Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has frequently pre-empted official state announcements, predicting President William Ruto's national addresses, leaking details regarding long-term policy targets, and countering specific executive messaging on public projects and security operations.
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Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has frequently pre-empted official state announcements, predicting President William Ruto's national addresses, leaking details regarding long-term policy targets, and countering specific executive messaging on public projects and security operations.
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President William Ruto has announced a new long-term development vision to succeed Vision 2030, declaring that Kenya can become a prosperous, high-income, industrialised and globally competitive nation within one generation if it seizes what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead Africa's economic rise. He acknowledged that Vision 2030 remains off target in its ambition to make Kenya an upper-middle-income country by the end of the decade.
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The Standard profiles key figures, including Prof Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, who are involved in President Ruto's next major plan for Kenya.
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Google announced a new feature allowing Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations on top of satellite imagery using its Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology, but researchers and open-source intelligence experts have warned it could enable bad actors to create realistic geospatial fakes and misuse a key fact-checking resource.
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Farmers often overlook livestock skin as a valuable agricultural by-product, yet hides and skins provide significant income when healthy and are processed into leather goods. Poor handling, diseases, wounds, and parasite infestations reduce market value, while skin condition serves as an early indicator of overall animal health and nutrition.
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Researchers from Rongo University have urged local farmers to embrace drought-tolerant sorghum to strengthen household food security and reduce diet-related diseases, showcasing climate-smart agricultural innovations including improved sorghum varieties and value-added products at the Kisumu Agricultural Society of Kenya Show.
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A court ordered Sun Power Products Limited (Brown's Food Company) to compensate a former employee after she was humiliated over her menstruation during her five years of employment at the company.
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Two prosecution witnesses testified that followers of Paul Makenzi's Good News International Church were lured with promises of reaching heaven through fasting, but endured prolonged starvation, confinement, and psychological manipulation at the Kwa Binzaro settlement in Kilifi County.
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Court details linked a city lawyer and his mother, a 2027 presidential aspirant and former Machakos gubernatorial contender, to the murder of psychologist Dr Victoria Mutiso. The mother is also a former husband of the late doctor's spouse.
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A nationwide nurses' strike forced some public hospitals to shut down and others to operate with reduced staff, disrupting healthcare services across counties including Siaya, Kisumu, Homa Bay and Migori. The Kenya National Union of Nurses and Midwives is pushing for implementation of the 2017 Return-to-Work Formula, signing of a Collective Bargaining Agreement, nursing career guidelines, and resolution of Universal Health Coverage staff issues.
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Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk has been cleared to resume his career after the Football Association and World Anti-Doping Agency resolved his appeal against a ban for failing a 2024 doping test. Changes to WADA procedures mean that the concentration of meldonium found in his sample would not now trigger anti-doping charges.
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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Friday that Gianni Infantino was "the wrong man" to lead FIFA following the launch of a controversial plan to sell stakes in competitions to private investors, calling the proposal "an outrageous suggestion."
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Hamas said Friday it agreed to a US President Donald Trump–announced deal to end its war with Israel, under which it would hand over weapons to a Palestinian governing committee and Israeli forces would gradually withdraw from Gaza. Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir denounced the agreement as unacceptable, while a political source said there would be no Israeli withdrawal unless Hamas undergoes genuine disarmament.
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An opinion piece argues that dangerous weapons in a democracy are carried on the tongue, not in the hand, and that nations rarely descend into division overnight.
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An opinion piece examining the dissipating culture of reading in Kenyan schools, prompted by a journalist's request for an interview on the topic.
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A Standard opinion column argues that President Ruto's special national address reflects his long career in Kenya's politics and suggests it may have been timed to counter Senator Edwin Sifuna's recent economic commentary on national television.
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