KenyaForum

The circumstances surrounding the arrest of a Nation Media journalist, Walter Menya, for allegedly “soliciting a bribe to write a damaging story” continues to raise more questions than answers and has been turned to a political ping-pong ball between the government and opposition supporters. Mr Menya was arrested on Sunday and locked up at an […]

Read the full story

A woman in Masii, Machakos County is nursing injuries after her husband of 7 years, attacked her with a panga for failure to bear him children. According to Daily Nation, Stephen Ngila Thenge, 34 attacked his wife Jackline Mwende, 27, on July 24 and Chopped off her hands. Mwende is also nursing injuries on her neck […]

Read the full story

Mukhtar Ahmed, a Nairobi-based businessman dealing with electronics, paid for a full page advertisement on the Daily Nation on Wednesday, in protest of what he terms as “harassment and illegal eviction” from his business premises by the Administration Police(AP). In the a full-page advertisement addressed to president Uhuru Kenyatta, Mukhtar, gives a detailed account of […]

Read the full story

More than 1.7 million people have died of Aids related illnesses in Kenya since the virus was first identified in 1984. Each year it is estimated that there are over 100,000 new HIV infections in the country, of which 13,000 are children. 1.6 million people are living with HIV in Kenya which is now ranked […]

Read the full story

Good news: a “re-basing” of the way in which Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is calculated means that the country’s economy is officially 25 per cent bigger today than it was yesterday under the old method of adding up the nation’s wealth. Bad news: because politicians and officials of various political colours didn’t get their […]

Read the full story