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Police in the Kenyan capital says they are looking for a church warden suspected of stealing 1.5 million shillings – $12,400/£11,240 – that members had collected to develop the church. Police …
Police in the Kenyan capital says they are looking for a church warden suspected of stealing 1.5 million shillings – $12,400/£11,240 – that members had collected to develop the church.
Police suspect the thief broke into the ACK All Saints Mountain View church building in Kangemi, on the outskirts of Nairobi.
He then took the money from a drawer inside the altar.
The treasurer of the building and a member of the congregation was “surprised and shocked” on Monday morning. They had come to collect the sizeable proceeds of the collection and discovered the interior of the church ransacked. The money was gone.
In a statement, the Criminal Investigation Department said their initial investigations indicated that the church caretaker was the main suspect at the moment.
“He is suspected of tampering with the power supply in order to disable the CCTV system installed before stealing the contributions of the faithful.
At least five people have died, and scores were injured after a six-storey building collapsed Monday (September 26) in Kiambu, central Kenya. If several were extracted from the rubble alive during …
At least five people have died, and scores were injured after a six-storey building collapsed Monday (September 26) in Kiambu, central Kenya.
If several were extracted from the rubble alive during the afternoon, many were feared to still be trapped at this scene.
According to local media reports, the building collapsed on an adjacent building trapping resident under the debris.
The Kiambu County Fire & Disaster Management Department, the Kenyan Police and Defence Forces, as well as the Kenyan Red Cross and volunteers joined forces for the rescue operation.
It is not immediately clear what caused the building to collapse.
Rescue efforts are underway and emergency workers have managed to pull a child from the rubble.
Several others have also been rescued but “sadly, some are feared to have succumbed to their injuries”, Kiambu county Governor Kimani Wamatangi said.
Similar accidents have taken place in Nairobi and elsewhere in Kenya. They were blamed on weak oversight, corruption and poor construction materials.
According to Kimani Wamatangi, the construction of the the multi-story building was illegal.
“The building that was being put up here is being done at an extremely substandard way”, the official said.
Adding: “I’ve also had confirmation from my CEC (County Executive Committee) in charge that this building was not authorised, that this guy built without authorisation, he came and applied for permission, and he was told to comply with a few conditions, he disappeared continued to build and it is only today that we have seen him.”
Eyewitnesses said it fell onto an adjacent building. It is not known how many people are still under the debris.
Soldiers, workers from the Kenya Red Cross and National Youth Service personnel as well as local volunteers are all at the scene.
Residents who suffered injuries were bussed to hospitals nearby. The governor visited some admitted at the Kiambu Level V Hospital.
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Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has died aged 90.
The announcement was made this Friday by President Uhuru Kenyatta who praised his predecessor as a great Kenyan.
Mwai Kibaki served two terms as president of Kenya, between 2002 and 2013.
Praise Kenyatta praised Kibaki’s qualities.
“As a leading figure in Kenya’s post-independence history, Mwai Kibaki earned the abiding respect and affection of the people of this Nation and other nations throughout the world. “President Kibaki will be forever remembered as the gentleman of Kenyan politics, a brilliant debater whose eloquence, wit, and charm won the day, time and time again”, said Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta.
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Up to 28 million people in East Africa are at risk of extreme hunger due to hikes in food and commodity prices most of which is as a result of the …
Up to 28 million people in East Africa are at risk of extreme hunger due to hikes in food and commodity prices most of which is as a result of the Ukraine war and potential lack of rain this March, non-profit organisation Oxfam warned.
According to the organization, there is a real chance that the international community will not respond adequately. The development organization Oxfam warns about this today.
Millions of people in East Africa are already experiencing severe food insecurity. Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are experiencing the driest weather in 40 years, meanwhile, South Sudan is tackling ongoing flooding, the group said.
“The effects of the Ukrainian conflict on the global food system will reverberate around the world, but it will be the poorest and most vulnerable people who will be hit hardest and fastest,” said Gabriela Bucher, Oxfam’s executive director.
“Rising food prices are a sledgehammer for millions of people already suffering from multiple crises, and are making the massive shortage of aid potentially deadly.”
Describing the global response as “woefully underfunded” a press release stated that only 3% of the $6bn (£4.5bn) United Nations (UN) 2022 humanitarian appeal for Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan had been funded.
East African countries get up to 90% of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia, the press statement said.
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“I think about what will my family eat, where will their next meal come from, whether I will get the daily jerrycan of water,” he continued.
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