Chinese President Xi Jinping called for peaceful reunification with Taiwan in a Beijing speech on Thursday and made no mention of force. Taipei rejected his "one country, two systems" offer and said his wording had barely changed.
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on Thursday ordered priests nationwide to stop politicians from addressing congregations. Nyeri Archbishop Anthony Muheria said politicians should use the media, barazas and roadside rallies instead.
The ban covers every Catholic church in Kenya. The bishops said politicians have increasingly tried to turn places of worship into campaign platforms ahead of the 2027 General Election.
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen on Thursday opened the upgraded Joint Counterterrorism Analysis Centre in Nairobi. He said the centre will help security agencies detect and disrupt terror networks before they strike.
Capital FM reported that the upgrade is part of Kenya's push against extremist groups, especially al-Shabaab, which has carried out attacks in Kenya and across East Africa.
Kenya coach Benni McCarthy says he and his staff are still waiting for their pay, after players refused to train over unpaid FKF allowances. Kenya face South Africa in Johannesburg on Friday and in Nairobi on November 17.
Kenya co-hosts the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations with Tanzania and Uganda. The pay dispute is hitting the Harambee Stars ahead of two qualifiers against South Africa.
Nevnina Onyango marked her son's fifth birthday with a social media tribute, Pulse Live Kenya reported. She said the boy gave her strength after her husband, teacher Albert Ojwang, died in police cells in Nairobi.
The Caine Prize for African Writing said it found no evidence that Simbarashe Kundizeza used generative AI to write his winning story. It confirmed him as winner of the £10,000 ($13,000) award after The Atlantic raised the claim.
Mauricio Pochettino reached a verbal agreement on Wednesday to become Manchester United manager, Citizen Digital reported. The move would end his two-year spell as USA coach and comes after United's worst start to a season in 40 years.
Stones flew at the Buxton Point affordable housing site in Mombasa on Wednesday when a county official arrived to shut it down. Former Buxton estate tenants want their 184 promised units first, but the developer says it has followed the agreement.
The dispute could delay a KSh 6 billion affordable housing project in Mombasa. It also leaves casual workers on daily wages without pay.
Health CS Aden Duale said on Wednesday that the final patient had left hospital and 11 contacts face 21 days of quarantine. Kenya will be declared Ebola-free on December 23 if no new symptoms appear.
All nine of Kenya's cases traced back to a man who had returned from DR Congo. Congo's outbreak has killed 5,387 people since May, so the risk of cases crossing borders in the region remains.
The Airbus A350 landed at JKIA on Wednesday on flight EK717 and replaces a Boeing 777 on the morning Dubai services. The 298-seat jet brings Emirates' Premium Economy cabin to Kenya for the first time.
Emirates says Kenya is now its second-largest African market by capacity after South Africa. Travellers flying to Europe and the US through Dubai get a new cabin option that costs less than Business Class.
Sudan's trade ministry lifted its ban on Kenyan tea through an order issued on November 8, reopening a market worth about $70 million a year. President Ruto said on Wednesday that the move followed his talks with Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris.
Sudan once bought about 35 million kilogrammes of Kenyan tea a year. Reopening the market could bring relief to smallholder farmers, processors, transporters and exporters.
Number eight Taine Basham will make his first Wales start in four years against New Zealand on Saturday. Coach Steve Tandy has made four changes after Aaron Wainwright hurt his calf in the 28-21 win over Japan.
Supermarket chain Quickmart began trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange on Thursday, and its shares rose 33%, Business Daily reported. The retailer has grown from a single shop into a chain of more than 70 branches.
Quickmart is a new consumer stock on the NSE. Kenyan shoppers who know the brand can now buy a stake in it.
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki leads the race to be Ruto's 2027 running mate, a TIFA Research poll released on Thursday shows. Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga is second with 12 per cent, and Hassan Joho is third with 9 per cent.
The poll shows how Ruto's own supporters view the deputy president's seat ahead of the 2027 General Election.
Peter Okiro has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld the Affordable Housing Act, 2024. The 1.5 per cent levy stays in place for now, and respondents have 14 days to reply.
The levy takes 1.5 per cent of every salaried worker's gross monthly pay, and employers pay a matching amount. The appeal reopens the legal fight over money that funds President William Ruto's affordable housing programme.
Supreme Court judges finished a two-day course on handling presidential election petitions on Tuesday. The training covered vote recounts, evidence, AI and disinformation ahead of the August 2027 General Election.
The Supreme Court alone decides disputes over presidential elections. It has 14 days to rule, so its readiness affects how quickly a contested result is settled.
Petrol and diesel sold in Kenya can contain up to 50mg/kg of sulphur for another six months. Trade CS Lee Kinyanjui said tensions in the Middle East and disruption around the Strait of Hormuz made the extension necessary.
Kenya relies heavily on imported fuel. The Star reported that any supply shock could raise transport costs and hit manufacturing and farming.
Vice-Chancellor Ayub Gitau told a parliamentary committee that UoN owes about KSh 20 billion, though its assets are worth over KSh 220 billion. MPs want a recovery plan with clear targets by December 1, 2026.
The debt affects students, staff, suppliers and retirees waiting for pension money. MPs want to know how the university will pay its bills without disrupting teaching and research.
Singer Nikita Kering says she has joined the US State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program. The project explores how Kenya's creative industries can drive economic growth, Citizen Digital reported on Thursday.
Kering says she wants to use the program to push for mentorship and better support for young Kenyan artists.
The UN food agency says the pest can destroy up to 30% of the crop in affected areas. FAO officials gave the warning in Bungoma as a three-year project to fight fall armyworm came to an end.
Maize is Kenya's staple food. Losses on this scale put farmers' incomes and household food supplies at risk.
Gor Mahia coach Charles Akonnor won the October award after his side took all four league games that month. He says the champions will finish top despite a loss to KCB and a draw with Nairobi United.
The Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel says Jurrien Timber's shirt pull on Alexander Isak should have been a penalty. Arsenal won the November 1 game at Anfield 1-0.
Patrick Wangeci, alias Jibril, was convicted on six terrorism-related counts at the Eldoret Law Courts. He was arrested in 2019, and investigators found videos promoting extremism, according to the ODPP.
The sentence was handed down days after an ambush in Mandera County killed at least eight people, Pulse Live Kenya reported.
PFL lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov and former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili clashed in an Abu Dhabi hotel on Wednesday. Members of both teams joined the fight, days before an RAF event in the UAE.
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff landed in Moscow on Thursday to meet Vladimir Putin. They arrive straight from two days of talks in Abu Dhabi that ended with a planned prisoner swap but no breakthrough.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the National Assembly's power to pass tax and spending laws alone. It also struck down KEMSA and Sacco law changes because they touched county functions without Senate input.
The ruling settles which House decides on taxes and public spending. It also ends a rule that forced counties to buy medicines only through KEMSA.
Nairobi Water shut down the Kabete Distribution Mains at 7pm on Wednesday after vandals damaged a major pipeline off Waiyaki Way. Westlands, Kilimani, Karen, Kibera and major hospitals will be without water until 6pm on Thursday.
The 23-hour cut hits homes, businesses and major hospitals across western and southern Nairobi. The city already faces longer rationing after a 35% drop in water production linked to low dam levels.
The Education Ministry's KEMIS database has captured only 5.05 million primary learners against an expected 7.2 million. Officials warned school heads that learners left out of the system will not attract capitation funding.
KEMIS figures decide how capitation, teachers and textbooks are shared out. Schools with learners missing from the system risk losing money for those pupils.
Amnesty International says UN peacekeepers and South Sudan's government had at least two weeks' warning before the March 1 raid on Abiemnom. More than 200 people were killed in the attack.
Former Chief Justice David Maraga accused President Ruto of hypocrisy on Thursday over Kenya's Ebola quarantine policy. He said the government once defended a US-linked centre in Laikipia but now says Kenya will not host quarantine for other countries.
The row revisits the deadly June protests in Laikipia as Kenya begins a 42-day countdown to being declared Ebola-free.
A three-story building in Flatbush, Brooklyn, fell into a neighbouring excavation pit on Wednesday afternoon. Four people are in critical condition, and officials say they do not know how many people are still trapped.
A police helicopter found William, 17, lying in a creek near Walhalla in Victoria, Australia, on Thursday morning. He had been missing since last Friday and had only a few scratches, his mother said.
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