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President Ruto basically told everyone to chill about the US health deal, saying Kenya's data stays locked down under local laws. He mentioned the Attorney General went over everything super carefully to make sure Kenyan regulations control any info that gets collected, and he's not letting...

NTSA is warning people about a fake website called Mverified that's been scamming Kenyans who need vehicle documents. The authority said the site doesn't belong to them, and they're telling anyone who got hit to file a police report since multiple people probably already lost cash. The real...

Kenyan lawmakers are pushing for immediate legal clarification on the Defense Cooperation Agreement with the UK after finding out the British Army Training Unit has been operating without proper legal backing. The committee led by Belgut MP Nelson Koech said the 2015 deal expired back in 2021...

Kenya's planning to show off the cops who just got back from Haiti by having them march in the Jamhuri Day parade after wrapping up their 18-month deployment. Inspector General Douglas Kanja said the 230 officers landed back home earlier this week, and a fresh crew already touched down to take...

Senator Okiya Omtatah went to court trying to block a massive health deal between Kenya and America that drops 208 billion shillings into Kenyan health systems over five years. He's saying the whole thing got signed without anyone asking the public or getting Parliament's thumbs-up, which...

Willis Raburu is dragging two companies to court over a festival deal gone sideways, and he wants 10 million shillings for the mess. His firm Steizon handled promo and event logistics for the Furaha City Festival that went down last year, cranking out 60-plus reels, over 100 posts, hitting a...

Kasmuel McOure said his Broad-Based Youth Front is gonna start hitting up the government straight-up instead of going through politicians who ghosted them during last year's street protests. He called out some leaders who are trying to worm their way back into youth stuff without actually...

An American guy sitting in a Gigiri police station told a Nairobi judge he's cool with getting shipped back to Minnesota to deal with murder and drug charges. The dude's been locked up since they grabbed him, and he basically said he wants to bounce back to the States ASAP without fighting the...

President William Ruto showed off Kenya's new mega rhino sanctuary in Tsavo West, and it's basically the biggest one on earth at this point. The spot in Taita Taveta County got kitted out with AI cameras, drones, aerial surveillance, encrypted radios, patrol rides, and like 300+ security people...

Raila Odinga Junior wants to fix up his late dad's legendary red Hummer and stick it in the Kango Ka Jaramogi museum, where the former Prime Minister got buried. The SUV became a whole political brand after Don Bosco Gichana donated it during the 2007 campaign, and crowds used to scream the...

Mike Sonko got his National Economic Development Party officially registered and plans to drag his impeachment case back to the Supreme Court using fresh evidence from Nairobi MCAs who allegedly got pressured into voting him out. The former governor thinks he can still run for office because...

Plain-clothes cops just smoked two dudes who tried jacking someone outside a bank on Moi Avenue in Nairobi after the victim pulled cash from his account. Five guys rolled up on the customer and grabbed the money before trying to bounce, but officers already patrolling the area lit up two of them...

Betty Bayo's mom just filed a petition with Kenya's Director of Public Prosecution demanding an official inquest into her daughter's death after the gospel singer died at Kenyatta National Hospital from what family reps and husband Hiram Gitau claimed was leukemia. Joyce Wairimu Mbugua thinks...

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi went hard defending Kenya's privatization push at the diaspora investment strategy launch in Nairobi, and he basically told everyone to stop freaking out about selling off state companies. The guy pointed at Safaricom as proof that letting private players...

Kenya's central bank just dropped interest rates by 25 basis points to hit 9 percent because it wants businesses borrowing more cash to juice the economy. The Monetary Policy Committee thinks global growth will plateau around 3.1 percent next year, thanks to tariff drama and geopolitical mess in...

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says President Ruto keeps coming after him because Mount Kenya controls six million votes that could hit eight million next cycle, and the region already decided to boot somebody out of office. Gachagua thinks Ruto got boxed in politically across Mount...

The Luo Council of Elders shot down rumors about anointing a replacement for the late Raila Odinga after people started speculating that Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi got blessed during a gathering at his Ugunja home in Siaya County. Council chairman Odungi Randa says the whole thing is...

Zimbabwe dropped $5.3 million as a down payment on new cancer machines funded by sugar tax revenue, and the equipment will land at Parirenyatwa in Harare, plus Mpilo in Bulawayo, after factory inspections happen next month. Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora says the gear is already getting...

Beitbridge Border Post is processing around 13,000 people per day as holiday traffic builds up between Zimbabwe and South Africa, and immigration officer Lucky Matyora says authorities have enough staff deployed across all three terminals to handle the incoming surge. The two countries activated...

NUST just applied to mine gold on its own campus in Bulawayo after illegal panners kept tearing up the grounds and spreading into nearby neighborhoods like Killarney. The university wants a special research mining permit from the city council and the Ministry of Mines so the School of Mines can...