Learning was disrupted in several Nairobi schools on Tuesday as parents kept children at home or picked them up over fear of possible disruptions from anticipated saba saba protests. At Kilimani Integrated Comprehensive School, only about half of the 2100-strong enrolment reported, with many students later picked up by parents as uncertainty over security persisted.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
A 33-year-old woman in Nairobi allegedly sustained life-altering injuries after being brutally assaulted by her husband on May 13, 2025, in Pipeline, Nakuru County. Her family is appealing for justice and accuses police of delaying investigations, stating the alleged assault occurred while the woman was eight months pregnant and required emergency hospitalization and an emergency Caesarean section.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
President William Ruto's university funding model is facing its biggest test as institutions prepare to admit the largest number of government-sponsored students while grappling with a funding crisis, sharp decline in student numbers, and debts approaching Sh100 billion.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The University of Nairobi and seven other universities are awaiting renewal of their licences to offer law programmes, as the Council of Legal Education continues evaluating their applications under the Legal Education Act.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The Environment and Land Court in Mombasa has ordered the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to submit a comprehensive plan within seven days on how it will pay Sh2 billion to lead poisoning victims in Owino Uhuru, Mombasa.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Two people have died in Kathonzweni, Makueni county, after consuming alcohol in the township, allegedly poisonous cheap liquor. Families are distraught and police investigations are ongoing.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
An autopsy on 20-year-old Ben Kamiti, a student at Upperhill College of Professional Studies who died during a demonstration in Naivasha, found he died from blunt trauma to the head, allegedly caused by a teargas canister during police action. The postmortem contradicts an initial police report suggesting the injury came from a sharp object.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Siaya County Referral Hospital has received medical equipment including neonatal resuscitators, infant warmers, pulse oximeters, space heaters and digital thermometers, donated through the CHAMPS programme to strengthen emergency obstetric and neonatal services and reduce preventable newborn deaths.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Researchers found that a lotion made from catnip was just as effective as DEET, the widely-used mosquito repellent ingredient, in field trials. The plant-based alternative could offer an affordable, locally produced option for protecting against mosquito-borne diseases including malaria, dengue fever, and chikungunya in Kenya.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has demanded immediate payment of dues owed to teachers who served as examiners for KNEC last year, warning that continued delays could disrupt the administration and marking of this year's exams.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Five health workers' unions have issued Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa a three-day ultimatum to resolve a dispute over a Recognition Agreement, threatening to withdraw services after a scheduled signing ceremony on Tuesday was derailed when the County Attorney and her legal team failed to attend.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Kenya's Education Cabinet Secretary announced that the university transfer window for 2025 KUCCPS placements has been extended from two weeks to one month to allow students adequate time to transfer between institutions. A total of 293,869 students have been placed across degree, diploma, and certificate programmes.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
A former Revenue Collection Assistant at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company has been convicted of using a forged university degree certificate to secure employment and fraudulently receive Sh4,749,597 in salaries. He was ordered to pay Sh4.8 million in fines or serve jail time.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Kenya's gig worker unions have called on the government to amend clauses 10, 11 and 12 in the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, arguing that the provisions shield multinational technology firms from accountability and favour foreign investors over local worker protections in digital and platform work.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Kenya's Rastafarians are awaiting a High Court ruling on July 15 on whether they will be allowed to smoke cannabis legally under the right of freedom of religion, as the movement's followers practise meditation using marijuana despite a 1994 law making possession punishable by 10 years' imprisonment.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The Law Society of Kenya has demanded urgent security guarantees for advocates following the deaths of two lawyers within 48 hours. Advocate Esther Wairimu Keige, manager of legal services at Kenya Forest Service, was found dead on Monday night after going missing in Juja, and Advocate Edward Muthee Kariuki was found murdered outside his Athi River home on July 5.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Governor Paul Otuoma, Woman Representative Catherine Omanyo, and Presidential Advisor Arthur Osiya have recorded statements with the DCI as investigations into the "Jobless" gang intensify following violence in Busia Town. Police are probing the group's alleged involvement in violent incidents in Marachi Estate and surrounding areas, and investigating whether any political figures had links to the gang.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council has received 1,919 malpractice complaints cumulatively, with about a third relating to maternity services, mostly during labour and delivery where inadequate monitoring can lead to poor outcomes for mothers and babies.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
UN Women Kenya brought together influential women leaders from public and private sectors in a roundtable to strengthen collaboration and establish a national Women Leaders Alliance. The initiative addresses barriers to women's advancement, including gender stereotypes, limited mentorship, and fragmented sector collaboration, amid findings that women hold 32.3 per cent of CEO/managing director roles, 35 per cent of board positions, and 21.3 per cent of board chair positions.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Kenyan authorities have rescued eight foreign nationals—five from the United States, two from Canada, and one from Britain—who were being held against their will at an unaccredited rehabilitation facility in Kajiado County. The facility, which had operated for only six months without a license from NACADA, is now facing imminent closure following the discovery.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
Medicine has emerged as Kenya's most competitive university programme for 2026/27, with 6,500 applications competing for 702 available Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery places across public and private universities, leaving nearly 5,800 qualified applicants without admission through the government placement system.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
A 36-year-old man was struck and killed by a locomotive near Mlolongo Railway Station after allegedly sleeping beside the railway tracks. Police are also investigating separate incidents including the defilement of a six-year-old girl in Embu County and a violent highway robbery in Webuye.
8 July 2026 · The Standard →
The High Court in Naivasha has temporarily lifted a warrant of arrest for Amos Wanjiru and his wife, Alice Muya, who face charges of conspiring to murder five of their relatives, including the mother. The couple, residing in the US, were ordered extradited by a lower court and had been accused of ignoring court summonses.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Detectives raided a suspected gang hideout in Eldoret's Sungura area and recovered 5 KDF jungle jackets, a heavy wedge hammer, a crowbar, 2 mobile phones and other items believed used in robberies. Police say investigations are ongoing to pursue fleeing accomplices and determine the full scope of the syndicate's operations.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Three members of the same family—a 60-year-old woman, her 50-year-old sister, and the sister's 20-year-old son—died when fire engulfed their home in Murara Village, Kianjokoma, Embu North, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The fire broke out around 2:00 a.m. while they slept; neighbours heard screams but the flames spread too rapidly for rescue.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Police intercepted a public service vehicle at Lumakanda Junction in Kakamega County and arrested a passenger transporting 100 kilograms of cannabis sativa valued at approximately Sh3 million. The DCI noted that drug traffickers are increasingly using public transport to move narcotics across the region.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
The BBC World Service is bringing its Future of Journalism Festival to Nairobi this week for a free two-day event with journalists, media executives, students and digital creators to examine challenges in modern journalism shaped by artificial intelligence, social media and misinformation. The festival will feature panel discussions, workshops and a live recording of BBC's People Fixing the World, with a focus on solutions journalism—an approach that examines how communities and institutions respond to societal challenges.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
KUCCPS released 2026 placement results for 293,869 students across degree, diploma, and certificate programs. Medicine was highly competitive, with only 702 spaces available out of 6,500 applications across public and private universities.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
The Law Society of Kenya has demanded immediate investigations into the deaths of two advocates, Esther Wairimu Keige and Edward Kariuki Muthee, who were found dead after going missing. LSK President Charles Kanjama called for a multi-agency investigative team and announced a nationwide protest on Friday.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
PC Rashid Charo, bodyguard to Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports Principal Secretary Fikirini Jacobs, was released on a personal bond of Ksh.20,000 pending investigation into the fatal shooting of Cecil Otieno Anyango in Kariokor on June 30. The case was mentioned at Makadara Law Courts and adjourned to August 10.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Investigations by the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse at Ehsan Rehabilitation Centre in Kajiado County have uncovered allegations of physical assault, unlawful detention, and violations of child protection standards, including the discovery of a 14-year-old boy among victims rescued during a multi-agency raid.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Kirinyaga County Government is partnering with the National Government and the Kenya Institute of Primate Research to map snakebite hotspots and collect data on prevalence and geographical distribution of snakebite cases. The research aims to inform antivenom distribution, strengthen referral systems, and support development of a locally produced antivenom suited to Kenya's venomous snake species.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Across Nairobi's busiest roundabouts and pavements, young acrobats have turned street performance into a daily economic struggle, relying on donations from passersby and motorists to cover food and basic needs. Female performers like Caroline Mbithe face additional pressure from family disapproval in a male-dominated space.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Police arrested three suspects and recovered assorted crude weapons after disrupting a planned criminal operation in Garissa Town on Wednesday; six other suspects fled the scene and remain at large.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
The Law Society of Kenya has called for a high-level, multi-agency investigative team comprising the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to investigate the death of Kenya Forest Service Legal Services Manager Esther Wairimu Keige, determine the circumstances, and identify those responsible. LSK President Charles Kanjama also demanded a comprehensive forensic audit of all disputed land acquisition, leasing, and alienation matters handled over the past 12 months to establish whether her death was connected to her official duties.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba announced that 202,133 applicants have been placed in degree programmes for the 2026/2027 academic year out of 270,508 candidates who met the minimum entry grade of C+ and above in the 2025 KCSE examination. Overall, 293,869 students have been placed across universities, technical institutions and colleges in various programmes.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba has released university and college placement results for the 2025 KCSE examination, with 270,508 candidates who attained C+ and above securing placement in degree programmes or technical and vocational institutions. The KUCCPS transfer window has been extended to one month to allow students greater flexibility in changing their placement.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
A former Revenue Collection Assistant at Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company has been convicted of forging a University of Nairobi degree to gain employment and unlawfully earning over Ksh.4.7 million in salaries. The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court ordered him to pay a financial penalty of Ksh.5,049,597.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Kenya's High Court ruled that a woman whose customary marriage to a deceased man was legally void—because he remained bound by an earlier monogamous union—is nonetheless entitled to inherit from his estate as his wife under the Law of Succession Act. Justice H.K. Chemitei appointed her a joint administrator of the estate alongside his children, citing Section 3(5) of the Act, which protects women and children who enter customary unions with men already in subsisting monogamous marriages.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Eight foreign nationals — five from the United States, two Canadians and one British national — were rescued from Ehsan Rehabilitation Centre in Kajiado County during a multi-agency operation led by NACADA. Authorities found the facility had been operating without accreditation for six months and recommended its immediate closure.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
Authorities rescued eight foreign nationals—five from the US, two from Canada, and one from Britain—being held against their will at the Ehsan Rehabilitation Centre in Kajiado County, which operated without a NACADA license for six months. The multi-agency raid uncovered severe deficiencies in patient care and human rights violations, with the facility now facing closure.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service has placed 293,869 candidates from the 2025 KCSE examination into universities, TVET institutions, and Teacher Training Colleges for the 2026/27 academic year, with 202,133 securing university degree programme admission. The placement service has extended the inter-institution transfer window from two weeks to one month.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the National Construction Authority have launched a partnership to investigate and prosecute illegal construction, professional negligence, and regulatory breaches linked to building collapses and unsafe developments. The collaboration will target offences including illegal developments, fraudulent approvals, abuse of office, and environmental violations.
8 July 2026 · Capital News →
The autopsy of Kenya Forest Service Legal Services Manager Esther Wairimu Keige, whose body was found in Juja, failed to establish the cause of death due to advanced decomposition, though no visible injuries were found; toxicological samples have been collected for further analysis.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
More than 57,000 students who qualified for university admission have not been placed in any degree programme following the latest KUCCPS placement results. The Ministry of Education has extended the application review period to allow affected candidates to reapply for available courses, while over 200,000 students secured placement in universities, colleges and other tertiary institutions.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →
A 26-year-old man was fatally assaulted by club attendants in Kawangware, Nairobi, over a disputed Ksh.1,000 bill. Detectives have arrested three suspects, including a bartender and security officer, as part of a murder investigation.
8 July 2026 · Citizen Digital →