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Robert Evans Jr, 25, pled guilty to the manslaughter of Sharif Rahman, 44, after a row over an unpaid restaurant bill in the town of Owen Sound in August 2023.BBC reports His father Robert Busby Evans, 49, and uncle Barry Evans, 56, pled guilty to being accessories to the crime and have been sentenced to…
Fred Obachi Machoka on Wednesday told the High Court that remarks allegedly published by Robert Alai on Facebook falsely portrayed him as HIV positive and caused serious damage to his reputation, personal life and business interests. Citizen Digital reports Testifying before the court in a defamation suit, Machoka adopted his witness statement and court pleadings…
Proceedings at the Narok Law Courts were temporarily disrupted on Tuesday after anti-riot police fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse a group of about 400 morans who allegedly attempted to forcefully free a businessman and politician facing murder charges. Citizen Digital reports The suspect, David Matuke Ole Mayone, was arraigned over the alleged…
Nearly two decades after six of her sons were killed by mobs in separate incidents, 79-year-old Nicera Wangithi Njando says she continues to live with the memories of the events that changed her family’s life. Ms Wangithi, who lives in Kahiro Village in Ndia, Kirinyaga County, has told Citizen Digital that she still hopes to…
A new phase of the natural El Niño weather pattern could begin in a matter of weeks, the UN has warned, boosting temperatures on a planet already under strain from climate change. The World Meteorological Organization said this El Niño is likely to strengthen over the rest of 2026, driving more extreme weather around much…
The main airport in Ituri, the DR Congo province at the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak, reopened on Tuesday after a 10-day closure for safety reasons. Citizen Digital reports quoting AFP The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a major epidemic of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever that is suspected to have killed at least…
A manhunt that left a Hawaii community on edge ended Thursday with the arrest of a suspect in the killings of three men at separate locations, police said. Jacob Daniel Baker, 36, a suspect in the three killings on Hawaii’s Big Island, was arrested “without incident” Thursday – nearly three days after the first body…
Malaysia will require major social media platforms to verify users’ ages and bar children under 16 from registering accounts under new online safety rules that took effect on Monday. AFP reports The requirements apply to providers with at least eight million users in the Southeast Asian country — including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. But…
A retired senior Nigerian military officer and his wife have been kidnapped by armed men in north-west Nigeria, the army has confirmed. BBC Africa reports Maj Gen Rabe Abubakar, who had a high-profile job as military spokesman between 2015 and 2017, was abducted from his car on Saturday while travelling in Katsina state. Efforts are…
The CCTV footage from Utumishi Girls’ Service High School tells a chilling story of how eight students allegedly walked into a dormitory and deliberately set it on fire, killing 16 of their classmates. The footage, now central to a police investigation, shows five students entering the Marylyn Waithera dormitory at around 12:10am, when most students…