Kenyan authorities launched a manhunt on Tuesday after a man accused of killing dozens of women escaped from a police cell in the nation’s capital Nairobi, setting off outrage across the country, Al Jazeera reported. After he was arrested in July, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, confessed...
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In late June, Kenyan President William Ruto blinked. After winning the 2022 general election on his plans to reform the economy, he scuttled planned tax hikes and conceded that he was reversing his position in the wake of protests by Gen Z and millennials who...
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Kenyan authorities arrested this month a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women since 2022, including his own wife, in a case that has shocked the country and renewed scrutiny against Kenya’s police force, the BBC reported. Last week, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33,...
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Police clashed with anti-government protesters on Tuesday in the capital Nairobi and other Kenyan cities, killing at least one person and forcing businesses to close, as activists demanded that President William Ruto step down, Reuters reported. Demonstrators lit bonfires on major highways and set tires and...
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A Kenyan high court on Monday ruled that Kenyan police’s 2022 killing of a prominent Pakistani journalist violated the constitution, and awarded compensation to the reporter’s widow, the Telegraph reported. Arshad Sharif, 49, was a famed news anchor who fled Pakistan after receiving death threats for...
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Protesters set parts of Kenya’s parliament ablaze on Tuesday amid mass demonstrations against tax hikes in which more than 20 people were killed and led to President William Ruto scrapping the controversial bill, Reuters reported. “I concede,” the president said in a televised address on Wednesday...
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The Kenyan government this week scrapped a series of tax proposals, including a 16 percent value-added tax on bread, that had sparked rage and protests in the East African nation as it seeks to shore up its finances and eliminate its national debt, the BBC...
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Western influence on the African continent has been waning in recent years, with many countries moving toward China and Russia, often after military coups have overthrown democratically elected leaders – for example, in Niger and Mali. Kenya, however, has been an outlier, a steady friend. As a...
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Kenyan doctors returned to work Friday, two days after they reached an agreement with the government to end nearly two months of strikes that crippled hospitals and left patients in limbo, the Voice of America reported. On Wednesday, the government and the doctors’ union which represents...
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Four suspects appeared before a Kenyan court this week over a gas explosion that killed six people and injured nearly 300 in the capital Nairobi last week, the BBC reported. The individuals included three officials of the country’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the main...
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The High Court of Kenya on Monday ruled against a decision to send Kenyan police officers to lead a United Nations-backed mission in Haiti that would assist the country in combatting its endemic gang violence, throwing the future of an international mission to help the...
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Kenya will celebrate a nationwide tree planting day Monday, a new public holiday that will see citizens plant trees across the country in an effort to tackle climate change, the Associated Press reported. Last week, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki announced that Nov. 13 would be a...
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King Charles III acknowledged the atrocities committed by British colonial authorities against Kenyans during their fight for independence in the 1950s, but stopped short of issuing a full apology, CNN reported. The British monarch’s statements came during a four-day state visit to Kenya, which was marked...
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Kenya and the United States signed a defense agreement this week that will see the African nation receive resources and support for security deployments as it prepares to lead a multinational mission to violence-torn Haiti, Al Jazeera reported. The defense pact follows a meeting between US...
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Kenya reinstated a small subsidy to help control the retail prices of fuel, reversing a government policy that prompted mass protests across the country over the high cost of living, Al Jazeera reported this week. After taking office in September, President William Ruto removed subsidies on...
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Unrest in Kenya may have killed up to a dozen people this week, as protesters took to the streets of many cities to demonstrate against a series of unpopular tax hikes proposed by the government, CNN reported. Human rights activists cited by the BBC put the...
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Kenyan authorities exhumed the bodies of scores of people from a forest in the country’s southeast this week, the work of what appears to be a religious starvation cult that has shocked the nation, the Washington Post reported Monday. Police investigators said at least 70 people...
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Anti-government protests in Kenya turned deadly this week, sparking worries of escalating violence for Kenyans who are already grappling with soaring inflation and unemployment, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. Police and protesters clashed in the capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu as demonstrators took to...
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Thousands of Kenyans took part in opposition-led demonstrations Monday to protest the government of President William Ruto over skyrocketing prices for basic goods and other economic woes, the Associated Press reported. Police arrested dozens of people, including at least three lawmakers, in the capital Nairobi. Police...
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Move over, quiet quitting. Employees who are sick and tired of bosses calling them after the end of the business day and at weekends are pushing for laws to maintain boundaries between work and non-work time. In Kenya, for example, lawmakers have proposed a law that...
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