Category: Politics
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Lenny Kivuti during a past event. PHOTO/https://web.facebook.com/LennyMaxwellKivuti Former Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti has expressed firm confidence that Newton Kariuki Ndwiga, popularly known as Newton Karish, will carry the day in the forthcoming Mbeere North by-election. Kivuti, who spoke while drumming up support for the Democratic Party candidate in Mbeere on Thursday, September 25, 2025, urged…
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Joseph Kabila. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s High Military Court has sentenced former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia on charges ranging from treason to crimes against humanity. The ruling, delivered on Tuesday, found Kabila guilty of a string of offences, including leading an insurrection, intentional killings, torture, rape, and the forced occupation of…
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Joyce Bagala. Mityana District Woman Member of Parliament Joyce Bagala has vowed to continue serving her constituents even after the National Unity Platform (NUP) dropped her as its flagbearer for the 2026 general elections. Bagala, who rode the NUP wave to Parliament in 2021, has been replaced by newcomer Proscovia Mukisa, who will now carry…
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Senior lawyer and Busiro County East MP, Medard Lubega Sseggona, has spoken out after the National Unity Platform (NUP) denied him the party flag for the 2026 elections, handing it instead to Kadongo Kamu singer and Kyengera Town Council Mayor, Mathias Walukaga. Appearing on NBS TV, Sseggona maintained calmness, saying he accepted the outcome without…
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Days after the National Unity Platform (NUP) unveiled its parliamentary flag bearers for the 2026 elections, Busiro East legislator Medard Lubega Ssegona has broken ranks with the party, declaring he will contest as an independent. Ssegona, who has represented Busiro East in Parliament since 2011, lost the NUP ticket to musician and Kyengera Mayor Mathias…
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Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen, centre, when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Johnson Sakaja Johnson at City Hall. (Photo: Kipchumba Murkomen/X) The High Court has issued an order suspending the much-anticipated National Police Service (NPS) recruitment exercise, which was due to start on October 3, 2025. However, speaking at the School of Government in…
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Youth cleaning up Nairobi River. (Photo: Nairobi Rivers Commission) Members of the Nairobi County Assembly Planning Committee have called for an immediate stop to the ongoing Nairobi River regeneration activities, following complaints by land owners in Kangemi and Dagoretti who say their land is being taken without consultation or compensation. The committee on Wednesday made…
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Activist Bob Njagi. Human rights organisations have demanded the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts of Kenyan activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were reportedly abducted in Kampala, Uganda.(Photo: Handout) Human rights organisations have demanded the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts of Kenyan activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were reportedly abducted in Kampala,…
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Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen arrives at the Nairobi Jukwaa la Usalama forum at the Kenya School of Government, Lower Kabete. (Photo: Ministry of Interior) Security officials and Nairobi residents are sharing their concerns at the final edition of the Jukwaa la Usalama forum, currently underway at the Kenya School of Government (KSG) in Lower Kabete.…
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Rigathi Gachagua during his impeachment at the Senate. (Photo: Senate of Kenya) A fresh twist has emerged in the constitutional case challenging the purported impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, after a petitioner asked three High Court judges to step aside from hearing the matter on grounds of bias. Joseph Enock Aura, through his…