Year: 2026
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Business
Tobacco smoking fuels deadly lung disease as COPD cases rise
Tobacco use remains one of the leading preventable causes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a progressive and incurable lung…
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Business
Tobacco Bill sparks business backlash over licences, flavour ban
Stakeholders in Kenya’s retail, entertainment and harm-reduction sectors have urged parliament to review contentious provisions of the proposed Tobacco Control…
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Editorial
South Sudan’s bumpy road to its first general elections
South Sudan is approaching a defining moment in its troubled political history. Nearly 15 years after independence, the world’s youngest…
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Grapevine
Grapevine: Police top brass split over political neutrality
There is simmering tension within the senior command of the National Police Service (NPS) over growing concerns about how the…
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Editorial
Fix the university funding mess before it destroys a generation
Kenya cannot claim to be investing in its future while thousands of young people who have earned places at public…
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Courts
Saitoti estate war: ‘I am his son,’ man tells court
A fresh legal battle has erupted over the estate of former Vice-President and Internal Security Minister the late George Saitoti,…
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Crime Watch
Muka Mukuu land row escalates as members allege illegal sales, asset plunder
A potentially explosive land dispute is unfolding at Muka Mukuu Farmers’ Co-operative Society in Machakos County, with thousands of shareholders…
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Crime Watch
Police probe fresh bar death as Kiambu liquor crackdown intensifies
Police in Kiambu County have launched investigations into the death of a man who collapsed and died at a bar…
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Education
Mount Kenya University overtakes UoN as Kenya’s most popular varsity as enrolment surges past 700,000
Mount Kenya University (MKU) has emerged as Kenya’s largest university by student enrolment, overtaking traditional public university giants including the…
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Courts
Sh426.85million ex-Kilifi Land Registrar’s wealth seized in graft probe
A Sh426.85 million fortune linked to a former senior land official has been ordered forfeited to the State after the…
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