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What's Happening Four Kenyan police officers were arrested during a raid by Kenya's transnational Organized Crime Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) against a house on the outskirts of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The raid was successful, and managed to catch two officers involved in the plot off guard. After a brief chase, two of the officers were arrested...

What's Happening The Haitian government has announced that high ranking officials from both Kenya and Haiti have met across three days in the US in order to discuss what they both hope is Kenya's imminent deployment as the head of an intervention force to Haiti. The officials are meeting in order to draw up a Memorandum of Understanding between the two...

What You Need to Know India and Kenya recently held the 2nd India-Kenya Defence Exhibition and Seminar in the city of Nairobi from January 30th to 31st. The High Commission of India (HCI) and Kenyan Defence Force (KDF) organized the presentation, whose aim is to increase strategic defense ties between the two countries. The Details The exhibition included 21 Indian defense companies...

What You Need to Know: Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, Leader of Kenyan ‘starvation cult’ Good News International Ministries, has been charged with the murders of 191 children by the High Court of Malindi, in the nation’s southeast.  The leader of the church, which he founded in 2003, was arrested in April last year after 429 bodies were found in Shakahola Forest, with...

What You Need to Know: A truck carrying large gas canisters exploded on Thursday in the Embakasi area of Nairobi, Kenya. The explosion left 280 wounded, with six fatalities thus far. https://twitter.com/_AfricanSoil/status/1753319988717359595 The truck is thought to be linked to an illegal LPG refilling and storage site, with the site being demolished twice previously as well as the site’s owner being charged...