Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Roseline Njogu speaking during a previous press address. [File, Standard] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has clarified that the labor agreement with Germany does not set a predefined limit on the number of workers who can move there. Principal Secretary Roseline Njogu made this clarification on Sunday after the German government…
Principal Secretary(PS) State Department for Diaspora Affairs, Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Roseline Njogu has defended the ties between Kenya and Germany. In a statement, the PS stated that the Kenyan government and Germany on September 13, 2024, signed a non-quota-based migration and mobility agreement that aims to provide a framework for cooperation and…
Stop the focus on the 2027 election and spend time serving the people, President William Ruto has told leaders. The President said it was unfair to engage Kenyans in campaigns three years ahead of the next General Election. He asked leaders to spend their time offering services to the people and fulfilling the pledges they…
Chief Justice Martha Koome chats with President William Ruto after the swearing-in of twenty Judges of the High Court and conferment of the Rank of Senior Counsel at State House, Nairobi on May 14, 2024. [PCS] Immediately after he took over power as Kenya’s fifth president in September 2022, William Ruto swore in six judges who had…
Dela ward county assembly Member Yussuf Hussein who was allegedly abducted on Friday in Nairobi has been found. Hussein was located at a hospital in Migori where he is reported to be in critical condition amid queries on what transpired. Speaking to KBC on phone, Wajir county assembly speaker Abdille says…
When President William Ruto engaged with Kenyans living in diaspora during his trip to Berlin, Germany. [PCS] Controller of Budget, the President spent nearly Sh300 million on foreign travel in the last financial year. Deputy Chief of Staff, Performance Delivery and Management, Eliud Owalo, recently listed a list of achievements of the Kenya Kwanza government…
President William Ruto has promised to give out money to help the students of Hillside Endarasha Academy whose items were destroyed in the midnight dormitory fire. Speaking at the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA), Central West Archdiocese, Nyeri County on Sunday September 15, the president vowed to give out Ksh2 million which Kieni…
Ruto and Nairobi governor Sakaja at the Sunday service President William Ruto has announced plans to revamp Nairobi to fit its Capital City status. Speaking Sunday morning during a service at the Stewards Revival Pentecostal Church in Nairobi, the President undertook to meet all Nairobi leaders and discuss how best to…
The German government has dismissed a statement by President William Ruto that the recently signed labour migration deal with Chancellor Olaf Scholz will see 250,000 Kenyans migrate to Germany. In a statement on Saturday, September 14, 2024, the German Federal Ministry of Interior, while acknowledging the signing of a labour deal, indicated that the two…
Senator Danson Mungatana Members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) have demanded greater involvement of the Continental Legislative body in the processes leading to the election of the next Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission (AUC). Leading the charge, Senator Danson Mungatana, leader of the Kenyan delegation to the Pan-African Parliament, stressed the need for the…
President Ruto and his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua at State House Nairobi June 13, 2023. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] From brotherhood prayers to a bitter fallout – that is the short story of President William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, the faith warriors whose convictions moved mountains. But now a mountain stands between them owing to…
The cost of kerosene has reduced marginally while that of super and diesel will remain unchanged for the next one month, according to new pump prices announced by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra). It is the second consecutive month that Epra has retained the cost of super petrol and diesel at the…
By ROSELYN OBALA Kenya’s President William Ruto says members of the UN Security Council (UNSC), especially those holding the power of the veto should support reforms of the global body, to make it responsive to the needs of the world’s citizens. While in Germany on a two-day tour, Ruto said the UN Security Council, the…
President William Ruto has said the first recruitment exercise of the more than 250,000 opportunities for Kenyan workers in Germany will begin in two weeks. Speaking during a stakeholder roundtable meeting in Germany on Saturday, September 14, 2024, Ruto revealed that the Kenyan workers were ready and excited about the signing of the landmark labour…
By REUTERS Comoros President Azali Assoumani is “out of danger” after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later, officials said on Saturday. The attack occurred around 2 pm local time (1100 GMT) on Friday in Salimani Itsandra, a town just north of…