The majority leader in Kenya's parliament says Kiambu County is locked in for Ruto when the next election rolls around, and he thinks they'll deliver even harder than they did last time. Kimani Ichung'wah was talking at a church event and pointed to all the road projects happening across the area as proof that backing the president was worth it.
He mentioned how the Western and Northern Bypasses are getting widened, and work is happening on the Muthaiga to Kiambu Road stretch. The lawmaker also hyped up a planned expressway from Museum Hill to Thika that Ruto announced during national celebrations, saying it'll fix the nightmare traffic that currently makes the commute brutal.
Ichung'wah shared that it took him over an hour just to...
An Anglican bishop from Gatundu North basically told everyone to chill about rumors that Mt Kenya might ditch Ruto before the next election. Simon Karatu used his Sunday sermon to double down on regional loyalty, saying the president actually listens to regular people and the whole area still has his back despite chatter suggesting otherwise.
The church leader told Ruto to ignore the noise about losing support in the vote-heavy region and promised voters would show up early to back him when ballots get cast. Karatu framed the whole thing as a relationship built on trust and pushed back hard against claims that locals were reconsidering their political alignment.
He wrapped it up by assuring the president that Mt Kenya residents love...
Kenya's health minister went off on the former interior guy, saying Fred Matiang'i has zero business trashing President William Ruto when his own track record was apparently garbage. Aden Duale basically told Matiang'i to sit down and shut up because he ran internal security with a heavy hand and presided over extrajudicial killings, which makes him the worst possible person to lecture anyone about following the law or respecting the constitution.
Duale also hyped up Ruto's infrastructure work and said critics are just hating on the name instead of looking at actual results. He claimed nobody in the past three administrations has matched what Ruto pulled off in roads and development projects.
Matiang'i had been calling the government...
Kenya's gas prices are staying put for the next month after the energy regulator decided not to mess with anything. Super petrol is holding at 184.52 shillings per liter in Nairobi, diesel at 171.47, and kerosene at 154.78, all with the VAT baked in.
The imported cost of super petrol actually dropped over 4 percent from October to November, but diesel and kerosene both climbed up a few percentage points. Mombasa got slightly cheaper rates across the board compared to Nairobi, while places like Eldoret and Kisumu are paying basically the same as the capital.
The regulator pointed out that crude oil stayed steady around 9,000 shillings per barrel last month, and the central bank governor mentioned that global oil production went up...
Seven people got hauled into court in Mombasa for holding onto 24 kilos of meth worth around 192 million shillings, and cops think the stash came from a way bigger bust they pulled off earlier. The suspects are Duke Nyamwaya, Juma Mwinyifaki, Michael Kariuki, Elijah Mbogo, James Ekiru, Abdulrehman Salad, and Abdirahman Abdi Kuno, and they all got pinched when the Anti-Narcotics Unit raided their houses and grabbed the drugs plus 11 phones.
Authorities believe the narcotics were lifted from a massive 1,024-kilogram haul that got seized from a boat in the Indian Ocean back in October, which was valued at something like 8.2 billion shillings. The magistrate gave investigators 10 days to run forensic tests on everything, and prosecutors...
The LinkedIn guy is throwing his money at a cancer startup that uses AI to speed up drug development. Reid Hoffman teamed up with a Pulitzer Prize-winning cancer doctor to launch Manas AI, which is trying to cut down the insane timeline and cost of getting new treatments to market by using machine learning on massive datasets.
They already pulled in nearly 25 million bucks from investors, and Microsoft is letting them use some unreleased AI tools on its Azure platform. The company is focusing on the really nasty cancers like triple-negative breast cancer and aggressive lymphoma, hoping to compress what normally takes forever into just a few years.
Hoffman made his billions from LinkedIn before Microsoft bought it for 27 billion, and...
A Kenyan judge refused to pause a tribunal ruling that stopped the Music Copyright Society of Kenya from collecting royalties after the group lost its license. Justice Linus Kassan pushed the case hearing out to mid-2026, leaving MCSK unable to operate in one of its main functions while the legal battle drags on.
MCSK tried to challenge both the tribunal decision and an earlier move by the Kenya Copyright Board that denied its license renewal. The copyright board said the society failed to submit proper paperwork and noted that two other organizations already got licenses to handle royalty collection. The board also pointed out that recent court cases threw out tariff regulations because of bad public participation, which basically...
Kenya's president is throwing a huge event at State House for 5,000 people from marginalized and minority communities, and they're being asked to show up in their traditional outfits. William Ruto is marking the UN's International Day for Minority Rights with delegates coming from at least 38 counties representing groups like the Ogiek, Rendille, El Molo, Nubians, and a bunch of others.
Eight government officials met with Dennis Itumbi, who handles special projects, to plan the whole thing. One of them said this is the first time in three decades that minority groups are getting proper recognition. Ruto even set up a new department in his office specifically to deal with minority issues.
The constitution actually requires Kenya to...
Kenya's president gave a state honor to a 22-year-old woman who hugged a tree for 72 hours straight to raise awareness about climate stuff and mental health. Truphena Muthoni got a medal from William Ruto at State House in Nairobi, and she also scored a job as an ambassador for the government's massive 15 billion tree planting project. She even got a free vacation from the wildlife and tourism agencies for pulling off the endurance stunt.
Muthoni jokingly asked Ruto how long he could hug a tree, but he laughed it off and said he'd rather just cheer her on instead. She did the whole thing outside a government office in Nyeri County, where she got rained on while setting the new record. Her original plan was to do it in Brazil, but that...
