Amnesty Kenya: 16 Kenyans shot dead in protests against extrajudicial killings, abductions and police brutality
Large crowds were seen earlier heading in the direction of State House, the president’s official residence, in scenes broadcast by Kenyan channel NTV before it and another broadcaster KTN were pulled off the air after defying an order to stop live broadcasts of the demonstrations.
What next for Iran after choreographed Israel-US battering that neutralised its nuclear arsenal?
Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance,” a group of allied countries and militias in the Mideast, has been mauled by the Israelis since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. Foreign support Tehran may have expected from China and Russia never materialised.
Court stops burial of former Zambian President Lungu in South African an hour before funeral service
Edgar Lungu and President Hakainde Hichilema had a long history of political enmity in the southern African country. Lungu beat Hichilema in a 2016 presidential election, and his government imprisoned Hichilema for four months in 2017 on charges of treason because his convoy didn’t give way to the president’s motorcade on a road. The move to imprison Hichilema was widely criticized by the international community and Hichilema was released and the charges dropped.
Chanting opposition slogan ‘one-term’, Kenyan protesters clash with police over President Ruto’s ‘bad governance’
Kenyan youth remain unhappy with the current administration due to corruption, rising cost of living and police brutality, and the recent death of a blogger in custody. The close-range shooting of a civilian during recent protests has exacerbated public anger.
10 protesters shot by police as state orders pause on live broadcast of demonstrations in Kenya
Six people, including three police officers, were charged with murder on Tuesday over the killing of 31-year-old blogger and teacher, Albert Ojwang. All have pleaded not guilty. On Wednesday, a source at Nairobi’s Kenyatta National Hospital told Reuters that the facility had received 11 patients with gunshot injuries.
Anti-graft body raises serious concerns over possible looting as current financial year closes
EACC Western Region Manager Eric Ngumbi expressed of looting public coffers when he opened a three-day integrity workshop for Bungoma County senior officials, Mohamud said the commission was closely monitoring transactions in the devolved units, where the risk of financial misconduct is highest at the close of the budget cycle.
Protests sweep Kenyan cities as East African nation commemorates young victims of extrajudicial killings
The death of blogger Albert Ojwang has become a lightning rod for Kenyans still mourning the deaths of protesters killed at last year’s demonstrations, blamed on security forces, along with rights groups claims of dozens of unexplained abductions.
Preliminary intelligence report contradicts Trump’s claims US strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability
The White House said the intelligence assessment was “flat out wrong.” According to the report, which was produced by the Defence Intelligence Agency, the strikes sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities, but did not collapse underground buildings, said one of the people familiar with its findings.
From a small lab in a rural school in western Kenya, a chemistry teacher builds an ethanol distillery from Lake Victoria water hyacinth
When the National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND) issued a call for green innovations, Arua submitted his idea. It won him a place in a two-year incubation programme, during which he refined the concept into a viable product.
Criminalising poverty: Former Mozambique President Chissano opens up on his drug addiction, says laws punitively punish the poor
Sucked into international drug circuits as a launching-pad for narcotics destined for European and Asian markets from Latin America, Kenya has become a major dispersal point in East Africa given its status as a regional economic hub and gateway to the wider hinterland.
