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The city of Paris will honour slain Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her, the French capital’s mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday. Cheptegei, who competed in the women’s marathon during the Paris Olympics last month, succumbed to severe burns on Thursday after being doused with petrol and set on…

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President William Ruto has decalred a three-day national mourning period following the deaths of 17 pupils at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri county Thursday night. The pupils died after a fire broke out in a dormitory at the school around 11pm. “As a solemn testament to the indelible mark left upon the nation’s consciousness by…

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At least 17 boys killed after fire broke out in the dormitory in which they were sleeping at Hillside Endarasha Academy School in Nyeri in the early hours of Friday. “We saw several children in there that had been burnt,” Phillip Gathogo, a local resident, told reporters. “I was just lucky to save one of…

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Residents of Juja, Kiambu County barricaded the Thika superhighway for nearly two hours to protest against the killing of a young child by a hyena. This caused a traffic snarl-up on both sides of the busy highway that stretched for over three kilometers leaving travellers, among them secondary school students reporting back for the third…

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The first batch of mpox vaccine arrived in Congo’s capital on Thursday, the country’s authorities said, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency. The 100,000 doses of the MVA-BN vaccine, manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic, have been donated by the European Union through…

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Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend , in the latest attack on a female athlete in the country. According to reports, Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to more than 75% of her…

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Winnie Ndubi Bwire an actress in a popular Tv film called Sultana has succumbed to cancer . The family announced her demise on Thursday morning. The actress succumbed as she underwent cancer treatment in Turkey. “It is with a heavy heart and humble acceptance of God’s will that we announce Winfred Bwire Ndubi lost her…

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The Chinese President welcomed African leaders in Beijing Wednesday for a summit aimed at strengthening ties at a time of strained relations with the West. President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a banquet Wednesday evening in the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing to welcome leaders for the 2024 Summit…

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Kenya is set to become the first nation on the continent to co-host the Annual Citizen Festival with Germany, the State Department for Foreign Affairs has announced. The ministry noted that the event, more popularly known as the ‘Bürgerfest’, is hosted by the German Presidency every year to celebrate cultural diversity between the Western European…

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Evan Chirchir, National Treasury employee was reported missing by his family for several days, his body has been found at Machakos Level V morgue. Dr. Daniel Katua, the medical superintendent at Machakos Level Five Hospital, confirmed to that the deceased was brought to the facility on August 31, 2024, at 9:20 p.m. According to Katua,…

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