Kenya’s Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe has confirmed 12 new coronavirus cases in the country, five of them involving hotel workers. Mr Kagwe told a media briefing that more than 450 samples were tested by Friday morning and that: “We have already got
The former president of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi has been ordered by the country’s High Court in Kenya to pay nearly $10m (£8m) to a family for illegally acquiring their 53-acre parcel of land 36 years ago. Privately-owned newspaper Daily Nation says on 21 September, 1983, the former head of state ordered officials to register
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The High Court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced to death a senior policeman who killed a suspect by severely beating him whilst he was in custody, one of the harshest punishments over widespread police brutality in the East African country. Such a conviction is extremely rare, despite the fact that human rights organisations have documented
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Police say they have arrested six people in connection with the death of Kenyan human rights activist Caroline Mwatha. Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti told Kenyan media that police believe she died in an abortion clinic and the suspects took part in or facilitated what appears to have been a botched abortion. Ms Mwatha
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Five people have died after a small plane carrying them crashed in Kericho, the west of Kenya. The plane, piloted by a Kenyan national, was carrying four foreigners from Maasai Mara nature reserve when it crashed. The police chief for the Rift Valley region said the plane was heading to Lodwar. Emergency services have been
Read More →A human rights activist Caroline Mwatha who went missing last Wednesday has been found dead, Kenyan police spokesman Charles Owino has confirmed to the Report Focus News. She worked with a community group looking into allegations that police in the capital have perpetrated atrocities, including extra-judicial killings. Her relatives had been searching the city’s hospitals
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