Two women have been arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while allegedly attempting to smuggle 658 grams of suspected gold out of Kenya. The two suspects, Mahamed Shukri Abdulahi and Sabriye Farhiyo Hussein, were intercepted by a multi-agency security team in the early hours of Friday, September 4, 2026, as they prepared to…
Residents and businesses in parts of Kilifi County are set to experience power interruptions on Sunday, September 6, 2026, due to scheduled maintenance by Kenya Power. According to the utility company’s planned power maintenance notice, the outages will affect customers in parts of Kilifi Town, Bofa and Mariakani. In Kilifi Town and Bofa, the interruption…
President William Ruto has announced plans to terminate what he termed an “exploitative, extractive” contract governing mineral resources in Magadi, vowing to open the area to multiple investors and ensure local value addition. Speaking on the future of Magadi’s mineral resources on Saturday, September 5, 2026, Ruto said the existing arrangement, which he described as…
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has rejected claims of a parallel command structure within Kenya’s National Police Service, defending Inspector-General of Police Douglas Kanja as the constitutionally mandated head of the country’s police. Murkomen said on Friday that Kanja retains operational command of the National Police Service and has authority over key functions including investigations,…
President William Ruto has told Kenyans to scrutinise every shilling spent on police reforms, as questions over the procurement of the country’s new police uniforms add a fresh political dimension to a debate that initially focused largely on their design. Ruto said on Friday that citizens had a right to question government decisions and expenditure,…
Kasarani MP Ronald Karauri has dismissed claims that motorists were robbed by goons along the Nairobi Expressway, saying he was the person inside the white car captured in a viral video and that the men surrounding the vehicle had stopped to assist him. In a statement on Friday, September 4, 2026, Karauri said the incident,…
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kilimani have launched investigations into a viral video purportedly showing motorists being robbed along the Nairobi Expressway. The DCI in a statement on September 4, 2026, said the individuals captured in the video, including the person alleged to have been robbed, have been identified and summoned…
A suspected child trafficker has been arrested in Kajiado County after detectives rescued four minors, aged between one and 17 years, from a bedsitter where he was residing. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Friday, September 4, 2026, the person of interest identified as Mwangi alias Mwamburi, was arrested at Korompoi Trading Centre…
Detectives have arrested a man suspected of orchestrating nine fraudulent insurance compensation claims arising from a road accident along Kangundo Road in 2023. The person of interest, Oduor, was arrested by detectives from the Insurance Fraud Investigations Unit (IFIU) in the Omega area of Kasarani and is expected to be arraigned at the Milimani Law…
Kenya is seeking a new economic partnership with India that would increase Kenyan exports and encourage Indian companies to manufacture locally, following President William Ruto’s decision to end Tata Chemicals’ operations at Lake Magadi. The proposal was outlined by Principal Secretary for Industrialisation Juma Mukhwana, who said Kenya’s long-standing trade relationship with India needed to…
