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A Kenyan schoolgirl has been sentenced to five years in jail over a school dormitory fire that killed 10 fellow students in the capital, Nairobi. The 18-year-old committed the offence in 2017 aged 14 in her first year at the prestigious Moi Girls School. Parents of those who died in the fire said the sentence […]
At least seven people have been killed in a roadside blast in northern Kenya. Attackers ambushed a minibus, locally known as a matatu, after the blast and opened fire on its occupants near Mandera town, a police statement said. Survivors were taken to hospital with various injuries, as the attackers fled the scene, the police […]
Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa. Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is very unusual for stowaways on long […]
A police officer in Kenya shot dead his wife and five other people with an AK-47 in the early hours of Tuesday morning, officials said. A neighbour heard “a loud bang” from the officer’s home at 01:00 local time, according to a police report. The policeman then went on what officials are calling a “shooting […]
A bus carrying choir members to a wedding party plunged into a river in Kenya killing at least 23 people on board. The bus reportedly swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River, about 200km east of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The bus had been hired […]
Kenyan drivers spent hours overnight in an enormous traffic jam in the capital, Nairobi. “Ridiculous that I’m getting home at 4am” after an 11-hour journey, tweeted lawyer Pauline Otsyula. Other commuters explained that they arrived home in the early hours just in time to leave for work once again. Nairobi is notorious for its traffic […]
The governor of the Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya is facing backlash after he included bottles of cognac (high quality brandy) in coronavirus care packages. Mike Sonko, the governor confirmed that the alcohol would be part of the COVID-19 care packages that were given to residents at a food donation site. He claimed that […]