Kenya’s Ministry of Education released the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment results Thursday, allowing Grade 9 learners and parents to immediately access scores and senior school placements. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba announced the results at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in Nairobi and outlined two straightforward methods to retrieve them. Online Access…
Kenyan environmental activist Truphena Muthoni completed a 72-hour nonstop tree-hugging marathon Thursday, smashing her own world record and drawing applause from supporters and political leaders alike. The 22-year-old began the challenge Monday outside the Nyeri governor’s office, wrapping her arms around an indigenous tree and refusing to let go — without food, water, sleep or…
Kenya’s most powerful business lobby has rejected a government bill that would create a new statutory council to coordinate private sector advocacy, calling the proposal unnecessary and poorly consulted. The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) says the Public-Private Engagement Bill, 2025, should be scrapped. Instead, the government should simply grant statutory status…
President William Ruto on Wednesday ordered a government committee to finally settle a 12-year dispute over the division of responsibilities between Kenya’s national government and its 47 counties, aiming to end overlapping roles that have long fueled tensions. Speaking at a summit of national and county leaders at State House in Nairobi, Ruto directed the…
Kenya is grappling with a severe national ethics crisis marked by plummeting public trust in state institutions, the country’s top judicial official warned Monday. Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Winfridah Mokaya told High Court judges and justice-sector partners that perceptions of unethical conduct have soared from 57% to 67% in just one year, according to…
President William Ruto announced Tuesday that Kenya will launch a National Infrastructure Fund later this week, a move designed to pull in billions of dollars in private investment to bankroll major development projects. Speaking at the opening of an expanded black rhino sanctuary in Tsavo West National Park, Ruto said the fund will use public…
Kenya’s National Police Service Commission (NPSC) asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to suspend a recent recruitment of more than 10,000 police constables, saying the exercise was conducted without legal authority and violated the commission’s constitutional mandate. Lawyers for the NPSC told a three-judge bench that Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja overstepped his…
At least four people were killed and dozens injured when a public participation forum on gold mining in Kakamega County turned violent on Thursday, prompting western Kenya leaders to demand an immediate halt to Shanta Gold operations. Deadly clashes at Ikolomani forum Chaos erupted at Emusali Primary School in Ikolomani during a National Environment Management…
Kenya’s Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba has told universities to speed up the realignment of academic programmes with the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) ahead of the first cohort of CBC learners entering tertiary institutions in 2029. The directive came during Friday’s joint graduation ceremony of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the…
Mourners gathered under a heavy December sky at Kang’o ka Jaramogi on Saturday to bid farewell to Beryl Achieng’ Odinga, the elder sister of Kenya’s opposition icon Raila Odinga. Just 42 days after the former prime minister himself was buried at the same family mausoleum, politics once again eclipsed personal grief as senior opposition figures…
