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Kenneth Gachie

2026-04-242026-05-13
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  1. May 2026
  7. April 2026
Politics

Nairobi hastily repairs roads for foreign dignitary visits

The News

Kenyans on social media have expressed amusement and indignation at the government's rapid road repairs and city beautification ahead of major international events in Nairobi. Ahead of the Africa Forward Summit hosted in Nairobi with French President Emmanuel Macron as chief guest, the Nairobi and national governments quickly improved roads, marked lanes, swept sidewalks, and restored traffic lights.

21 hours ago · Citizen Digital →

Monday 11 May

  1. Nairobi hastily repairs roads for foreign dignitary visits

    Kenyans on social media have expressed amusement and indignation at the government's rapid road repairs and city beautification ahead of major international events in Nairobi. Ahead of the Africa Forward Summit hosted in Nairobi with French President Emmanuel Macron as chief guest, the Nairobi and national governments quickly improved roads, marked lanes, swept sidewalks, and restored traffic lights.

    21 hours ago · Citizen Digital →

Yesterday

  1. Macron interrupts Nairobi summit panel, calls out audience noise

    French President Emmanuel Macron briefly interrupted a youth forum at the University of Nairobi during the Africa Forward Summit on Monday, calling out sections of the audience for disrupting a speaker with noise during a panel discussion with President William Ruto on technology, education, and Africa's digital future.

    11 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Tuesday 5 May

  1. Richie Gathu releases "Lucky Me" from conceptual album

    UK-based Kenyan artist Richie Gathu has released "Lucky Me," a single celebrating freedom after a bad relationship, part of a larger conceptual album titled "6 DEGREEZ" about the cycle of love and breakups. He plans future releases drawing from music he grew up listening to in Kenya.

    6 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Monday 4 May

  1. World's first surviving nonuplets turn five years old

    Nine siblings born to Mrs. Arby Halima Oumar Cissé and Abdelkader Arby in Morocco—four boys and five girls—celebrated their fifth birthday on May 4 in Mali. The nonuplets are the first known surviving set of nine children born at once, according to Guinness World Records.

    5 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →

  2. Suluhu publicly rebukes Ruto over unannounced Tanga refinery plans

    President Ruto was forced to clarify remarks on a proposed oil refinery in Tanga, Tanzania, after President Samia Suluhu publicly questioned his announcement of the project during a Kenya-Tanzania Business Forum in Dar es Salaam on May 4, 2026, saying he announced it without her government's knowledge.

    5 May 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Wednesday 29 April

  1. Kenyan marathoner Sabastian Sawe runs first official sub-two-hour marathon

    Kenya's Sabastian Sawe became the first man to officially finish a marathon in under two hours, with a time of 01:59:30 at the London Marathon. The feat capped decades of attempts to breach the previously unattained barrier in marathon running.

    30 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Tuesday 28 April

  1. Mama Lucy Hospital board member faces backlash over patient livestream

    Calvince Gaucho, newly-appointed board member of Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, live-streamed a ward tour on TikTok, capturing patients in various states including those in visible distress, prompting widespread outrage over privacy violations.

    29 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Monday 27 April

  1. Ruto says remarks on Nigerian English taken out of context

    President William Ruto clarified on Tuesday that his earlier comments suggesting Nigerian-accented English is difficult to comprehend were misrepresented. He explained his remarks were meant to highlight English proficiency across African countries, not to disparage Nigeria, and were from a private conversation that was made public.

    28 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →

Thursday 23 April

  1. Ruto mocked Nigerian English, triggering African social media backlash

    President Ruto told Kenyans in Italy that Nigerian-accented English was incomprehensible and required a translator, while praising Kenya's English proficiency. His remarks sparked fierce online condemnation from Nigerians and other Africans who accused him of demeaning a fellow African nation and exhibiting colonial conditioning.

    24 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →

  2. Man charged with attempting to extort KWS director

    Francis Awino Onyango, 40, has been charged with attempted extortion by threats after allegedly threatening to file a petition for the removal of Kenya Wildlife Service Director General Erastus Kanga over constitutional violations in a bid to obtain Ksh1.7 million. The defendant denied the charge and was granted pre-trial mention on May 7, 2026.

    24 April 2026 · Citizen Digital →

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