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Residents of Mutithi in Mwea, Kirinyaga County, woke on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, to a scene nobody could explain. The body of a middle-aged man was lying on top of a stationary boda boda parked at the roadside. “This morning, we came and found a dead body, which was placed on top of a boda boda,” one eyewitness said. About ten metres away, residents found a young woman in a roadside thicket. According to those who tried to help her, she was disoriented, deeply traumatised and unable to say how she came to be there. No weapon was immediately found nearby. Local administrators and police were alerted and went to the scene to secure it, preserve evidence and manage the crowd. Medical teams were expected to assess the woman’s health. The man’s body was taken to a local mortuary for a postmortem to establish the cause of death. Police have opened formal inquiries and say they are treating the case as a priority. The story says officers are waiting for the woman to stabilise enough to rec...

A coalition of civil society organisations has asked the High Court to suspend President William Ruto’s Cabinet, saying the President has not complied with a court order to reconstitute it within 120 days. In an update on Tuesday, November 10, Katiba Institute said it had filed the application together with CREAW Kenya, TISA Kenya, Crawn Trust Kenya and World March of Women Kenya. They are asking the court to enforce a judgment issued on June 30, and they allege the President failed to comply. The 120-day deadline set by the court lapsed on October 28. The petitioners want the court to suspend the Cabinet and Cabinet Secretaries from performing any functions of their offices. They also want the Secretary to the Cabinet stopped from convening or servicing Cabinet meetings, recording Cabinet decisions or communicating them. They are asking that the Controller of Budget be barred from approving Cabinet Secretaries’ salaries and benefits, and any spending on Cabinet business, from October ...

The United States has told its citizens not to travel to Uganda for any reason. The State Department raised the country to Level 4, its highest travel advisory, in June 2026, putting it in the same category as conflict zones and states where Washington says it can do little to help its own citizens. The advisory cites the Ebola outbreak, along with violent crime, including armed robbery, home invasion and sexual assault, as well as terrorism and civil unrest. “These places are dangerous. Do not go for ANY reason,” the advisory states. Level 4 is the top tier of a four-level system, reserved for places where local conditions or the department’s limited ability to assist Americans justify the strongest possible warning. Uganda is one of 22 countries on the list. The African countries named alongside it are Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia and South Sudan. The DRC is also flagged for Ebola. The World Health...

The last phone call was small and ordinary. Around 9.30pm on Wednesday last week, 17-year-old Michael Kimani rang his sister, Mary Watiri, and asked for KSh 200. He wanted to visit a friend who had also lost his mother. Kimani’s own mother had died only four days before him. Watiri says her brother was a peaceful boy who rarely left home and had sat his final examinations last year. By Thursday morning, two of Kimani’s friends arrived at Watiri’s home looking for him. They told her officers from Mugutha Police Station had phoned them and asked whether they knew Kimani or his relatives. That was the first sign that something was wrong. The family was later told a body had been picked up near a petrol station. They went there and identified Kimani inside a police Land Rover. Watiri said his face was swollen, and she fears he may have been beaten before he died. “His face was swollen like someone who had been beaten,” she said. That is her own observation, and no postmortem finding has be...

A guilty plea to one charge did not carry the other. A man identified as SNK admitted incest with his 19-year-old maternal niece and received a three-year prison sentence. The separate charge of deliberately exposing her to HIV had led to a 15-year term, and that is the one the High Court overturned. The case against him on that count was thin, according to the story. Senior Sergeant Jackline Kemunto, who led the investigation, was the only prosecution witness. She produced medical documents showing he was HIV positive and the young woman tested negative. But in his appeal, he argued that she had not witnessed the alleged encounters and could not say whether protection was used. He also questioned the absence of testimony from the young woman, pregnancy records and DNA evidence. Justice Charles Kariuki ruled that his admission to incest was not enough to establish that he had deliberately exposed her to HIV. The judge stressed that each criminal charge must be backed by sufficient evid...

Davis Karani, 40, was alive when he reached Kanyakine Sub-County Hospital. He was rushed there after being assaulted in Mitunguu, Imenti South Sub-County, Meru County, but he succumbed to his injuries. Police confirmed his death on Monday, November 9, after officers from Mitunguu Police Station visited the facility. They said Karani had allegedly been assaulted by a man known to him. His body was moved to Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary, where it awaits a postmortem examination. The change in the case came with his death. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Imenti South has taken over the investigation, and the incident is now classified as murder. The circumstances and the motive remain under investigation. Much is left unsaid. The story does not give the date of the assault, where exactly it happened, what weapon or force was used, or how long Karani lived after it. It does not name the suspect or say whether anyone has been arrested, and it quotes no police of...