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Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has urged the Ministry of Health, the Council of Governors and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to move quickly into direct talks with nurses’ unions and bring the prolonged industrial action to a close.
A police officer from the General Service Unit remains at large after allegedly shooting and killing a 45-year-old woman at a mess compound near Eldoret on Sunday afternoon.
The National Police Service has firmly rejected claims that a two-year-old company secured a multi-billion-shilling contract for its newly launched general duty uniforms.
The human cost of last week’s catastrophic flash flood in Nepal continues to mount, with official figures now listing 4,247 people as missing and at least 903 confirmed dead.
Hundreds of weary travellers found themselves trapped overnight inside the bustling terminals of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after aviation staff walked off the job.
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has announced the death of its Treasurer General, Albert Njeru Obed, who passed away after a short illness.
A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to surrender more than 172,000 dollars after regulators determined he exploited advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to profit from prediction markets.
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna arrived in Meru to a warm reception marked by gifts of local farm produce as the Linda Mwananchi movement prepared for its rally in the county.
President William Ruto joined family and friends on Saturday to celebrate the marriage of Njuguna Waiguru, son of Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru, to Joanne Rodriguez.
Authorities in Nepal have sounded a new alarm as rivers swollen by relentless rains threaten further devastation, while the combined death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods across the Nepal-Tibet border climbed to 750 and more than 3,000 people remain unaccounted for.
An Ecuadorian court has delivered a landmark verdict against former President Lenin Moreno, convicting the 73-year-old of bribery linked to the nation’s largest hydroelectric project and imposing a five-year prison term along with a lifelong ban on holding public office.
Detectives investigating the cold-blooded killing of Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso have netted three additional suspects, two of them tracked down across the border in Uganda after forensic leads pointed investigators toward Kampala.
Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga has spoken publicly about her personal experience with cancer, choosing a moment of official engagement on county health projects to reveal the details.
Norway awoke to profound national sorrow as the palace confirmed the death of King Harald V at the age of 89.
Police in Bunyala Sub-County within Busia County are investigating the alleged killing of a young man by his companion after a heated argument over a piece of soap.
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the Omukama of the Tooro Kingdom, has died at the age of 34.
Attorney General Dorcas Oduor has voiced deep worry over the rapid pace of new church registrations and the fierce conflicts that often follow.
Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe is leading a major drive to equip cows, goats and sheep with unique digital identities across the country.
