. Khalid said a boda boda rider…
A solar power system installed to lower a Kenyan household’s electricity bill could expose the owner to additional charges if it sends excess electricity into the Kenya Power network without the required approval. The warning is increasingly important for households and businesses that have installed rooftop solar while remaining connected to the national grid. Under…
President João LourenAngola’sço has used Angola’s appearance at the United Nations to link the country’s domestic digital transformation drive with a wider African push for greater influence over artificial intelligence governance, arguing that the continent should help shape the rules of an increasingly technology-driven global economy. Addressing the 81st UN General Assembly in New York…
Kenyan authorities have destroyed 1,036.044 kilograms of methamphetamine valued at approximately Ksh8.2 billion at Bamburi Cement in Mombasa, bringing to an end the court-supervised disposal of one of the country’s largest narcotics seizures. The drugs were destroyed on Thursday, September 24, 2026, nearly a year after they were intercepted in the Indian Ocean during a…
Kenya Power has announced planned electricity interruptions in parts of Nairobi and the Mt Kenya region on Friday, September 25, 2026, as the utility carries out scheduled power maintenance. Customers in Kitsuru, Muruguru, Gikunjū, Githindi, Kunati and Kinwe are among those expected to experience interruptions during the day. The affected areas will have different outage…
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested a police constable suspected of fatally shooting prominent lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu in a targeted attack along Magadi Road, Nairobi, in September 2025. Police Constable Julius Cheruiyot was arrested after detectives investigating the killing recovered a Ceska pistol that had been issued to him at the time…
Human rights activist Davies Okombo has warned that weaknesses in the technology and funding of Kenya’s electoral commission could put the 2027 presidential results under fresh legal scrutiny, particularly if problems emerge in the transmission and tallying of votes. Okombo says the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) must ensure that the systems used to…
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched an investigation into the death of Dennis Aremo Osiemo while in police custody at Narumoru Police Station in Kieni East Sub-County, Nyeri County. Osiemo died on Sunday, September 20, 2026, prompting IPOA to dispatch investigators to the police station to establish the circumstances surrounding his death. “The…
Former Chief Justice David Maraga has vowed to continue campaigning for changes to Kenya’s presidential results tallying system after the High Court upheld the legality of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) national tallying centre. Maraga said the People’s Coalition on Electoral Reforms would not abandon its push for changes ahead of the August…
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has finally removed three nominated Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) in Kwale whose nominations were nullified by the High Court in 2023, ending a three-year legal and administrative limbo, but leaving two other names at the centre of the original case outside its latest replacement exercise. IEBC…
