Kenya Rolls Out Green Number Plates for Electric Vehicles in Major E-Mobility Push

Transport Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir holds up the newly introduced green number plate for electric vehicles at the launch of Kenya’s National Electric Mobility Policy at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi on February 3, 2026. Electric vehicles in Kenya will now carry distinctive green number plates as the government intensifies efforts to promote…

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Murkomen retracts shoot-to-kill directive amid uproar

CS Kipchumba Murkomen at the launch of the flagship report and Action plan by the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on Drugs during the fourth high-level consultation meeting in Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has taken back his remarks clarifying on  his shoot-to-kill directives after public uproar. Speaking in Kitui on…

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Kenya Achieves 83% Drop in New HIV Infections

Kenya has made remarkable progress in reducing new HIV infections, achieving an 83% decline over the past decade. Ministry of Health CS Deborah Barasa shared this milestone on Wednesday at the launch of the World AIDS Day 2024 Half Marathon in Nairobi. According to Barasa, new HIV cases have dropped from 101,560 in 2013 to…

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Unfriendly fire as Kabu sues Sarah for defamation

Bonfire Adventures chairman and CEO  Simon Kabu and his enstranged wife Sarah Kabu when they arrived at the Windsor Golf & Country Club hotel, Nairobi to watch the screening of the Royal wedding of the Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]…

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