Fifteen people are reported missing after a seven-storey building collapsed on Monday night in an eastern suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that response teams were at the scene, in the Kware Pipeline Embakasi area. The Star newspaper said dozens of people had been evacuated moments before the collapse. Witnesses … Read more
About 15 people are missing after a seven-storey building collapsed on Monday night in an eastern suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross tweeted that response teams were on the scene at the building, in the Kware Pipeline Embakasi area. The Star newspaper said dozens were evacuated moments before the collapse. Witness … Read more
Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early. The $3.2bn (£2.5bn) Chinese-funded line is the country’s biggest infrastructure project since independence. It took three-and-a-half years to build, using Chinese track-laying technology. The line is supposed to eventually connect South Sudan, Democratic Republic of … Read more
A lucky Kenyan man, Samuel Abisai has won more than $2million (£1.5m) for correctly predicting 17 football matches in a competition run by betting company SportPesa. The payout is set to be one of the biggest in Africa. A statement from SportPesa says its CEO Ronald Karauri called the winner who was already celebrating. The … Read more
A Kenyan punter has won more than $2m (£1.6m) after correctly predicting the outcome of 17 football matches. Samuel Abisai placed about $2 on two separate jackpot picks, betting firm SportsPesa says. The company’s boss Ronald Karauri led a convoy, including a stretch limousine, to pick up Mr Abisai from his home in the small … Read more
At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a head-on crash between a bus and a truck on the highway between Nairobi and Kenya’s second city Mombasa, police said Tuesday. “It was a very bad head-on collision. We lost 26 people in the accident,” Leonard Kimaiyo, police chief for the southern town … Read more
A funeral was dramatically called off after the supposedly dead man was spotted drinking at a nearby bar as mourners arrived. The grave for Wilson Oluoch had been dug in his home village near Awendo in Migori county, western Kenya. Oluoch had gone missing three weeks previously and when a decomposed male body was found … Read more
A video circulating on social media has raised eyebrows as it shows a non-uniformed Kenyan policeman killing an unarmed suspected gang member at point-blank range in the streets of Eastleigh in the capital Nairobi. The incident was confirmed to have occurred last Friday when the police pursued wanted gang members for killing police officers last … Read more
At least 10 people have been killed in the latest clashes in drought-hit Kenya between rural communities fighting over pasture to graze their animals, police said on Monday. Herders from the Borana and Samburu communities fought a gun battle on Sunday in an area in the centre of the country called Kom, where both groups … Read more
Wiyaala and Rocky Dawuni will be performing in Nairobi, Kenya tomorrow, February 9, 2017. They will be joining some artistes like BBrave, Mixmaster Lenny, Blinky Bill and EA Wave to perform at the Jojo Abot Live. The event will take place at the Alchemist Bar, Westlands in Nairobi. Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts … Read more
The school in north-eastern Kenya attacked by gunmen earlier is currently under heavy security. Four men stormed the Abakore high school in Wajir county at 11:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and started firing, several students at the school told the BBC. Hundreds of students were sitting for their exams at the time. The attackers hit … Read more