President William Ruto has announced that the construction of 50 mega dams will enable irrigation across 1.5 million acres in northern and coastal Kenya, transforming these areas into major food production hubs. Speaking in Masalani, Ijara Constituency, Garissa County, during the wedding of Mohammed Noordin Mohamed Haji, son of NIS …

Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has criticised opposition leader Rigathi Gachagua after the Opposition’s loss in the Mbeere North parliamentary by-election, describing the outcome as a rejection of divisive, region-based politics. Speaking at Suneka Catholic Parish in Bonchari, Kisii County, during a Catholic MPs’ Spiritual Support Initiative event, Ruku …

Russia announced on Friday that it is considering a full ban on the popular messaging app WhatsApp, accusing it of failing to prevent criminal activity, and encouraged its millions of users to switch to domestic alternatives. Meta, the US tech company that owns WhatsApp, responded by saying the move is …

Kenya’s inflation rate fell slightly to 4.5 percent in November, down from 4.6 percent in October, staying comfortably within the Central Bank of Kenya’s target range of 2.5–7.5 percent. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the modest decline was driven by lower prices of essential household items. Click …

President William Ruto, alongside several Cabinet Secretaries, has made a series of new appointments and reappointments to senior positions across government agencies, universities, and regulatory bodies, as published in the Kenya Gazette on November 28, 2025. Ruto re-appointed Winfrida Ngumi as Non-Executive Chairperson of the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) …

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has been honoured as the Company of the Year 2025, earning an impressive Excellence OPI Index score of 7.1 out of 10. The award recognises KPC’s exceptional performance across key areas of organisational excellence, including productivity and quality, innovation, leadership, corporate responsibility, financial management, customer focus, …

By: BBC More than 600,000 people in the Kyiv region of Ukraine are without power after an overnight Russian attack, officials say. Ukraine’s energy ministry said more than 500,000 of these were in the capital itself, with the rest in the surrounding region. It attributed the power losses to missile …

President William Ruto on Saturday joined several prominent leaders at the wedding of Noordin Mohamed Haji, son of National Intelligence Service Director General Noordin Haji, in Masalani, Garissa County. The groom wed his bride, Jamila Mohammed Abdulgader Al Sawae, in a ceremony rooted in Islamic and Somali cultural traditions. Ruto, …

A Chinese national has been apprehended at Nairobi’s Gikomba market after the Anti-Counterfeit Authority (ACA) confiscated 65,000 fake socks and clothing items valued at about Sh50 million — marking one of the biggest pre-holiday enforcement actions this year. The operation followed an intellectual-property complaint lodged by Spoor & Fisher on …

Kenya’s leading editors have warned that the country’s media landscape is under serious pressure, with financial strain and increasing attacks on journalists posing major risks to press freedom ahead of the 2027 elections. Speaking at the 8th Annual Editors Convention in Kilifi, Kenya Editors Guild (KEG) President Zubeidah Kananu said …