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Pakistan

Arshad Sharif murder case: IHC rejects plea for judicial commission

Court says matter already before Supreme Court; petitioners told to approach apex court directly

Published 29 Aug, 2025 07:44pm

World

Fire at Central Kenya Boarding School claims 17 young lives

The cause of the fire remains unclear

Published 06 Sep, 2024 03:58pm

Pakistan

Arshad Sharif murder: Kenyan court holds police responsible for unlawful action

Justice Mutuku determined that state agencies cannot escape responsibility for Sharif’s death

Published 08 Jul, 2024 03:02pm

World

Kenya president backs down on tax hikes after deadly unrest

Ruto announced he would not sign a finance bill including the tax increases

Published 26 Jun, 2024 11:27pm

World

Police fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya parliament, several dead

Strike called against proposed tax increases

Published 25 Jun, 2024 11:33pm

Business & Economy

Kenya releases 1,300 stuck Pakistani rice cargoes

In a letter, commerce minister raised issue with Kenyan government

Published 07 Jun, 2024 10:12pm

World

Biden woos Ruto with major non-Nato ally status for Kenya

Ruto is the first African leader to receive a Washington state visit in 15 years

Published 25 May, 2024 11:27am

World

Floods sweep Kenya, killing 32 people

Heavy downpours increased over the past week in the country

Published 25 Apr, 2024 04:47pm

World

Kenya’s military chief among 10 people killed in helicopter crash

The aircraft was used to to combat endemic cattle-rustling

Published 19 Apr, 2024 10:09am

Life & Style

Google Doodle celebrates ‘Ahmed’ The Elephant

Each one of his tusks weighed about 148 lbs., approximately 67 kilograms

Published 06 Dec, 2023 01:23pm

Pakistan

Arshad Sharif’s killing was not accident: Investigation by Kenyan TV asserts

Kenya’s NTV says journalist’s killing in October last year was well-planned murder

Updated 05 Dec, 2023 10:58am

Pakistan

No justice yet as year passes since Arshad Sharif’s assassination

Journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead on October 23, 2022

Updated 23 Oct, 2023 06:02pm

Pakistan

Pakistan seeks Kenya’s facilitation over investigation into Arshad Sharif’s murder

Special joint investigation team was investigating into murder

Updated 17 Oct, 2023 07:05pm

Pakistan

Two Kenyan women rescued after duped into Pakistan job offer

Police arrest two suspects and detain three

Updated 14 Apr, 2023 12:47am

Pakistan

Arshad Sharif murder case: New JIT formed on Supreme Court’s order

Seeks progress report within fortnight

Updated 08 Dec, 2022 02:58pm

Pakistan

Pakistan seeks information from Dubai police in Arshad Sharif murder case

FIA, IB write to consul general of Pakistan in Dubai

Published 29 Nov, 2022 07:38pm

Life & Style

Kenya drought kills more than 200 elephants

Crisis has affected nearly half of Kenya's regions and at least four million out of its 50 million people.

Published 04 Nov, 2022 06:21pm

Pakistan

PIMS team find ‘bullet’ in Arshad Sharif’s body that Kenyan medics missed

Piece of metal found during second post-mortem in Arshad Sharif’s body

Updated 31 Oct, 2022 05:09pm

World

Kenyan police charged with crimes against humanity

An official at the prosecutor’s office says 12 senior police officers were facing charges

Published 29 Oct, 2022 03:09pm

Pakistan

A journalist’s mysterious death and Pakistan’s ‘free press’

Arshad Sharif is one of over 138 Pakistani journalists to die of unnatural causes in the last three decades

Published 24 Oct, 2022 07:55pm

World

33 dead as Kenya bus plunges into river

Bus plunges off a bridge about 40 metres into the river

Published 25 Jul, 2022 11:17pm

World

20m risk starvation as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN

Long-awaited rains fail to materialise nearly a month into the current rainy season

Published 20 Apr, 2022 11:38am

Must Read

Move over 'tech bros': Women entrepreneurs join Africa's fintech boom

By Nita Bhalla NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When financial analyst Oluwatosin Olaseinde moved back home ...

Published 23 Feb, 2022 01:28pm

Life & Style

Back in school at 98, Kenyan woman sets example for next generation

NANDI, Kenya: In a stone classroom in rural Kenya's Rift Valley, Priscilla Sitienei, who turns 99 on Friday, takes...

Published 09 Feb, 2022 04:36pm

World

13 million face hunger as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN

UN agency says three consecutive rainy seasons have failed as the region has recorded its driest conditions since 1981

Published 08 Feb, 2022 01:35pm

World

Kenya drought leaves 2.4 million at risk of hunger by November: WFP

The East African country has been hit by an accumulation of calamities in recent years, including a months-long locust...

Published 01 Oct, 2021 09:55pm

Science

Kenya says black rhino, sable antelope, other species at risk from growing human population

Kenya's black rhinos, sable antelope and three other species are critically endangered, while nine more species...

Published 01 Sep, 2021 03:21pm

'پاکستان کینیا کے ساتھ تعلقات کو انتہائی قدر کی نگاہ سے دیکھتاہے'

صدرڈاکٹر عارف علوی کہتے ہیں پاکستان کینیا کے ساتھ اپنے تعلقات ...

Updated 23 Jun, 2021 11:16pm