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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:50:00 +0300
Family in agony as senior National Museums staffer goes missing
John Masika Wafula, who was a senior staffer at NMK, is said to have gone missing in November last year.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0300
Boys to men: Kalenjins living in Australia stick to their tradition
Miles away from home, a section of Kalenjin community members living in Australia on Wednesday performed a traditional rite of passage.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:12:06 +0300
Nyandarua MCAs push executive to have attainable flagship projects
The MCAs spoke yesterday in the House during the adoption of the Annual Development Plan (ADP) for financial year 2022/2023.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0300
Families troop to Yala morgue as two bodies identified
Distraught families whose relatives have been missing yesterday started identifying bodies retrieved from River Yala.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Divers unable to retrieve bodies of drowned students
Bodies of two students of Michuki Technical Institute are yet to be retrieved from Mathioya River, three days after they drowned during a photoshoot.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Plan to fully use railway to ferry cargo from port kicks up a storm
Coastal towns along the northern corridor are expected to be hit by another wave of economic hardship once Kenya Railway starts hauling cargo directly

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Police probe Al Shabaab terrorist cells in Kwale
Kwale security agents are on the alert to avert an impending attack.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Man pleads guilty to manslaughter, freed on Sh400,000 bond
A man who pleaded guilty to killing his wife in October last year after suspecting her of infidelity has been released on a Sh400,000 bond.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Herders migrate to Uganda amid drought
Water shortage and a lack of pasture have forced a majority of livestock keepers in West Pokot to move to Uganda.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:55:11 +0300
Rare event as elephant begets twin calves
The Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad says that elephant twin births are very rare and occur in one per cent of elephant births.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:05:00 +0300
Man loses land for failing to utilize it for 42 years
The court ordered the land registrar to cancel the registration of the title deed.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:05:00 +0300
Raiders shoot herder dead at border, steal 250 cattle
The heavily armed raiders estimated to be 200 surrounded on Thursday morning at around 3 am attacked herders at Natapar village.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:49:13 +0300
Pokot herders migrate to Uganda amid drought
Water shortage and a lack of pasture have forced a majority of livestock keepers in West Pokot to move to Uganda.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:40:00 +0300
Tea farmers in Nandi counting losses as hail hit area
The affected farms are in Tindiret, Nandi Hills and parts of Aldai region.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:05:00 +0300
Money, romance woes linked to prosecutor's suspected suicide
Neighbours who interacted with the judicial officer said he had recently seemed troubled.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:50:00 +0300
Police in Kwale on alert, probe Al-Shabaab terror cells
Two chiefs in Kwale have since gone into hiding fearing attacks from the extremists, some believed to be Al-Shabaab returnees from Somalia.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:40:00 +0300
'Curse' that is dispossessing widows in Kisii
Many families are still living deep in tradition, denying widows the right to acquire, own, inherit and transfer land.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:55:46 +0300
Capital FM DJ dies after collapsing in office
Kilimani OCS Muturi Mbogo confirmed to The Standard that Capital FM's DJ Lithium was pronounced dead on arrival at the Nairobi Hospital.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0300
Pain of families with missing kin as more bodies located in Yala
The riddle surrounding bodies retrieved from River Yala in Siaya County has deepened after residents discovered two more bodies...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0300
Okite, diver who has retrieved bodies for 26 years has seen it all
One man has been instrumental in retrieving remains from River Yala in the last 26 years.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:30:00 +0300
Reprieve for 321 'forgotten' workers who served three years with no pay
Vihiga County will absorb 321 health workers whose hiring was steeped in controversy.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0300
Menace no more: Youth at Dunga Beach turn to hyacinth for a living
The youths are using hyacinth, the invasive plant species choking Lake Victoria, to make biogas and the different housewares.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:30:00 +0300
Looming power struggle to control UDA in Embu
A power struggle has rocked Deputy President William Ruto's party in Embu as rival groups held separate meetings to pick the outfit's coordinators.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:45:00 +0300
Nowhere to go for truckers as customs hitch leads to chaos
Drivers stuck for more than a week amid row at customs offices at Busia, Malaba. Residents have become hostile to the crews.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:30:00 +0300
Fear still stalks village months after armed raid left deep scars
17 people were killed. Many residents have been forced to live with the scars six months later. Livestock worth millions of shillings were stolen

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0300
Double loss for women as floods wash away joy, pride, livelihood
For many a woman, the flooding in 2019 and 2020 that saw them displaced also snatched their financial muscle, and pride.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Forgotten Meru Mau Mau hero due for posthumous award
Late Mau Mau war hero Field Marshal M'Ikiara wa Nyonta Ruku from Meru will be honoured posthumously for his contribution to the nation.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Trader denies Sh4.9 million tax evasion charge
A businessman has been charged with evading tax amounting to Sh4.9 million.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Judicial officer, Mombasa tycoons drawn into Nyali school land row
A judge and some Mombasa tycoons are among 14 private developers allegedly allocated public land in Mombasa.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0300
Cane farmers fight lease given to Ugandan miller
Sugarcane farmers have thrown their hats into the legal ring and challenged the lease issued to Ugandan miller Sarrai Group.



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