https://starnews.website/ Independent news from Kenya: politics, business, health, sport and all 47 counties. en-ke Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 https://starnews.website/news/kindiki-illicit-alcohol-traditional-brews-licensed.html https://starnews.website/news/kindiki-illicit-alcohol-traditional-brews-licensed.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Health The Deputy President says 116 raids on illicit brews were carried out in the past 10 days and new laws targeting cartels' assets are being finalised. https://starnews.website/news/ghana-ebola-screening-travellers-from-kenya.html https://starnews.website/news/ghana-ebola-screening-travellers-from-kenya.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Health Ghana's Ministry of Health cited direct flights and passenger numbers between the two countries. Ghana has no Ebola cases. https://starnews.website/news/opposition-leaders-njoro-rally-paye-pledge.html https://starnews.website/news/opposition-leaders-njoro-rally-paye-pledge.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics The three opposition leaders said they will back one presidential candidate in 2027 and name that person next year. https://starnews.website/news/ebola-first-contacts-leave-quarantine-stigma-appeal.html https://starnews.website/news/ebola-first-contacts-leave-quarantine-stigma-appeal.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Health The Ministry of Health says protective equipment has been sent to 28 counties it rates as high risk. https://starnews.website/news/nedbank-completes-ncba-takeover-shares-suspended.html https://starnews.website/news/nedbank-completes-ncba-takeover-shares-suspended.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business NCBA shares will not trade on the Nairobi Securities Exchange until 2 November while the share register is updated. https://starnews.website/news/ipoa-probe-officers-arrest-citizen-tv-journalist-francis-ode.html https://starnews.website/news/ipoa-probe-officers-arrest-citizen-tv-journalist-francis-ode.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics The journalist says he was beaten and detained while covering fuel price protests in Nairobi's CBD, despite identifying himself. https://starnews.website/news/kenyan-truckers-halt-drc-cargo-after-driver-killings.html https://starnews.website/news/kenyan-truckers-halt-drc-cargo-after-driver-killings.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business A drivers' association says a Kenyan was among those killed and has asked transporters to stop loading cargo for the Mahagi-Kisangani route. https://starnews.website/news/kenya-ninth-ebola-case-relative-first-patient.html https://starnews.website/news/kenya-ninth-ebola-case-relative-first-patient.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Health The Health Ministry says all eight surviving patients are improving and that the first contacts finish quarantine from 25 October. https://starnews.website/news/meru-mutonga-quarry-collapse.html https://starnews.website/news/meru-mutonga-quarry-collapse.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Counties Residents joined the search at the Mutonga quarry in Igoji, South Imenti, as workers were buried under fallen rock. https://starnews.website/news/dangote-buys-quarter-of-kenya-pipeline.html https://starnews.website/news/dangote-buys-quarter-of-kenya-pipeline.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business The shares came from state bodies including NSSF, and Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro is demanding to know how the sale was decided. https://starnews.website/news/sakaja-removes-mosiria-nairobi-reshuffle.html https://starnews.website/news/sakaja-removes-mosiria-nairobi-reshuffle.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Counties The change comes days after Geoffrey Mosiria said he would run against Governor Johnson Sakaja in 2027. https://starnews.website/news/cbk-ceo-survey-cost-of-doing-business.html https://starnews.website/news/cbk-ceo-survey-cost-of-doing-business.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business More than a quarter of the 600 firms surveyed by the Central Bank said bank loans were hard to get. https://starnews.website/news/ruto-milk-farmers-sh65-per-litre.html https://starnews.website/news/ruto-milk-farmers-sh65-per-litre.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business The President made the pledge in his Mashujaa Day speech, saying the farm-gate price had already risen from Sh35 to Sh60. https://starnews.website/news/ruto-mashujaa-day-paye-stamp-duty-internships.html https://starnews.website/news/ruto-mashujaa-day-paye-stamp-duty-internships.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business In his Mashujaa Day speech in Eldoret, the President also proposed scrapping stamp duty on land deals worth Sh1 million or less. https://starnews.website/news/eldoret-hosts-mashujaa-day-2026.html https://starnews.website/news/eldoret-hosts-mashujaa-day-2026.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Counties Security has been stepped up at Kipchoge Keino Stadium and across the town as visitors arrive for the 20 October holiday. https://starnews.website/news/ruto-signs-county-additional-allocations-law.html https://starnews.website/news/ruto-signs-county-additional-allocations-law.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Counties The 2026/27 additional allocations, much of it from development partners' loans and grants, are Sh425.6 million higher than last year's. https://starnews.website/news/mackenzie-guilty-shakahola-deaths.html https://starnews.website/news/mackenzie-guilty-shakahola-deaths.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics The High Court in Mombasa convicted the preacher and his co-accused over the starvation deaths of followers, most of them children. https://starnews.website/news/civil-servants-headcount-payroll-irregularities.html https://starnews.website/news/civil-servants-headcount-payroll-irregularities.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Workers who miss the physical verification risk having their salaries stopped. https://starnews.website/news/kipkorir-second-amsterdam-marathon-2026.html https://starnews.website/news/kipkorir-second-amsterdam-marathon-2026.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Sports Ethiopia's Lemi Berhanu won the men's race in 2:03:33, six seconds ahead of Nicholas Kipkorir. https://starnews.website/news/kenya-ebola-cases-rise-to-eight.html https://starnews.website/news/kenya-ebola-cases-rise-to-eight.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Health All cases are linked to the first patient, and the Health Ministry says Kenya remains open with no lockdown. https://starnews.website/news/matatu-owners-rule-out-strike-cocowa-ultimatum.html https://starnews.website/news/matatu-owners-rule-out-strike-cocowa-ultimatum.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Operators say they will pass the higher diesel cost on to passengers, while a commuters' group threatens to go to court. https://starnews.website/news/ruto-plans-to-decentralise-kcc-milk-shortage.html https://starnews.website/news/ruto-plans-to-decentralise-kcc-milk-shortage.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Each of the eight New KCC plants would supply nearby markets directly, instead of routing milk through Nairobi. https://starnews.website/news/agnes-ngetich-tokyo-half-marathon-record.html https://starnews.website/news/agnes-ngetich-tokyo-half-marathon-record.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Sports Ngetich clocked 1:04:23, while Nicholas Kipkorir was second in the Amsterdam Marathon on the same day. https://starnews.website/news/kalonzo-warns-against-arresting-natembeya.html https://starnews.website/news/kalonzo-warns-against-arresting-natembeya.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics The Wiper leader says opposition leaders will resist any attempt to intimidate elected leaders. https://starnews.website/news/mbadi-proposes-paye-relief-32800.html https://starnews.website/news/mbadi-proposes-paye-relief-32800.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business CS John Mbadi says the change will go to Parliament in November, raising an earlier proposed limit of Sh30,000. https://starnews.website/news/matatu-fares-rise-fuel-protest-threat.html https://starnews.website/news/matatu-fares-rise-fuel-protest-threat.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Operators say the new EPRA prices left them no choice, while a motorists' lobby wants the government's fuel import deal audited. https://starnews.website/news/equitable-party-becomes-linda-mwananchi.html https://starnews.website/news/equitable-party-becomes-linda-mwananchi.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics The Registrar of Political Parties has begun gazetting the change, giving the Nairobi senator's movement a registered party for 2027. https://starnews.website/news/dpp-charges-alleged-vat-fraud-scheme.html https://starnews.website/news/dpp-charges-alleged-vat-fraud-scheme.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Five people and 12 companies are accused of using fake electronic invoices to claim refunds and cut tax bills. https://starnews.website/news/epra-fuel-prices-rise-october-2026.html https://starnews.website/news/epra-fuel-prices-rise-october-2026.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Business Kerosene jumps by Sh28.49 a litre after the government ends a fuel subsidy, and motorists threaten protests. https://starnews.website/news/raila-odinga-first-anniversary-bondo.html https://starnews.website/news/raila-odinga-first-anniversary-bondo.html Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0300 Politics Mourners gathered in Bondo as the family appealed for unity, a week after President Ruto commissioned his mausoleum.