Reuben Kimutai Lel, a Kenyan police officer who went missing from work and could not be found for nine months because no-one knew he had been admitted to hospital, has resurfaced. Police enquiries from his family were all vain as his family was also desperately looking for him. It turned …
Read More »Kenya says it intends to produce COVID vaccines from next year
Government in Kenya said it is planning to manufacture covid vaccines locally from next year in partnership with limited companies. The country will begin with the establishment of a fill-and-finish facility, where vaccines are put into vials and packaged for use. “We aim to start local production during the first …
Read More »Kenya: police arrest two for giving fake covid vaccines
Kenyan police say they are holding two people posing as doctors who allegedly gave fake Johnson & Johnson vaccines to many unsuspected Kenyans. The Criminal Investigations Directorate said the two men charged many unsuspecting Kenyans $ 30 per injection, despite all Covid-19 vaccines offered in Kenya being free. “We have …
Read More »Kenya: police investigate three students’ binding to tree
Kenya police are investigating a case in which three students were tied to a tree as punishment for absenteeism. Two senior teachers were questioned at Thiru Primary School in Laikipia County, central Kenya, about the incident. The incident sparked anger among Kenyans. Local television station NTV says the learners are …
Read More »Shisha pipes, sex toys, drones clog JKIA customs store
Kenya’s customs authorities have given importers of unclaimed items up to the end of the month to pay relevant fees or risk them being auctioned or destroyed, local Business Daily news site reports. The items including sex toys, civilian drones and shisha pipes have “clogged” warehouses at the main airport …
Read More »Kenyans warned to take second doses of covid vaccine
About 100,000 Kenyans have not yet received a second dose of the Covid vaccine and many are thought to be holding out for the arrival of other vaccines which they judge to be more effective. The head of Kenya’s vaccine task force warns that many Kenyans risk becoming severely ill …
Read More »Kenya: eight people died in the collapse of a crane
The collapse of a crane at a building site in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital left at least eight people dead and several others wounded. Two of those killed were Chinese nationals, local media reports. The accident, at the site where a 14-storey student hostel was being built, happened as the …
Read More »Kenya: Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be used in hard-to-reach rural areas
Among the vaccines available for the vaccination campaign, Johnson & Johnson is the one chosen by the Kenyan authorities for use in hard-to-reach rural areas. Dr Willis Akhwale, chairman of the country’s vaccine working group, justifies this choice by the fact that hospitals in these regions did not have the …
Read More »Kenya : judges reject president’s appeal to change constitution
Judges of the Kenyan court of Appeal have rejected the plan of President Uhuru Kenyatta to change the country’s constitution. The judges called the president’s project “unconstitutional and unlawful.” The proposition is nicknamed the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), and is spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his political nemesis-turned ally, …
Read More »Kenyan woman pleads guilty to mobile money theft
A businesswoman in Kenya has pleaded guilty to keeping money sent to her erroneously on a popular mobile money transfer platform, the Nation news site reports. Elizabeth Karimi Muthoni received 271,200 Kenyan shillings ($2,400) from Bakar Hussein Mohamed through Mpesa on 14 July. She withdrew part of the money and …
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