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National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula’s Ford Kenya party has strongly rejected growing pressure from some leaders in President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) for smaller parties in the Kenya Kwanza coalition to dissolve and fully merge into UDA.
Naiyanoi Ng’eno, the widow of the late Emurua Dikirr Member of Parliament Johana Ng’eno, has decided to pull out of the race to take over his parliamentary seat in the forthcoming by-election.
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has stirred fresh political debate by asserting that the Nyanza region must produce the next president of Kenya once President William Ruto completes his term.
In a deeply disturbing incident that has left residents of Mbumbuni town in shock, police in Mbooni East, Makueni County, are investigating the suspected murder of an 11-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a local lodging facility.
Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi has recounted his terrifying ordeal after being among the 39 passengers who miraculously escaped unharmed when their flight veered off the runway and crash-landed at Wilson Airport in Nairobi on Friday evening.
In a decisive strike against agricultural sabotage in Western Kenya, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have taken eight people into custody for allegedly running a sophisticated ring that tampered with and illegally repackaged government-subsidised fertiliser in Kakamega County.
Godfrey Osotsi, a senior Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) official, has taken a firm stand. He says he and his group will not attend the delegates’ meeting that has been called by the Linda Ground faction of the party.
A sad tragedy has struck Masindu Friends Secondary School in Webuye East, Bungoma County. A teacher from the school was crushed to death by a tractor that was carrying sugarcane.
A 31-year-old boda boda rider from Busia County has filed a high-stakes lawsuit demanding Ksh100 million in damages from Governor Paul Otuoma, accusing him of an unprovoked physical assault that has left him fearing for his life.
More than 150 families living in Chesiywo, Kapkrong, and Kimama villages within Mt Elgon Constituency, Bungoma County, are now homeless and in urgent need of help following destructive flash floods caused by heavy rains.
North Teso Member of Parliament Oku Kaunya has called on residents of his constituency to come out in large numbers tomorrow to warmly welcome President William Ruto during his development tour in Busia County. The President is expected to lay the foundation stone for the construction of new hostels at the KMTC Kocholia Medical Training College, among other key development projects in the area.
Several trade unions representing county employees in Trans Nzoia on Tuesday marched through the streets of Kitale town to the county governor’s office, where they voiced strong frustration over unpaid salaries stretching back nearly two months.
In a bold move that highlights shifting dynamics within Kenya's opposition politics, East African Legislative Assembly MP Winnie Odinga has openly declared her readiness to contest for the position of deputy party leader in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
Kenya's high-stakes political landscape has recently taken an unexpectedly playful yet immature detour, as President William Ruto and his estranged former deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, traded barbs centered on each other's physical appearances rather than substantive national issues.
Homa Bay County Governor Gladys Wanga has moved quickly to fill a leadership vacuum by nominating Danish Otieno Onyango, her current County Executive Committee member for Roads and Public Works, as the county’s new deputy governor.
A heavy trailer overturned dramatically at Kanduyi along a major highway in Bungoma County after its tire burst, causing the driver to lose control
A devastating road accident near Malaha along the Webuye-Kitale highway in Bungoma County claimed the lives of 16 people and left several others seriously injured.
The families of those who tragically lost their lives in the devastating Malaha road accident in Webuye, Bungoma County, have received a total of KSh 13.5 million in financial support to help with funeral expenses and immediate needs.
