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Kenya's Public Service Commission started grilling over 13,000 shortlisted grads for 7,000 government internship slots that pay actual money for a year. The whole thing kicked off with Paul Famba running the show across 13 regional spots, and they're wrapping interviews by week's end before...

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen told political thugs and whoever bankrolls them that the government's coming for everyone with zero favoritism. He brought this up at a chief's graduation thing in Embakasi after some nasty violence went down in Nairobi, saying anyone rolling around with machetes...

Kenya's central bank put up two long-term government bonds for auction with pretty sweet rates attached. The 30-year paper offers 12% while the 25-year one comes with 13.924%, and bidding closes early next week. Both are reopened securities that mature way out in 2041 and 2046, and they're...

The ICC wrapped up its Kenya investigation after years of being front and center in the country's political drama. The prosecutor's office called it quits on active probing, but there's still unfinished business with two people they're hunting down for allegedly messing with witnesses. Those...

Police are investigating a church brawl in Kariobangi North that left six people hurt and set off a political blame game. Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says cops and hired thugs attacked the PCEA Church congregation with gunfire and tear gas during a service for a winning ward...

Three government workers at Kenya's main airport got busted trying to shake down an agent who helps people move to Middle East countries for work. Benson Ouma Okello, Esther Njoki Gakuru, and Denis Marias all worked for the Labour Ministry at JKIA, and they apparently wanted 34,000 shillings to...

EACC busted a bribery ring at the Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology in Kisii after instructors Philip Dawa and Fidel Omondi allegedly forced students to cough up cash to pass their driving tests. The anti-corruption squad raided the campus and grabbed Omondi with a fat envelope...

Kenya's High Court is letting bus companies and government officials keep talking things out after transport operators sued over a ban that stopped them from using gas stations as passenger pickup spots in downtown Nairobi. Justice Chacha told both sides to chill while they hash out a deal, and...

Tanzania's president came out swinging about how her cops handled election protests, and she basically said they had to get rough because people were trying to storm police stations and grab weapons. Samia Suluhu Hassan told a crowd that protestors were going after government buildings and...

Kalonzo Musyoka shut down rumors that Wiper handed every single Nairobi seat over to Rigathi Gachagua's Democracy of Citizens Party for the next election cycle. The Wiper boss said people are spreading fake drama to mess with their coalition plans and make it look like he's beefing with...

Kura engineers walked a 13-kilometer stretch of Outering Road with Eastlands residents after locals petitioned about busted streetlights and trashed guardrails, making the highway sketchy. Justus Onyinkwa from Kura admitted that vandals keep ripping out underground power cables faster than crews...

Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi are heading to Washington because Trump is getting Rwanda and DRC to finally sign a peace deal for Eastern Congo. The agreement wraps up work that the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community have been grinding on for years. Kagame and...

Most of Kenya is staying dry and sunny this week, but the Central Highlands, Western Kenya, Rift Valley, and South-eastern Lowlands are catching some rain. Kenya Met says daytime temps will push past 30°C along the coast, in the northeast, northwest, and chunks of the southeast lowlands and...

Kenya Kwanza coalition senators just booted Boni Khalwale from his Senate Majority Whip spot, and Bungoma Senator David Wafula Wakoli is stepping in to replace him. Speaker Amason Kingi made it official after the majority party held a meeting and voted Khalwale out under their standing orders...

A British kid studying at the University of Bristol has been missing for over a week after heading out to hike some mountains in Romania. George Smyth is 18 years old, from Shropshire, and rescue teams have been searching the Bucegi Mountains daily since he vanished. He apparently tried walking...

Kenya Railways is throwing an extra Madaraka Express train on the tracks to handle holiday crowds between Nairobi and Mombasa. The service runs through early January, and it stops at Voi before hitting the coast. Travelers can snag tickets online through the railway website, by dialing a...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants to slap travel bans on a bunch of countries she says are dumping criminals into America. Trump and DHS backed her up by resharing her post, but nobody's saying which nations are getting hit yet or when this kicks off. White House press secretary...

Trump just sprung Juan Orlando Hernández from a federal prison in West Virginia after the ex-Honduran president got nailed on drug trafficking and weapons charges. The guy was doing 45 years for helping move hundreds of tons of cocaine into America, but Trump called the whole thing a setup by...

Ruto is heading to Washington because Trump invited him to watch the DRC and Rwanda finally sign a peace deal that might actually end the mess in Eastern Congo. He's meeting up with Kagame and Tshisekedi for the ceremony, and this agreement builds off earlier peace talks from Nairobi and Luanda...

Kenya just dropped a new citizen-focused tool in Nairobi that lets regular people keep tabs on government contracts and spending. The Institute for Social Accountability built this thing with help from Transparency International Kenya and European Union funding, and it's designed to catch...