High prospects of Kenya’s economy becoming minerals-driven jolts state into mining laws reforms
The proposed legislative reforms include the Explosives Bill (2026) the Minerals, Mining and Beneficiation Policy, the Explosives (Fees) Regulations and the Mine Health, Safety and Environment Regulations.
US signs agreement to invest $1.3 billion in Tanzania’s health sector over the next five years
The agreement, signed late on Wednesday, is similar to those struck with countries including Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda under US President Donald Trump’s “America First Global Health Strategy”, designed to make poorer nations more self-reliant as the US has dismantled foreign aid programmes.
Kenya Railways and Kisumu County chiefs eye Railways City on 100-acre land that will serve as East Africa’s logistics hub
The SGR extension from Narok to Kisumu officially commenced on Thursday, marking a major milestone in Kenya’s transport infrastructure development and positioning Kisumu as a regional railway and logistics hub in East Africa.
Ruto’s deportation of rights activists echoes Jomo Kenyatta’s rejection of influential Black thinkers Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon
Walter Rodney had come from Guyana with a scholar’s training and a revolutionary’s concern for ordinary people. He had studied Africa deeply, not as a dead place in old books but as a living source of memory, pride, and resistance.
Ugandan President Museveni’s son, army chief shuts down Kenyan-owned major news outlets
The National Association of Broadcasters said in a statement that at least six publishing and broadcasting outlets – all under Nation Media Group – were closed. “We are deeply concerned about this action and its impact on the media ecosystem,” the statement said.
NEDP suspends its executive director Daniel Mokua, Registrar of Political Parties notified of the action
The suspension comes at a time when the relatively young political party has recently attracted national attention through its party leader, former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
Former Nairobi Governor Sonko pays $1,540 to bail out 200 Gen Z protestors, among them lactating mother with baby
Sonko, who was in court, then offered to pay the Ksh1,000 ($7.71) for all 200 accused persons. The total pay-out was Ksh200,000.
Rogue DPM: Kenya deports Somalia deputy prime minister over alleged passport fraud
The second deputy prime minister was held in a VIP lounge at the Nairobi airport and issued with a return ticket to Mogadishu.
Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecution tells High Court magistrate’s court is competent to hear $10.4 million land fraud case
DPP through lawyers Idris Ali, Lorna Miima and Allan Mogere in their submissions urged Justice Alexander Muteti to dismiss the application filed by the former PC Davis Nathan Chelogoi through his lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui requesting the court to give directions on the matter pending in the lower court be transferred to another magistrate.
