4 year old Monica Makhungu missing since October 2016
A family in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Rueben is pleading with members of the public to help in their search of their missing daughter. Monica Makhungu who is 4 years of age [...]
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First Somali-Canadian MP Ahmed Hussen is new Minister of Immigration
Prime Minister Justine Trudeau has shuffled key cabinet ministers at a swearing-in ceremony that took place at Rideau Hall. Ahmed Hussen, the Liberal MP for Toronto riding of [...]
Communications Authority Kenya sets up tough measures on use of SIM cards
Giving a stranger your phone to make a distress call could earn you six months behind bars and a fine of Sh10,000 if it is found that your mobile device has been used to [...]
Update: Mother of slain Ottawa teen Leslie Mwakio thanks fellow Kenyans for support
Last month, we published an article about a Gofundme appeal by a former mentor of Leslie Mwakio who was shot dead in a car in Ottawa on the night of December 6th, 2016. [...]
China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
China has announced a ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017. Conservation groups hailed the decision as “historic” and a [...]
Kenya Terminates US Election Education Program Ahead of Polls
Kenya’s government has terminated operations of a U.S.-funded project to educate voters, just months before this East African country holds its next presidential [...]
For Kenyans, Jamhuri Day 2016 is shadowed by sadness over Naivasha tragedy
Kenyans everywhere are celebrating this 53rd Jamhuri Day with a heavy heart and a shadow of sadness hanging over us. On Saturday Dec 10, 2016, a tanker carrying inflammable [...]
Striking Kenyan doctors threaten to shut private hospitals
Kenyan doctors and nurses warned Thursday they will extend a strike crippling public hospitals to private clinics as well next week, unless the government offers them more in [...]
Viola Desmond chosen as first Canadian woman to grace banknote’s face
Viola Desmond, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, will be the first [...]
KCPE 2016 results released
The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education results are out. For the first time in Kenya’s KCPE history, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said all candidates [...]